A Cake Life: February 2012

February 28, 2012

Braden’s Sesame Street 1st Birthday Cake

Photos courtesy of Kristin Kato

We love it when a client is satisfied with our work, and comes back for more of our cakes. In this particular case we created both the wedding cake (a gorgeous red and gold cake for a traditional Vietnamese tea ceremony wedding) and the groom’s cake (a 3-D Lakers basketball cake seen HERE) for Tessie & Deyson’s wedding back in 2010.

While they currently live in Los Angeles they came back to Hawaii to celebrate their son Braden’s first birthday with family and friends. They contacted us for a Sesame Street and Sports themed birthday cake. We created sugar figurines of Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster and Elmo and various handpainted sugar balls – footballs, basketballs, baseballs soccer balls. For the flavor, they chose our Devils Food Chocolate Cake with Oreo Cookies n Cream filling.

Happy Birthday Braden – we hope to create many more birthday cakes for you!

February 16, 2012

Bride's Choice & Best of Weddings Awards

A Cake Life, for the second year in a row, is proud to announce that we've been chosen to receive the Wedding Wire Bride’s Choice Awards 2012. This award recognizes the top 5 percent of local wedding professionals from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate quality and service excellence in the wedding industry. Read more about last year’s award HERE.

In addition, we are excited to share that A Cake Life has been rated by local brides and voted The Knot Best of Weddings 2012.

The Knot Wedding Network captures detailed feedback from more than 1.8 million brides with reviews in 29 different categories of wedding businesses. Approximately 6,800 local vendors receive this prestigious award, representing the top 4 percent of local vendors on The Knot Wedding Network.

We are truly honored to receive these awards and would like to thank Wedding Wire, The Knot, and our fans and past clients for all their wonderful reviews and testimonials!

To read our Wedding Wire Reviews, go HERE and for our Knot Reviews, go HERE.

February 9, 2012

Featured Wedding: Amelia & Tony’s Architectural Arrangement

Photos courtesy of Aaron Yoshino of HonoZooLoo Media

We’d been working with Amelia for several months leading up to her August wedding to fiancée Tony. When Amelia first contacted us she explained that she's a local girl living on the mainland while finishing her Masters degree in Architecture, in addition to planning her Hawaii wedding, so there were many phone calls and e-mails back and forth to coordinate everything.

Amelia emphasized she wanted to create something "visually interesting", with a country and carefree style for their relaxed wedding set in the beautiful Waimea Valley State Park. She put together an inspiration board which helped us get an overall feel for her wedding.

After discussing a few design options, Amelia loved the idea of creating a satellite cake display! A satellite cake system is made up of multiple individual cakes of different sizes, decorated to be a cohesive, eye-catching presentation. Amelia finally decided on 7 individual cakes to serve their 150 guests. While many of the guests were local, Tony's family is from Greece and would be traveling very far to attend their wedding so they chose our Coconut Cake with Lilikoi Cream filling for a very tropical dessert.

Photos courtesy of Kristin Kato

Each cake was decorated with a different textured buttercream iced pattern, in different colors, on varying height cake stands and plates, several including fresh flowers for variety. The cake table was finished with a beautiful burlap table linen, candles, flowers and seashells. Amelia, being the architect she is, created this amazing computerized 3-D rendering of her cake display! How awesome is this?