A Great Holiday Gift

The Snowflake Cake

The holiday season is just getting started as a matter of fact there's nine more days of gathering and eating why not have or take a Snowflake cake as a gift. 

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The Plaza Hotel and Eloise

Does everyone know the story of Eloise? #Eloise was a girl who lived in the #PlazaHotel in NYC created by author Kay Thomas and depicts the antics of a precocious child at the age of six. Eloise has been a long standing tradition at the Plaza Hotel and to this day there is an Eloise suite in the hotel that can be rented out as well an Eloise shop that host tea parties for girl of which this cake was made for. There are many books about Eloise and her antics and travels and they can be found at http://www.eloisewebsite.com/index.htm. The picture of Eloise is to the right of the cake above and  as seen she wears a white shirt with ruffles down the middle, a black pleated shirt with suspenders and a pink bow on top of here head, the pictured illustration shows it in black but it's always pink so, we took all of the elements just described and made it into the cake as shown above.

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Honoring a Good Thing that Will be Lost to Yesteryear.

My client wanted a cake for a #party she was having in #MontaukNY. The cake was to be a replica of the landmark #EastDeckMotel a surfer's haven which had just been acquired by a group of investors who are secretly going to most probably make it into a members only property with high end amenities. My client as many of the locals and various Montauk home owners from the City were against the project and the cake was an homage to the motel, Edie 40 replaced the sign East Deck Motel that sits atop of the real structure, and the scale was smaller to accommodate the party goers for the evening. Covered in fondant we texturized the sides of the building with an impression mat and layered it to make it look like real wooden shingles. Then we marbelized brown fondant and divided it into equal long slabs to replicate wooden planks. My client loved it! It really did look like the East Deck Motel.

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Making it Stick!

This cake was fun to make but made me feel sick to my stomach because both the bottle of Perrier and espresso martini had to be balanced and that was a difficult feat. Both were made out of cake and both had to stand up on cake, ok we've done that before nothing too difficult, but this cake or rather the tray which was made of cake was shallow so the dowels really had nothing to dig into. Now here's the best part, when the cake was delivered to the venue and assembled it looked great as seen in the picture but the venue had no a/c and it was raining and humid a nightmare for fondant creations. The bottle keep leaning and then so did the the martini glass, party revelers stood besides me and looked and admired the cake when all off a sudden the martini glass just jumped right off the cake! Everyone looked confused and one party guest remarked "It's a good think it happened now before the party really started." I smiled begrudgingly, I was nervous (sick to my stomach), but I knew what I had to do. I reached into my tool bag and pulled out a brush and put edible glue on the base of the glass and on the cake and adhered them together and prayed. I waited around for 10 minutes spoke with the host and hostess of the party who loved the cake, and then checked the glass to make sure that it was secure, it was, and I left but prayed again it was safe and would be for the rest of the night. A week later I got a call from the hostess' concierge company and was asked to price out a 3D cute white dog cake. Hooray!!! I knew not only the cake was liked when I presented it to the host and hostess but it stayed in place! Thank God!

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Sometimes We Make Cakes that Look Like Food. Really!

We've made a pizza cake, a basket of blueberries and even a turkey shaped cake for Thanksgiving. I'll never really understand why people like cakes that are shaped into food but this week we had the challenge of making a #sushicake. Yes a cake that had sushi piece as seen above. Not bad I'm thinking in comparison to the other food cakes not because the other cakes didn't turn out well, it's just that sushi is pretty to look as a matter of fact it's beautiful! Made with a yellow cake and frosted with chocolate buttercream and then covered with #fondant and hand sculpted sushi pieces.

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It's All in the Details!

The customer who ordered this #fallthemedcake sent six different photos of cakes and a long list of things she wanted on the #cake we were creating for her. It's not that she wanted us to reproduce anyone else's cake but she want us to use different elements from each. The phone call were maddening and the emails got very confusing after a while (see initial email below (English is not her first language)), BUT... we somehow pulled it off and the customer commented that it was beautiful! Thank God! 

First email

Hi

I would like to give you an idea for how I would like the cake to be for the 27th September 2014.

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It can be two tier 6” first tier and the second tier 4”. We would like it to be for 20 - 25 people.

I like the fence in the fence cake and everything else from the second fall-cakes. 

Just to give you an idea of what I think will look nice and i would prefer to have for the cake is the little fence around the first tier instead of those white pearl look. You could consider one inch of wafer cookies too. 

Then inside the fence it would be the same almost as the fall cake photo with the green stripes and off white background and dried leaves, pumpkins, sunflower, creepers all like it is in the fall cake snap. 

Second tier creepers going up on the second tier with the dried leaves, pumpkins, sunflowers and the wooden banner kind of look saying EVA AND ARYA. Just add owls too sitting on any tier sitting on the creeper or fence. 

On top of the second tier make a small barren tree on the top with an owl sitting on it and two pumpkins under it, next to that pumpkins in a cart overflowing and everywhere around. Or just make two pumpkins under the tree if that takes all the space. You can also have the wooden banner on the top instead of on the second tier just a thought. I would like the tree to be like the tree in the tree photo attached.

Let me know your thoughts and pricing please.

Thanks,

Chandini

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The I'm Sorry Carrot Shaped Cake 

Like in the Movie Bridesmaids

The #I'mSorry carrot shaped cake is used when your in hot water with someone and you need to cool things down to get back in their good graces, so that would include: your husband or wife, your honey, your boss, your mother in-law, the friend you dissed accidentally, your brother or your sister, and your nosy aunt because your mother would want you to. Made in chocolate, yellow, lemon, red velvet and funfetti and covered with fondant, this cake is sure to make the receiver smile and forgive you, really it works! Call Snooky's 212 665-0990 to order one.

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