Rubik's Cube Cake

The #Rubikscube cake is one of the most difficult cakes to make, again the Rubik's cube cake is one of the most difficult cakes to make. Maybe I should say it three times. Although it looks simple, a cube with multi- colored square panels, making those squares line up evenly is hard as well as making a cake into a real cube even with a t square and a protractor, working in cake, #buttercream and #fondant ALL of which sift and can change their forms easily with temperature, movement made it hair pulling. We worked on this cake until it was time to be delivered hence the poor picture it is a "Quick get a picture shot!" with the delivery man was standing over us. Call Snooky's to order one just make sure to call us at least two weeks in advance 212 665-0990.

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Je Suis Charlie!

I think in honor of the victims of the #CharlieHebdo office and the other victims in #Paris I will not present a cake this week for the blog, cake represents a time of celebrating and this is definitely not the time for celebrations but a time to reflect about what has happened and ask ourselves if we too are a part of #JeSuisCharlie (I am Charlie) because freedom of speech is paramount in our society today we've fought hard for it, it's in the Constitution, but it is NOW clearly evident that it is not in different parts of the worlds and within different sects. What are your thoughts?

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Syringe Cake

#HappyNewYear! This was our first cake of the year what a way to go, I hope it doesn't mean trips to the doctor's office this year. Ok, so I am a little superstitious, they say how you start the new year is how it will be the remainder of the year, I'm saying bull s**t life is what you make it! This was a yellow cake with vanilla buttercream covered in fondant, the band aid, pills, and the the instrument #doctors use to look in your ear was made of gumpaste. This was not the most challenging cake but it made a nice presentation.

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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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