PB Yum Birthday Cake

Everybody asks "Who will make your birthday cake?" when you're a pastry chef, and the answer is: you do! Months ago, I read about a cake I will refer to as "PB Yum" on Bakerella's blog and I couldn't wait to try the recipe and decided it would be my birthday cake. I modified the recipe and the result was a chocolate peanut butter utopia that I will think about everyday until I make it again.

These were the only changes I made: I used Pastry Girl Cake's rich chocolate cake recipe (you can use any chocolate cake recipe you like), and I also drizzled some of the peanut butter chocolate ganache on top of the finished cake.

I ate the cake at room temperature and it was delicious. I ate it again for breakfast the next morning after it had been sitting in the fridge and it was phenomenally life changing. PB Yum indeed.

Slot Machine Cake

This weekend we delivered a slot machine cake to Rare 650 in Syosset, Long Island for an 80th birthday party. We used edible imaging to produce a picture of the birthday girl and sugar paste for the buttons and lever. Three birthday girls in a row hits the jackpot! The cake is red velvet with cream cheese frosting.

The cake was ordered by the birthday girl's daughter who sent us this:

My Mom LOVED the cake! We had also done t-shirts with Nat's 80th Jackpot on them, so the theme was a great hit! (we had taken her to the casino at Yonkers Raceway on Fri also!)

Thanks so much, you did a fantastic job! You can use
me for a reference anytime!

Artist's Palette Cake

This weekend, we delivered a birthday cake designed to look like a painter’s palette with sugar tubes of oil paint and a paintbrush. The palette was painted to look like weathered wood grain. The cake is celebration cake (vanilla cake with sprinkles baked inside) and vanilla bean buttercream.

Cookie Monster Cake

This Cookie Monster cake is a large cupcake with Cookie Monster climbing out of it and is surrounded by chocolate cupcakes and chocolate chip cookies. The large cupcake is classic vanilla with vanilla buttercream.

Birthday Cupcake Tower

This weekend we made a 6 inch cake and coordinating cupcakes for a birthday bash in Brooklyn. The colors were hot pink, orange and silver, and a diamond pattern appeared on all of the pastries. The cake flavors included coconut cake with coconut buttercream, chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream and red velvet with cream cheese frosting.




Here's a picture of the cake and cupcakes on the tower:

Jack Daniel's Cake

We delivered this Jack Daniel's cake to Public House in Manhattan tonight for a surprise 30th birthday party. The cake is rich chocolate with peanut butter buttercream. The entire cake is edible! The fondant on the base was painted to look like a wood grain bar.

Polo Ralph Lauren Cake

I delivered this yellow and blue Ralph Lauren inspired cake Saturday evening for a joint birthday party in the Bronx. The middle tier is decorated with the Ralph Lauren symbol for the fashion loving birthday boy and girl. The cake flavors were poundcake and yellow cake with pineapple filling.

Golf Birthday Cake

I just finished this latest birthday cake for a very sexy golf enthusiast - my husband! The two tiered cake is decorated with polka dots and an argyle pattern. I made the pin, ball, bag, clubs and score card out of sugar.

The top tier is celebration cake (white cake with sprinkles baked inside) with vanilla pudding filling. The bottom tier is red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting.

Happy birthday Josh!

Bass Guitar Cake

We made this replica of a bass guitar to scale (4 feet long!!) for a "Sour 16." The birthday boy's mom ordered this cake modeled after her musician son's own bass.

The design on the body of the bass is hand painted and the strap, tuners, knobs and bridge are made from sugar. The neck is hand painted to give a realistic wood grain effect and the strings are piped with royal icing. The flavor is red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting.

Birthday Cupcakes

These are cupcakes we did for a 3 year old boy's birthday. The cupcakes are red velvet with vanilla buttercream and the 3s were made out of sugar.

Pastry Girl Cakes' First Blog Post!

Even though we have our website up and running and our Facebook fan page to post the latest details, I thought it would be nice to have a space where I could include more information about our pastries.

This latest cake was for an 85th birthday and included all of the birthday girl’s favorite pastimes: knitting, drinking a cup of tea and eating her peppermints. This cake was especially fun because it really represented the recipient and we were able to focus on the small details like painting a delicate china pattern and including her name on the teabag.

The cake was rich chocolate and the filling was dark chocolate ganache and raspberry preserves. The basket, balls of yarn and teacup were all made of cake and the yarn, teabag and saucer were made out of sugar. I made the yarn using Makin's Professional Ultimate Clay Extruder. The gun is really easy to use and comes with 20 discs.

This week we have a few cupcake orders and look forward to sharing the finished product!