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.

Happy Valentine's Weekend!

Happy Valentine's Day! Here are some of the cupcakes we made for this busy weekend. The cupcakes are chocolate with vanilla buttercream and a delicate sugar heart.

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:

Fall Wedding Cupcakes

We made 200 chocolate chip cupcakes with vanilla buttercream for a cupcake tower to serve as the couple's wedding cake for tonight. We made 400(!) sugar leaves to match the couple's fall theme.

Bridal Shower Cupcakes

These festive party streamer cupcakes were for an office bridal shower. The bride's coworkers ordered classic vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream. They requested blue and brown accents to reflect the colors of the bridal party. Of course the party streamers are edible! Check back for our final cupcake order this week - fall themed wedding cupcakes.

Free Tasting at J. Crew!

Pastry Girl Cakes will be at J. Crew's new bridal location at 99 Prince Street in Soho on Saturday, January 23rd. We'll be handing out free samples and will be available to answer any of your questions. The time is TBD, but we will update our blog and website when we have more information.

Here are some pictures of the last event we did. This was at Crate & Barrel's Wedding Registry Event in Soho. Normally, I just wear my chef coat for tastings but this event was in the evening and was organized to be like a dinner party so I went fancy! The staff at Crate & Barrel designed a beautiful display with candles and graciously let us showcase our pastries on their cake stands.

Guests sampled our rich chocolate cake with classic vanilla buttercream, our southern red velvet cake with sweet cream cheese frosting and also our hint-of-lemon cake paired with refreshing lemon buttercream. We will be doing more Crate & Barrel events in 2010 and will keep you posted on those dates.