It’s Great to be ONE!

Happy birthday to Cason, who celebrated his first birthday in style last weekend with family and friends. Following a jungle friends theme, we sculpted an elephant cake to share, and a red balloon cake to smash.

 

Vanilla butter cake was filled with layers of velvety chocolate buttercream and iced with blue-tinted vanilla buttercream. A layer of red-hued rolled fondant decorated the elephant’s balloon, which was the birthday boy’s own cake to smash.

 At one year old, life doesn’t get much better than that!

 We received the following e-mail from Mom:

“Thank you for helping out for my son’s first birthday celebration. I loved the design of the cake, but more so, it was delicious! Thank you again!”

I ♥ Caramel Filled Chocolates

 

Oh. My. Goodness.
That’s just about all I can say.

I dream about the silky, creamy goodness inside a dark, bittersweet chocolate shell.

Not long ago I had some extra caramel in the refrigerator from an earlier project (doesn’t everybody?). The next time I rolled truffles in dark chocolate, I planned ahead and melted additional dark chocolate, which was used to fill my heart chocolate molds. A quick dollop of caramel in each heart, followed by a few grains of fleur-de-sol to bring out the flavor, and a schmear of chocolate to seal the backs of the hearts, and we were in business!

The end result was a study in contrasts – a marriage of a crisp bittersweet shell filled with creamy, caramelized goodness. Doesn’t that make you dream in chocolate too?

If you need a Valentine’s Day gift that’s unforgettable, that will stop your honey in their tracks and take notice, we’ve got your answer. Call or click right away, then sit back and relax, knowing that Valentine’s Day is under control this year. Don’t forget to order a box for yourself, as well! Click here to get started.

Tropical Cupcakes for a Beach Wedding

Bright colors and bold flavors enhanced a tropical theme at a local wedding reception.

The bride and groom selected delicious flavors, thrilling their family and friends with an assortment of cupcakes:

White Butter Cake with Key Lime Cream Cheese Frosting
White Butter Cake with Lemon Curd White Chocolate Buttercream
Citrus Chiffon Cake with Mango Buttercream
Chocolate Butter Cake with Raspberry Jam and Raspberry Buttercream

 

Gerbera daisies and colorful seashells decorated the cupcakes, while a sugar “beach” surrounded the base of the stand.

Call Beaches Pastry for your next party and liven things up with fresh tropical flavors!

Chocolate Seashells

Molded chocolate shells are an elegant gift for your wedding guests to enjoy. White chocolate seashells can be arranged around your wedding cake to enhance a beach theme, as seen in this cake:

Beach themed wedding cake with chocolate shells

 

Dark, milk and white chocolate can be molded into a variety of shapes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Displaying chocolates on “sand” makes them look so realistic:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Talk to Beaches Pastry about creative ways to package hand molded chocolate shells for your guests. We’d love to help add a beach theme to your upcoming wedding or party!

A stylish wedding cake

The cake for Amanda and Matt’s recent wedding reflects Amanda’s stylish taste with small, simple patterns and the use of tone-on-tone coloring on the cake’s exterior. White roses and light green orchid blossoms add a hint of color and grace to this lovely cake.

Each cake was different, allowing guests to sample more than one flavor. Dark chocolate cake was filled with white chocolate mousse, rich vanilla cake was filled with raspberry mousse, and vanilla cake was filled with dark chocolate mousse.

Amanda’s mother sent me an e-mail recently:

“Mary – the wedding cake was beautiful and tasted wonderful. … Thanks again for being a part of Amanda’s wedding and for making her day special.”

Who knew all of those delicious flavors were hidden under layers of Italian Meringue Buttercream?!

White Chocolate Lover’s Delight

Indulge in your white chocolate dreams with this yummy cake.

Layers of citrus cake are filled with raspberry jam and white chocolate lemon curd buttercream – creating a creamy, dreamy cake worthy of a celebration!

Bands of white chocolate wrap the cake, which is topped with white chocolate curls.

Call some friends together and welcome the arrival of spring!

Stripes are hip!

We’ve helped our customers celebrate a couple of milestone birthdays in the past week with these fabulous cakes:

30th Birthday Celebration

Chocolate cake was brushed with Kahlua syrup and filled with chocolate ganache and cappuccino buttercream. The cake’s exterior was covered in rolled fondant, matching the party’s theme and color scheme.

40th Birthday Surprise

This elegant cake hilighted variations of the flavor vanilla. Rich vanilla butter cake was brushed with vanilla bean syrup and filled with Italian Meringue buttercream. The rolled fondant exterior matched the party’s invitation.

Call Beaches Pastry to order one of our spectacular cakes for your next party or get-together.

When the phone rings…

There are days when I need a laugh. Days when my sole reason for getting out of bed is to pipe tiny details onto hundreds of cookies or bake large batches of cakes for upcoming events. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE the creativity and detail of the job, but some days I seem to lose my sense of humor.

And then, Barb called a few days after her wedding with this story:

The cake was unbelievable, from the tastes of all three layers, to the detailing on the outside. All of our guests raved about the taste and elegance of the style. Several commented they had never seen anything like it. My groom enjoyed it so much that when we had the official cake cutting and I fed him first, he promptly grabbed a fork and the plate and walked away without feeding me!!! He said it was so good, he wasn’t sharing it. Everyone loved it!

With that call, I located my sense of humor, which had probably been hiding under layers of buttercream and royal icing. And I jumped right back into my work…

Ordering cookies for your corporate account

Customers, in many industries, are promoting their businesses by offering custom-made cookies to their employees, clients and business partners. With an accompanying note, a box of decorated cookies is an appreciated gift and creative marketing tool.

Here’s how to order:
Contact Beaches Pastry via our website and we’ll be happy to discuss ideas to compliment your business. With an inventory of hundreds of cookie cutters, we can use our imaginations to personalize a cookie (cookies) for you.

We made it easy at the holidays for one local customer who owns an architectural cast stone business. Cookies with the designs of their most popular fireplace mantles were decoratively boxed and delivered to their business, ready to be hand-delivered by employees. Feedback from this creative holiday gift was tremendous!

Another business thanked employees during appreciation week with lemon-scented sugar, rich chocolate and fragrant spice cookies in springtime designs. This was a lovely way to let people know what a great job they’re doing!

Send a box of decorated cookies to your employees, business partners and top accounts and enjoy the thank-yous you will most certainly receive!

Add Some Spice!

Introducing two new flavors of decorated cookies:

   Spice Cookies and Chocolate Cookies

These new flavors are being offered in addition to our top-selling Lemon Scented Sugar Cookies.

Although the flavors are new, the cookies will be decorated with the same colorful icing. Individual packaging in cellophane bags is always available, just ask for details.

The next time you place an order for our Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer Cookies, order a dozen Chocolate or Spice Cookies. You’ll love them!