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Cake Herohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203764624819195279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33229101.post-79842513930184140102011-05-24T07:48:00.000-07:002011-05-24T07:48:20.713-07:00New Website!I have a real live site now just like a real live specialty cake baker should. Please head on over to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://www.cakehero.com/">www.cakehero.com</a></span> to see pretty pictures, read about my ordering process and to find out how I got started. Hint: it involves Star Wars. <br />
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It's been real over here at melissacakeytime, let's keep the party going over at www.cakehero.com. Huzzah! <br />
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ps - The blog is over there too, but now I also get to blog about fun things like decorating methods, cute baking tools I find online, and cake inspiration. See you there!Cake Herohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203764624819195279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33229101.post-83455921519760724282011-05-01T11:07:00.000-07:002011-05-01T11:07:02.778-07:00Animal!When Nikki asked for an Animal Muppet cake for her drums playing main man Sam, I knew I couldn't just make a tiny little Animal and call it a day. This guy was a whopper! Animal is shown here playing drums while chained to the stage...he's so wild, I couldn't risk him getting free!<br />
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ANIMAL!Cake Herohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203764624819195279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33229101.post-37838782594554893812011-03-27T17:06:00.000-07:002011-03-27T17:06:56.280-07:00Sid the Science Kid CakeWhen Angeli of <a href="http://artbyangeli.blogspot.com/">Art by Angeli</a> asked me to make a Sid the Science Kid cake for her son, I had never heard of the character before...he's so cute! <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I got to make Sid and his dinosaur friend for Gavin. Imagine my pleasant surprise when mom Angeli sent me the pictures from the party today!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Amazing, can you believe Angeli doesn't do this for a living? She even shares the <a href="http://artbyangeli.blogspot.com/2011/03/sid-science-kid-free-printables.html">printables</a> she created especially for the occasion on her blog. Definitely check it out...she has so many great crafts and projects chronicled there. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Happy birthday Gavin!Cake Herohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203764624819195279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33229101.post-60788729301447861352011-03-27T16:30:00.000-07:002011-03-27T16:30:53.992-07:00Super Mario Playing Nintendo DS with PikachuYay Mario! <br />
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Mario is playing his favorite DS game while Pikachu watches. Luckily none of the Bob-omb candles went off! <br />
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Cake was vanilla with fresh berry frosting.Cake Herohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203764624819195279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33229101.post-63872403492383083512011-02-19T11:12:00.000-08:002011-04-21T07:29:59.270-07:00Tron Light Bike Cake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">When April reached out to me recently for a Tron Light Cycle cake for her son Isai, I couldn't believe my luck. I looooved the look of the movie, so I was more than happy to take a stab at making a stylized 3D Tron Light Bike!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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The cake was, of course, red velvet with cream cheese frosting. Happy Valentine's Day everyone!Cake Herohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203764624819195279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33229101.post-28165054523547016822011-01-14T10:15:00.000-08:002011-01-14T10:15:53.751-08:00Creature Comforts...On Ice!Amanda, one of my fave customers (she consistently has the <a href="http://www.cakehero.com/2008/01/creature-comforts-at-beach.html">best ideas</a> for <a href="http://www.cakehero.com/2009/07/seas-it-cake-cupcakes.html">cakes</a>) outdid herself once again. For her mother's birthday, she wanted a "Creature Comforts on ice" cake! Now, I don't know if I've talked about this here before but I loooove <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099317/">Creature Comforts</a>. Before Wallace and Gromit, Nick Park made Creature Comforts, a series of claymation shorts that involve animals in a zoo describing their experiences there. It was a big part of my childhood (they reran it on Nickelodeon all the time) and when Amanda asked me to make combine the little guys from CC with a winter wonderland theme, I was more than happy to! <br />
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Above you can see: the candy lake I made for the poor little penguin to wipe out on, a little tree for a bird to hide behind while he throws his snowballs, a fun sheep making snow angels, another penguin blowing out the candle on his birthday cake and a bear dressed up as a snowman!Cake Herohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203764624819195279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33229101.post-30562029604124991352011-01-12T12:36:00.000-08:002011-01-12T12:36:22.630-08:00iPhone 4G Cake<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This iPhone cake was made for birthday boy Shaun, based on the apps from his phone (the screenshot of his phone that I worked from was very craftily acquired by Suzy and Barbara, well done ladies!).</span><br />
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Happy birthday Scott!Cake Herohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203764624819195279noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33229101.post-10854572083175258192010-11-24T08:33:00.000-08:002011-04-25T08:18:48.826-07:00Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Party!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0r1c2K4ujzU/TOyCVie5xgI/AAAAAAAAI3s/b5je0IrWX9M/s1600/Dark+Mark+Cake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0r1c2K4ujzU/TOyCVie5xgI/AAAAAAAAI3s/b5je0IrWX9M/s320/Dark+Mark+Cake.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Yay Harry Potter! My x-treme love for everyone's fave boy wizard inspired me and my very good friend Tammy to throw a fun dinner party/birthday party for one of our most favorite friends, Kiki. The cake you see above is my 14-layer Dark Mark vanilla cake covered in yummy chocolate. The Dark Mark was made by cutting out a stencil and then very carefully adding luster dust over the stencil. Remove and voila!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>It was a cake that had actually been commissioned for the movie <a href="http://www.morningglorymovie.com/">Morning Glory</a>! I went to see the movie last night and sad but true, the scene my cake was in ended up on the cutting room floor. C'est la vie, thems the breaks, but it was so much fun making the cake (me being a Jersey girl and all) that it was totally worth it in the end. To see more shots of the cake you can visit my original post <a href="http://www.cakehero.com/2009/06/new-jersey-cake.html">here</a>!Cake Herohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203764624819195279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33229101.post-82046054489183151912010-11-02T13:14:00.000-07:002010-11-02T13:14:10.537-07:001,000 Ideas for Decorating Cupcakes, Cookies & CakesI am so excited to have been included in the super fun book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ideas-Decorating-Cupcakes-Cakes-Cookies/dp/1592536514">1,000 Ideas for Decorating Cupcakes, Cookies & Cakes</a>, which you can now buy on Amazon! The book is a collection of 1000 amazing inspiration images...some of my favorite cake bloggers are in there, so it is quite the honor to see my cakes next to theirs. Check it out and let me know what you think!<br />
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Gorgeous photography by <a href="http://trent-bailey.com/#/home/">Trent Bailey</a>.Cake Herohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203764624819195279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33229101.post-45997286115251769262010-10-26T17:59:00.000-07:002010-10-26T17:59:36.661-07:00Autumn Cupcakes<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">These little guys were a gift from a father (who does not live in NY) to his daughters who were going to be together in NY for a short time...how sweet is that! The cupcakes were half chocolate, half pumpkin spice, with brown sugar whipped buttercream with royal icing moss. Enjoy!</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Photos were taken by the amazing <a href="http://www.jennykimphoto.com/">Jenny Kim</a>.</div>Cake Herohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203764624819195279noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33229101.post-16004321165852345502010-09-14T12:26:00.000-07:002010-10-04T11:17:55.128-07:00Mad Men Cake<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This cake was made for Tony and his fiancé Annie, a gift from his coworkers who wanted to wish him well before he left to get married and go on his honeymoon. I was told that the couple loves Mad Men (as do I), so I was excited to use www.madmenyourself.com as the inspiration for my cake! If you haven't had a chance to visit to that site, definitely go when you have a chance. It is really fun and the illustrations are adorable.</span><br />
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Edited to add: Inspiration taken from the amazing Dyna Moe, whose book "<a href="http://shop.amctv.com/products/89672-mad-men-the-illustrated-world">Mad Men: The Illustrated World</a>" comes out October 10, 2010.Cake Herohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203764624819195279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33229101.post-75678249143775363092010-08-29T10:51:00.000-07:002010-08-29T10:51:59.152-07:00Lady Gaga Cake!This cake I made pretty much because I just wanted to, which was fun and a nice change of pace! I brought it to my friends birthday party (Happy bday Kat & Hillary!) where it was a big hit. Some people got the references right away, while most of the men were just totally puzzled, haha. But the birthday girls got it, which is all that matters. For your edification:<br />
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Glasses on Top - inspired by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/LadyGagaVEVO#p/a/u/0/EVBsypHzF3U">Telephone</a> by Lady Gaga and Beyonce. The cigarettes were made from plain white candy cigarettes that I colored and painted and tore up to make look like real, smoked cigs! PS smoking is not cool, fact.<br />
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Top Tier - inspired by Lady Gaga's police tape outfit in the video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/LadyGagaVEVO#p/a/u/0/EVBsypHzF3U">Telephone</a>.<br />
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Middle Tier - inspired by Gaga's appearance on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QmE48y-_V4">VMAs</a>, she wore a white lace outfit with pearls, and then at the end of her performance, blood came out of her outfit. It was wild and awesome.<br />
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Bottom Tier - inspired by Gaga's amazing outfit in the video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2smz_1L2_0&ob=av3n">Paparazzi</a>. With her crazy Mickey Mouse glasses and matching outfit, of course <a href="http://truebloodhigh.com/english/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/papaazzigaga.jpg">Alexander Skarsgard</a> loved her. Or DID HE. <br />
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Cake was vanilla with fresh blueberries and vanilla frosting.<br />
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</div> Cake Herohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203764624819195279noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33229101.post-63653877447363730752010-08-29T10:23:00.000-07:002010-08-29T10:23:52.005-07:00Hermes ScarfThis cake was made for the lovely Amanda of <a href="http://www.seasit.org/">Seas It</a> (I made <a href="http://www.cakehero.com/2009/07/seas-it-cake-cupcakes.html">this cake</a> for their auction last summer)! For her birthday her friend asked for a cake inspired by an Hermes scarf with a night time ocean scene... Happy Birthday, Amanda! <br />
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When Kelly and Doug told me that they would be releasing real Monarch butterflies at their wedding in (my fave state) NJ, and that they wanted Monarchs on their cake, I knew I would have to go above and beyond and find a new way to make these butterflies look as real as possible. After a ton of research online, I found the perfect solution...gelatin! By using colored gelatin on specially made mats, I was able to make orange and yellow butterflies that, with some edible food dye and fondant bodies, turned into lovely, delicate butterflies! <br />
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I was so excited to learn something new, and when it culminated in such a beautifully put together wedding, well, that was just the icing on the cake!<br />
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For my birthday this year, I went to my father's house in NJ...he is surrounded by lovely nature and has a great deck, so it was perfect for a relaxed girl's weekend. I gave everyone goodie bags and in them I put:<br />
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1. Home made MASH cards (remember that game? Mansion - Apartment - Shack - House? Love it)<br />
2. New Jersey cookies with a little edible heart shaped sprinkle<br />
3. Glow stick bracelets<br />
4. Fear Street book by R.L. Stine. Did anyone read these growing up? I LOVED them when I was in middle school, I thought they were so scary!<br />
5. A mix cd for people to listen to on the way to Jersey<br />
6. Personalized M&Ms that were given to my by a friend...with my picture on them : )<br />
7. Home made fortune tellers<br />
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Below you can see some pics of the goodie bags, the goodies, and then...the unfrosted cake. Can you believe I made a heart shaped coconut cake for myself, with fluffy frosting and lovely toasted coconut, and then forgot to take a picture of the final product! Ugh. Oh well. It was my birthday, I can be lazy about taking cake pics if I want to.<br />
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