A busy weekend

I thought it would be cool to see a bit how making a 3d cake works. This is Darth's head before we airbrushed it. 90% of our cakes are buttercream and most of the time we airbrush. This the original Darth Vador head, there are 2 you know. He's looking pretty good. He was to be a surprise for one of our grooms this weekend.

This weekends work included 3 wedding cake and numerous special occasion cakes. Most of our peeps were on a mission trip in New Orleans so we were down helpwise. Also, bieng closed the beginning part of this week just made things extra busy. We survived it though.

Here is the finished product. He's fairly awesome. Lucky for us Sommer is a Star Wars expert. I am very lucky, with all the people around someone is always an expert on something. Like it or not sometimes, LOL!

I think the hardest part of the weekend sometimes is the delivering. It seemed like we were driving to get to destination #3 for hours. No mishaps though. So all is well. That's all for now, Beth

Nanci, Carol and the Candy Clipper II

WELL! What started out as a normal dull day actually turned into a fabulously fun day. Even though we are closed, I met two of the most beautiful pink princesses and their chariot, the Candy Clipper II! Nanci and Carol were the highlight of my day. It is always so wonderful to meet people who share that special passion and zest for living as we do. The ladies were out and about and decided to stop by. We are just tickled pink that they did! Look out for more adventures with the four of us. We have plans in the works! Isn't this the best car!?! Thank you ladies for stopping by. You made my day!

Happy Knox county fair week! The entire town is at the fair this week. We are using this time for some rest and relaxation. Lots of weddings this weekend and not to many orders at the beginning of the week so we took some time off. This was a fitting cake we did last week for Ping. Her goat is not going to the fair as it is a pet. But, I thought I would throw her on here just the same. No goat burgers for us this year. We do love the fair though. Other than the fair really not much going on. We are pretty much smack dab in the middle of wedding season and all is good. Going to use today to catch up on some paperwork and get some pictures printed off. Enjoy the fair! Beth

Christine

This cake was made by the fabulous Christine. I just wanted to show it off to the world. Christine is our fantastic cake decorator trainee/counterperson/admin assist. She totally rocks at shaped cakes. I can't tell you how impressed I am with her. Also, I don't know how she puts up with me because I am such a PIA person to work with. I think I have it all with her. So here is her cake......Yay Chrissy!
One wedding yesterday at the castle. And just some special occasion cakes for today.
Last night Sommer totally dominated in Guitar Hero. Our new favorite game. Only her second time playing and she was rocking out. She is so cute...She stands up and really gets into it while she's playing. It was a fun time. Will write more soon, Beth

VocationVacations !!!

Back to give this another try! I wanted to post more fun pictures. Also, I wanted to remind folks to check out our flickr account http://www.flickr.com/ under thepinkcupcake or my name princesscuppycake01 . I probably should have given one second of thought to naming myself princess cuppycake. Anyhoo, back to the photos. Also, if your interested in learning more about VocationVacations you can go to http://www.vocationvacations.com/ . I cannot say enough times how much we enjoyed this. Above is me fixing frosting, I forgot to double the sugar. Fun fun. And our beatiful plate from Mindee. WE LOVE IT!!! More later....Beth

Our vocation-vacationeer!

This is a little snappyshot of Mindee and Christine. Mindy spent the last two days job shadowing us. I know I had a ton of fun. I hope she did too! We really enjoyed our vacation-vocation experience. Can't wait to do it again. I had a blast, I got to talk a lot, always fun for me. And I had a captive listener. LOL! Also fun for me! The first da was spent wth Sommer starting at 4 with Sommer. A long day for mindee. And what would normally be a slow Tuesday was actually a bit busy. Tues was spent with me going about my day to day. We showed Mindee a few faboo tricks of our trade. And did a 3d dragon with some baby cupcakes just for fun. Because I can't seem to navigate this to add more pictures I will add another blog in a bit. We enjoyed yummy dinners at our favorite restaurants Fiesta and The VI. That was lots of fun also. Mindee fit right in although she passed on getting the cupcake logo tattooed on her cupcake. I don't know why....

So all in all a super time was had. Mindee gifted us with a beautiful piece of pottery from North Carolina With our snazzy website logo on it. ONLY THE BEST PRESENT EVER!!!!! I will try posting that too. Must get back to work making royal pansies. XOXO

attempt number 3

GEEZ! I am not the sharpest crayon in the box! This is my 3rd attempt to show you all one of todays weddings. This is the front of the cake. The MOB picked this cake out and the bride HAS NO IDEA what it is. Looks nice huh? Pretty 4 tier buttercream pretty gumpaste lilies. Very elegant.

THIS IS THE BACK!!!!!

I hope she has a sense of humor. The groom is a basketball coach. It actually came out really cool. If I do say so.

This was an awesome weekend. Low stress. A nice change. Really good cakes this week. After my big fridge purchase next week my plan is to buy a camera. Ken, our photographer, has been enjoying his life and we are not getting many pictures as I don't own a camera. I am sorry for not posting more often and posting more pictures.

Happy late 4th of July! My head is hurting from trying to figure out how to post. Enjoy the weekend! XOXO