Chocolate Jewerly Cases

Chocolate used to be my specialty many (maaaany) years ago when I had my business in México. Making these following jewerly cases brought back memories.

I simply loooove working with chocolate! Many of these jewerly cases were going to special teachers and students of an elementary school as a Valentine's Day present.

You might see on the top left corner how we packaged them. They were so cute and heavy. Each confection weighter .75 lbs. Some of them had chocolates and other ones had candy.

Chocolate Torte

This was an odd, but cute request. There's a story behind it!

I don't know if it's right to tell you the story... but,

the guy that the cake is for has been in the hospital for a long time. Something about "milking the cow" (?).

Anyway, we have a decadent chocolate torte and in between each layer we have chocolate ganache. The milk truck is made out of chocolate and the adorable cow is fondant.

Is she adorable or what?

Teddy Bear Shower Cake

The next cake was made for a baby shower. The couple knew they were expecting a boy and I love teddy bears so I decided to make it my focal point on the cake.

The blue teddy bear and the presents are made out of fondant. Inside the cake is chocolate butter cake  and  vanilla cake. For the filling we have a strawberry buttercream with chunks of stawberry.

Here's the whole cake. We dropped off the cake at Granite City restaurant.

Dora Over The Rainbow

Here's another Dora cake. I love making these type of cakes because they usually have lots of color. The cake is for a pretty girl turning 3 years old.

Inside the cake we have two layers of butter chocolate cake and one layer of vanilla cake sandwished with buttercream frosting and covered with our home made fondant.

The rainbow, clouds and stars were made with fondant a couple of days before delivering the cake. The little dora is a toy and that was our present to our friends' daughter, Kira.

Rose Flower Cake

Today we have a sweet light pink cake for a young girl turning 8 years old. The cake is made from a special recipe because Ellie, the birthday girl, required a cake made with no eggs. The cake is chocolate with vanilla buttercream frosting and covered in our home made fondant.

We also made personalized eggless cookies for her and we covered them with royal icing.

 

Cookies, Cookies and More Cookies!

There's this sweet lady named Shelley who works at Costco. She loves my daughter Lillie and always draws pretty smiley faces on our receipts (between us, if someone else is at the exit and draws her a smiley face on the receipt, she will run to Shelley at the entrance to get a 'better' smiley face). Lillie loves her a lot and whenever we bake, she makes sure that we bake extra to take a treat over to her.

Anyway, Shelley ordered cookies for some family members celebrating birthdays. Here's what we made for them.

These vanilla sugar shoes were going to Lori in California. Who wouldn't love shoes?

These other cookies were going to Garrett in Florida. Presents for the birthday guy!

And the Hearts were going to... both! I hope the cookies arrived safe and that people enjoyed them.

Disco Time!

One of my best friends, Dessie, asked me to make a very special cake for her husband's surprise birthday party. Jon (Dessie's husband) is a wonderful person, very joyful and always with such a positive attitude was turning the big "4" "0" so I wanted to make something unique for him.

The party had a Disco theme so I thought this would be appropriate. Everyone at the party was dressed up and they even had a prize for the best dressed. Neither of us (Matt or I) won mainly because we 'forgot' to put on a costume. Remember the 5 inch high in the sky hair all of us ladies (I mean 'you ladies') used to wear? The party brought back some memories....

The cake was a very moist Chocolate cake with Chocolate Ganache. We covered it in vanilla buttercream and the disco image is made out of chocolate (of course). We used different color sprays to create the colorful design.

We love you Jon!!

Chocolate Torte Anyone?

This is one of those delicious things in life that you just simply can't pass out on. A Chocolate Torte covered in Chocolate Ganache. A bite of this decadent cake and you will feel like in heaven. We made this dessert for a dear friend of ours (and godfather of my daughter Lillie) as a present for his friends at Mercy hospital.