My Kind of Advertising

May I just suggest that if you are thinking about starting your own small business I cannot recommend listing on Yelp enough. I have been amazed at how many calls I've gotten just for a simple free listing. One such phone call last week landed me a cake order from my first out-of-state customer. A man from New York called asking for a camera cake for a potential client. At first I was very skeptical and the chatting in the background coming from the other line made me question whether it was a scam. But a few days later I received payment for the cake and happily commenced cake construction. The recipient is a photographer and creator of one of the largest and most renown photography information websites on the planet. I was pleased to see that he was pleased by the creation of my camera cake.


The inside was a chocolate fudge cake with Nutella filling and chocolate frosting. I used black fondant to cover the cake. I included the logo of the business whom purchased the cake in the digital screen display. My second camera cake so far and it certainly got a little easier the second time around. I did not freeze the cake as most are in the habit of doing when sculpting cake, but the cake was dense enough that it held its shape exceptionally well. 

I took the picture before adding some of the last minute details. I included the Nikon logo on the front above the lense and a few other bells and whistles.

Cheese! It's Your Birthday!

This weekend was a turning point in my very early cake career. Aside from launching my website, which you can find here, I made my first sculpture cake and absolutely loved it! I'm not sure why it took me so long to make such a cake since my background is in art and sculpture is one of my favorite mediums. I made this camera cake for a friend of mine who celebrated his 30th birthday yesterday and who happens to be a photographer. From baking to finish I completed the cake in record time, a whopping 5 1/2 hours, which is amazing fast for any sort of cake. I went with chocolate hazelnut pound cake, Nutella (the birthday boys fav), and french vanilla cream crumb coat and chocolate fondant. To assemble the cake I baked a 9 inch square and a 9 inch circle. I halved the square cake and used a tumbler to cut out smaller circles for the lens. After I spread the Nutella in between layers, I arranged the cakes together, then slathered french vanilla cream all over, and then rolled the chocolate fondant over. The rest was a piece of cake:) I notice that when creating a sculpture cake what makes it are the details. The more details, the better the cake sculpture. Stay tuned for more fun sculpture cakes in the future.