Celebrate Good Times!!

In May, there were a lot of celebrations and festivities. After lots of hard work and dedication, one of our dear friends graduated from medical school. Shortly after, he had a birthday so we decided to host a small gathering to celebrate him. This was an intimate and informal get together so there wasn't a huge spread. I did manage to make something sweet. (of course, a party isn't a party unless there's cake!) His favorite color is blue so I created my own blue sugar sprinkles to top off the baby cakes. Although we are all grown ups, you're never too old to have fun and youthful things! These were a lemon & lime baby cake with lemon & lime zest butter cream frosting.

International Love

This week my buddy DJ 2-Tone Jones celebrated his Dirty 30 birthday and it was fantastic. I kept trying to think of something special and creative custom made for him. I was going to focus on the DJ theme because the 30 theme seemed too corny. Nothing I came up with felt personal enough. Until....I had an idea! I decided to incorporate one of his favorite drinks (American Honey Liqueur) into something sweet. These love bites went international this time around. French Vanilla with American Honey Liqueur and a touch of lemon zest. I also incorporated the American Honey into the vanilla butter cream frosting and topped it off with caramel drizzle. (Oh yeah!!!)

I was worried b/c he doesn't eat a lot of sweets. Needless to say they were a HIT!! He even came over to tell me he really liked them. I went small this time around making Love Bites instead of Baby Cakes. Sometimes its better when people can be discreet about their greediness. Hee Hee. We took some photos before they went out to folks. Enjoy!!!

Sweet 30

This year (February) I turned 30. I decided to have 3 celebrations in a different city. Where I'm from, where I've been and where I am now. So, I did NYC, D.C and Detroit. It was fantastic. The last and final party was celebrated in Detroit. 2 of my best friends who share close birthdays with me were also guest of honors. Joi (one of the birthday girls) and myself had been working on how we were going to display the Baby Cakes that we knew we wanted for the party. We got inspired by a picture that we saw online. So we decided to choose that as our dessert theme. Our colors were fuchsia and black. Bake Sweet Love did 125 (black) chocolate orange Baby Cakes with (fuchsia)orange/lemon butter cream frosting. There was a mini cake with vanilla fondant on the top of the tier. At the bottom, we did dark chocolate chip cookie treat bags. Everything was a hit!!!

Birthday Love

Here it is! My grandmother's 80th birthday was held on September 7, 2008. It was fantastic! It was held at the Detroit Yacht Club and was amazing. Over 300 guest arrived, she received proclamations from everyone from the Governor to the Mayor. The highlights were some beautiful songs sung by her old campers, great speeches given by family and awesome food.



Bake Sweet Love sponsored the babycakes and they were a hit!!!! People were picking them up by 2's and 3's. My mother said she had never seen anything like that. I think that's one of the things I love about babycakes, you get to have your own personal cake. Anywhooo, enjoy the pictures. I'm just sorry you didn't get to taste them!!!!
These were lemon, vanilla and chocolate babycakes with vanilla and lemon buttercream frosting.

BIRTHDAY SWEETS

My fabulous sister(in-law)recently celebrated her birthday with the family. It was intimate and sweet. I really wanted to create some babycakes that were a reflection of the kind of woman she is. So I came up with my traditional lemon babycakes with lemon buttercream frosting. But I used a flower effect for the design and topped them off with fresh strawberries. She's just that. Always, growing into something beautiful like a flower, bright like the color yellow and sweet like strawberries. I even have some cookies named after her (The Smart Cookie). Since she was birthday girl she had a supersized babycake!!! Enjoy!