However, if food safe gum paste flowers can be hand crafted for you that look just as real as the natural flower why not choose those instead? Not only would there be no worries as to the toxicity of the flowers but you would have the added distinction of having sugar flowers on your cake. Now, that really makes the cake special.  Not only that, but the flowers would be added to your cake by me, who knows best what your final cake vision should be. Your florist would not know that information. Let me make some of my handcrafted "sweet art" for you for your next special occasion cake!

Adding just a touch of shimmer to the fondant on wedding cakes, celebration cakes, or to hand crafted sugar flowers brings out the details and makes them extra special.  Featured in this post is a pale teal blue and silver open white rose cake. Notice how the edible shimmer carefully applied to the fondant cake, flowers and ribbon banding takes it a step beyond beautiful into amazing!  

Birthday celebrations are very special times because each year is another milestone. No

 time is more important in this aspect than when you are a child.  Childhood flies by so quickly and what better way to make memories of each new year

 than by having a very special cake.  

It would be my honor to design a special birthday cake for you.  Whether it is based on a popular theme or a design we create together I can guarantee you a cake that will make that next birthday very special for your little one!  

What a privilege it was to create this officially commissioned NASCAR cake.  This cake was created for Wally Rogers, the crew chief for Leavine Family Racing, NASCAR car #95.  Extreme care was taken in order to faithfully render the vehicle in its exact likeness.  The silhouette and custom paint job were created in miniature.  The vehicle is a 1/14 scale model.  The car cake is 100% edible with no gum paste used at all and is made of a vanilla almond pound cake with white chocolate butter cream.  The fondant is butter cream marshmallow fondant except for the black fondant which is dark chocolate marshmallow fondant.  The base cake is dark chocolate fudge with chocolate butter cream covered in the dark chocolate fondant.

No piping was used but instead all of the detailing was done with fondant with the exception of the race car driver’s name.  Even the small colored detailing around the corporate logo and the white pin striping were done in very thin strips of fondant.  The metallic details including the cross hatch custom metal work finish were duplicated.

This cake is proof that with enough attention to detail anything can be made in cake!

This featured cake was created for the combined birthday of a sweet little boy and girl.  Their party was to be held at a local park with the fun activities to include a hay ride and a trip to a pumpkin patch.  What better way to depict this birthday than to make the little boy and girl as scare crows in a fenced in field with an apple tree with a bushel of picked apples, pumpkin patch with pumpkin wagon, corn stalks and picked corn, and hay bales?

The cake itself was a 12 x 18" chewy chocolate chip cookie covered in butter cream.  All of the sugar art pieces were hand crafted with marshmallow fondant, modeling chocolate, rice crispy treats, and pretzels.  Everything you see in this farm scene is edible.

Plan today to have "Let Me Call You Sweet Art" create a custom work of sugar art for your next birthday celebration so that you can make your loved one's birthday wishes all come true!

But, this is where most elegant cookies stop. The application of sugar art to a cookie can be limitless.  The ever popular “Birthday Cookie” is traditionally thought of as just a big cookie with a border and a Happy Birthday saying in the middle.  Let’s think on this for a moment.  What is a celebration cake?  It is an iced smooth cake surface that is decorated for the occasion.  Now, why aren’t cookies thought of in this larger way?  Well, at Let Me Call You Sweet Art, they are.  I can make 1″ thick soft chewy cookies in a variety of sizes and can apply a thin layer of smooth butter cream that creates the traditional surface for decorating. From there it is a blank canvas for whatever the imagination can create.

If you or someone you know is having a occasion to celebrate but they do not like cake, consider a cookie.  It does not have to be just the casual celebration cookie types that you can purchase at the grocery store.  It can be a cookie that is fresh baked and made with real butter, quality chocolate, or nuts.  It can be in a variety of flavors or in two or three layers of more than one type of cookie with butter cream between them and iced and decorated just like a cake.

So, in the future, when you think of a cookie think of the possibilities.  Cookies can be beautiful!

The imagination is the limit as to what can be modeled out of sugar.  Gum paste, fondant, and modeling chocolate are often used as a master potter uses clay to create works of art except a cake artist’s works of art are edible!

My favorite work of edible sugar art are flowers, especially roses.  I hand craft each rose with individually shaped petals that are added one by one so no two roses ever look exactly alike. Each rose is then dusted and painted by hand to create a realistic velvet appearance.  The rose calyx and leaves are carefully highlighted to accent the sugar roses perfectly.

Many brides desire the classic beauty that comes from fresh flowers but think of how much more elegant wedding cakes can be when they are adorned by sugar flowers as realistic as a natural flower.  If carefully preserved, sugar flowers can be cherished as keepsakes for many years after the special day.  There is no danger of the flowers wilting on the wedding cake nor of concerns of pesticides or poisonous sap that might come in contact with the cake from natural flowers. Edible masterpieces of sugar art presented especially in realistic sugar renderings of beautiful flowers are the perfect touch to make your wedding cake take your breath away!

The beauty of these small cakes is that they can be a simple classic cake and frosting or be transformed into a gourmet dessert.  Popular among my offerings have been my gourmet cupcakes.  Cupcakes like my “Cinnamon Roll” that is composed of a buttery spice cake that has a cinnamon cream cheese whipped filling and is topped with cream cheese butter cream and a sprinkle of cinnamon.  Or, my “Chocolate Covered Cherry” which is a vanilla cherry scented moist chocolate chip cake with milk chocolate truffle and cherry preserve filling topped with cherry vanilla butter cream and topped with a maraschino cherry and chocolate shavings.    Then there is the classic “Chocolate Peanut Butter Delight” which is a moist chocolate cake with a peanut butter whipped cream filling studded with chocolate peanut butter candies and then topped with peanut butter cream and a chocolate peanut butter candy.  An let’s not forget the “Cookies and Cream” cupcake with the rich moist dark chocolate cake with whipped cookies and cream filling topped with more cookies and cream butter cream and finished off with a small chocolate and cream cookie.

The art that can be crafted to customize these little darlings is only limited by your imagination.  They can be elegant or simply adorned in a box with a ribbon. Or they can be presented with elaborate lace wrappers and hand crafted chocolate art work.  Small white chocolate fondant roses and leaves or hand crafted and painted fondant flowers are just a small example of what can be created to make any special occasion more memorable.  Cupcakes warm our hearts and make us happy and they make everyone who receives one feel special!

Thus is the setting for a romantic wedding.  What cake should be at the center of such a special occasion but one that exemplifies romance?  And, what could be more romantic than red roses, the shimmer of silver, and pearls?  This Romantic Wedding Cake design begins with classic square cakes that have been covered in ivory marshmallow butter cream fondant.  Atop this grand cake is a bouquet of intricately hand crafted gum paste roses, leaves and pearls.  Every rose is compiled of individually formed petals that have been hand dusted to exactly replicate the velvet texture of a fine classic red rose.  The accents on the cake are made from the same marshmallow butter cream fondant and have been hand painted with edible silver pearl dust.

Elaborate scroll work has been piped on the middle tier with individual marshmallow butter cream pearls randomly placed to highlight the art work.

The bottom tier has hand painted embroidery work detailing sugar flowers which have been highlighted with candle light pearl shimmer.  This gives the effect to the sugar piping making it look as though the flowers are made from silk.

The border on all of the layers is composed of strings of fondant pearls that have been hand painted giving them luster of real pearls.

The resulting effect is one of extreme classic romantic beauty; the perfect touch to any grand romantic wedding reception.