Category Archives: Sculpted Cakes

The challenge: A round cake, reminiscent of the Death Star™ from Star Wars™, with rainbow layered velvet cake. Challenge: ACCEPTED! At the beginning of March, Alex and his parents called us about making a Star Wars™ Death Star™ cake. We told them we wouldn’t be able to replicate Death Star™, but we would definitely be able to make something amazing for them. We designed a round  cake with a center seam, sugar pearl lights, a “10” in a circle frame, and writing in a...
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Once again we were called to bake a smile with Icing Smiles. The request came in late October for Becca’s sweet 16 cake. Her mother writes: “I have been trying to come up with a theme for weeks now on a cake for Becca. There are a lot of things she likes. Music is HUGE in her life, she loves Big Band music, Patsy Cline, Dixie Chicks and Warren Zevon, not to mention Sesame Street baby stuff thrown in there. She also loves to watch YouTube on...
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I had heard about Icing Smiles, Inc. through another cake blog I follow. I read their mission of providing custom celebration cakes to families impacted by critical illness of a child and I knew I had to get involved. I volunteered to be a baker in July of this year. On September 12th, I got my first request: a 9th birthday cake for a little boy named Sheldon living with an unidentified mitochondrial disorder. I was told Sheldon loves snow and construction; in particular, he loves...
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