Saturday, February 06, 2010

Anniversary Cake


This cake was made for a couple celebrating their 55th wedding anniversary. The cake was covered in buttercream roses and rosebuds. I used a press to make the design on the sides of the cake. The top two tiers were almond butter with raspberry filling. The bottom tier was red velvet with a cream cheese filling. Serving size 100

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Winter wedding

This small wedding cake will serve 44 people. The top tier is almond butter with a cream cheese filling. Bottom tier is red velvet with a cream cheese filling. Both cakes are accented with gold fondant pearls.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Crystal's Wedding Cake

Crystal's cake is covered in buttercream icing decorated with fresh pink roses. The cake flavor is vanilla. Serving size is 148

Liz & Josh's Wedding Cake




Josh and Liz are some of my favorite people. They had a lovely wedding. I am very happy for them. They chose several cake flavors for there wedding cake....marble with cream cheese filling, almond butter with cookies and cream, vanilla with strawberry mousse and the bottom tier was fudge chocolate with a chocolate mousse. Serving size 134

NOTE FROM THE BRIDE:

We are so honored that you made our cake, it was the most beautiful cake and i was so proud that it was ours!

We missed a chance to eat the cake when we were at the reception but somehow a huge portion got boxed up and taken back to my parents house where josh and I devoured the rest of it! We definately got to eat some!

Thank you again for everything you have done for us. I will definately be sending any brides I know of your way :)

Love,
Liz

Erin's Wedding Cake









Erin's wedding reception was held at the Monroe Country Club. Beautiful setting.
She chose 3 different flavors for her cake. Red velvet with cream cheese filling, chocolate with a chocolate mint filling and vanilla with a raspberry filling. Fondant colored ribbon accents each tier. Serving size 130
Added to her wedding cake she chose Margarita cupcakes

Amy's Wedding Cake


Amy had an indoor outdoor wedding at Anne Springs in Ft. Mill, S.C. Her wedding cake is setting on a tree that has been cut to size. The leaves surrounding the cake were made by Amy's mom. Nestled between the leave cookies are white chocolate truffles. The top two tiers of her wedding cake are carrot cake with a cream cheese filling. The bottom tier is white chocolate. Serving size is 102 plus

Kristen's Wedding Cake







Kristin chose tiffany blue for the main color of her cake. This cake is iced in buttercream icing.


Each tier has a different flavor. Starting from the top she chose Fudge chocolate with peanut butter filling, fudge chocolate with cookies and cream, red velvet with a cream cheese filling.


The bottom tier is almond butter with a cream cheese filling. It may be hard to see. but the cupcakes are decorated with a micky mouse on each cupcake. The cupcakes are lemon with a lemon filling. Serving size is 148 for the cake
Note from the bride:
Mary Ann,
Our wedding cake was beautiful! I loved it. Thank you so much! You did an amazing job! Everyone was talking about how great it tasted as well. I really appreciate everything.Sincerely,Kristin

Kelly's Wedding Cake

Kelly chose to have fresh red roses as a beautiful accent for her wedding cake. The cake flavors are red velvet with a cream cheese filling and almond butter with a raspberry filling. Serving size is 102

Holly's Wedding Cake

Holly's wedding and reception location was Magnolia Glen.
She chose a different design for each layer of her cake. The cake flavors were golden butter with buttercream filling, chocolate with cookies & cream filling and chocolate fudge with a cream cheese filling. The flowers on her cake are made with royal icing. Serving size is 102

Friday, June 05, 2009

Hanley's Wedding Cake




This was Hanley's special day. All of her bridesmaids posed for a picture. Her reception was held at Queen's University. The reception hall was very elegant. Hanley chose Chocolate fudge with a buttercream filling, vanilla with a chocolate cream cheese filling and the bottom layer was chocolate fudge with a chocolate mousse filling. The cake was covered in buttercream icing with fondant pearl accents and fondant string work. Serving size 166


Abby's Wedding Cake



Abby chose pound cake for her wedding cake. The cake is covered in buttercream icing.
Serving size for this cake is 197

Tracy's Wedding Cake





Tracy chose 3 different flavors for her wedding cake.

The top tier is strawberry with a strawberry mousse filling, second tier is lemon with a lemon filling and the bottom tier is chocolate fudge with a chocolate mousse filling. The cake is iced in buttercream icing with a green fondant ribbon as an accent. Serving size is for 102

The silk flowers were done by Grapevines & Gossamer Wings..

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Airen's Wedding Cake

Erin choose several different flavors for her cake. Yellow butter with a chocolate mousse, red velvet with a cream cheese filling, almond butter with a strawberry mousse and the bottom tier was vanilla with a buttercream filling. Serving size 134
Note from the Bride's mother:
Mary Ann,
I wanted to let you know that we thought Airen and Daniel's cake was perfect. It was beautiful and tasted delicious. We had many compliments on it.

Cheryl's Wedding Cake

Cheryl's reception was help at the Monroe Country Club.
Her wedding cake was covered in buttercream frosting.

Cheryl chose redvelvet with a cream cheese filling for her cake. Each tier was decorated in a slightly different design. Serving size was 147

Sarah's Wedding Cake

Sarah chose a red velvet cake with a cream cheese filling. The red ribbon is made from fondant. Serving size is 102

Note from the bride:

Hi Mary Ann,

I wanted to thank you for doing such a wonderful job on my wedding cake. It was beautiful and tasted delicious! So many of my guests complimented Evan and I on the cake. You did a lovely job with the cake topper too. So pretty.

The wedding cake was exactly what I envisioned. It was simple, yet classy and elegant


Best wishes,
Sarah McNeil Melton

Brittany's Wedding Cake


I enjoyed making Brittany's wedding cake. Her wedding and reception was held at the Crow's Nest in Monroe, NC. Brittany chose a beautiful cake. I loved how the garland of white roses accented the second tier. The roses were made with royal icing. The cake was covered in a buttercream icing. Each tier is accented with fondant pearls. The cake flavor was vanilla. Serving size is 135

Friday, April 17, 2009

Shawna's Wedding Cake


This cake is covered with buttercream icing.
The top tier is vanilla with a raspberry filling.
Middle tier is chocolate with a strawberry mousse filling. The bottom tier is almond butter with a cream cheese filling. Serving size is 166
Note from the bride:
Thank you so much for providing the beautiful and delicious cake for our wedding. I heard many compliments. Everyone loved the cake.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Laura's Wedding Cake

Laura chose fudge chocolate with chocolate mousse, almond butter with cream cheese and vanilla with strawberry mousse filling. The middle tier is an edible transfer. Each tier is accented with fondant pearls. Serving size is 130

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Robyn's Wedding Cake

Robyn chose 3 different flavors for wedding cake. Top layer is white chocolate with a chocolate mousse filling. Second tier is chocolate fudge with a buttercream filling and the bottom tier is almond butter with a cream cheese filling. Serving size is 122

Penny's Wedding Cake




Penny chose a beautiful cake. We used a caramel colored frosting with caramel flavoring added to the frosting. Smelled delicious. The white lillies were made out of royal icing. The edible pearls around the base of each cake is made from fondant. The top and bottom tier of the cake was a wonderful yellow butter cake with cookies and cream for the filling. The middle cake was almond butter with a cream cheese filling. I also posted one of the side cakes that she chose.Serving size for the wedding cake was 118 people

Saturday, December 06, 2008

Becky's Wedding Cake


My first December wedding. I love all the festivity that comes with a wedding that is held near the Christmas holiday's. Becky chose 3 different flavors for her wedding cake. The top tier is marble, second tier is vanilla and the bottom is my speciality cake...chocolate chip fudge. Serving size is 166

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Tiffany's Wedding Cake


Tiffany chose an almond butter cake filled with buttercream. I added fondant pearls as and accent with a black and fucia ribbon. The top is fresh roses. This cake will serve 147 people

Penny's Wedding Cupcake Tree


This cupcake tree has two flavors. The blue daisy cupcakes are redvelvel with a cream cheese icing. The orange daisy cupcakes are almond butter with a raspberry filling with chocolate frosting. The small 6" cake is almond butter with a raspberry filling. The daisies and the bow top are all made from fondant..

Erin's Wedding Cake


Erin chose a vanilla cake with buttercream icing.
The leaves on the cake are white chocolate fondant.
The cake is topped with fresh flowers.
Serving size is 78

Stephanie's Wedding Cake


Stephanie's wedding was held at Magnolia Glenn in Locust, a very beautiful choice. Her wedding cake had two flavors, almond butter and vanilla. Serving size for this cake was 172

Saturday, June 07, 2008

Carla's Wedding Cake


This wedding cake is accented with different colored.hydrangeas, my favorite flower. The top tier of the cake is lemon with a cream cheese filling, second tier is vanilla with a raspberry filling and the bottom tier is fudge chocolate with a cream cheese filling. Serving size is 100
The bride also ordered a yellow butter sheet cake with a chocolate mousse filling.

Ashley's Wedding Cake


Ashley had the most amazing wedding reception, everything was decorated beautifully. Every detail was thought of and the flowers were lovely. The cake flavors Ashley picked out were wonderful....Vanilla with a strawberry mousse and almond butter with a raspberry filling. Serving size for this wedding cake was 134

Chris and Laura's Wedding Cake


This cake was delivered to Raffaldini Vineyards overlooking the Mountains of North Carolina. It was the perfect setting for a romantic wedding. The grapes were made from gum paste, the leaves were made from my white chocolate rolled fondant. The cake flavors: top layer was coconut with a coconut cream filling, second tier was chocolate with raspberry filling and chocolate mousse filling, third layer was red velvet with a cream cheese filling. Serving size 134. The wedding was so lovely and this cake was enjoyed by all!
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Gloria's Wedding Cake


This lovely square cake was done for a very sweet bride.
She chose a black and white elegant cake. Each layer is a different flavor. Almond butter with a raspberry filling, chocolate with a raspberry filling and for the bottom layer a pound cake with a chocolate mousse filling. This cake will serve approximately 154 people

Tiffany's Wedding Cake


Tiffany's 4 tiered cake has a few different flavors. The top two tiers are chocolate with a chocolate mousse filling. Third tier is almond butter with a cream cheese filling. Bottom layer is vanilla with a strawberry mousse filling. Serving size is 172
There was also a sheet cake, red velvet with a cream cheese filling.
Each layer is edged with a white chocolate rolled fondant pearl.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Elegant fondant bow



The bow on this cake is made from rolled fondant dusted with pearl dust. Edible pearls are used to accent this cake. It makes a lovely cake.

Fall Wedding


This cake was decorated with buttercream icing and accented with a swirl design on the sides. Brown ribbon was wrapped around each layer of the cake. This cake served approximately 130 people.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Rosa's Wedding

This is my first hexagon wedding cake to decorate. I really like the elegant look that it presents. The cake flavors are chocolate with a strawberry mousse filling, red velvet with a cream cheese filling, chocolate with a cookies and cream filling and the largest cake is strawberry with a chocolate mousse filling. This cake will feed 145.

The bride also order a sheet cake that serves 60. Almond butter with bavarian cream.

Sunday, September 02, 2007

Beginning of the Fall Season


The cake flavor for this fall wedding cake was almond butter. Each layer had a different filling. Rasperry, Strawberry and the last layer had a pineapple cream cheese filling This cake will serve 120 people

Elegant Black and Gold Wedding


I did this wedding cake for a very sweet bride. Her colors were black and gold....very elegant colors. She chose 2 flavors for her cake. Chocolate fudge with a cream cheese filling and Golden Butter with a cream cheese filling. Both excellent choices. This cake will serve approximately 175 people

50th Birthday Party Cake


I did this for a surprise birthday party. The cake flavors were almond butter with a raspberry filling and a strawberry cake with a strawberry filling. The bow was made from fondant covered with a small amount of pearl dust. Serving size is 80 people.

Maria's Wedding Cake


This cake is covered with white buttercream frosting. THe flavor of the top tier is almond butter with a banana filling. The two other tiers are vanilla with a strawberry filling. Serving size is 120

Note from the Bride
Mary Ann,
Everyone absolutely loved your cake...I even got people that asked me for your information which I gladly passed on for their future events.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! The cake was wonderful...I really can't stand seeing that cake in the freezer, I want to dig right into it! LOL

I just want to thank you for your service, the cake was beautiful and the taste amazing!
Maria

Saturday, July 07, 2007

Cascading Pink Roses


This cake was delivered to the Marriott on Tyvola Road.
The bride and groom chose a 3 tiered cake. Almond butter with a rasperry filling, almond butter with a strawberry filling and a very moist vanilla cake for the bottom tier. The roses are made from buttercream icing.
This cake will serve around 120 people

Monday, May 28, 2007

MODERN STYLE WEDDING CAKE


This cake was frosted in blue buttercream icing overlayed with chocolate fondant. The fondant has a tootsie roll taste to it. You will see this cake in many of your wedding magazines. Check out the new spring and summer issue of The Knot 2007. My cake is featured in this magazine.

Beautiful Fall Wedding


I enjoyed making this cake for a lovely bride. Each layer is a different flavor.
Leaves are stenciled on the sides of the cake. The fresh flowers make it a beautiful fall wedding cake. This cake will serve 170 people

Floating Hearts


These heart shaped wedding cakes were placed on a floating stand. The flowers are gum paste calli lillies made by hand. The bride chose an almond butter flavor cake with a raspberry filling. She also had 3 side heart shaped cakes.

50 years Together


This 3 tiered cake was done for a 50th wedding anniversary.
The cake flavor was almond butter with a raspberry filling.
The flowers are violet petunias and white roses. This cake will serve approximately 109 people.

Elegant Ivory Wedding Cake


This cake was done with buttercream icing. The roses on top of the cake are made from royal icing. I love the string work . This was a new talent I just learned. The borders are made of edible pearls dipped in pearl dust.


Note from the bride


Mary Ann, the cakes were wonderful...thank you so much...everyone was talking about how delicious

The Cake with the Pearl Decor


This cake was done for a March bride. The reception was held at Byron's at the South End Atrium. I used an impression matte to make the diamond shapes on each layer. Each cross section has a fondant pearl placed in the center. I used fondant to make the bow and to make the pearls framing each layer. The flavors are almond butter, yellow butter and chocolate pound cake with a cream cheese filling inside each layer. This cake will serve approximately 200 people

Maureen & L.J. Wedding



I enjoyed doing this cake for Maureen and L.J.'s wedding reception. I was a guest at this wedding. L.J. was our neighbor. We wish him and Maureen the very best. They chose 3 different cake flavors.
Lemon with strawberry, chocolate fudge with cookies & cream, almond butter with cream cheese and also chocolate fudge with raspberry filling.
I loved doing the design up the side of the cake. The flowers are made from royal icing. All the other frosting on this cake is buttercream.
I had many folks tell me how delicous the cake was. Never get tired of hearing those nice compliments.

Truffles



These cake truffles are nice for any occasion. They are great to just pop into your mouth.
The dipped chocolate strawberries are also very delicious.


I loved the pale pink roses placed around each tier. The roses were made from buttercream. This cake will serve 70 to 80 people

Calla Lilly Bouquet


This small cake is the top layer to a 3 layer wedding cake.
When it is completed it will set on a floating stand. The other 2 layers of cake also have hanging string work. Each of the cakes is accented with fondant pearls.
The topper on this cake was done by myself. It has small gum paste flowers nestled into a bouquet of calla lillies.
This particular cake is a 6" cake. The flavor is chocolate fudge with chocolate mousse filling.

60 YEARS OLD

This cake was done for a 60th birthday party. The number 60 on the top was made from melted chocolates. The top layer of the cake was a yellow butter flavor with a raspberry filling. The middle layer was a red velvet with a cream cheese filling. The bottom layer was a yellow butter with a pineapple filling.
They also chose a large sheet cake with a chocolate flavor and a chocolate mousse filling. Serving size 120

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Anniversary Cake



This cake was made for a couple celebrating their anniversary. The cake flavor was almond butter with a raspberry filling. The cake is covered in buttercream. The lillies are made with royal icing. Serving size is 52

Tulip Cake


This cake was decorated with fresh tulips for a spring day wedding. I used a press to make the diagonal lines on the sides of the cake and accented with fondant pearls. The bride chose redvelet with cream cheese, chocolate with a chocolate mousse and almond butter with a raspberry filling. This cake will serve 108 people

Sunday, April 01, 2007

A SEPTEMBER WEDDING



Each layer is a different flavor, each with a delicious filling included.
Classic vanilla with a strawberry filling is the top layer, second layer is a chocolate fudge with a chocolate mouse filling, the third layer is almond butter with a cream cheese filling. Doesn't that all sound very yummy.... I'm sure everyone enjoyed dessert.
I think the edible pearls made out of fondant are a beautfiul accent to this cake.

One thing that was really nice about this cake was the setup. We used a white table cloth with lights scattered all over the table with a sheer cloth placed over that. The cake was placed on a small lifter to lift it above the lights. I thought this was very elegant for an evening wedding.


This cake will serve approximately 166 people.

Sunday, December 31, 2006

silk flowers

I added silk flowers to this cake, along with a ribbon to match the color or the bridesmaids dresses. The bride was very pleased with her wedding cake.

Saturday, December 30, 2006

Fresh Gerber Daises

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This special wedding cake was made for a wedding held on July 8th. It is covered in a buttercream icing. The pearls are a beautiful accent for this cake. Fresh gerber daisies add the finishing touches.

This cake will serve 100 people


Note from the bride

Hi Mary Ann! We absolutely loved the cake! It was so gorgeous! Thank you for doing a fantastic job!

Thanks again so so much and I will defn recommend you to any friends I know getting

Buttercream Roses


This cake has over 60 buttercream roses placed around each layer. The monogram is made from melted chocolate. This is the second time I've made this style of cake. I think it makes a very elegant wedding cake.

Heart shaped cake


This cake was made with my heart shaped pans.
The victorian roses are made out of buttercream icing.
Usually the bride picks out the cake. My one and only cake
picked out by the groom. He did a good job.
Don't you think?

MODERN CAKE

Doesn't this look like a fun cake? It was done for a sweet bride, a friend of my daughter's. The cake flavor is vanilla with a raspberry filling.
The designs on the cake were done with fondant.

16th Birthday

This cake was made for a special young lady turning 16. The top two tiers are vanilla with a strawberry mousse filling. The bottom tier is chocolate fudge with a chocolate mousse filling.
The party was held at the Marriott downtown Charlotte.

Winter Wonderland



This is my last wedding cake for 2006.
I used a buttercream frosting to decorate with.
The Christmas trees added a nice effect. The cake flavor is red velvet with a cream cheese filling. The side cake is a vanilla flavor with a raspberry filling. The 2 cakes will serve approximately 160 people.

Unique Wedding cake


I enjoyed creating this cake for a special bride and groom. The top is covered in a chocolate fondant shaped as a drum with cowrie shells, native of Kenya, Africa. They picked an almond butter cake filled with raspberry and cream cheese fillings.
This cake will serve approximately 110 people.

Melodie's Wedding Cake

Melodie chose a fondant covered wedding cake. The gold etching is a hand painted design that Melodie chose. The top tier is a lemon cake with lemon filling.
The bottom tier is covered in dark chocolate fondant. This cake is made up of 3 layers, almond butter, chocolate fudge and almond butter. The filling is chocolate mousse.
The carved elephants were made special for this wedding. Cake serving size is for 48 people

Wedding Cake


This cake is done with buttercream icing with fondant accents. The pearls are made from fondant
The shaded pink roses are made from buttercream

This cake will serve approximately 170 people