tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44386230934693999052024-03-14T03:10:13.845-07:00Cakes by the "Pound"-Everybody wants some!Cakes by the "Pound" would like to share its weekly creations and the stories behind them. Some are more interesting than others but nevertheless we will fill you in.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438623093469399905.post-12322423135278462442012-01-21T19:04:00.000-08:002012-01-21T19:04:21.917-08:00Its Lions Tigers and Betty White?Yes, I it has been a while but not too long this time. As many of you know Mendy decided to take on a little more these days and give back to the future Pastry chefs and started teaching cake decorating classes at Le Cordon Bleu.<br />
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GabrielUnknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438623093469399905.post-14452584488765989172012-01-06T21:02:00.000-08:002012-01-06T21:02:57.540-08:00Pasadena Magazine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438623093469399905.post-56953307222456202582011-11-15T07:23:00.000-08:002011-11-15T07:23:19.271-08:00I do overI failed Cakes by the Pound this week-On Sunday (Funday) Mendy and the bakery appeared in a segment on WeTV's new show called <a href="http://www.wetv.com/i-do-over/videos/i-do-over-striptease-wedding-full-episode" target="_blank">I Do Over</a>.<br />
<div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-93AZDch45UU/Tna8ecY7BMI/AAAAAAAAAH0/PbidZlQiNd4/s1600/IMG_8311.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-93AZDch45UU/Tna8ecY7BMI/AAAAAAAAAH0/PbidZlQiNd4/s320/IMG_8311.jpg" width="213" /></a>I did mention the show on a blog way back when we first shot the segment but that was so long ago! I labeled the blog <a href="http://cakesbythepound.blogspot.com/2011/07/flash-back-cake.html" target="_blank">Flash Back Cake</a>. The reason it was labeled flash back cake is because it was a Do Over cake and anybody doing any wedding over, its gonna be a flashback. I have the cake pictured (again) on the left, for those who did didnt get a chance to scope it out..<br />
Any hoot check out the episode, you can see Mendy do what she does well and get a little looksie at the bakery!<br />
Thanks for reading and enjoy the show.<br />
Gabriel<br />
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I found this video on the BravoTV site, I thought you might all enjoy Mendy with Miss Patty Stanger. This was done a few years back, or maybe it was last year. Any hoot enjoy the video. If you follow the show Millionaire Matchmaker, you know that the wedding was called off. O'well to bad, maybe we can make a break up cake for Patty! Maybe-<br />
Thanks for reading or in this case watching-<br />
GabrielUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438623093469399905.post-1529518880353102822011-09-18T21:30:00.000-07:002011-09-18T21:31:12.214-07:00Ruffles have Ridges<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
The best thing about being part of Cakes by the Pound is to watch the transformation of ideas and elements into a sketch and then into a pretty fricken awesome cake and best of all is the final result and a very happy bride. </div>
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The bride and groom, Karen and John, came in with their Wedding Planner Kelly Lee Gin of <a href="http://www.pictureperfectevent.com/">Picture Perfect Events</a> . The wedding was held at the <a href="http://pasadena.langhamhotels.com/?semid=Generic-TLLAX">Pasadena Langham</a> </div>
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Karen (the bride) wanted to surprise John (the groom) with the cake design. The cake had many elements such as beaded boarders, flower appliqués, sugar flowers, a custom sugar mold of an antique pendant-all hand painted, but the highlight of the cake were the hand made ruffles. Each ruffle was personally made and applied by Mendy. If you take a close look you can see the attention to detail as well as the care taken in applying them. Come to think about it, the patience Mendy displayed in applying each ruffle. </div>
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In my opinion I think the cake came out awesome, I love all the elements as well as how the design allowed each of them to flow. I hope you enjoy the picture of the cake.</div>
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Gabriel Vidauri</div>
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What does the title have to do with this cake? Probably nothing except that it is a Japanese proverb and the wedding cake pictured has Kokeshi dolls. What are Kokeshi dolls? Well that is what we asked when Gregg and Ariane approached Cakes by the Pound (Mendy) for a wedding cake. </div>
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The cake design was a collaboration between the couple and Mendy. The design was started out with just the characters or as we call it in Japan Kokeshi dolls. So we started from the top and worked our way down. Emails were exchanged and sketches were drawn. The result is what you see below. </div>
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Mendy made the Kokeshi dolls from modeling chocolate and hand painted the expression on the dolls with coco paint. The cake also has carefully positioned hand painted sugar flowers. </div>
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The wedding was held at the <a href="http://www.surfandsandresort.com/weddings.html">Surf and Sand Resort</a> in Laguna Beach. Which I thought was pretty cool for a wedding or just to have a drink near the beach. </div>
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We would also like to thank our friends <a href="http://www.fleuretica.com/">Fleuretica</a> for making this happen. Thanks Euri and Kendra! </div>
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Gabriel Vidauri</div>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We all know that Mendy can make pretty awesome wedding cakes but I always forget how awesome her "specialty" cakes are. I know she enjoys making specialty cakes, especially when the client gives her creative freedom. So away she went! This cake was made for Sanz Construction.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">She ended up creating this cake: I am sure you guessed it, yep its a workman's tool bag (arent you clever). </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-whHmv8y0Fco/TjYQqwBr-AI/AAAAAAAAAHk/5f7tq4hQ8f4/s1600/IMG_8301.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-whHmv8y0Fco/TjYQqwBr-AI/AAAAAAAAAHk/5f7tq4hQ8f4/s320/IMG_8301.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">All the tools, pencils, paper and other stuff are all edible and made out of sugar!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mr4Bm5iZGCI/TjYQ4MhvlaI/AAAAAAAAAHo/xA638gNtT7g/s1600/IMG_8302.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mr4Bm5iZGCI/TjYQ4MhvlaI/AAAAAAAAAHo/xA638gNtT7g/s320/IMG_8302.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Yeah I am proud of her, now only if she would let me sample more of her cakes. </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The tool bag cake is Cakes by the Pound's traditional Old Fashion Red Velvet (colored with red beets instead of food coloring-just like they used to make it in the south), with Godiva white chocolate cream cheese buttercream. </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks for reading</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Gabriel Vidauri</div><br />
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</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The show was so much fun to do! Mendy hates being on TV and hates me bragging about it but I write the blogs lol. The production came by arranged this and arranged that, lit up the shop and bam! They filmed a segment for one of there episodes. Cameras and lights where everywhere. I hid in the back!</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mendy had such a good time with Diane Valentine and her crew she forgot it was for TV. She almost walked away with the sound guys microphone-lol </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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On another note I would like to give a shout out to our friends at the Whole Foods Market on Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena, they are always good for cake ideas and inspirations. Thanks guys!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Now for the cake, It looks awesome! lol my opinion of course and Mendy would just die if she new how I brag about her cakes, so lets keep it on the down low. </div><div style="text-align: left;">All the decorations on the cake are edible, we can start on what took the most time-the ruffles. Mendy did each ruffle by hand and meticulously made and put each ruffle down herself, I offered to help but all I tried to do is eat the cake-o well</div><div style="text-align: left;">The bottom 2 tiers were my favorite, chocolate blackout with Valrhona crunchy pearls and a whole lot of chocolate love inside. The top tiers were Old fashion red velvet with Godiva white chocolate cream cheese buttercream. </div><div style="text-align: left;">The cake design was motivated by an old victorian theme and a mix of everybody's favorite vampire flick-Twilight.</div><br />
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Now lets talk cake! From Mendy's and her clients (Mr Philip and Fiona) mind to this blog! I would like to share this Winter Wonderland Cake.<br />
First the stuff that makes you go hhmmm, the cake or as I like to call it-edible art was a combination of my FAVORITE chocolate blackout cake with Valhrona crunchy pearls and Mendy's in house European buttercream-(tasty) and her traditional Old fashion Red Velvet cake, as you all know and some may not, Mendy makes her Red Velvet with fresh organic beets, and no food coloring, each layer is smothered with her in house Godiva White Chocolate Cream Cheese Buttercream. Yes it is good.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thank you for reading</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Gabriel </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438623093469399905.post-40462280957555841312011-03-26T06:53:00.000-07:002011-03-31T18:18:27.710-07:00The rabbit holeAs some of you may know and some may not Mendy and I got married this last December. Well for our honeymoon Mendy wanted to revisit the place that had a huge influence on her career-Austria and Germany, the lands of AWESOME desserts! Well I agreed to go because it was also the land of AWESOME beer, but this blog isnt about beer now is it?<br />
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Well we visited every single place that Mendy wanted to "sample" desserts or places she passed on her way to work when she was learning her skills. We visited almost every dessert place in Germany and Austria.<br />
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It was a small wooden door with a spiral metal stairway leading down to a secret room, just like Alice in Wonderland. It was a room filled with a blue haired woman, an oversize bunny rabbit, a big egg, some upside down cakes or person of some sort and all made of sugar! My apology for not being able to describe what each was made of-Mendy knows-but hey I just eat the cake.<br />
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As soon as Mendy took a peek she just went full bore down the stairwell ignoring the do not enter sign, just like Alice down the ole rabbit hole!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438623093469399905.post-68465108223504017382011-03-23T06:03:00.000-07:002011-05-19T08:42:10.228-07:00Steamed PunkedOk, yes I KNOW I KNOW, long time and opening up with a repeat? Well not really, this is an update. Mendy made this cake for Tori and Dean's Story Book Weddings. The show aired last night on Oxygen, I am glad I did not do my hair because they didnt show us delivering the cake-but I am ok with that-Mendy has the looks.<br />
Well here is a screen grab of Tori and Dean with Mendy's AWESOME steam punk cake-I will post another recent cake soon.......I promise!<br />
Thank you for reading!<br />
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<a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-TlGMfWfIcJo/TYntiFF6r9I/AAAAAAAAAGU/CVoCcLMpjn4/s1600/IMG_8081.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-TlGMfWfIcJo/TYntiFF6r9I/AAAAAAAAAGU/CVoCcLMpjn4/s200/IMG_8081.JPG" width="133" /></a>I what I am going to show you is a sneak peak of a cake Mendy made for Miss Tori Spelling. She has a new show out! Who would have figured? Mendy (Cakes by the Pound) was contacted by the production company of the show to come up with a steam punk design, and Mendy's favorite type of cake is one that she is given creative freedom.<br />
Well then the madness began, the pencil sharpener was working on overload as Mendy started on one of many designs until she was happy with the final one.<br />
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Thank you for reading-<br />
Gabriel VidauriUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438623093469399905.post-79629397604526235112011-01-30T21:23:00.000-08:002011-02-02T22:14:24.907-08:00Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious CakeWhat does a parrot handled umbrella, floral print tapestry bag and a spinning carousel have in common?<br />
Nothing except that Mendy implemented all of these elements to create a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious cake!<br />
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Well the birthday girl loves Mary Poppins and everything Mary Poppins. So a Mary Poppins Cake is what Mendy made for her.<br />
Talk on the street is that Mary Poppins herself showed up at the party and even led a kite flying contest.<br />
I was a bit shocked when I walked into the bakery and caught Mendy watching Mary Poppins-she said she was doing research-her research lasted the whole show!<br />
After her research Mendy came up with this design..<br />
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I was even more shocked when she told me she promised the client that the carousel would spin-great, more time in the wood shop for me.<br />
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So now for the cake-the cake was our Old Fashion Natural Red Velvet Cake (why is it natural? Pureed Beets for the color) layered with Godiva white chocolate cream cheese butter cream.<br />
The other tiers were my favorite-Chocolate Blackout cake. Each tier has 4 layers of cake filled with dark chocolate ganache, white chocolate swiss buttercream sprinkled with Valrhona crunchy pearls.<br />
All of this cake talk is making me crave some cake! I wonder if Mendy has any cupcakes left from her 2500 cupcake order from last week?<br />
Thanks for reading<br />
GabrielUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438623093469399905.post-15546410580420689252011-01-26T21:38:00.000-08:002011-01-26T22:14:27.023-08:00When Pound meets VidauriThis past year we had a very special wedding to prepare for, it was probably Mendy's biggest and most important wedding. It was also a destination wedding, on a small farm in Northern Florida It was her wedding! TO ME!<br />
<div>Now, being in the wedding industry we know how these things can get crazy. We both didn't want to get caught up in the hype and both agreed we wanted to get married some place special, a place that had a special meaning to us-not a hall or a rented church, we chose her family farm-where I proposed. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TUEEcuQw_bI/AAAAAAAAAF4/t4gT7thbj-M/s1600/IMG_7369.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TUEEcuQw_bI/AAAAAAAAAF4/t4gT7thbj-M/s320/IMG_7369.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Now the guest list, so many people, who to invite? We sat down, each wrote down our list and realized it was longer than we both anticipated. Luckily we both remembered how frazzled some of our brides are in trying to please everybody and how the whole meaning of getting married gets blown out of porportion becoming more of a big party for everybody else-we tossed the list away and agreed-immediate family only. We both were torn by the decision but realized we wanted a small intimate wedding-it worked.<br />
Well Mendy insisted on making the cake, her mother insisted on making the food, and her father insisted on me showing up. Well the food was great, the cake was awesome and yes I did show up. So here is a small taste of some of the pictures-These were taken by Amber, one of our photographers from Smitten Photos. The pictures I took have yet to be approved by Mendy- :0/ but here is a link from the fantastic photographers who documented our wedding-Amber Humphries and her crew from <a href="http://www.smittenphotos.com/blog/?p=5823">Smitten Photos</a> you can see some pictures of the wedding and Mendy's AWESOME CAKE!<br />
Thank you smitten!! <br />
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We did 2000 cupcakes for E Network's 10th anniversary a few years back and we were happy to be asked again. My best friend Tracy was visiting from Tuscon who also has a passion for baking....we will put that passion to the test, ha.<br />
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- MendyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438623093469399905.post-46325905518956506972011-01-17T22:00:00.000-08:002011-01-17T22:01:30.112-08:00My Fair wedding with David Tutera<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TTUogRMmalI/AAAAAAAAAFo/1bid7jmjJ-k/s1600/20110115-141907-pic-30714189_t607.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TTUogRMmalI/AAAAAAAAAFo/1bid7jmjJ-k/s320/20110115-141907-pic-30714189_t607.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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Well the show aired yesterday and I thought Mendy did great. We are both pleased on how much air time we got-LUCKY US! We loved the fact the show was able to air the tasting.<br />
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Mendy always puts a lot of effort into all of her tastings. I know because I always get to make the coffee. Whoopie! Unfortunately I do not make coffee very well, ask poor David Tutera-after I collected his cup I found a bunch of coffee grinds in it-I told him it was a special Russian blend-he didn't believe me :0/<br />
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For us anyway. They never showed the cake-well they did show the back of the cake but not the front and the front is where all the action is. <br />
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Thank you for reading-<br />
GabrielUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438623093469399905.post-81687638990620229922011-01-11T06:26:00.000-08:002011-01-12T06:13:39.738-08:00Cakes by the Pound + David Tutera=My Fair Wedding this Saturday!When we were asked to do "My Fair Wedding with David Tutera" we were very excited. Why not the last experience with them was so much fun and such a breeze, everybody involved was a hoot. The cake came out amazing and matched the setting perfectly. Thanks in part to Mendy and David's collaboration on the cake design.<br />
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</div><div>Thank you for reading-</div><div>Gabriel </div><div><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438623093469399905.post-51225146284843125662010-11-11T20:42:00.000-08:002010-11-11T20:42:01.737-08:00Trick or Treat<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">By now, the pumpkins have withered away and Halloween has come and gone. The Turkey commercials have started and the Christmas sales have begun.<br />
Mendy LOVES Halloween-me not so much. Maybe I dont like it because it always has to do with me wearing some kind of tights or very long socks or something. </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mendy loves Halloween because she loves making costumes like the one she made last year-a nice box of Dunkin Donuts, she got me a fat suit because we were on MPT (Mendy Pound Time) AKA down to the wire and had no time to make mine...lol or this years costumes-a pair of Nerd Candy Boxes.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TNzCXPgLv_I/AAAAAAAAAFA/W18vP8aeR8A/s1600/mendy_pound-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TNzCXPgLv_I/AAAAAAAAAFA/W18vP8aeR8A/s200/mendy_pound-2.jpg" width="133" /></a></div>Mendy loves making costumes because she gets to paint on something other than cakes. These are not edible but Mendy did implement some of her skills in making them. The foundation is a U-Haul box. Mendy painted the boxes with the necessary colors to match each of our nerd boxes. Then she cut all of the lettering as well as the nerd characters out of foam. </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My contribution-the idea, and the suggestion on how to paint the nerd candy-big deal.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TM5EtmCZGdI/AAAAAAAAAE8/09n-kj9l2SA/s1600/IMG_0369.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TM5EtmCZGdI/AAAAAAAAAE8/09n-kj9l2SA/s320/IMG_0369.JPG" width="238" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thanks for looking and try not to laugh too hard at me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Gabriel </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438623093469399905.post-34132316543029692592010-11-10T07:14:00.000-08:002010-11-10T07:14:46.898-08:00Danger Will Robinson, Danger!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ok many of you dont know what or who this is, but those of you who are a little bit more pronounce in the world of the nerds, its a Robbie the Robot from the classic Lost in Space tv series. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TMUHc-yOCMI/AAAAAAAAAE4/raKVPtwzLis/s1600/4302054440_8c6da5c569_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TMUHc-yOCMI/AAAAAAAAAE4/raKVPtwzLis/s320/4302054440_8c6da5c569_b.jpg" width="247" /></a>Robbie is the old school version. They had 2 versions, the upgraded black Robot and the cool retro one, pictured below. </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The bride and groom wanted something to show there love for sci-fi genre with this grooms cake. Mendy's and as well as my favorite part of the cake was the head, since the original head is clear glass we made it out of "pulled" sugar. It was one of my first times messing with the stuff-I thought it was pretty cool.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thank you for reading-</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Gabriel </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438623093469399905.post-71003536804074969162010-10-24T21:11:00.000-07:002010-10-24T21:11:30.658-07:00Are you ready for some FOOTBALL?!?!Everybody loves football right? Well even if you don't like the sport, you will like this cake from <a href="http://www.cakesbythepound.com/">Cakes by the Pound</a>. Its a Dallas Cowboys football helmet cake-just in case you don't like football.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TMUBlk3jm3I/AAAAAAAAAE0/ShSgAcmSPUI/s1600/IMG_0336.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TMUBlk3jm3I/AAAAAAAAAE0/ShSgAcmSPUI/s320/IMG_0336.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>The Dallas Cowboy cake was ordered for a rehearsal dinner. Do you think they are Cowboy fans? Oh yeah they are.<br />
What is underneath? It is an Old fashion red velvet cake with Godiva white chocolate cream cheese butter cream. The cake as well as the jersey are completely edible.<br />
Thanks for reading-<br />
GabrielUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438623093469399905.post-31565198978180717312010-10-23T06:43:00.000-07:002010-10-23T06:43:14.686-07:00Fantasy booksWhat does Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Maximum Ride and Eragon all have in common? Well yes, they are all books, and yes they have all been made into movies, and yes they are all fantasy books-I guess the trivia wasn't to hard-but the real answer is Mendy from <a href="http://www.cakesbythepound.com/">Cakes by the Pound</a> has brought them all together to create this super cool kids birthday cake.(Yes I am biased)<br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TL8lN2NH-1I/AAAAAAAAAEw/Wgixxh2nISE/s1600/IMG_0331.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TL8lN2NH-1I/AAAAAAAAAEw/Wgixxh2nISE/s320/IMG_0331.JPG" width="320" /></a>What we have here is a cake made to look like 4 books, each book representing a series from the characters, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Maximum Ride and Eragon. The cake was for a young bookworm's birthday. These books are his favorite, so Mendy came up with this design for his birthday cake.<br />
The characters on the books were sculpted from modeling chocolate.<br />
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Gabriel VidauriUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438623093469399905.post-27383654403719695402010-10-20T10:10:00.000-07:002010-10-20T10:10:00.586-07:00<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A small fact about Mendy, she is a music fanatic, one of her favorite artist is Tucson based <a href="http://tracyshedd.com/">Tracy Shedd</a>-well now you know and Mendy will probably give me the the evil eye for posting this. </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Any way back to the awesome grooms cake pictured here. I am sure you all guessed it was a guitar. The cake is a chocolate blackout with Valhrona chocolate ganache, fresh rasberries and Valhrona crunchy pearls sprinkled through out each layer, covered with her white chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TL8e31SUnII/AAAAAAAAAEs/rHwSJJYSVFc/s1600/IMG_0332.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TL8e31SUnII/AAAAAAAAAEs/rHwSJJYSVFc/s320/IMG_0332.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I don't think anybody got on stage and tried to smash this guitar.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yes, I did have to deliver this one but I made it with out any new gray hairs.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thanks for reading.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Gabriel </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438623093469399905.post-60019741722486985572010-09-28T21:37:00.000-07:002010-09-28T21:37:51.160-07:00Double TroubleTwins! A boy and a girl, wrapped around a pea pod is what we have here.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TKLCRHUFOrI/AAAAAAAAAEk/WQnkKc7fQHQ/s1600/IMG_7015.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TKLCRHUFOrI/AAAAAAAAAEk/WQnkKc7fQHQ/s320/IMG_7015.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>This is a baby shower cake and what better way to represent two babies! I wish I had more of a back story to the cake but Mendy wasn't around for me to pick her brain. All I know it was made for an expectant mother of two.<br />
The flavor is a Valrhona chocolate Turtle Cake-chocolate black out cake with Valrhona Ganache, our in house caramel cream as well as our in house pecan brittle with Frangelico.<br />
All of the decorations are edible and yes, my skills were used on the painting of the crate. Mendy was overseeing to make sure I didnt try to carve my initials on it.<br />
Thanks for reading.<br />
Gabriel<br />
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Be ready for a post from Mendy, she always gives me a funny look <i>after</i> she reads my post.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438623093469399905.post-32277442190899178802010-09-19T21:06:00.000-07:002010-09-19T21:06:59.503-07:00Zoom ZoomThese next two cakes are from the world of AWESOME! I have to admit when Mendy told me of the cake design I thought she was from the planet CRAZY! I seriously thought we were in trouble-ssccrrr boy was I wrong. <div>The bride and groom wanted something different than just a traditional cake, something that identified both of them-how about a replica of the happy couples his and hers Vespa scooters. The groom sported a sea foam green Buddy Vespa and the bride had a candy apple red Vespa. </div><div><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TJbas204cgI/AAAAAAAAAEY/9l2VhZwjRg4/s1600/IMG_0333.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_74ZfC1Jm93k/TJbas204cgI/AAAAAAAAAEY/9l2VhZwjRg4/s320/IMG_0333.JPG" /></a></div><div>Both of them are made of sugar and edible. Her Vespa was Old fashion red velvet cake with Godiva white chocolate cream cheese buttercream with a splash of Amaretto. His Vespa was a vanilla butter-cake with Valhrona chocolate ganache and Grand Mariner infused Swiss buttercream.</div><div>Well not only do they sound tasty but they look great!</div><div>My contribution? I put the sugar "rocks' around the tires and drove really slow on the freeway.</div><div><br />
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