Double Trouble

Twins! A boy and a girl, wrapped around a pea pod is what we have here.

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.
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.
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.
Thanks for reading.
Gabriel

PS.
Be ready for a post from Mendy, she always gives me a funny look after she reads my post.

Zoom Zoom

These 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. 

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. 

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.

Well not only do they sound tasty but they look great!

My contribution? I put the sugar "rocks' around the tires and drove really slow on the freeway.

Gabriel

Style Me Pretty

Cal-tech is known for the mega geniuses that come rolling out of there but they also have a mega awesome members only club-The Athenaeum! The food there is 5 stars, the staff is 5 starts and the grounds, 5 stars!

Any hoot, Cakes by the "Pound" by Mendy K. Pound was lucky enough to provide a cake for a wedding that was held there.
Mendy made a 4 tiered cake with a hand made sugar chalice filled with sugar peonies, decorated with pipped on beads made to resemble a French style beaded border that was hand painted.
The cake flavors were a citrus butter cake, with Swiss lemon curd, fresh raspberries and chocolate blackout with Valrhona chocolate ganache with white chocolate Swiss butter cream and Valrhona crunchy pearls for a little extra something something.
The cake went perfect with the brides decor.
The wedding was featured in Style Me Pretty (http://www.stylemepretty.com/gallery/photo/78865) online magazine. You can also see how beautiful the Athenaeum really is.




Thanks for reading
Gabriel

Mendy in the city

     Yes, I know the title is cheesy, but if you know me you will know that I am too. Well it has been some time since my last post, but I have finally had some time to locate some of these fantastic pictures of Mendy's NYC cake/trip.
Cakes by the Pound got commissioned to make a cake for Sin. Who is Sin? He is Destin Pfaffs and Rachel Federoff's baby boy. Who is Rachel and Destin? They are two of the stars of The Millionaire Matchmaker on Bravo. Mendy had a cake tasting for Patty Stanger, who no longer is getting married-hhmmm I wonder if she is gonna still need that cake? Probably NOT!
Back to Sins cake. Destin asked Mendy if she could fly out to NYC and make a cake for their sons first birthday. Which would also be featured in an article in Life and Style Magazine (I think that is pretty cool).

Yep off to NYC for a quick trip.
The event was held at Dylans Candy Bar in NYC, what a fantastic location. The place was colorful and boy full of candy but talk about sugar overload! ! I know all those kids are going to have a sugar high that will last until Christmas.
After an INSANE delivery ride (uh yeah we jumped in a cab to deliver the cake). Boy was I a wreck, Mendy on the other hand cool as a cumber, so was the damn cab driver. I think I aged about 5 years on that ride. Well the best part was dropping off the cake and seeing everybody expression
So after all the who ha and red eyes back and forth.  Our trip to NYC was all thumbs up!
On her way home, Mendy ran into one of her fellow cake designers, Kate Sullivan.
Lets see, happy parents, a very happy 1 year old, a chat with Kate Sullivan,  a spot in Life and Style magazine, and maybe just maybe a small cameo on the Millionaire Matchmaker. I think we got very lucky to have been commissioned to do the cake. Oh right the cake..................

This is what Mendy came up with-----
Thanks for looking and reading!
Gabriel

My Fair Wedding with David Tutera

Please forgive me for the long long laps of time between posts. But I have a really fun one here. Everybody knows how much Mendy loves David Tutera, well she had the opportunity to work with him on WeTV's My Fair Wedding!
It was a great and memorable experience. Mendy was able to collaborate with David on a cake design. After some ideas were tossed around, she came up with this AWESOME design that matched the decor to a tee-I know I was there...lol
The wedding theme was Grecian/Mediterranean, you can watch the episode here. It is called Greek Goddess Bride http://www.wetv.com/my-fair-wedding/episodes/greek-goddess-bride

You can see how the cake design is cohesive with the decor. It stood 7 tiers tall, with an 18 inch square base. The cake was capped with a hand made sugar dome, topped with a hand painted gold sugar piece.  The cake was a chocolate blackout cake with pistachio French buttercream and chocolate praline ganache covered with white chocolate fondant. The decorations are all made of sugar and hand painted including the sugar bouganvilla.
Well I hope you all enjoy the cake and the show.
Yes, I am VERY PARTIAL to Mendy's skills, but that is why I write this blog, if she new what I wrote she would never let me write anything!   ssshhhhhh
Gabriel

Pit Boss

Sitting in the shop discussing a cake design, we received a phone call from Kacie and Sebastian for a birthday cake order. This cake had to be a unique, it was going to be a dual birthday party for some real special people. The cake had to look cool and implement some kind of dog theme. It had to shout we love dogs! 

Little did we know the cake was for Miss Ashley Brooks and Ronald Lee, stars from Animal Planet's hit show Pit Boss. 

We made a stack of crooked "dog food bowls" with "dog food" spilling out. The flavors of the cake were chocolate blackout cake with Valrhona ganache and Valrhona crunchy pearls,  and old fashioned red velvet cake with Godiva white chocolate cream cheese buttercream. 

Unknown to us it was the real deal-in comes Mendy with cameras all pointed at her, and there was Mr. Shorty Rossi, in the middle of planning a surprise birthday party for Ashley and Ronald. Not until the airing of the show did we get to see the result. We were just as happy as they were. 

Thank you very much Kacie, Sebastian and Shorty for giving us the opportunity to be part of your show!

Happy Birthday Ashley and Ronald from Cakes by the Pound!!

iphone

     In honor of the new iphone. Posted is a picture of an iphone cake Mendy did. This one has no reception problems, as a matter of a fact everybody at the reception loved it..lol

Yes the cake is for an iphone fanatic, of course. Sorry the picture is not one of our more current ones.
Enjoy
Gabriel
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