Trick or Treat

By now, the pumpkins have withered away and Halloween has come and gone. The  Turkey commercials have started and the Christmas sales have begun.
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. 

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.

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. 

My contribution-the idea, and the suggestion on how to paint the nerd candy-big deal.

Thanks for looking and try not to laugh too hard at me.

Gabriel 

Danger Will Robinson, Danger!!

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. 

Robbie is the old school version. They had 2 versions, the upgraded black Robot and the cool retro one, pictured below. 

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.

Thank you for reading-

Gabriel 

Are you ready for some FOOTBALL?!?!

Everybody loves football right? Well even if you don't like the sport, you will like this cake from Cakes by the Pound. Its a Dallas Cowboys football helmet cake-just in case you don't like football.

The Dallas Cowboy cake was ordered for a rehearsal dinner. Do you think they are Cowboy fans? Oh yeah they are.
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.
Thanks for reading-
Gabriel

Fantasy books

What 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 Cakes by the Pound has brought them all together to create this super cool kids birthday cake.(Yes I am biased)
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.
The characters on the books were sculpted from modeling chocolate.
Thank you for reading
Gabriel Vidauri

A small fact about Mendy, she is a music fanatic, one of her favorite artist is Tucson based Tracy Shedd-well now you know and Mendy will probably give me the the evil eye for posting this. 

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.

I don't think anybody got on stage and tried to smash this guitar.

Yes, I did have to deliver this one but I made it with out any new gray hairs.

Thanks for reading.

Gabriel 

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