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
Cakes by the Pound

Your Wedding Day Magazine

Mendy has worked very hard to make Cakes by the "Pound" a success. Her cakes taste great, look great and she looks great (Of course I am partial to all of this). Her persistence and attention to detail to her ingredients as well as design have been very stringent but it all shows in the taste of the cakes.
We have been very lucky to have a small article written about Cakes by the "Pound" by Mendy K. Pound, in Your Wedding Day Magazine.
Mendy insisted on the author (Allison Scott) come and visit for an actual cake tasting so she could experience the taste as well as the atmosphere of our shop. The result was this article.
http://www.yourweddingday.com/ywd/Details/Cakes-by-the-Pound.html
Thank you for reading..

Gabriel

Every Day with Rachael Ray

How Lucky are we? Thanks to a referral from our friend, Kelley from Picture Perfect Events, we had the opportunity to speak to one of the fabulous writers from Rachael Rays magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray. She wanted more information about our Old Fashion Red Velvet Cake and what made our cake different than everybody's else's-I can say read the article-http://www.rachaelraymag-digital.com/rachaelraymag/201005?pg=154#pg154, or I can just tell you..the beets, I should know because Mendy makes me juice them-fun fun fun.
Those of you who know Mendy are well aware of how modest she is and she would probably be a bit embarrassed about me writing this stuff, but those of you who know me, know how proud I am of her and will brag about her skills any chance I can.

Thanks for reading!
Gabriel

Alice in Wonderland

Phew, sorry for not updating the blog in a bit but all is good I am ready to pick up my duties once again.
The Millionaire Matchmaker episode aired a few days ago- Mendy had the pleasure of working with Patty Stanger on her cake design as well as cake flavors for her upcoming wedding (she did get engaged this season). We both had a blast working on the show. Hopefully Patty doesnt try to fix Mendy up with a millionaire! You can follow the link below and see Mendy and Patty

http://www.bravotv.com/the-millionaire-matchmaker/videos/wedding-cake-tasting

The production company, Intuitive Entertainment, as well as the folks from Bravo were awesome!

Now I know the movie just came out but I thought I might share with you an Alice in Wonderland theme cake we did last year. It is based off of the original, not the new one with Johnny Depp, but I do know if Mendy had the opportunity to create a cake based off of the new show, she would LOVE IT! Well here it is-like always Mendy loves to make sure everything is edible and taste great!
Thanks again!
Gabe