This was a recent order for a surprise 70th Birthday cake! The cake itself is yellow cake with cannoli filling and frosted with our lucious chocolate buttercream. Dark chocolate shavings garnish the sides, and the logo is printed with edible ink onto frosting paper. Yes that’s right edible frosting paper! Happy 70th Papa Yannuz!
Ferrari Logo Cake
July 5th, 20104th of July Flag Double Decker Brownies
July 1st, 2010
Happy 4th of July!!! And what better way to celebrate than with chocolate….chocolate….and more chocolate!!! These are our original double decker brownies dressed up for the 4th. For those of you not familiar with them, it’s a chocolate chip blondie on the bottom, our decadent fudgy brownie on top, and a little bit of chocolate ganache in the middle holding it all together. For this flag variety, i cut them into pieces resembling a flag, drizzled them with colored chocolate, and then put them back together. I love doing desserts like this because you get the effect of a larger dessert, but still have awesome little bite size pieces. A plus all around! We hope everyone has a fabulous 4th of July filled with good weather, fun times, and some delicious desserts! 
Beach Wedding Cake
June 27th, 2010
We are so happy to have gotten to make our first official out of town wedding cake! I made this very special beach themed wedding cake for my brother-in-laws (and now new sister-in-laws) beach wedding on beautiful Cape Cod in Provincetown, MA. This was such a fun cake to make and our first cake we had to assemble on site so far away from NYC. It was a fun and exciting challenge and such a pleasure to make for such a special couple!
This cake has a lot of fun stuff going on. First off, each tier was a totally different flavor. The bottom tier was our decadent chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream filling with dark chocolate crunchies. The middle tier was yellow cake with cannoli filling and the top tier was yellow cake with fresh strawberries and whipped cream (the grooms favorite! ). The whole cake is iced with “sand colored” vanilla buttercream, all the shells are made of fondant, and the “sand” is crushed graham cracker crumbs. Almost everything was edible except the fences and the two cute little chairs on top. And i also found a cute plastic bunny rabbit to put on one of their chairs to represent their pet bunny Caeri. The bunny was my favorite little detail, it’s just too cute!
Since this was our first out of town cake there was a lot pf prep work before hand. We baked all the layers before we left, and we also made all the icing, fillings (except the strawberries and whipped cream), and fondant shells before hand. And then we packed it up for the cape. Happily, i have to say everything traveled the 6 hour drive really well (yay for plastic wrapping well and heavy duty coolers!). Granted i had extra of everything except i forgot a sweatshirt for me and a few other clothing items lol. Extra icing check, all cake supplies check, clothing… oh who needs extra of that…lol. Thanks to my great mother in law and my cousin Molly for loaning me theirs all weekend…lol. But i am happy to say the cake assembly went pretty smoothly. It took a full day, but i was very excited since i was able to assemble the cake in a gorgeous modern cape cod kitchen (in an equally jaw dropping house). And in addition, it had incredible views of both the dunes and the ocean. You can’t beat that!
And since i had brought so much extra just in case, i was able to make them 2 additional 7 inch cakes (one cannoli, one strawberry). They were staying for a week with a large group, so i doubt any extra cake went to waste….hehe. In addition to the main cake and extras, i also made a small matching “smash cake” as a surprise for the bride. When she saw the last smash cake i made, she loved it so much and said she never had one, so the groom thought it would be a fun surprise. And she loved it! Pics coming soon of the quite awesome smashing as well as the cake cutting. You can check out the smash cake in the fridge pics below!
Closeup of the two little chairs and the bunny
Side view closeup of one of the fondant starfishes and other shells. All the shells were dusted with edible colored petal dust to give them color and shading.
The cake on the table with some of the flowers around it
The super cute bride and groom!
The fabulous cape cod kitchen i got to assemble the cake in
The absolutely beautiful panoramic views from the kitchen windows
Fitting the cake layers in a side by side fridge was definitely tight but we did it! I’m so glad we got the measurements ahead of time before we started baking..lol
The finished cake after we moved it into the second fridge, yes another side by side fridge…lol. (You can see the smash cake on the middle shelf)
We are happy to report that Scott & Heather LOVED the cake and it was a hit at the amazingly beautiful and super fun wedding!!! We were sad to leave the gorgeous cape cod beaches, but were so happy Heather and Scott had such a great wedding weekend and that we could be a part of it!
Congratulations Scott and Heather!
It’s a Girl! – Cookies & Brownies
June 22nd, 2010
It’s a girl! This was a custom new baby order we did recently. We have cute as a button mini sugar cookies in fun baby shapes (the onesie is my favorite!, i love the little duckie ) And below we have our frosted brownies dressed up in pink frosting, chocolate letters, and colorful confetti sprinkles! a tasty way to welcome a new baby girl!
www.TheChocolateSwirl.com/baby
Cheesecake Pops
June 7th, 2010
Two of my favorite things rolled into one – cheesecake and chocolate together in pop form! To make these i used a small cookie scoop to scoop balls of almost frozen cheesecake, stuck a lollipop stick in them, and then put them in the freezer to set. Once they set, i dipped them in milk and white chocolate and topped them with graham cracker crumbs. YUM! I also want to try a PB cheesecake version as well, that would be delicious. It was a bit of a pain, since the cheesecake kept melting, you could only really do a few at a time. But it was so worth it!
45th Anniversary Peace Sign Cake
June 1st, 2010
This was a custom cake for a long time client for their 45th Wedding anniversary! They wanted chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, since that is what their wedding cake was (super cute!), and she thought raspberry preserves would be a nice addition as the filling. The only other requirement was it had to incorporate a peace sign since the happy couple have been enthusiastic activists for civil rights and other great causes since the 1960s and they continue to do so even today. How great is that!? Here’s to many more great years! Happy Anniversary Michael & Barbara!
www.TheChocolateSwirl.com/customcakes
The happy couple cutting the cake in the garden
Superman Police Shield Graduation Cake
May 25th, 2010
This was quite an unusual cake for a long time client for her son’s college graduation. The graduate is going into a great job in the criminal justice field, LOVES Superman, and plays lacrosse. So we tried to come up with something that incorporated those three themes and this is what we came up with – a police shield cake with superman bursting through it holding a lacrosse stick. It was definitely a challenge but a fun one. Everything is edible, except for of course the Superman figurine.
The cake itself is yellow cake with vanilla rainbow sprinkle icing filling covered and decorated with fondant, and my favorite, edible silver luster dust to give it the added shield sparkle! The lettering is done in royal icing and superman is standing in a pool of red sanding sugar, to keep with the red Rutgers theme. And the graduate loved it, to quote ” This cake is SICK! It’s the most awesome cake ever!!!”, so i took that as a very good sign. Happy Graduation Bryan!!!
www.TheChocolateSwirl.com/customcakes
Closeups of some of the details
The Graduate and his cake at the Event
Sex and The City Cookies
May 16th, 2010
Hi all! Sorry for the delay in postings, things were a little hectic moving apartments, but now i’m happily back in blog land with these super cute “Sex and The City” cookies! These were custom sugar cookie boxes for one of our clients to give as special gifts, and they absolutely loved them. The high heeled shoe and “Cosmo” glass are you basic sugar cookie with icing, and we made the logo cookie by putting printed edible rice paper on top of the icing.
The printable rice paper is great! You can either print your own (using edible ink and a brand new ink jet printer, i think i saw one online for like $40…lol) or order them online (a great and reliable company is Go Go Cake’s Cake Stickers check them out!) We’re kind of in love with the whole edible paper image thing currently…lol!
Either way, these are so my new favorite cookies so far this spring. You can never go wrong with sexy and sassy cookies!
Cupcake & Cookie Decorating Birthday Party!
April 30th, 2010
We had SO much fun at our first ever just for kids “Decorate your own Cupcake and Cookie” party for little Miss Sarah’s 6th Birthday! This party was, as you can see, princess themed. There was pink icing, sparkles, and sprinkles everywhere, it was FABULOUS, and the kids loved it! Each little girl got to decorate 2 cupcakes (one chocolate, one vanilla) and 3 princess themed sugar cookies. There were loads of icing colors and edible things to decorate them with. From different colored and shaped sprinkles, to fondant hearts and starts, and even some special edible “Princess” glitter! We also got to make a fun princess cake (see below) and also the white chocolate princess wands you see above the place settings. And a very special thanks to the awesome and super sweet little girls of Kalos street (and the great moms!) for making our first kids party such a blast!
Check out a bunch more pictures on our facebook page album at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=164755&id=17664639606&l=da98df0644
We can’t wait to do our next party so email us if you’re interested! We’ll happily coordinate with any theme or color! Happy Decorating!
Our Princess Cake
PB Cup Cake
April 21st, 2010
Peanut butter cup madness!!! Inspired by the ever fabulous Bakerella i saw this cake and just had to try it out. It’s probably the most decadent thing i’ve made in a while, or maybe one of the more decadent things in a while…hehehe. Simple chocolate cake that got attacked by chocolate and peanut butter! What could be better!? The chocolate cake has PB cup pieces chopped up inside the cake batter with milk chocolate peanut butter ganache filling between layers. Then the cake is covered in more ganache and completely covered in chopped PB cups! And i took the leftover ganache and used it as a sauce to drizzle on top of the cake slices. It was super rich but super delicious!
