Blog - The Chocolate Swirl

Ladybug Cake

Sep 13 2012

Yay for ladybugs!!! This was a ladybug cake for Brooklyn’s adorable Miss Stella Rose’s first birthday. Everything is totally edible! The party took place in a gorgeous park in Brooklyn with super cute matching sugar cookies from our fabulous pals over at Cookie Fairy Sweets.Happy Birthday Stella Rose!! Check out MORE CAKES here    

Cookie Monster Cake

Sep 12 2012

I LOVE this cake oh so much!! We haven’t done a cookie monster variation and this was our chance. And i love that we can use store bought chocolate chip cookies to decorate it, and i get to eat the extras hehehe. This cake was for 2 local adorable twin boys. It’s chocolate cake with [...]

Elmo Cupcake Tower & Big Bird Cake

Sep 12 2012

A new twist on Elmo cupcakes!!! This was a super fun tower we made for my college roomate’s baby’s first birthday!! We’ve done Elmo cupcakes before, but i wanted to do ones that were like the ones i grew up with, the ones from the old school bakeries in the 8os, a big mound of [...]

Chinese Dragon Cake

Aug 11 2012

Love love this cake. I was a little worried, being it was my first ever dragon. But i am super happy with the results. This was a custom dragon birthday cake for a fabulous fellow small biz gal for her boyfriend. The birthday boy requested lemon cake with raspberry jam and red tinted vanilla buttercream. [...]

Scooby Doo Cake

Aug 11 2012

A super fun custom cake for little Ryan’s 5th birthday in NJ! The cake is chocolate cake with vanilla chocolate chip buttercream, iced with colored vanilla buttercream (yes that is indeed buttercream outer frosting) and everything else is little fondant decors. I love the mystery machine, it was my favorite part to make. We did [...]

Blue & Brown 1st Birthday Cake

Aug 08 2012

A custom cake for little Cruz’s 1st Birthday in NJ. The client wanted fun blue and brown so this is what we came up with. And we were even able to incorporate his little toy bunny on top. The cake is iced with buttercream and all of the decorations are fondant. The bunny is fondant [...]

Golf Sugar Cookies

Jun 20 2012

This was part of a custom gift order for a golfer. We decided to do cute little golf balls and putting greens. The greens are made with different colored icings, but the balls were a bit more involved, but totally worth it. We first glazed them with white icing, and then cut out a fondant [...]

Cake Pop Tower

May 02 2012

Our first custom cake pop tower for a super cute little girl’s first birthday in Brooklyn! The cake pops were a mix of vanilla cake, red velvet cake, and chocolate brownie with a special design for this tower. Of course as you can see the color theme was pinks and purples (my fav!!) with fun [...]