Yankees vs Red Sox Baby Shower

There's something about the Yankees vs. Red Sox rivalry...everyone loves to "hate" the other team, but I really do love how many friends and family make the rivalry work in their relationships!

My husband and a college buddy of ours always have texting wars during the games - it's really funny hearing the jibes going back and forth as each team has it's ups and downs! A co-worker of mine is a die-hard Yankee fan and his wife is a die-hard Red Sox fan - they go to each other's games and have a fun time "fighting" over which team their 2 year old son is going to align with! It seems like the cities of both NY and Boston come even more alive than usual when the teams play each other - it's awesome!

This baby shower was planned for a mom and dad to-be highlighting their love of their favorite teams...the Yankee and Red Sox cupcakes (and rattle cookies, which I did NOT get a picture of) were made in perfectly equal amounts so that there was no favoritism! :) The cake had a little fondant baby topper and  Yankee and Red Sox baseball caps as decorations!

Hmmm, I wonder which baseball cap the baby will crawl towards?!?!? ;)

Wishing this sweet family all the happiness in the world as they welcome their little one into the world!

Tara

Rattle & Carriage Cookies {Baby Shower}

A short, but sweet post...

These sweet baby rattle and carriage sugar cookies were created for a darling baby shower in May...

Pink & white and flowers - could anything be more girly and sweet! :)

Tara

Holy Bible Communion Cake

This bible cake was made for Cian, who made his First Communion in May! He actually chose the design of the cake - so cute! And his mom chose the perfect verse to display on the open pages!

I have made a number of cakes for this sweet family, and was so excited to do the cake for Cian's communion - such a special occasion!

I remember making my first communion so many years ago, like it was yesterday! As a kid, you feel like such a grownup finally getting to walk up and receive communion - I definitely recall every moment of that ceremony! Such a big and serious moment for a child!!

God Bless Cian!

Hero Cake

This 3 foot hero cake was made for the grand opening of the awesome new bread bakery Cammareri's on Hudson in Hoboken, NJ!  Cammareri's is a family owned and operated bakery, whose Downtown Brooklyn location was in the movie Moonstruck, has been in business since 1921! They recently opened a location in Hoboken, conveniently placed right across from the PATH station! 

They asked me to create a hero sandwich cake to share with their customers for the grand opening - it was so exciting!!  Here it is!

The "bread" of the hero is actually the cake and all the sandwich fillings are made of fondant, all rolled up and then sliced like deli meat and fresh mozzarella to make one DELICIOUS sandwich!

The bakery not only offers freshly baked bread, but also an amazing array of sandwiches & desserts - everything looks so yummy! If you're in Hoboken, make sure you stop in and have a bite to eat!


Wishing Cammareri's lots of luck in their new location! :)

For the Graduate

This cake was created for my dear co-worker's sister who graduated from CW Post this year with a Master's Degree! I've made a number of cakes for this sweet family over the past few years and their favorite flavors are red velvet with chocolate frosting and devils food cake with cannoli cream filling and chocolate frosting...luckily this cake had two tiers, so they could have both!

Congratulations to Melissa on this major accomplishment!!

Come Sail Away!

This cake was made back in March, but I saved it for a summer posting because I thought it was such an adorable theme for any summer party! This was for a nautical themed birthday party and was SUCH a blast to make!!

I LOVE the colors on this cake - so bright and summery! I really liked putting different designs around the base of each tier - I felt that the waves, the circles (sort of like portholes!) and the rope added more flair to the cake without making it seem overly decorated!

What do you think!? Would love to hear your thoughts!

Hoping sweet Brandon had an amazing 1st birthday party and that he's getting the chance to get out on the open sea now that it's finally summer! :) Happy sailing!

Tara

Party Animals

Last year, I had the opportunity to make the 1st birthday cakes for twin brother & sisters - Max & Laia. I was so thrilled to be asked to make their 2nd birthday cake this year! The theme was party animals and their mom wanted some adorable fondant animal toppers for the main cake as well as for their smash cakes!

The main cake had an elephant, monkey and a giraffe and the smash cakes held cutie little lions - all of them dressed up in little party hats! The smash cakes had to be exactly the same, except for the names of course...and as a mom of twins myself, I know why!! Conventional advice says you're supposed to individualize everything so that the children develop their own identities and so on and so forth...but apparently the kids haven't read those articles yet! In my own recent personal experience, different toys, different cakes, different anything could spell disaster if both children gravitate towards one of the items and not the other! And at a party, you just want everyone to be happy! So I took the request very seriously and made sure that everything matched as much as possible! :)

Max's cake:

Laia's Cake:

Close-ups of fondant party animals...

The Giraffe

The Elephant

The Monkey

Happy 2nd Birthday to Max & Laia!!