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Large Golf Ball Creation

This 18 pound (edible) golf ball could satisfy even the most extreme cases of hunger. Click over to our “Our Cakes” to see what it’s all made of.

NBC Charlotte Today Cake

We are proud to have been selected by our local Charlotte NBC affiliate WCNC News Channel 36 as one of three bakers in the local area who were asked to present a cake for Charlotte Today’s Host, Colleen Odegaard for her 40th Birthday. The cake is themed after three specific interests that Colleen has. Shopping [...]

My Little Pony Birthday

This creation serves as one of our customers 2nd cakes. My Little Pony was a specific request by the client and the pony is the only element that is NOT edible.

Fire Truck Inspired Cake

A cake inspired by a world class group of dedicated men and women who protect Kenfections and the Greater Concord, NC area. (They actually saved our neighbors house from completely burning down on August 5, 2010)

40th Birthday Cake

Come see what all of the buzz is about with this custom cake creation. All of the details are in our Blog, located here.

Baseball Basketball Football and Soccer Cake

Vanilla cake with Butter Cream Icing Sports theme features gum paste and fondant accents

Coconut Creation

So you’re a fan of coconut? Maybe not? We may be able to change your mind with this new little gourmet creation. See here.

Facebook Inspired Cake

Christening Cake

The base of the cake is our second to none Lemon flavored cake with real lemon filling between the layers. The top tier is vanilla with a heaping helping of butter cream Almond icing between the layers. The entire cake was then covered in fondant and decorated with gum paste roses and accents. This unique [...]

Wedding Cupcakes

Don’t let the “Cup” term throw you off as it did me. These 54 giant wedding cupcakes were actually 54 “miniature wedding cakes”. These babies were huge and took a whole lot longer than expected, to create. The roundness of the tops of these are NOT CAKE but a mound of icing covered in a [...]

Bike Cake for The 24 Hours of Booty Benefit Ride

Every July a few thousand extraordinary cyclists in three U.S. cities get together for a 24 hour bike ride in their effort to raise money for cancer related charities in their respective cities. They also are contributing to the Lance Armstrong LIVESTRONG Foundation. The ride is known as “The 24 Hours of Booty” and you [...]

Bike Birthday Cake

This kids birthday Bike cake is half chocolate and half vanilla topped with our signature butter cream icing. The intent was to follow the color scheme of the party invitations that went out to over 30 guests. The bike on the top of the cake is a flip trick brand toy so it’s obviously not [...]

Curious George

Included with this Curious George creation are Max & Ruby since the birthday boy could not decide which cake he really wanted. The cake is vanilla covered in our signature butter cream icing. The border of the cake are candy bananas and the hat was built from a huge Rice Krispy Treat. The cake was [...]

Topsy Turvy Cake

This topsy turvy graduation cake features three different types of cake. The base is red velvet, the middle is chocolate and the top is marble cake. Everything is covered in fondant and features our proprietary butter cream icing underneath. This cake serves up to 30 guests. If you were to ask which cake we’ve done [...]

Lego Power Miners

The Power Miners themed cake is made of vanilla cake with our signature butter cream icing. The main “Rock” is a Krispy treat covered in fondant with gum paste details. This cake includes the Lego® kit you see assembled on top of the cake. The gravel is made of edible chocolate pieces. One new feature [...]

Bowling Birthday Cake #2

Made with white cake and featuring our signature butter cream icing, this bowling themed cake serves up to 16 guests. Everything is made from gum paste and a little bit of fondant details. If you see a cake you like on our site, let us know. We can certainly produce countless variations of cakes. If [...]

Lego Wedding

Inspired by Lego’s as kids ourselves, we are proud to unveil our version of what a wedding reception cake should be, FUN. This two tier golden vanilla cake features our signature butter cream icing and fondant Lego’s. The miniature Lego people and “4 Wide Bricks” are made of white chocolate. The larger scale Lego figures [...]

Wedding Reception Cake

Dinah called Kenfections for two reasons: The Creativity & The Taste. Her double layer two tier wedding reception cake features devils food chocolate cake with REAL raspberry filling between each layer. The lavender roses and green leaves are gum paste while the cake is simply iced with our signature butter cream icing, at Dinah request. [...]

WWE RAW Cake

The WWE RAW Cake featuring Matt Hardy & Rey Mysterio Jr. getting set to face off on this butter cream iced marble creation covered in fondant. Unfortunately the construction and materials used for the ring ropes and posts have to remain a secret due to the number of hours they took to finally get right.

Shotgun Wedding Rehersal Dinner Cake

The cake is large enough to feed 100+ and is a double layer chocolate buttercream on chocolate cake. The tree stand is made from fondant and the shotgun shells are gumpaste. The cake topper with the bride dragging the groom was a custom made piece which the client provided. Notice the deer standing back watching [...]

Little Prince Birthday Cake

This particular Little Prince birthday cake took extraordinarily long due to the fondant crowns not wanting to cooperate. They kept falling, cracking & wrinkling until the third attempt. The double layer. three tier cake cake is vanilla with real butter cream icing. The cake came in at a sizable, 35lbs!!

Baby Ducks Shower Cake

This golden yellow triple stacked cake has our signature butter cream icing between each layer. The bubbles are edible but the two baby ducks are obviously not. This cake serves up to 15 “comfortably”. We can easily modify this design to accommodate any baby shower themed party.

Inline Skater Cake

Inspired by our oldest son, this inline skater cake features him with his roller blades sitting at the bottom of a half pipe. This surprise birthday cake serves up to 30 guests and was chocolate cake covered in our secret recipe icing and sealed with fondant. The character was made with gum paste and flavored [...]

Dora The Explorer Cake

This two tier chocolate Dora cake is covered in our latest version of the Kenfections butter cream icing recipe. Fondant and gum paste accents make up the decorations. The cake topper is a Dora The Explorer candle.

Hurt Locker IED Cake

So before you ask “What in the world are you thinking Ken?”, let me explain. A new customer in Virginia Beach found us on google and was trying to determine if we could make an IED roadside bomb cake for a party in Charlotte. (Not your everyday request I agree, but Scarlet’s husband Chad happens [...]

Bowling Lane Birthday Cake

While this bowling cake experienced a terrible fate in the end, we’re proud to introduce the creation for yet another new client of Kenfections. This double layered bowling themed birthday cake features almond flavored cake covered with a super think layer of our signature butter cream icing and finished off with fondant decorations.

Golf Cake

This Tiger Woods inspired birthday golf cake was for a brand new client of ours located 800 miles away in Florida!! While we never met prior in person, Jamie S. found us on google and flew all the way up to Charlotte for her brother’s 40th birthday party where we delivered the cake.

Star Trek Cake

Spock is made from a considerable chunk of fondant. Our signature butter cream icing is contained underneath this layer and the cake is chocolate. This cake was made for yet another a new client here in Charlotte, NC.

Strawberry Shortcake Birthday Cake

This Strawberry Shortcake themed birthday cake was created for our only little girl on the Kenfections side of the family here in Charlotte. The cake was devils food chocolate with our proprietary butter cream icing made from real butter, confectioners sugar and our secret flavoring mixture. This cake served 16 birthday guests.

The Kings Cake

The King Cake of the New Orleans Mardi Gras tradition dates back to the eighteenth century and comes in a number of styles. The most common is a ring of twisted bread, filled & topped with icing or sugar, usually colored purple, green, and gold (the traditional Carnival colors) with food coloring.

Horse Themed Birthday Cake

The cake is double layer red velvet covered in our signature butter cream icing. The horse and fence are gum paste. As you may be able to tell from the broad range of cakes our bakery produces, our design team of two can turn around most custom cakes within a week.

Batman Lego Cake

The cake is a golden vanilla cake with an obscene amount of our signature butter cream icing topped off with a whole bunch of chocolate Legos, some white chocolate, some dark chocolate. The Batman belt and badge are made of fondant. This is an example of combining two themes to make a little guy happy

Chocolate Ganache Mocha Cake

This chocolate ganache covered 10 inch round yellow cake contains a 3/4 inch layer of our Mocha/Butter Cream Icing set between the two halves of the cake.

UNC Tarheels

The UNC Tarheels cake is half vanilla and half chocolate double layered with our signature butter cream icing. Everything you see in the photo, including the springs that represent the basketball’s bouncing, are edible. It’s actually three cakes in one that serves up to 100 guests.

Lego Birthday Cake

This new creation around the Lego theme features a full chocolate and vanilla sheet cake with butter cream icing and fondant lego people.

Ball and Chain Engagement Cake

So you’re looking at these cakes probably wondering “What a novel idea for somebody getting out of jail.” or “Is this what the cake industry is coming to, Early Release Celebrations?“ Well, not exactly. Nick/Amber as well as Joe/Heather aren’t exactly busting out of “the slammer”, they are headed down the somewhat similar path we [...]

Baby Blocks Shower Cake

These Red Velvet cakes feature an embossed appearance. Our signature Butter Cream icing is underneath each fondant covered baby alphabet block. Cake served 35 baby shower guests.

Marine Corps

Cali was looking for a small Marine Corps office 234th birthday celebration cake that was one of a kind. The top is completely made of gum paste, fondant & edible sugar paper. Loaded with butter cream icing, this two layer golden vanilla cake “knocked them off their boots”.

Guns-N-Roses Slash Cake

Brand new cake for another new client of Kenfections. This Guns N Roses themed birthday cake features a stage that the guitarist Slash and Tanner are dueling. Yes the stage lights work.

HGTV Myles of Style: The Kim Myles Cake

Created exclusively for a new partnership with our Queen of Style, Kim Myles and Lowe’s, this cake represents the work Kim will be doing with Lowe’s Home Improvement over the next few months. Kim’s motto: “No Budget? No Problem. It’s in the bag!!”

Ambulance Cake

This monster of a cake weighed in at 47 pounds and is covered in a layer of fondant. The wheels are solid chocolate. This cake is for a surprise birthday for a new client of Kenfections, Liz G. The plan was to feed 50 people but it came in at around 80 servings.

The Wiggles Birthday Cake

This Wiggles themed birthday cake was a last minute creation we completed for one of our loyal clients, Jennifer B. of Charlotte NC. This cake is 3 layers with yellow Kenfections Propietary Icing between each layer. The stars are made of solid chocolate that match the Wiggles theme. This cake will serve about 10-12 people.

Guitar Hero Cake

This guitar birthday cake, inspired by Eddie Van Halen & Guitar Hero is for our 8 year old son who’s recently mastered the Guitar Hero Series of games on Nintendo’s Wii. The main part of the cake is chocolate while the handle is all vanilla.

Crown Royal

This custom birthday cake was designed for a client who was wanting a Crown Royal themed cake for their son’s 21st birthday. (It could certainly apply to any celebration though) The cake does not contain Crown Royal in the recipe. The “box” cake is a standard 13 X 9 1/4 sheet cake.

NASCAR Trophy Cake

The NASCAR trophy cake was designed for and presented to 4 Time Sprint Cup Champions, Jimmie Johnson & Chad Knaus in celebration of their 2009 kickoff for “The Chase for the Sprint Cup” series of races. The trophy is modeled after the Tiffany original trophy that resides at Hendrick Motorsports in Charlotte, NC. The flags [...]

Paris Inspired Birthday Cake

This custom Paris themed birthday cake is for a new client that also found us on Facebook. This Paris inspired design is a double layer golden vanilla cake with almond flavored butter cream icing.

Lego Star Wars Cake

Everything is edible except for the Lego characters on top. They are actual lego people that also serve as magnets for the refrigerator. This Lego Star Wars custom birthday cake is chocolate with butter cream icing underneath the fondant. The lollipop stars are white chocolate.

Tony Stewart Cake

I just have to thank my wifey for surprising me with this really cool NASCAR cake. She made this birthday cake in white and black checkered cake!! Awesome idea and she used whipped frosting because even SHE hasn’t found my secret butter cream recipe.(truth be told, it’s her favorite type of icing)

Baby “Cade” Shower Cake

It may seem like all we make are blue baby shower cakes but it’s just the way the world turns right now, men are making a comeback. Somebody besides our own Krissie, have a girl!!!. This custom designed cake was a quickie I only had 3 hours to do from start to finish. Cake is [...]

Disney Cars Lightning McQueen Cake

While these types of cake are not my favorite because anybody can make one with a little icing and a cake pan, this Lightning McQueen cake is RED VELVET Cake for my nephew Aiden’s first birthday. He freaked out when getting the red color all over his hands. The adults got a good laugh at [...]

LIVESTRONG Cake

This custom cake was inspired by the Lance Armstrong Foundation and their “LIVESTRONG” campaign. TEAM MOXIE participated in the annual Lance Armstrong foundation’s 24 Hours of Booty bike ride for cancer research in Charlotte, NC.

Graduation Cake

The client who happens to be a fan of ours on facebook, was looking for a design that could incorporate the theme of her husbands graduation as well as the napkins and cups she had printed. We built this custom 1/2 sheet cake for the event.

Anniversary Cake

This custom Anniversary cake was designed for the parents of our client, Leslie S. This vanilla cake is topped off with our proprietary butter cream recipe along with custom made gum paste accents. The embossed designs throughout the icing are created using gum paste molds that we designed.

Baby Shower Cake

Serving as my class final project, this custom 3 tiered Mocha cake was iced with our butter cream icing with Almond accents and finished with fondant as well as gum paste decor. The “Fantasy Flower” was a little bigger than originally planned. The cake is perfect for a baby shower or seasonal celebration.

Spongebob Squarepants Cake

While I won’t normally do these types of cakes, there’s something about a little 3 year old son who asks “Daddy, can you peees make me a Spongebob cake and not tell my brudders”

Boy Baby Shower Cake

One of our fan’s Lia wanted to surprise her friend with something she would not soon forget as well as save a photo of it in the baby book. Being that I have four boys of my own, this boy’s baby shower cake was not much of a stretch to conceptualize. The trick was getting [...]

Special Event Cake

This monster of a cake took over 8 lbs of sugar just to ice & two dozen eggs to complete. Final weight tipped the scales at a healthy 18 pounds when it was completed. Over 80 people on the Lowes.com team tackled this custom cake in just under 30 minutes.

Purple Birthday Cake

This custom cake is made of vanilla cake, almond flavored butter cream icing underneath a layer of fondant and topped with gum paste flowers. Pretty happy with the way the purple fondant finished up. Cake serves 9-12 people.

Thomas The Tank Engine Cake

This Thomas the Tank semi-custom cake was a hit for a couple of twin boys and their birthday party in Charlotte NC. There are a couple of accessories placed on this cake as a finishing touch that are reusable like the roof as well as the face. While I’m not as satisfied as I would like to be with the red lines on the back of the engine, we’ve been practicing quite a bit more on getting these types of details perfected.

The Dukes of Hazzard

This Dukes of Hazzard custom cake needs very little explanation. It was for a “White Trash” Birthday party of a very dear friend of mine who used to be my boss. This is a full sheet custome cake with our proprietary icing recipe If you look close, there is a pair of “Daisy Dukes Shorts” [...]

Wrapped Birthday Gift Cake

This particular cake served as one of the gifts for a very dear client of ours and her family. Marble cake iced with Almond butter cream is covered in vanilla fondant and accented with gum paste decorations. Cake serves 8 to 10 guests.