Serving as one of the larger milestones for us, we were asked to develop this almond birthday cake for Colleen Odegaard, the host of Charlotte Today which can be seen at 11:00AM weekday mornings on NBC.  We are honored to be one of three bakeries that were selected to come onto the program in celebration of Colleen’s birthday.  After  a little insight from the show’s  producer on what Colleen like to do in life,  I did a little deeper investigation of Colleen’s interests, passions and hobbies and this is where the design was inspired.

The story behind the cake has to do with Colleen’s favorite place to shop, her passion for running and finalized with a little known fact that she’s been known to partake in the skills of battling her sons with  Star Wars light sabers. The cake was supposed to be large enough to serve 25 people as well as be totally unique.  I think we achieved that with our design.  The cake at the base represents a box from Colleen’s favorite store, the Jewel Box, located in South Charlotte.  The second layer is modeled to reflect  Colleen’s passion for bicycling & our continued support for the Lance Armstrong Foundation.  The third element is a Star Wars light saber penetrating all of the way through the center of both cakes.  That’s not all. There is a live smoke effect at the top of the cake and disperses in a way that makes the light saber appear to be cutting through the center of the cake because every son dreams of trying that in one way or another.

A return client of ours from Charlotte, Dinah, asked if we could create giant  cupcakes for her wedding. With one small challenge though. It was an outdoor celebration in the summer and the cupcakes needed to hold up to some of the heat as well as “No paper liners around the outside”. Don’t let the “Cup” term throw you off as it did me. These 54 giant 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 circle of embossed fondant. The center of the blue flowers are actually peppermints. Once again we would like to thank Dinah for returning to Kenfections for her custom cake creation.  Wouldn’t you know it, it turned out to be exactly 100 degrees!

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 will have visit here in order to figure out what the name is all about.  This bike cake is a replica of the organizations logo which served up to 175 guests at the “Jeans & Jewels” benefit auction that we are proud to contribute to.   The rear bike wheel is Vanilla cake and the other wheel is Chocolate cake while the “rider” is a combination of both.  Everything is covered with a thick layer of our signature butter cream icing and sealed with a layer of fondant. The graphics are edible sugar paper (along with edible ink of course).  If you would like to donate to the charity, we welcome you to visit their site here.  Pictures from the event will be posted soon.

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. We’d like to Thank Deborah as well as Candace from Charlotte for her creative design work and allowing us to bring  their one of a kind Northwest Cabarrus 2010 Graduation Cake to life.

One of the newest creations from the team at Lego®, Power Miners are quickly gaining popularity with the kids.  The Power Miners themed cake is made of vanilla cake with our signature butter cream icing.  The main “Rock” is 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 we are proud to offer on all of our Lego® themed cakes will be a coordinating Lego® kit (when applicable). Let us make one for your next birthday, graduation or even wedding reception.  We’d like to thank Kelly C. from Charlotte, NC for entrusting us to make her son’s birthday a memorable one.