This birthday cake was designed for a new client of Kenfections in Texas!!  Candace came to Charlotte for a weekend and needed a custom cake done in a relatively short notice.  Rocky, the 57 year young birthday man works out as you can probably figure.  The cake is a 1/2 sheet almond flavored cake iced in our signature butter cream icing. The figure, looking like he dropped the barbell, is made from gum paste. (Yes, Candace requested the blue) Not sure what it is but everybody has been wanting a blue cake for the past few months.   Thank you Candace and look forward to having you back in Charlotte again.

Cake designed for HGTV's Kim Myles

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!!” will demonstrate how easy it is to makeover a room in a big way with as few funds as possible & Lowe’s offering the supplies necessary.

The cake is  half chocolate & half golden yellow with our signature butter cream recipe covered in fondant. The design was inspired to capture Kim’s HGTV website‘s color pallet hiding under the Lowe’s pagoda as it is peeled back. I had a lot of fun building this cake and must thank Sandy Culver of Lowe’s Creative Ideas for the recommendations she made.  Without her, the cake would probably been a huge multi-colored race car of some type.

UPDATE: Oct, 12 2009:

We had a GREAT time with Kim and what an absolutely  fun person she is.  Kim’s very down to earth and what you see on her show is exactly who she is in real life. I gained some fantastic insight to how she got the opportunity to be selected and ultimately win “Design Star” season 2 on HGTV.  Quite simply, she’s a great inspiration for anyone that loves what they do.  Certainly hope we can make a cake for her again the future.  Look for Kim featured on Lowes.com where she will be featuring some really unique & easy to do ideas for decorating your home for the holidays, on a budget.

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.