Teal Rosette Cake

This is a beautiful cake that can be used for a bridal shower, baby shower, a fancy birthday, anniversary, or even a wedding.

vintage Rose Coral and Teal Birthday Tea Party

Fall Birthday Cake

Hello friends!  Its been a while since I've posted anything.  I needed to take some time off becuase of changes in my life that I needed to adjust to.  Cake baking, decorating and designing come from the creative part of me and that part of me had shut down and needed a sabatical in order for the rest of me not to break down.  It sounds complicated I know, but that's me, a very complicated person at times.  Well, enough of me!

My sister Mayra was planning a surprise party for our sister Cheryl that was turning 50, mind you, they live up in Rhode Island, and I live down in Florida, even lower in the map, Miami to be exact.  So Mayra was getting creative as to what theme to pick. After going back and forth she decided that a Fall theme was appropriate and asked me to do a cake with that theme. When the time came I packed up my utensils and flew in on a Wednesday with my oldest daughter Ashley and hid in Mayra's house until Saturday for Cheryl's party, if she had seen me she would have known for sure that we were planning something.

Mayra and I went shopping for the ingredients and I bought a flour I had never used before, but figured it didn't make a difference. What a nightmare!!!!! OMG! The cake burnt on the outside and was uncooked in the middle. We thought it was the oven, so we went out and bought an oven thermometer and yes, the oven was a bit off so I made another batch and the same thing happened AGAIN!!!! At this point I'm about to cry, so Mayra says: "what if it's the flour? I have some flour in the cupboard, try it, and can't be any worse." So, guess what? It was the flour and I could breath again.  I can laugh now, but the stress! the birthday girl had a blast at her party and danced the night away and loved her cake.

The cake was huge, the bottom tier was a 10, then an 8 and top a 6 inch. The bottom tier was 6 inches high and the other two top tiers were 5 inches high each.

Pink and Pearls Birthday Cake

I would love to say that this cake was an original Leelee's Cake-abilities design, but it is not.  It actually is a celebrity cake created by Devine Designs and I replicated with a few minor details by the request of a very faithful client of mine.  She always has fabulous birthday cakes created by me. She knows exactly what she wants and how she wants it and until now I have not disappointed her. The flavor was bottom tier red velvet and the top tier, vanilla.  When she picked up the cake she was so happy.

Animal Print Birthday Cake

It was my great friend's 50th birthday and I wanted to make a fun cake, but sophisticated cake that described her.  This is what I came out with.  She absolutely loved it and I was extremely happy that she did.  The flavor was pina colada.

Romantic Wedding Cake

This four tier wedding cake was a delight to make.  The flowers are all made out of gumpaste in different shades of old rose.  It was a very simple cake, but that took a while to make because of the details in piping it had.  I thought my arm would fall off from piping so many dots. It was all worth it though because it turned out beautiful.
Video of cake

 

 

Whimsical ladybug Teapot

This teapot was my design 100% and I must say that says me all over it!  I wanted it to give you the feel of a ladybug without putting the bug on it.  When I finished it, I asked one of my girls: "what does it remind you of?" and she said "it reminds me of a lady bug". I smiled becuase I had done it.  I said it and I will repeat it, I've discovered that I love making teapots.  Can't wait to come up with other designs.  The recipient of this cake was very happy and that filled my heart with joy.

Flower Teapot and cookies

A client was having a tea party for Mother's Day and she asked me to make her a teapot cake.  she showed me several pictures, but showed me one she loved and asked me to make it for her.  Although it's not exactly the same. It still has the same feel.  I am really satisfied with how clean it came out.  It really resembled a teapot. I am so happy with how it turned out and discovered that I love making teapots from cake. I made some cookies for another order for someone else that was also haveing a  tea party for Mother's Day.  I decided to use left over flowers to decorate these as well and took a picture of them as a set. Absolutely love  how they turned out. My client loved the teapot. Yay!

 

Pretty Pink and lavender Bow Cake

A good friend of mine that always orders all her cakes from me contacted me telling me she needed a cake.  It's a good thing she trusts me because I didn't even meet or even really talked about what she really wanted in  detail.  She sketched up a drawing and made some lines pointing to the colors she wanted. I interpreted the cake as best I could because really, this is a fairly simple cake that I can do with my eyes closed, but you never know, lol!  When she saw it she loved it. Yay! was relieved!

The flavor is Leelee's moist Vanilla bean.

Sex and The City Cake

This cake was for a client that was looking for a cake that had a Sex and the City feel for her birthday. The shoe is made of gumpaste.

Chinese Inspired Cake

It's been a while since I have posted anything in my blog.  Honestly, I've been too busy and then lazy to actually sit down in front of the computer to post, well I decided to put some up.  I made some cakes that I cannot find the pictures for, or maybe, I just didn't take any.  Oh, well! 
This cake was made for a lady that was turning 50.  I really love the way it came out.  The fans are made of gumpaste as well as the flowers.

 

 

Teal and Red Dessert Table

I just love, love, love this color combo and so does the person I made this for.  This was for a girl I consider family, beautiful, stylish Amanda Marie, not to mention that her parents are great friends of ours and our kids have grown up together.  Amanda told me exactly what she wanted and I didn't want to disappoint her.  I made little teal caps with red tassles to be placed on her favorite cupcake flavor, red velvet with creamcheese frosting. I also made little diplomas with a red ribbon for vanilla cupcakes with buttercream frosting. Chocolate covered pretzels where to chocolate was the shape of a diploma with a red ribbon,  chocolate/nutella cake pops in teal covered in teal chocolate. marshmallow pops dipped in white chocolate rolled in teal and red sugar crystals, red chocolate covere Oreos.  Her celebration was at the park so her mom had filled mason jars with red carnations and placed a teal ribbon around the jar, absolutely fabulous!!!!!! This was at placed at the dessert table as well (my dessert tables will always be very simple and the actual goodies on the table along with the colors and textures used will always be the stars and what will stand out, not too much clutter becuase after all it is a DESSERT table). Her mom, a school teacher, made the banner (forgot the name of those triangular thingies) that was the perfect backdrop for the goodies placed on the table.  Amanda was delighted with how it turned out as well as her parents and that was very important to me. Yey! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Trip To China Cake and Sweets

 

I am happy to say that this cake turned out beautifully despite the horror I encountered while delivering it and having to literally redue the three bottom tiers becuase the bottom tier decided to collapse a corner away from the venue making the others crack. Im not gonna lie, I went into panic mode, all I could think was that the quinceanera's cake was ruined. After I composed myself and driving Ignacio and Lauren, crazy, I called Miles Cakes that was 15 minutes away and asked if I could go there to repair the cake. I was shaking like a leaf and I guess they heard the despair in my voice and said yes. I am so grateful for the owner Adriana for not only allowing me to go to her shop to fix my cake, but for actually leaving her house and coming to help me. I had Iggie deliver the goodies and let the client know I'd be late with the cake and explained what had happened. The cake was repaired and we went and delivered it. As I was taking it into the venue all you could hear was," omg, that's huge!" and " Is that a cake?" all the guests were arriving dressed beautifully and I looked like death all nasty and sweaty. I felt such a sense of relief once that cake was placed on the table. I never knew how it felt to have a cake disaster until this day. The client was very understanding and  happy with how the cake had turned out and that is what mattered most. I will be forever grateful to Adriana, the owner of Miles for her help and to Ignacio and Lala for their patience and encouragement in the midst of it all.

 

The cake was delivered to The beautiful Redlands Koi Gardens.  The place was absolutely breath taking.  I felt as if I was walking into Mulan's story. The Quinceanera wanted to make her celebration a "Trip to China" and that's was the cake in the shape of the luggage meant. All the guests were dressed in beautiful Asian attire. The flavor for the cake was yummy moist red velvet with cream cheese buttercream filling and vanilla with vanilla buttercream filling. The chinese take-out box on the side of the board where the cake is was made out of rice crispies treats covered in white chocolate and then fondant, and I hand painted the motif . The decals on the luggage were images I found online and had them printed on rice paper.  I also made other goodies like, butter cookies in the shape of take out boxes(this was fun because the birthday girl and her friend came over and actually covered the cookies and painted the motif on them), Oreo covered cookies with the nunber 15 in chinese, edible gold covered milk covered bonbons, and chocolate ganache chinese lantern cake pops.

 

First Cake before the collapse

 

 Repaired Cake

 

 



 The beautiful Cake

 

 Take-Out box cookies (all painted by the b-day girl. I made a sample and she went to town decorating all those cookies)

 

 Golden melt in your mouth milk chocolate bonbons

Chocolate covered Oreos with golden number 15 in chinese

Chocolate Ganache Chinese lantern cake pops

The Quinceanera's Beautiful mother