Election Time

Well folks, every four years we come to November and it is time again to vote for our future president! Now here at Polkadots we have the perfect election day treat for you to celebrate after you cast your ballot. Our delicious "I Voted" cookies are now available for custom order! These adorable and patriotic desserts are not only delicious, but spirited as well. These sugar cookies are sure to brighten your day after long voting lines and the American flag decoration will give you a little taste of American pride.

Glitter Me Happy!

This week we made an elegant yet fun decorated cake! This two tiered turquoise cake was decorated with edible glitter. That's right, edible and glittery! First, we iced the tiers with colored butter cream, attached them together, and added gold edible glitter.

Let's Go Fishing!

Summer is finally here and boy is it going to be a hot one! Since it's the perfect time to do a little fishing this week, our team made a life size speckled trout fish for a groomsman cake. Why not enjoy a little fish on the side of a cake? Sounds a little fishy to me...

One of our sugar artists, started off with a square piece of styrofoam.  She started carving the styrofoam and added rice krispie treats to make an easier fish shape. Then, it is covered with fondant  and airbrushed detail to make the fish look as if it had just hoped out of the water! But no fresh fish can go without a little ice; therefore, we made ice cube shapes out of isomalt which is a melted form of sugar that solidifies into any shape you mold it into.

The Trout sits on top of a life size wooden tackle box made out of our popular Black Bottom cake. Black Bottom is a Chocolate cake with cream cheese and chocolate chip filling topped with cream cheese buttercream! YUM!

Polkadots Spotlight: Variety!

We here at Polkadots take pride in the many different options we offer to our fans. Sometimes our customers are not aware of all of our options, so we thought we would fill you all in! From our fantastic cupcakes to our custom birthday and wedding cakes, we have it all! Custom cookies, cobbler pies, sugar-free and gluten-free options, mini-cupcakes, smash cakes and cake balls, you name it! Cakes, cupcakes and cookies, Oh My! We even do special custom order requests. We take pleasure in providing you with exactly what you need for your parties, weddings, and special events.

Here are some of our recent work:

This six tier  an example of a wedding cake we did recently. It serves 250 guests. The flavors are combination of  a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and triple chocolate (chocolate cake filled with ganache and chocolate buttercream)

This is an example of a custom carving cake we just finished. This is a dulche de leche cake with a toffee icing. Yum!

This is an example of a custom cookie we did for a Bat Mitzvah. Mazel Tov! We have several cutters that we can use, and we can also do custom ones!

 

Lastly is an example of a set of custom cupcakes we did recently. The top ones are our blackbottom cake and the bottom ones are our classic vanilla vanilla. We can do custom cupcakes in any of our flavors, just like our cakes.

So whether you have a birthday party, wedding, shower, other special event, or even just a small get together, consider one of our many options here at Polkadots, and remember that we do special custom orders, so don't be afraid to ask! 

New fun celebration cakes!

We are so thankful with the cooler weather! Fall is always a busy time of the year for birthday celebrations, baby showers, and weddings. First is our latest version of Super Mario Birthday Cake that we made for Jacob. Last year we made him a Cowboy theme birthday cake. This two tier cake serves 30 adults (6" and 8" round). Both cakes were red velvet. All the characters on this cake were made from fondant -  including Mario, Yoshi, and Bowser figurines. We added Lakitu on the first tier, piranha plants, and goombas on the bottom tier.

 

 We love all the bright color palette on this cake, so bright and fun.

Next cake is a "diva" 21st birthday cake for Faith. She loves anything sparkly and leopard pattern. The shoe on top is a replica of  Christian Louboutin made from gum paste. It was a 6" and an 8" round red velvet cake, too.

This cake is very chic. It's very clean and modern - just a simple pink buttercream decorated with gold balls accent.

Last but not least, we give a new look for our giant cupcake cake. It's all made from buttercream and serves 12 adults.

Thank you for stopping by our blog.  We can wait to do more fun celebration cakes for all of you!

Edible sugar paper

Oh sugar paper...who doesn't love sugar? I have a love-hate relationship with this wily "creature!"  When it's humid in Austin, I just hate working with sugar paper. It tears apart easily, gets soggy, and won't dry fast enough for cookie production. Yet when it's cool and dry, like the past couple days, I love them. Edible images on sugar paper come in very handy, especially on corporate logo sugar cookies. I can't imagine drawing computer chips like this:

Or writing pretty fonts like on these business cards:

I heart technology - printing with edible food coloring and edible sugar paper make fabulous cookie favors for all types of events!

Spring is Coming!

Well it seems like winter is finally leaving us, thank goodness! We had an order for some Hawaiian sugar cookies this week, reminding us of the warmer weather that is soon to come. The cookies would've been perfect for a luau. We made pretty hibiscus flowers, hula girls/boys, tropical birds, colorful fish, palm trees, Hawaiian shirts, surfboards, flip flops, and coconut drinks with cocktail umbrellas.

Polkadots got political this week, with the creation of a birthday cake ordered for Governor Rick Perry. It featured silhouettes of Texan icons such as the Capitol building, the state flag, pecan trees, windmill, cattle, and a big silver Rice Krispie Treat star on top. The background was meant to be reminiscent of the big Texas sky around dusk. Hopefully the Governor enjoyed his special cake!

We made two unique cakes of similar styles recently - a Gucci purse, and a Hello Kitty lunchbox. The purse had intricate logo and design detailings, with gold fondant-covered Rice Krispie Treat handles, straps, and "hardware". It almost looked real enough to pick up and sling over your shoulder!

The lunchbox cake was covered in multicolored fondant, and featured the Rice Krispie Treat handle as well. Making a cake of this shape is often more difficult to work with than traditional round, square, or sheet cakes.

While we're on the topic of uncommon shapes, we also carved a movie popcorn bucket cake recently. The outside of the bucket was white with vertical red fondant stripes, and the top was coated in black fondant sprinkled with toasted "popcorn" pieces. It also included a Rice Krispie Treat film reel birthday banner as a final touch. Don't forget the butter!

Last but not least!  A birthday cake for a pug lover, Happy Birthday Ali! 

 

Fun Custom Cakes!

I heart my customers. They always come up with fun ideas for cakes that I haven't made before.Yup, I love challenge which can drive me nuts! This past couple weeks, we had an animal week birthday theme cake. First was our popular zebra cake:

A 6" round red velvet cake covered with American vanilla buttercream, decorated with black zebra stripes, and pink fondant bow. It's simple, clean, and sassy!

The second one was a cheetah birthday party. The cake was covered with fondant and it's a vanilla cake with swiss vanilla buttercream.

Next, it's a super cute chubby penguin cake! The fiance surprised her with this cake, after his first attempt last year to made one at home.

 It was a devils food cake, raspberry jam and cream cheese buttercream! Yummmm.

I just can't get enough of anything monkey theme, next our first topsy turvy modern monkey first birthday cake. I love the simplicity of the color, whimsical, and clean looked. It's a 8" round black bottom cake, and a 6" vanilla cake with American Vanilla buttercream.

 Thanks for looking and I can't wait to make you one!

Back to school and a little break

It's been hectic since school is back in session. I finally feel I am catching up with all the daily routine. This coming week, we are going to have a little BREAK! Yeahhhhh It's labor day weekend, and we had  a family event so we will be closing early on Saturday, September 4 at 2 PM. We will back on Tuesday, September 7,  2010 at 12 PM.

Here are few of my favorites from our last creations. The first one was "It' s a small world" baby shower cake and cookies.We used the baby shower invitation for the inspiration.The cake was a 10" round lemon and cream, covered with fondant. Some of you may ask why we are starting to cover our cake with fondant? Our fondant is yummy, it tastes like marshmallow, almost like the white part cream filling of oreo cookies. I promise you will like it. It's not Satin Ice Fondant. It's a little bit more expensive, but it taste delicious.

We put the hot air balloon on top, Oscar and Emmy (the couple's dog) are waiting patiently, a little Korean and Vietnamese girl are playing on the side of the cake. Love all the color combination on this cake, it's just too cute! We also made 50 hand iced cookies for their party favors. Congratulations Tammy and George! We can't wait to meet baby Gabriella.

The next one is "Party Animals First Birthday Cake." This was a two tiered cake (6" and 8") serves 30-35 adults, vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and black bottom cake (chocolate cake with cream cheese and chocolate chip baked in and cream cheese buttercream). I love all the bright colors dot, stripes, cute animals inspired from the birthday party plate. Happy Birthday Watson!

Last but not least, Elmo is back! We made a few version of Elmo birthday cake in the past, so far this is my fav! It's simple, clean, and everything is edible. The cake was a 6" round red velvet with cream cheese buttercream, covered with yellow fondant. Happy Birthday Sienna!

Hope everyone had a good week and looking forward for the first UT football game this weekend!

Under Pressure!

Last week was a total whirlwind. My whole body was dying from baking, stacking, icing cakes and racing the time. Totally underpressure like the Queen lyrics! " Pressure pushing down on me Pressing down on you no man ask for Under pressure - that burns a building down Splits a family in two" Nah.. Ben and I still together :)

Ben always told me that I shouldn't over promised, but I told him I love challanges especially on the cake that I never made/know/ think about making it. I took a topsy turvy graduation cake order  that served 200 guests for the first time. The only thing I know about topsy turvy is "slanted" cake. That's it.

So what did I do? I researched on you tube, watching many topsy turvy tutorials and read cake blogs about topsy turvy cake. On top of all of this,  the cake will be picked up and delivered to Giddings which is one hour away from Austin. It has to be sturdy! Oh.. I also have to covered this cake with fondant. Mmmm,  I never covered cake with fondant bigger than 10" round and this 200 serving cake will have a 16" round. Anyway.. the more I think on how doing this cake the more streess I became. Honestly, I never seen pimple on my face since my teenager years! Guess what? I produced four this past weekend.

So, did I survived? Yeah.. I am pretty happy for the first time result. Will I do it again? Yes!! yes!! Now I know how to do it. Here it is:

From top to bottom 6" round strawberry shortcake, 10" round devils food chocolate, and 14" & 16" round red velvet with cream cheese frosting.

I am so glad that last week went well considering the all nighter, aching body, and last but not least my finger got stuck into pastry tip while washing it. I'll be back with this coming weekend celebration cakes (wine bottle, willy wonka, and fiesta cake).

Stripes and Stars!

Happy 4th of July! Hope all of you got some fun time with family and enjoyed all the festivities this past week. We celebrate this week at work with little festive red, white, and blue birthday cakes and cookies.

The first one was a birthday cake for Deleon. It's a vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream and covered with red vanilla buttercream. It's accent with white and blue stars and ribbon. I finished the cake with the red, white, and blue dots around the cake.

Next, a simple red, white, and blue stars cake for Angelica:

Some festive red velvet cupcakes  with stars, flag, and fire work fondant decorations.

We also delivered Britton and Austin's wedding cake to Villa Antonia, Jamestown -TX. Three tiered simple cakes, the flavors from top to bottom: vanilla, red velvet, and our signature blackbottom cake. We decorated with simple dots border and stacked them with fresh red roses. Congratulations Britton and Austin! Thank you for letting us to be a part of your special day!

Choo - choo!

This was our first Thomas the train birthday cake. The cake was a surprise from Aunt Hilda in San Fransisco to Jasper in Hutto, TX. It's a banana cake with nutella chocolate buttercream. Yum! Happy Birthday Jasper.