Baby Shower!

Planning for a baby shower??? If so, we have the perfect cake for you! This week we had the privilege of creating two beautiful baby shower cakes featuring an adorable onesie and a cute blue whale. Both cakes were custom ordered and you can have one too! Order one week in advance and we can work with you to create a masterpiece that will be the cherry on top of your celebration. The cake can be simple or intricate, whatever you want to make your party perfect! We promise to make your little one an amazing cake for their shower!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday everyone! This week we have had several wonderful children celebrate their birthdays and we were thrilled to make birthday cakes for them. As always, we were happy to customize the cakes to match the theme of the party and this week we got to make an elephant cake, a train cake, a lady bug cake, and an artist cake! These are just some of the great designs you can make with us here at Polkadots that can make any birthday a truly special occasion. Come in and see us for your next birthday celebration a week in advance and we can make you a cake customized to fit your exact needs!

Fall Is Here!

Fall is finally here and we could not be more exited! Austin, Texas in the fall brings good weather and great events. With the kick off of the fall football season we have made a wedding and grooms cake worthy of any Texas football tradition. As tradition, when the University Texas football team travels to Dallas to play the University of Oklahoma, girls in the Greek community will be asked to decorate coolers for their date for the eventful weekend.

For this particular cake we made a grooms cake to look like a TX versus OU decorated cooler. The cake represents the essence of Texas football with various symbols and images. The dimensions of the cake are 12 x 12 x 13 inches incorporating cake, fondant, and isomalt. To decorate this cake we cut out several different fonts and colors for all the lettering as well as  fondant cutouts of cowboys, blue bonnets, and lassos. Along with the grooms cake the wedding cake stands three tiers tall covered in various sizes of sugared flowers. The flowers were arranged all over the cake, more flowers were arranged in different areas to give a unique shape to the cake.

Overall our team had a great time making all the various decorations for these two cakes and we hope that the Texas Longhorns have a great season!

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.

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! 

Baby Baby and Baby fever!

Do you know when they say your biological clock is ticking? I think I am one of them now. Most of the party that I went to this year were for baby showers! The past two weeks were for baby showers back to back. Everybody around me seems to be having babies. At the shop most of the cake were baby shower cakes. I think I am having baby fever!

Here are few of my favorites from this past weekend. A baby block cake - It was my first time making it. It looks simple but it definitely took more hrs than I thought. I baked 3 half sheet cakes, then cut them with my parchment templates (8" square), stacked them high (8 layers) with buttercream, and let it sit overnight. One side was too high and it slanted to one side. So, I carved it to make it look straight. Let it cool off again in the fridge. Then the fun times begin, decorating with different colors of border and the baby initials.

Here are the details:

 After cutting the half sheet cakes with the parchment paper templates, layer the cake with simple syrup and vanilla buttercream.

The cake was high (almost as tall as my kitchen aid), and a little slanted, so I carved it out before I covered the cake with final coat of buttercream. Then, let it get hard in the fridge. In the mean time, I started making the colored borders and teddy bear.

Next, our client requested a very soft simple colored cake for a baby boy shower. This two tiered cake was a 6" round Italian cream cake, and 8" round lemon and cream cake  - vanilla cake with lemon cream cheese and lemon pastry cream - serves 30 adults. The color combination and design details are just clean, modern, but cute. I thought it's very " Anthropologie" ish theme. What do you think?

This next set of cookies are for baby shower too!

 Toile pattern sugar cookies in "A" shape for baby Audrey.  I didn't hand-draw the cookies. I used sugar paper instead. The mom picked this toile pattern that matched her baby nursery.

The next cookies was designed after Dr. Suess ryhme, one fish, two fish, and it was so many fish! My husband thought that this was a shark! of course I wanted to duck tape him right then (no I didn't do it!)

I made this green elephant cookies to match the baby shower invitations. I love it how it's all green with different tones and simple mendhi decoration.

The next two baby shower cake was modeled after our children birthday cakes. This lady bug cake was an 8" and 10" round cake black bottom cake (chocolate cake with cream cheese and chocolate chips) serves 50. Lady bug is edible too, she was made out of rice krispies.

This cake was modeled after our previous baby shower cake (pink version). I made a few changes: no banner, no bow, and adding a balloon "Welcome Baby Cannon."

Last cake was a whale theme for a baby girl shower to match the party invitation. I wish I had more time yesterday so I could put mama's whale splash on too! The cake was an 8" round cake, serves 20 - vanilla cake with strawberry buttercream, fresh macerated strawberry,  and chocolate ganache. I think I should call it Neapolitan!

Thanks for looking!