We're Engaged!

This week we had the pleasure of making cookies for an engagement party! The cookies display the proposal and are our signature sugar cookies. These cookies are perfect for any engagement event and we would be delighted to make them for you! All you have to do is come down to Polkadots and customize your order with our team. We can help you celebrate your big news by providing a delicious and adorable treat that you and all of your friends can enjoy.

Happy Halloween!

It's Halloween time again and we have prepared some very spooky, but fun desserts for everyone! From cakes, to cupcakes, to cookies, our team has created many different treats for all the little monsters out there.
If your little one has just come to join the festivities or is about to make an appearance, we have our adorable Halloween Baby Shower Cake that is perfect for any baby shower occasion this season! Decorated with ghosts and polka dots, this delicious dessert is sure to be a hit at your baby shower party.

In addition to our cakes, we also have Halloween cookies that we know you will love! There are many different designs you may chose from. We have mummies, Frankenstein, and pumpkins on our sugar cookies, great for any festivities around this time of year. We also have an assortment of cookies with all kids of Halloween decorations including spiders, both on the web and off!

 Mummy Sugar Cookies

Pumpkin Sugar cookies

 Frankenstein!

Assorted Halloween!
















Finally, our cupcakes are not left out of the holiday spirit! We have several different custom cupcakes for everyone to enjoy. Our custom cupcakes can now be ordered with adorable Halloween decorations on them! From ghosts, to pumpkins, to witch hats, no party will complete without these perfect Halloween treats....

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! 

'tis the season...to ice cookies!

As of last week, it officially feels like the holidays are upon us here at Polkadots. Leading up to Thanksgiving, we made what were likely our last autumn-themed orders for the year. They included hand-iced cookies..

 Squirrel, pumpkin, turkey, fall leaves, and cute scarecrow!

  and cupcakes decorated in traditional fall motifs...

 and even a silly demented turkey cake! This cake was a 6" round consists of 4 layers chocolate cake, marinated rum cherries, and fresh whipped chantilly cream - serves 12 adults.

After those were complete, we moved on to creating what were the first of our many winter-themed treats. Holiday goodies are always lots of fun to make in our kitchen - we like to turn on Christmas music while we work, Country Christmas, R and B, pop, oldies etc...,which never fails to get everyone in the spirit. We tend to make more cookies around this time of the year, and each one calls for a lot of time and attention to detail. The varieties we made included snowflakes, mittens, Christmas trees, sleighs, wreaths, snowmen, ornaments, stockings, candy canes, Santas, reindeer, and gingerbread men. They look so cute together on a nice platter when they are all finished!

We'll have limited varieties available to pick up at the store starting this weekend, or you can place your custom cookies order with a 72 hrs notification. 

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!

Cake, cake, and more cakes!

September is an extra special month because it's my birthday month, too. Unfortunately, I have to leave the crazy, fun 20's and move on to the big 30's. Yup, I turned 30 this past week. I was such in a denial why do I have to turn 30?! I know its going to get better, fun and more challenges ahead.

Want to know how I spend my birthday?

I had the honored to make this special cake for this little boy, Luke. His mom contacted me the week ago about the theme of the party and send me the birthday invitation. Luke has been in the hospital due to digestion/intestine issues. It's just break my heart, how could one little body handle all the IV's, needle, and those medicine....

You can follow more about him on his parents' blog The team of the cake is Superhero Luke, here is what I came with:

  

This two tiered cake serves 30 adults. It's a 6" and an 8" round cake. I covered the cake with buttercream and fondant decorations. I also did a mini smash cake for Luke with similar theme, black, red dots and super hero logo on the top.

The next cake was my very first 3D Lakers cap! Crystal came last week and wanted to surprise her boyfriend with his favorite basketball team. I never make a cap cake, but I thought why not! It's a 10" round base - 3 layers of them. I also added in one layer 8" round and 1 layer 6 " round on top.This was a chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream. I crumbed coat the cake, let it sit a few hrs and then covered with fondant. I was getting frustrated with the purple fondant. At first, I didn't get the purple color that I wanted it. I just can messed up Lakers color!

It's such an iconic  team, everyone knows the exact purple color. I am pretty happy with the result, but next time I am going to use air brush instead of painting. What do you think?

Another challenge this week was damask cake.. word.. I bought the stencil last Summer break, but I haven't get a chance to make any cake with damask design.  It was a 1/2 sheet cake, serves 50 and covered with white fondant.  One thing that worried me was the white fondant and the black icing combo. It does look classy and elegant, but... I just never did this before! In my heart, please please... this black icing better be the right consistency, other wise I will have a zebra cake instead of damask at 2 AM in the morning! Hahah 

The inspiration for the cake was the baby shower invitation. It's a marble cake inside ( vanilla and chocolate) with vanilla buttercream icing.  Welcome Peanut Lawson!

This next cake was actually from the week before. Leslie came to the shop for a cake consultation. Her friend Monica is expecting a baby boy. I asked her if she has any particular design that she had in mind. She said no. So I asked her what are the party theme? Toy, duck, dots,...? and She said no there was no any particular theme, but she brought in the images of the party platters. I asked her which one was her favorite. She said crocodile. And I said... what about a crocodile cake? She said yes! 

Here is the cute "crocodile" cake:

This cake serves 30-35 adults and it was a chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream. It was covered with fondant. Don't be scared! Our fondant taste good, no it doesn't taste like rubber :)

On the side note, I hate turning down custom cakes order,... but I can only do so much in one day, in my tiny 300 sq ft kitchen.  My next wishes is to have a bigger kitchen.. no matter I have more assistants, but there wasn't any room to work. Oh I would also love to have freezer, dough sheeter, walk in cooler, personal office, proper working AC, and the list goes on!

I know I always want more and more! Is that a part of getting older?

Having fun with Easter Cookies!

I love Easter. Its a time to celebrate that lent is over. Pretty pastel colors, pink, purple, yellow, green, and much more....

Hippity.. . hoppity! Easter bunny in different pastel color... 

 Yellow chicks...

Colorful eggs

To make it more festive, add your guest name on to the egg!

Happy early Easter from all of us at Polkadots!