Pizza

At Polkadots we love our pizza. So we asked ourselves, "What is better than pizza?"

A pizza made out of cake! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we went there. This cheesy creation is actually our chocolate cake covered in fondant which was then airbrushed  to give it that fresh out of the brick oven look. For sauce we used strawberry jam and then covered it in grated white chocolate. Our toppings included fondant tomatoes, mushrooms, and basil. We melted the chocolate with a torch for that ooey gooey cheesiness. Delicious!

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!

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!

Wendy and Matt's Wedding

Wendy and Matt are high school sweetheart, they got married at Laguna Gloria this past Labor Day weekend. Congratulations to them. We made a Star Trek spaceship grooms cake and three tiers wedding cake for them. Here is a sneak peak from studio563.

The grooms requested to have a carrot spice cake with cream cheese buttercream, while Wendy has three different flavors - red velvet, strawberry shortcake, and triple chocolate YUM!