Polkadots Spotlight: Suitcase Cakes!

Throwing a going away party or a birthday party and looking for a suitcase cake? We have them in store for you! This week, we designed two special luggage cakes. The first one was a Harry Potter trunk birthday cake. The cake is lemon blueberry stacked on top of chocolate with nutella icing and covered in fondant. The fondant was sprayed to make it look like leather and then topped with gold accent corners, trim, and lock. We then placed the cake on a board that was painted to look like wood just to top it off! This is a great cake for a Harry Potter fan!

The other suitcase cake we designed was a Costa Rican themed suitcase. It is a quarter sheet cake of our delicious strawberries and cream covered in chocolate fondant with brown straps and gold accent. Different images were printed on edible sugar paper and placed on fondant to create "stickers" to be placed all over the suitcase, with a large print out of a Costa Rica brochure. The suitcase cake was placed on a board decorated with a map of Costa Rica out of fondant. It just puts the finishing touches on this magnificent Costa Rican Birthday cake!

If you're looking for a suitcase cake for your next birthday cake or going away cake or Harry Potter movie night, don't hesitate to give us a call! You can come with your own ideas and we can create a special cake just for you!

Polkadots Spotlight: Shoes

There are many topics that keep popping up in our shop - from owls and monkeys, Yo Gabba Gabba and Hello Kitty; to Longhorns, lingerie, and Angry Birds etc. Therefore, I thought it would be fun to showcase some treats sharing a particular theme every now then!

Almost all women love shoes, so what could be better than a cake or cookies that look like shoes?!? That way, everyone can enjoy them! First, we have a 6" round blueberry cake with lemon butter cream. It is decorated with fondant hearts, and topped with a handmade sparkly silver pump. The young man who ordered this brought it on a plane to surprise his girlfriend in Wisconsin. Talk about being thoughtful and romantic!

Next is a two-tiered pink and purple filigree cake with a gold bow and matching handmade glittery high heel on top. Our artists spend hours crafting such shoes out of materials like gum paste, fondant, rice krispie treats, and edible ink.

 Shoe cookies are also a popular request at Polkadots. An order called for leopard print dress and shoe cookies that coordinated well with the previous cake. Sometimes people don't want to eat them because they are too pretty, but once they do they say it was well worth it.

We've also made multi-colored heels, sparkly sugar print slingbacks, Cinderella glass slipper cookies, vintage Marie Antoinette shoes, and of course plenty of cowboy and western boots - being that we are in Texas!

As you can see, we are quite experienced in the edible footwear department, so please don't hesitate to call us whenever you are craving some sweet feet treats you can eat!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year all! Hope everyone got to enjoy the Christmas Break. Our newest addition for January is Peach Cobbler Cupcakes. It is a vanilla cake baked and filled with peach, topped with vanilla swiss buttercream and cinnamon streusel. It's available every Tuesday and Thursday. Peach Cobbler will replace  Fluffernutter cupcake.

You don't want to miss this! It's so light, fluffy, and refreshing :)

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!

Happy Halloween!

So everyone knows that the best thing about October isn't Halloween, it's the amazingly creative and delicious treats that come with it! Luckily, at Polkadots, creative delicacies are our strong suit. We have a variety of flavors and toppings to choose from. Between your boundless ideas and our spectacular talents, the possibilities are endless.

 Nothing can spook us, from the creepiest of crawlies to the goofiest of ghouls. For us, Halloween is a piece of cake :)

 

 Place your order early, Halloween is only 2 weeks away!

  

First Fall Wedding Season 2011!

I am so excited that fall is almost here! The weather has been too hot for baking and decorating at our kitchen. Our first fall wedding season started two weeks ago. Lauren and Justin got married at grand ballroom InterContinental Stephen F. Austin. I love the simplicity of the smooth buttercream accent with royal purple ribbon and of course, all beautiful flowers from West Bank Flower Market. This five tier cake was all red velvet flavor, and the grooms cake was blackbottom (chocolate cake baked in with chocolate chip cream cheese and layered with cream cheese buttercream). Congrats to Mr. and Mrs. Powell!
 

 

Next is Sarah and Scott's wedding cupcakes tower at Angel's Ice House, Spicewood, TX. They had a BBQ theme backyard weddings at the draft house. This cupcake tower hold 150 cupcakes. The flavors are red velvet, chocolate mint, black bottom, and lemon and cream cupcakes.

Our heart pillow cookie is the most requested item for wedding gift favors and bridal showers. Here are few examples that we made in the made in the past:

Thank you for reading! We can't wait until the weather is nice and cool perfect for outdoor wedding in Texas.

Onesies Cookies

Don't be surprised!  Onesie shape cookie is the most requested item for baby showers favors.  We made these baby boy onesies these week. In the past I always made them with just ruffles around the side of the cookie. This time I want it to make it more a boyish looking !

This one next is from last week. I made this one to coordinate with the baby shower theme "girly safari."

We also did little baby dress cookies to match with the party decor and baby shower invitation.

 This last one might be my favorite just plain old simple onesies with the baby's name.

Please let me know which one you like the best!