Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all! What did you do for your sweetie? In typical baker fashion, I made Patrick a cake. But not just any cake, an epic 5 3/4″ cake of towering awesomeness. Imagine if you will, layers of rich dark devils food, paired with their polar opposite, light and fluffy angel food cake. Then [...]

Love is definitely in the air. Valentine’s day is right around the corner and we have been busy planning and making gluten-free wedding cakes. On the start of the Lunar New Year, we had the wonderful pleasure of making this gorgeous wedding cake for newlyweds Kristen and Roger. Cake info: Flavor: coconut cream Filling: raspberry [...]

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Today we delivered a seaside-themed gluten-free cake for Dave and Gale. This cake had layers of almond cake, raspberry jam, and pastry cream and was covered in white fondant and handmade white chocolate sea shells. We also made an edible fondant ribbon to wrap around each tier. Gale actually brought in a sample of their wedding [...]

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Today was a monumental day for Zest Bakery! We made our first full wedding cake! To prepare, we made 9 layers of cake (3 layers per tier), and spent a full couple of days baking and prepping for the cakes. Early on the happy couple, decided the bottom 2 tiers would be almond cake with [...]

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I love going through old recipes, and am doubly happy that my Grandmother, affectionately called Grand, (and her friends) are willing to share them with me. On one recent visit with my Grand, our conversation meandered onto food, as it frequently does, and we got to talking about cake recipes. In particular she mentioned a [...]

Even though we had a random bit of rain last week, I’m thoroughly convinced that summer is here to stay. When I think of a hot hot summer, I think of cooling down… pool party style! This weekend our cousin obliged us and threw a little get together to celebrate summer and the nice weather we’ve been [...]

2010 ended with a bang. Well, not so much a bang, but definitely more of a whoop whoop! We found out early on December 31st, that my cousin (who introduced Patrick to me) just got engaged to his long time girlfriend, Jen. We are so excited for them. And since it was already New Years [...]