Updated prices made simple!

Here's a list of my basic prices and special packages:

Buttercream - $3 a serving
Fondant - $4 a serving

Example: 3 tier round wedding cake (10" 8" 6") serves 78 = $234
3 tier square cake (10" 8" 6") serves 100 = $300

Free delivery from north Salt Lake to Draper on any cake over $50
All basic decor is included, extra for fondant/gumpaste flowers and figurines.
6" single layer smash cake free with any 2 tier birthday cake!
30% off groom's cakes when you book a wedding cake with me!

Serving chart per pan size and shape:
http://www.wilton.com/wedding/wedding-cakes/wedding-cake-data.cfm

Wedding cake structure ideas by servings:
http://www.wilton.com/cakes/tiered-cakes/serving-amounts-all.cfm

Email me your ideas and/or a picture and I will gladly give you a quote!
cakesbyteresa@hotmail.com

Happy caking,
Teresa

Give me a break!

I dove headfirst into wedding season and LOVED it! I juggled remodeling a house, working at the hospital and 3 little kiddos along with 1 wedding a weekend. Guess what? It was a bit much ;)

I pulled my ads offline and am taking July off for my house, kids and my sanity. I look forward to catching the end of wedding season in August, so until then it will only be pleasure baking.

Happy caking,
Teresa

Diamond Cutters!

Diamond cutters are a great way to add a diamond pattern to a cake. They can be purchased from Global Sugar Art online and only cost a few dollars a piece. You can purchase a simple diamond pattern or a double diamond. This creates a small diamond inside a larger one.

If you are using it on fondant you can press it gently as soon as the cake is covered.

For buttercream it must crust first. Gently press it into the cake and continue around until completely covered. If it is used before the buttercream crusts the frosting will come off onto the cutter.

Add dragees or flowers inside the diamonds or at the crossing spots.

Happy Caking,

Teresa

Perfect Pan Coating!

I would say the biggest difference between an okay cake and a perfectly smooth cake is the pan coating. If the pan is prepped correctly, then it can be flipped out of the pan right and it will be smooth. Wilton makes a great pan coating that only costs about $3 a bottle. I got tired of running to the store because I ran out, so I found this and have used it religiously!

Equal parts flour, vegetable oil and shortening.

1 cup of each will fill a large cereal bowel and last through several wedding cakes.

I store mine in a tupperware bowel in the fridge. I personally know it lasts for months, but I don't know about longer because I go through it so fast ;).

Happy caking,

Teresa

Whoopie Cushion!

Whoopie cushion cakes are great for a laugh! This is a mini cake but it can also be done with a much larger one.

Bake 1 layer of cake let it cool. Wrap and freeze for the night. zzzzzzz

In the morning carve curves into the cake top and bottom. This is give the whoopie cushion pleats.

Cover with buttercream and cover entire cake with fondant. Pinch around the edge gently. Write "old fart" or any other endearments you wish.

To make the "exit hole" I took 2 pieces of fondant cut into triangles. I pressed the edges together to create a seam and used a toothpick to keep the opening open and secure it to the cake.

Happy Caking!

Teresa

Toilet Cake

Toilet cakes are great for "over the hill", plumbers, potty training and many other sick celebrations ;). If you follow these instructions you will have a cake with about 30 servings.

You will need:

9X13 cake (filled)

A sturdy board (mine is plywood)

2- 8" foam squares

Dowels

8" half circle of foam (found in craft section)

Buttercream

Fondant

Royal icing

Chocolate candy with nuts! (you know where this is going don't you?)

8" round pan

large fruit can (empty and clean)

8" round cardboard circle

These are the foam 1/2 circle and the 8" cardboard circle. Cover the dome with buttercream then fondant. Cover each side of the circle with buttercream and fondant. Write "Everything turns to crap at 40" on the circle. (or whatever endearments you wish)

Attach the 2 pieces of styrofoam with toothpicks and stick dowels or plastic hollow rods into the styrofoam. This is the cake cistern. Cover it with buttercream then fondant.

Place clean can in center of 8" round pan and grease. Fill with batter and bake as usual. You will have to place something inside the can to weigh it down. I used a bowel on tip, but a glass jar or glass would work. I also filled a mini dome pan with batter to make a plunger and a coffee mug to make toilet paper. This is where you can get REALLY creative!

The 8" cake will become the toilet lid. Place on a cardboard circle and cover with buttercream and fondant. The toilet paper and plunger dome should also be covered with buttercream and fondant. (obviously the plunger needs to be plunger colored)

Place 3 wooden dowels at the peak of the dome and press peak side down into 9x13" cake. Place the 8" round cake with the cardboard for a bottom on top of the dome base. Be sure to secure it with royal icing. Now press the cistern into the 9x13" cake and add another dowel from the cistern into the styrofoam dome. This will keep the cistern from falling backwards. The 8" cake is NOT strong enough to support this weight so it must go from foam to foam.

Fill the tank bowl with frosting. Melt the nutty chocolate you chose slightly and mold into "turd" shapes. Add these to the bowl. Attach the cardboard toilet lid with toothpicks into the seat and royal icing in the seat and the cistern. Add the toilet paper and plunger to complete the picture but remember to secure them with royal icing.

Happy Caking!

Teresa

Caketrastrophe!

I had the opportunity to make a 4 tier wedding cake this weekend and it ALL went bad! I'm sharing this more for venting purposes, but also so you can get an idea of some of the stress I get the deal with as the "cake lady".

This cake was all chocolate with raspberry filling iced in cream cheese frosting. I had to transport it 30 minutes away. I stacked the bottom 2 layers on the stand and the top 2 were transported separately (thank goodness). While on the freeway a car cut me off then hit his brakes. This resulted in me slamming on the brakes . . . my life and the cakes or just the cakes! Ugh! The whole bottom tier slid off because it made the dowels shift which made the tier that was sitting on it also fall off. The top tier flowers fell of and the filling dam broke. Imagine a white wedding cake bleeding red juice. I said some VERY naughty words and pulled over. Took the cakes apart and shifted the layers back. The car and I were covered in icing. I know I should have taken pictures but I was too traumatized! I pretty much wanted to die!

I finally make it to the church and start to take pieces of wedding cake inside, everyone I pass says "what happened!" The grooms dad comes in and says, you must be the cake lady, and my response was "I would rather be anyone else besides the cake lady right now!"
After 90 minutes of fast work, lots of swearing, and lots of praying I was able to salvage the top 3 tiers and make it at least passable. Here is the final picture, definitely not my best but let's be realistic here ;)


Happy caking,
Teresa