More on the menu for BellaTiers!

Hey all!

So this summer I'm going to start offering a few new products along with custom cakes!
First off there will be cupcakes on the menu soon with a bunch of cool delicious flavor combinations!
I am also working on a new sweet table menu; Where I will be offering a wide range of small desserts like tartlets and petit fours!

I am so excited to get all of this moving and hopefully a new site design will be up within the next few months!

Much love,
Kim

This weekend was absolutely hectic! Even with all the pre-planning I did there was still so much to get done.
The humidity was driving me off the wall, and I blasted the air conditioning all friday and saturday!
BUT all turned out well, I'm very happy with the cakes and my clients seemed pretty excited. :]


I've got quite a few cakes booked in June---back to the drawing board!

Much love to you all--
Kim

Double Booking

This weekend I have 2 orders for the same due date. Theres so much more planning involved then single booking and theres so much stress to get everything done.
Its funny though because I absolutely love doing it. When I'm working on a cake thats all I'm doing until its done, its almost physically impossible for me to leave the kitchen. So I figure having more work is just better! One of the cakes is a two tier Minnie Mouse cake for a 2 year olds birthday party, and the other is a really classicly-designed 'open book' christening cake.

I have to do a lot of prep before hand; things I would normally have time to do while I'm actually working on the cake.
I have to bake all of the cakes a week before hand and freeze them, leaving me hours and hours of time that can now be geared towards the detail work.

For the minnie cake I just have to make the topper a few days before hand so it can dry (absolutely adorable Minnie mouse ears with a huge pink and white polka dot bow).

The christening cake is a little bit more work. I have to make about a dozen small blocks to embellish the cake, as well as a little blue bear. Then I have to make this beautiful church window plague that will accent part of the cake and let that dry.

Then this weekend all i have to do is put everything together and add detail work and the cakes will be finito!

I cant wait for this weekend and I hope the cakes come out perfect. :]

Much love,
Kim

Final Wedding Cake at CHIC

So last week I finished my advanced cake class at CHIC... it was unbelievable how short that class felt. We learned a lot in a short amount of time, especially gum paste flowers. I hate to say it but that's what I came to school for. FLOWERS. I had worked so hard to educate myself on things I had seen on TV and websites, or just pictures people wanted for their cakes. But flowers? Oh my god, they are a stressful thing! They only had to teach us the basics and you essentially have to just go out and stare at flowers and teach yourself how to make them.
It's incredible how little you can be taught and it immediately changes your views on things.

Anyway, I made some lilies.. and accidentally made them with five petals instead of six (whoops!) but lost no points, thank god. I made an obnoxious amount of Cali lilies, even though I don't like them very much... and didn't end up using them, and a lot of fuchsias.

We had to have at least 20% of the cake covered in Cornelli Lace (the squiggly-line looking portion of the cake), that incidentally became a lot harder than it looks, but is such a classic design for cakes and I am so excited to know simple it really is once you get the hang of it.

We then had to make 120 lace points-which are really-and i mean really- small designs piped out with royal icing and left to dry. I ended up doing small butterfly wings and placed them around the top of the bottom tier.

We made the cake topper in advance, and it had to be "flaming hearts" themed. We definitely had a lot of wiggle room with this one, and basically just told us to use a few elements and not just flat hearts cut out with a stencil.

All of our cakes are displayed in the massive, beautiful display case in our building for all to see and it is such a great feeling to be at this point in school. I remember the first day of class; I was scared out of my freaking mind, and i was staring at that case in awe at the cakes that were displayed, and it's so wierd to be in that place, seeing the new kids staring up at that same case just as I had.

I only have one kitchen class left... and I cant help but get a little teary-eyed when I think about it. I've met a lot of cool people here and I dont want to see any of them go.

In the end, the cake was success and next up: Sugar and Chocolate sculpting!

Welcome to the BellaTiers cake blog!!!

Hey everyone!
Getting the website up to speed has been crazy but everything should be up and updated soon! I've got a lot of new cakes coming up so new pictures are coming, we just finished the new cake order form and have a bunch of new flavors.
The whole website is going to be going through a lot of changes within the next few months and I'm really excited.

As always- thank you for your business and comments,
Much love to you all!
-Kim