Denver Designer Cakes

We Won The 2011 Bride's Choice Award!!! Yay!

2011-02-02T22:44:00.000-08:00

Denver Designer Cakes Receives The 2011 Brides Choice Awards

Denver, Colorado February 2, 2011- WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, is thrilled to announce Denver Designer Cakes www.DenverDesignerCakes.com has been selected to receive the prestigious annual WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 for Wedding Cakes!

Recognition for the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 is determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 750,000 WeddingWire newlyweds. Our past clients are among those that shared their experiences on WeddingWire, the largest wedding review site in the nation.

Denver Designer Cakes LLC stands among the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire community, representing quality and service excellence within the wedding industry. Awards were given to the top wedding professionals across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, and were based on the overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is honored to celebrate the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire community,” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “With the annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program, WeddingWire has the unique opportunity to recognize the best wedding professionals across the US and Canada. We applaud Denver Designer Cakes for their professionalism and dedication to enhancing the wedding planning experience last year.”

We are happy to announce that Denver Designer Cakes is among the very best Wedding Cake Designers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Martha Stewart Weddings, Project Wedding and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for nominating us to receive the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011.

For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today at http://www.weddingwire.com/biz/denver-designer-cakes-denver/41f29ed649a4a4f8.html.

For more information on the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011, please visit www.WeddingWire.com.

New Display Cakes

2010-12-01T14:33:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures of the display cakes I just got finished with. Enjoy!

A Special Cake for a Special Kid!!!

2010-11-15T07:59:00.000-08:00

Dylan turned 11 on November 5th, 2010. He's just got to be the best kid on the planet.. Polite, helpful, overachieving, sportsy(fantastic at ANYthing he tries to do),energetic.. Let's just say I wish I could have some of that energy transferred to me.

He had been wanting a Star Wars cake for quite awhile and he love's Darth Vader. So, I decided to make an edible version of Darth Vader's head, lol. I think everyone agreed that Darth was actually pretty tasty afterall :-)

For Jim Teegarden.. a man that's SERIOUS about Golf!

2010-10-11T22:50:00.000-07:00

This cake was made as a surprise for Jim Teegarden's 40th birthday bash. Jim is the founder and CEO of Teegarden Financial and a downright honorable man that truly cares about others. His wife Heidi took several pictures for me and I tried to make the cake as close to scale as his real golf bag and golf shoes.

From what I gathered, everyone really loved it.... especially Jim! :-D

One Shoe On..... One Shoe Off

2010-09-10T09:42:00.000-07:00

This cake was made for my friend Shelley's husband Mark! He's known for walking around with one shoe on and one sock on. He tells everyone he leaves one shoe on because he's always nervous that he will need to leave on short notice, LOL!!!

The sock is marble cake with buttercream underneath and the shoe is gluten-fr...ee coconut cake with cream cheese frosting (made with nothing but real coconut milk, gf flour, butter, eggs and organic raw coconut oil) and is filled with fresh made lime curd.

Metallic Purple Sugar Flowers

2010-08-26T17:44:00.000-07:00

This was a cake I made for a small wedding reception. The cake is our signature vanilla butter cake (yes, made with 100% real butter :-) with berry cream cheese filling. It's then covered with our handmade premium white chocolate rolled fondant and then decorated with our handcrafted sugar flowers. We airbrushed the flowers a with various shades of metallic purple.

I thought it turned out pretty and I got a very positive response from the bride herself! Yay :-)

Surprise Louis Vuitton Purse Cake for Stacie

2010-08-21T11:38:00.000-07:00

Leon called me last week and wanted my to make a Louis Vuitton Purse Cake for his special girlfriend Stacie. Here is the finished cake upon delivery and just to note, this is a chocoholics dream, it's chocolate fudge butter cake with mocha dark chocolate ganache and chocolate buttercream, then it’s covered with my handmade rich chocolate fondant (all natural fondant, nothing artificial) I am expecting she'll love it! Can’t wait to get the report!!! :-)

Summer Buttercream Cakes

2010-08-21T11:18:00.000-07:00

Here are a few recent cakes.... I created a small buttercream cake with
some simple Luau elements for Kim's home wedding. The bottom was banana cake with berry cream cheese filling and the top was coconut cake with lime buttercream filling.

Also, here is a cake I created for Jennifer, who was graduating with her PhD in Education from The University of Denver last week. I got a nice email from her telling me how everyone loved the cake. It was coconut cake with fresh lime curd filling (our lime curd is SOOOO yummy). I sugared the limes and put them in the middle. It's covered in coconut buttercream with fresh coconut shavings impacted on the sides.

The event was outside at The Boathouse in Washington Park (a beautiful area by the by) and it just happened to be quite literally PERFECT weather (not too hot with a breeze), so you know I was happy that I knew the cake would hold up, lol! It was planned by Michelle at www.dramaticevents.net and she did a fantastic job.

Thanks again and here's the cake.....

Fun "Beat Up" 1996 Mustang Cake

2010-07-28T11:46:00.000-07:00

I was contacted about making a surprise groom's cake. The bride wanted me to make the car look beat up with hail damage so it would look just like her fiance's 1996 Ford Mustang. Here is the finished product. I thought it turned out well and did a good job representing his car!

Simple Wedding Cake for a Backyard Wedding

2010-07-28T11:23:00.000-07:00

This couple decided to plan simple and elegant by having their reception in their large backyard. Here is a picture of their wedding cake. It's a 5 tier marble cake with cream cheese filling and they added fresh flowers as the topper.

It's been a LOOONNG Time, Yes I Know!

2010-07-28T11:15:00.000-07:00

And it's been super busy. I apologize for not posting on the blog for so long as I seemingly get too busy to post most of the time. Here are a few cakes from the last few weeks........

This was a cake for Matthew McGraw's mother who's birthday just so happens to be on the 4th of July. This time of year always reminds me of my daughter Jaquelyn's birthday (now 8), which is on the 5th, but since I went into labor on the 4th I thought she was going to be born ON the 4th, but instead went through nearly 36 hours of labor and she was then born on the evening of the 5th.. Whew! That was a LOOOOONG July 4th weekend in 2002 :-O

3D New York Cake

2010-02-22T21:17:00.000-08:00

Mark called me from Austin to tell me he was coming to Breckenridge and wanted something "really awesome" for his wife's 40th birthday bash. We worked and worked AND WORKED on the design :-) until it was just right!

Lemme tell you! This cake was a project... It took us approximately a complete week to make this cake. We molded the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building out of rice crispy treats and then covered them in modeling chocolate (the BEST stuff for modeling EVER). The buildings were a mixture of fondant and modeling chocolate, and then we made the people out of colored modeling chocolate. At the end we airbrushed it for the best effect of course.

Overall, I loved the challenge and here is the finished product!

New Year.... New Blog!

2010-02-22T21:07:00.000-08:00

Well Hello Everyone!

I am excited to be here in Colorado after 9 years in Savannah, Georgia. My husband and I have always wanted to settle here and we are thrilled to be able to walk outside and see the Rocky Mountains every single day! Colorado is just stunning! More so, I am so excited about starting Denver Designer Cakes after practicing my cake art and running a cake business in Savannah for almost 5 years.

I love making intricate cake art and I aim to please you both in design and in taste. My cakes are made completely from scratch using all natural ingredients and I bet you will probably even like my white chocolate rolled fondant as well. I know is sure tastes better than a lot of the fondant out there, and better yet, it's COMPLETELY natural with real vanilla and real white chocolate. You can't beat that!

Please check out my website and send me an inquiry if you're interested in ordering a custom cake.

Until next time,

Jenn :-)