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Cake Table

Cake Table

Here is the cake display. What a relief… no dropped cakes, no leaking cakes, no transit damage.

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Lilikoi Chiffon Cake

Lilikoi Chiffon Cake

And here it is! The final Lilikoi Chiffon Cake. The flavor of Adam’s childhood in a cake. People who weren’t really tired of eating the numerous variations of passion fruit filling that preceeded this final…

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Lavender Rose Petal Cake

Lavender Rose Petal Cake

This cake is light pink with white borders. The rose petals on top were picked from Kris’ mom’s garden, brushed tenderly with egg white and lightly dipped in superfine sugar. Then they were dried until…

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Chocolate Chipotle Cake

Chocolate Chipotle Cake

This is the actual wedding cake. As a result of its popularity, there are no photos of the taster cakes. The chipotle is in the cake batter. The filling is vanilla bean and cinnamon-flavored chocolate…

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Rose Petal Taster

Rose Petal Taster

Time to move on to the lavender rose petal cake. The filling for this cake is rose lavender chamomile mousseline. Mousseline means pastry cream with lots of butter beaten into it. Melt in your mouth…

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Kathi’s Cake

Kathi’s Cake

My friend Kathi happened to have a birthday during the two weeks of cake development. She mentionned that she liked passion fruit and I just happened to have a batch of passion fruit filling and…

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Creating More Wedding Cakes

Creating More Wedding Cakes

Adam’s and Cindy’s wedding was this past Saturday, two weeks after Shaun’s and Kris’ wedding. They wanted Chocolate Chipotle, Lavender Rose Petal, and Lilikoi (Passion Fruit) Chiffon 10″ cakes. I started working on the passion…

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The Wedding

The Wedding

Shaun and Kris head to the ocean with an offering for the Goddess of the ocean in celebration of their marriage. The wedding party followed with more roses. Tourists on the beach were seen videotaping…

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Lavender Mousse Cakes

Lavender Mousse Cakes

This is how the final lavender rose mousse cakes looked on the plates we used to serve them at the wedding. No meltdowns. Unfortunately you can’t see the flecks of real edible gold that Jessie…

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60 Minutes to Meltdown

60 Minutes to Meltdown

I tried a test today to see how long a mini mousse cake would hold up on the counter in my 83 degree kitchen (or on the table at the wedding). Imagine the dessert table…

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