Obsessive Cake Disorder of Orlando

The birthday boy turned forty-eight. Cake of choice? German chocolate.

Celebrating two birthdays with a Kentucky Bourbon Butter Cake. Topped with warm Kentucky Bourbon Butter sauce and whipped cream.

Layers of vanilla butter, sponge cake alternating with fresh sliced strawberries, finished in Chantilly cream. Embellished with fresh strawberries and sugar flowers.

Happy 50th birthday to an Eddie Van Halen fan.

A tower cake, alternating layers of chocolate cake, chocolate ganache, fresh raspberry compote, cake, chocolate ganache, cheesecake mouse, repeat, repeat, repeat and repeat. Finish with vanilla buttercream and fondant embellishments reflective of Van Halen's guitar, which topped the cake.

Layers of banana cake separated with chocolate ganache, banana cream, sliced fresh bananas finished with vanilla buttercream and embellished with rock candy and gold leaf.

Happy birthday to a lovely lady. 8 inch French vanilla butter cake with 4 alternating layers of lemon curd and fresh blueberries. Finished in vanilla buttercream.

Colorful kitty cat cupcakes. This is a repeat customer who loves cats and lots of color.

Layers of banana, black walnut cake separated and topped with alternating layers of banana chantilly cream, sliced fresh bananas, black walnuts and lightly salted caramel sauce.

8 years, the same cake for one of my best clients.❤️

Today's weddings are trending towards options. Here is a satellite display of four cakes.

TRIPLE CHOCOLATE... Chocolate cake, chocolate ganache, chocolate mousse filling, finished with vanilla buttercream.

LEMON CHEESECAKE... Vanilla cake, lemon curd and cheesecake mousse, finished with vanilla buttercream.

ALMOND CAKE... With Cherry filling finished with vanilla buttercream.

A TWIST ON RED VELVET... Red velvet cake with raspberry mousse filling finished with vanilla buttercream.

Congratulations Jenn and Brendon!

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Celebrating the birthday of a lovely 80-year-old lady. Alternating layers of vanilla butter cake, lemon curd and cheesecake mousse. Finished in vanilla buttercream and gum paste flowers.

This baby shower cake for a little girl was purchased with a gift certificate from a charity auction.

The bottom tier is a pink ombre vanilla cake with strawberries and Chantilly cream. The top two tiers are almond cake with cheesecake mousse and raspberry puree.

He just turned 12. I've made every birthday cake except for his first birthday. ❤️ He gets with me in July to let me know what theme he wants. ❤️

Layers of vanilla butter cake alternating with layers of cheesecake mousse and fresh raspberries

A pirate looks at 40!

Best place in Orlando to have a child's party? ! The bottom tier of this cake is vanilla butter cake with alternate layers of dulce and vanilla Chantilly cream. Top tier Is vanilla butter cake with fresh strawberries and vanilla Chantilly cream.

Celebrating the closing of a 25-year career in law enforcement. Vanilla "D"cake with French vanilla bean mousse filling. Triple chocolate cake with ganache and cookies and cream filling compose the "E". Lemon butter cake with lemon curd and lemon vanilla mousse complete the "A". Badges, bullets, handcuffs are white chocolate, colored with a hint of yellow form of background to the 24 karat gold leaf. The gun is molded from the darkest of chocolate. Congratulations! And thank you for your service....

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Triple chocolate cake layered with chocolate ganache and raspberry mousse. Covered with Chantilly cream, dripped with chocolate ganache and accented with gold macaroons.

There are dessert cakes, specialty cakes and designer cakes. Pricing is based on ingredients, construction, design creativity and skill level. There's so much more than sugar and flour to consider.

Quality ingredients go a long way to creating a quality product with amazing flavor and texture. It also means that if your vendor is using vanilla bean paste at $128 a quart versus vanilla extract at $12 a gallon, it will show up in the price of the cake. Butter costs more than vegetable shortening or oil.

Construction is the next thing that affects the price of a cake. If you go to one of our popular grocery store bakeries and purchase a six inch cake and an 8-in cake, and ask them to stack the two, creating a two tier cake, the store will charge an additional $30. The complexity of the construction affects the price due to materials required and extra labor fees.

Creativity and skill level will also impact your pricing. Sugar flowers can take hours, days or weeks to construct. Three dimensional fondant or gumpaste embellishments and characters can also add hours of labor time.

The skill level for a dessert cake might not be critical. However, you want to be sure your cake vendor understands the construction and transportation of complex cakes.

Yes! Both of these cakes were for the first and second wedding of Gwen Stefani. The cake on the left is beginning to fail...🫣🥺😔

The "5" is made of lemon cake alternated with layers of tart lemon curd. The "0" was made from double chocolate, with layers of rich chocolate ganache and salted caramel. Embellished with fresh fruit, macaroons and royal frosting flowers

How much should a cake cost? That depends!

Cost per serving of a "basic" cake from the supermarket might range from $0.75 to $2. "Specialty" cakes from a bakery might range $3 to $5 per serving. "Custom" design cakes can range anywhere from $4 to more than $12 per serving.

How many people can you serve? That depends! Cut in typical dessert size servings, a 10-in cake will provide approximately 20 servings. Cut in event size servings, that same 10-in cake will yield about 40 servings. With a 5-inch cake tier, an event size serving will provide the serving volume of a large cupcake.

Why are fondant cakes so expensive?Fondant and gum paste are heavy, more challenging to work with than buttercream. Due to the weight, you have to create a denser cake to begin with (which costs more money). Then, you have to pay for the time necessary to create and style the fondant onto the cake.

Pick up or deliver? The first thing to remember is Newton's law. "An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction." For most custom cake designers, the most stressful time is transportation. Transporting a cake by stopping and accelerating a car, bumps, railroad tracks turns put stress on a cake. Cakes should be transported on a flat surface. Car seats are not flat.

Finally... Custom cakes are going to be more expensive than regular cakes. They will fluctuate depending upon sign, construction, frosting, transportation, tiers and quality of ingredients. The cake designer who incorporates $134 a quart vanilla bean paste into their ingredients versus $9.96 a quart imitation vanilla is going to be value-priced. They're not going to be cost-competitive.

Talents, creativity and experience are different. But they're all someone's neighbor, friend or family member. ❤️ Buy local.

Happy birthday to a Boone High School Junior

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