Once Upon A Cake

Falling for Fall!

2011-09-12T17:57:00.000-07:00

Can't believe the summer is almost gone! YAYYYY!!!! I know, I know lots of people love summer. Not me! (Although, I do LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the beach). Give me crisp, autumn weather or cold, winter weather. I even love rainstorms! Something about it gets the creative juices flowing.

Anyhoots, back to cakes. We have some wonderful fall flavors we offer in the summer: Pumpkin Pie Cake, Carrot Cake, Apple Cake, Butter Pecan, etc. There are so many combinations to try!

Stop by and see us and see what we come with for the cupcake case.

Have a crisp and wonderful fall!

Love feedback from my customers!

2011-07-11T17:18:00.000-07:00

I love baking cakes, decorating cakes and most of all EATING cakes!

I also like feedback from my customers. We received two thank you cards from brides who loved their cakes and two emails from two other customers.

The cake above was for our bride Ally. There was a bit of drama when the venue we were working with decided to bad mouth us to all the brides we had coming up at their location (ummm, venue doesn't pay then tell brides we have low quality work and are always late lol) I was so bummed out that they did that to us. Well a few of the brides insisted we still do their cake.

That is totally awesome. So to all my customers I say Thank You for all your support, encouragement and feedback.

A special shout out to Chuck who always makes me laugh and to Fred who brings us lunch!

maria

Frog Prince

2011-04-18T15:20:00.001-07:00

Isn't it cute? I have a special fondness for frog princes. Frogs in general. We had claw frogs as pets which are great, because they are underwater frogs and come up for air every few minutes. Our much loved claw frog was named FROGZILLA. She was adorable and huge!

When I would get sick, my husband would tell me a story about a frog prince (not the original frog prince story, but his own made up story). It always made me feel better.

When thinking of a name for my business, I immediately thought about the frog and how I loved Grimm's Fairytales tales, hence...ONCE UPON A CAKE and my frog prince logo.

Cake IS The Happy Ending!

ENTER to win a dozen cupcakes 4/16/11

2011-04-11T15:13:00.000-07:00

Place your post here along with your email address or EMAIL ME and I'll post for you. Choose from the following flavors: VANILLA, LEMON, ALMOND, OR WHITE.

PICK UP ONLY. WINNER WILL BE NOTIFIED Thursday, April 14.

2011-04-05T10:31:00.001-07:00

We like the vanilla. :-) Sonya P.

2011-04-05T10:30:00.000-07:00

Tiffany: I love cupcakes because they are bite sized and you can mix and match the flavors and oh so yummy!I would like to try the Lemon flavored cupcakes!
Thanks
Tiffany
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ENTER to win a dozen cupcakes 4/9/11

2011-04-03T12:07:00.000-07:00

Why do you love cupcakes? I love them because you don't need a plate or fork, although you do need a napkin.

Tell us why you like cupcakes and state your flavor if you win from the following choices:

VANILLA, LEMON, ALMOND, WHITE or CHOCOLATE.

Winner will be picked at random and notified via email on Thursday, April 7th.(SO PLEASE, leave me your email. If you do not have a google account, email me and I will enter you. PICKUP ONLY

Trends in Wedding Cakes

2011-02-22T16:13:00.001-08:00

I love keeping up with trends in wedding cakes but I find most brides still want traditional cakes.

A lot of brides that meet with us want square cakes, with traditional designs such as dots or scrolls or plain sides with ribbon and flowers.

The cake above seems to be popular: square cakes, 1/4 turned with cascading flowers. Traditional with a slight twist (pun intended)!

This weekend we are doing our second topsy turvy cake. The first one we did was a "traditional" design with scrolls and ribbon and flowers. The one for this weekend is way untraditional!

Orange, green, blue and purple with peacock feathers and bright colored feathers!

Stay tuned for the result!

Time flies!

2011-01-19T13:09:00.000-08:00

This is my daughter's high school graduation cake. She designed and sketched it herself. Can you imagine what she'll come up with for her wedding cake one day? YIKES!

The New Year has come in with a BANG! We scheduled a weekend getaway and BAM that's when Atlanta got hit with the storm. We caught the only flight back on Monday, then it took us three and half hours to get home! Perilous roads!

A few days later we find out my teen has a belly button hernia. What?! Yep! But, I bake and the smell of the almond cake filling the kitchen makes everything better!

I have lots of ideas for new cake flavor combos brewing in my mind, but I still hate to cook.

Congratulations Tiffany W!

2010-11-18T04:22:00.000-08:00

You are the winner this week.

Please make sure to pick up your cake on Saturday between 10am-12pm.

M

Enter to win Free Cake for 11/20/10

2010-11-13T20:33:00.000-08:00

Enter to win a free 8" cake for 11/20/10.

Choices in previous post. Pick up Saturday 11/20/10 betweeen 10-1pm.

If you don't have a google account to post, please email me and I will post for you. Winner to be picked Thursday evening and announced here on the blog. You will also be emailed.

M

Congratulation J. Jacobs!

2010-11-11T18:11:00.001-08:00

Everyone, please remember to enter for next week 11/20. You can enter every week even if you've won!

Next week's choices are: Vanilla Cake with Buttercream, Chocolate Cake with Buttercream, Caramel Cake, or Butter Pecan with Cream Cheese Icing.

Cake to be picked up 11/20 between 10-1pm.

Located in Alpharetta, GA

Enter to win a Free Cake for 11/13/10

2010-11-05T13:04:00.000-07:00

Just post a comment to this post with your choice of cake. If you do not have a google account to post, please email me your choice and I will post for you.

Next week's options are: Vanilla or Almond Cake with Buttercream Icing, Chocolate Cake with Buttercream Icing, Caramel Cake, Red Velvet with Cream Cheese or Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Icing.

Winner will be notified by email.

M

The winner is:

2010-11-04T14:00:00.001-07:00

A. Williams! Congratulations!

Everyone, please remember to enter every week in November. You can enter after the current winner is announced.

If you do not have a google account, please email me your flavor choice and I will post for you.

Next week's options are: Vanilla or Almond Cake with Buttercream Icing, Chocolate Cake with Buttercream Icing, Caramel Cake, Red Velvet with Cream Cheese or Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Icing.

Winner will be notified by email.

Maria

Win a free cake! Enter every week in November!

2010-11-02T05:31:00.000-07:00

Who doesn't like free cake?

All you have to do is reply to this post stating your choice of Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Icing, Coconut Cake, Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Buttercream or Vanilla Cake with Buttercream Icing! If you don't know how to post (you need a google account) just email me and I'll post your comment for you. (onceuponacake@yahoo.com)

Winner will be picked at random every Friday (or late Thursday) by random.org and you can pick up on Saturday. Leave your first name initial and full last name so we can contact you if you win. (If you did not receive an email from me, please leave your email so we can contact you if you are the winner.)

Located in Alpharetta, GA

Cuppies!

2010-10-22T16:45:00.001-07:00

I love eating cuppies! I love the bright green and pinks of icing on cuppies too!

That's it for today. I just wanted to say I love eating cuppies!

What do you do on your days off?

2010-09-26T14:31:00.000-07:00

I think about baking and new recipes and new cake designs? I huff and puff that I need a couple days off, but when I'm away from the shop what do I do? I look up new recipes, think about baking and decorating and thing about what new cake techniques I can try.

Ever since I made my first pie crust at 14 I've been hooked with baking. My first pie was apple pie. My first cake was a scratch vanilla cake my friend and I made when we cut school and went to her house (her mom was there and took out all the ingredients we needed). What a cool mom! She and I would cut out from school to study for the Regents exam. Yes, goodie two shoes!

I love baking especially in the fall and winter. And that's the time of year I love cooking as well!

ALBERT'S REVENGE!!!!

2010-09-03T16:09:00.000-07:00

So, a few months ago we did a GA Bulldawg cake chewing up the Tenn. flag and squashing the FL. gator. This was Albert's revenge! See the little bulldog in the gator's mouth? Awwww, I feel sorry for him.

Roses & Ribbits and a Topsy Turvy Cake

2010-08-18T16:27:00.000-07:00

I love these two cakes! The roses and ribbits is a traditional looking cake with swiss dots and buttercream roses. If you look closely you'll see frogs hiding between the flowers. Adorable!

The topsy turvy cake was a vegan, gluten free cake. Vegan gluten free cakes do not bake up very high. Even with the four layers, the cake was about three inches tall. We added a dummy cake underneath each cake to give it the height needed. All in all a fun, tasty, looking cake!

2010-08-01T07:26:00.001-07:00

Remember the 70s and 80s when pillared cakes were all the rage? Okay, I don't either lol. This is my 3rd cake this year where brides have requested pillars. Most decide on pillars because they want the height of a big cake, but not the servings.

I'm beginning to like the pillared look. There's so many options on how to decorate in between the pillars. Flowers, fruit or how about putting delicate vines around the pillars or instead of flowers fall leaves and mini pumpkins for a fall wedding?

Lots of possibilities!

Can I have seconds?

2010-07-04T16:11:00.000-07:00

What a great compliment when people go back for seconds adn thirds! A bride ordered two cakes for her wedding (bride and groom's cake) to serve approximately 300-350. Only about 200 rxvp'd so she thought she was going to have lots of cake left over. Well, she ahd about 20 servings left! People kept going back for seconds and thirds! What a great compliment!

I was so happy she didn't have much left over.

(The above cake was not one of them)

Mmm, that puts me in the mood for cake!

Coconut Cream Pie

2010-06-14T09:43:00.000-07:00

What can I say? I don't get tired of baking. Cooking yes! Baking, no! I don't know what it is. I guess I love butter, cream and sugar way too much. That's not a bad thing for a baker.

My kids are not into sweets so I don't bake for my family as much as I used to unless I have company. My daughters only like pumpkin pie, while Rob will eat most any cake or pie set before him. But, what's the use in baking a whole cake or pie for two people?

I'm so glad my girls have friends who love cake and pie. When they come over it's my chance to bake again!

This was my first time making a coconut cream pie. I'm not a fan of coconut, but I wanted to give it a try. It was pretty good. I topped it with coconut flavored whipped cream. Yummy!

Steampunk Wedding Cake

2010-06-09T10:17:00.000-07:00

I love this thing called Steampunk. I love the gadgets, the gears, pipes, etc. It reminds me of Sci-Fi which maybe it is? Reminds me of Dr. Who, The Wild West, the new Sherlock Holmes movie, etc.

I really loved the Steampunk side of this cake. Rob did a great job with the elements. I hope we get to make another one of these Steampunk cakes.

Another Vintage-y Cake

2010-05-31T11:08:00.000-07:00

Here is another *Back In The Day* cake! Fresh fruit and some gumpaste orchids really pulled this together. Pillars are considered old style, but I think they still have their place in the world of wedding cakes. This cake was a Hummingbird Cake with cream cheese filling and buttercream icing impressed with a diamond pattern. (Yes, I did add cake sparkles!) I thought this came out great! I'm starting to feel nostalgic, although, it always seems better back in the *old days* than it really was.

BAM!

2010-05-19T13:22:00.000-07:00

This one of several cakes we've delivered to Le Bam. This place is gorgeous! Marina, the owner, is an interior designer and she out did herself when she designed this place.

It has a large *tree* with crystals dangling from it. When you look up at the tree you see a night sky. There are different twists and turns to the place with fairies hiding in several places. The outside garden area is just as beautiful!