Ian turned the big 3 0 today and I celebrated by making a cubic foot of cake. For reference, it’s a boss monster from Spiral Knights and here’s some pictures!
Jan
22
Happy Year of the Dragon!
Lunar New Year starts tomorrow and apparently the year of the dragon is going to be good for us Pigs! I won’t disagree since this new year falls on Ian’s 30th birthday! I’ve put a lot of work into his cake and am looking forward to finishing and delivering it to his office tomorrow! Pics to come!
Last weekend I headed up to the city to peruse the Fancy Food Show with Nora and Liisa. It’s the Comic Con of food, spanning the North and South Hall of the Moscone Center. We started by chatting up the purveyors that we already use as well as a few candy places we wanted to sample. After that it was off to the cheese and cured meats. We filled up fast but still had plenty of meandering to do. Six hours later we headed home with full bellies, full bags, and a burnt tongue (Republic of Tea was too hot!)
It’s also been a very busy week at the patisserie with lots of celebration cakes and custom Year of the Dragon cookies!
Here’s some pictures!
Jan
14
Happy New Year!
Ok, wow. Lots and lot of thing happening in the last few months. The holiday season was insanely busy with pies and cookies and buche de noels! Here’s some of my random cakes over the last few months. Also some pretty shots of the sky out here.
Is that it? Man, it really seems like I’ve done so much more!
Nov
14
San Francisco Fall Luxury Chocolate Salon
Today Ian and I had a blast up in SF at the Chocolate Salon! There were lots of delicious and beautiful treats! My favorites came from Sixth Course, The Tea Room, Saratoga Chocolates, Dandelion Chocolate, and Au Couer Des Chocolats.
Here’s some pictures!
Nov
11
Cakes and Croquembouche!
As you know, it’s been a little nuts around the patisserie. Here’s some of the recent treats!
Oct
17
Randomness!
Lots of fun stuff going on this last week! We’re still super busy at work and gearing up for the holidays and many more weddings.
I made a super cute cake based on a Team Fotress 2 mod for the folks over at OOO.
Speaking of OOO, Spiral Knights won Best Online Game Design at GDC Austin this week too! Awesome!!
Saturday at work I did a mega large and heavy cake with Disney’s Cars theme. The bottom tier was 16x16x3 and the whole thing was red velvet cake so it weighed a damn ton! I think it tured out great though!
Saturday night we went down to The Tank for my first San Jose Sharks game and Ian’s first hockey game period. I was, of course, cheering for the St. Louis Blues, who ended up winning. Ian looks super cute in a hockey jersey!
Finally we spent Sunday and Monday hanging out with my friend Andrew from Ireland! Lots of fun had by all! Here’s some pictures!
Oct
08
Crayons
Oh yeah, I also contributed a panel to last week’s Three Panel Soul. There are a couple video games that I just love: Dragon Age and Dragon Age 2. In the first one you gather up gifts and flirt with people to eventually get them into bed….ok well that’s just something that you CAN do. The real plot of the game is much better. I played through the first game 3 times, each time trying to see how long it took me to romance a particular character. In the first play-through it was like 4 hours, in the last it was 15 minutes.
Unfortunately that character wasn’t an option to sleep with in Dragon Age 2, so I picked his quirky doppelganger from the expansion. Unfortunately he turned out to be an Emo, whiny, sissy pants. The first panel of the comic is a snippet of how aggravating he was.
Ian’s romance option turned out to be super creepy, because during the romance screen her neck broke and became all weird and elongated.
Anyway, there’s a bunch of stuff that you don’t really understand just to tell you that I did a comic! Hah!
Oct
08
This week in cakes.
Okee dokee. Another couple weeks come and gone and a couple of new cakes to show you! One is a viking hat cake that I did for a gentleman over at Three Rings. The other is a cake from today with a Hawaiian theme.
I’ve also got a picture from the trippy rain we were having and a couple from the store. One being the tons and tons of decorated cookies I’ve been doing and the other of our new fall window display!
Enjoy!
Sep
25
Falling off the Face of the Earth.
Ok, I haven’t actually fallen off the face of the Earth but I might as well have. Its been completely nuts in cakeland since September 1st. So here are some random treats I’ve been making!
The first couple are from a Mario themed cake. It was a lot of little work but it turned out really well.
Next are icon cookies for Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIN. They were very time consuming but turned out well. Though if I’m asked to do them again, I will really need to invest in an airbursh.
After that is a wedding cake for Omni Hotel.
This week was also one of Ian’s coworker’s birthday. He tends to wear a hoodie covered in eyeballs. So i made him a cake….covered in sugar eyeballs.
Next was a baby block cake. I hate hate hate making square cakes. They make me crazy OCD. But I thought I turned out ok none the less.
Ah the next three…….It’s a centennial celebration and cake was needed. The tiered cake not only has sparkly stars on it, but the little sticks sticking out are also sparkler candles……..understated yeah? Needs more cowbell….. The full sheet cake then also went with it.
Final are a couple cat pictures. One of Schrodinger looking super intelligent and one of Pixel helping us put the laundry away…….
That’s all for now!
Aug
08
Andy’s Orchard
I spent today at Andy’s Orchard in Morgan Hill with Nora, Carol, and some of the folks from the Baker’s Dozen.
We were really expecting it to be roasting hot down there because Morgan Hill is south of San Jose, but the weather was actually wonderful and breezy. Though there was not a cloud in the sky, so even with SPF 1 million on I still managed a sunburn…..
Upon arriving we got a history lesson on the orchard and Andy himself. Then we were let loose to taste samples of 40 to 50 different kinds of stonefruits from the orchard. So many plums, nectarines, peaches, and pluots, as well as some hybrids I didn’t know about (peach-plum hybrids mainly).
After stuffing ourselves with samples we were given boxes and began running amok among the orchard itself….with a tour guide of course.
All and all it was a super fun and interesting day. Here’s some random pictures!
