Simply Sweets featured in the March 2010 issue of Phoenix Magazine
This 3 shaped race track cupcake cake was created for a Speed Racer themed 3rd Birthday Celebration. This cupcake cake was made with half white sourcream and half double chocolate sourcream cupcakes. My son was invited to this celebration and he had a blast - all the kids were asked to bring bikes or scooters and they had a race. Then there was a round where hte parents used the kids bikes - this was quite challenging.
Some kids just can't make up their mind for their party theme and this boy decided he wanted both dinosaurs and race cars. So we decided the center of the cupcake cake with an area for dinosaurs to roam with a race car on the outer part of the cake. The mom placed dinosaur figurines and race cars on the cake after we delivered it.
This cupcake cake was inspired by the race track cupcake cake that we have done several times.
Since the pink and brown baby shower collage was such a hit, I decided to create a blue and brown baby shower collage. Blue and brown is currently most popular baby boy color combination followed by blue and yellow and blue and sage green.
A variation of our very popular baby shoes baby shower cakes - this one with baby blue icing and white and yellow stripes. Topped with sugar baby booties and white daisies. This baby shower was celebrating the soon to be arrival of a baby boy (who has since arrived) to the owners of Daniela Jay Boutique. The shower was held at their gorgeous boutique in Glendale.
Happy National Ice Cream Day - Have you had some ice cream today?
National Ice Cream Day is the 3rd Sunday of July. July is also considered National Ice Cream Month.
I thought a collage of some summertime sweets would be fun - Happy Summer!
This cake was created for a surf themd 7th birthday celebration. The cake colors were designed to coordinate with the blue, orange and yellow partyware. This cake is a half sheet cake with a sandy beach (a mixture of graham cracker crumbs and crystal sugar) and a huge wave with a surfer figurine. A little hard to see in this photo, but there is also a shark fin behind the surfer. The beach towel and flip flops on the beach are made from fondant. This cake was delivered to a residence in Paradise Valley.
This cake was created for a luau themed 6th birthday and designed to coordinate with the flip flop and polka dot decorations - everything was done in hot pink, orange, lime green and turquoise. This cake is a 14 round which serves at least 65. Cake is iced with buttercream, accents with fondant polka dots, graham cracker and crystal sugar sand topped with pink and orange fondant flip flops. This cake was delivered to a residence in Gilbert. This party was coordinated by Susan Crabtree, designer, Puerta Bella Interior Design. Susan is also the blogger behind Poca Cosas and blogged about the party:
party setup
cake and centerpieces
flip flop craft
feedback from the coordinator:
I wanted to send you a quick note and thank you for the ADORABLE cake for Jillian’s birthday luau this weekend! Everyone loved it!!Thanks again for everything!
These mini cupcaks were ordered for a preschool PTA end of the year celebration with a luau theme. Half the cupcakes are topped with tropical flowers and the other half with white chocolate shells.
These cupcakes were created for a beach themed celebration for a coworkers bridal shower. Half the cupcakes are topped with tropical flowers in pink, purple and orange. The other half of the cucpakes are iced blue for the ocean, topper with sand (graham crackers and crystal sugar) and white chocolate flip flops.
Simply Sweets first opened on July 7, 2007 and now, two years later, we are celebrating our second birthday. Thank you to our wonderful customers who have ordered our custom sweets, given us rave reviews, referred friends and come back to us again and again for all your celebrations. Because of you, we are celebrating our 2nd birthday by expanding! Yes, that's right - we are in the process of moving out of our shared commercial kitchen space to our very own cake studio so that we can handle a larger volume of orders and expand our offerings.
More details to come, including the announcement of our new studio location and the date for our Grand Re-opening/2nd Birthday Celebration.
I made this Blueberry Sourcream Crumb Cake for my family to enjoy. We love blueberries! Simply Sweets plans on offering an expanded menu of sweets including crumb cakes available on Fridays, Saturdays and holidays later this year.
I've been asked what is a smash cake? Its the cake that you give to a 1 year old on their birthday for them to dig into and enjoy - its a great photo opportunity.
Simply Sweets offers 3 options for smash cakes - a 1 shaped cake, a jumbo cupcake and a single layer 6 inch round. We decorate the smash cake to coordinate with cake or cupcakes.
We'd love to see photos of your kids digging into their smash cakes - post a link in the comments section to share!
Here's a photo of my son enjoying his first birthday cake:
These party favors were ordered for a train themed second birthday celebration. The ribbons were done in blue and red to coordinate with Thomas the Tank decorations. These are the same party favors I made for my son's second birthday to go with his train cake.
This customer ordered animal themed chocolate dipped oreos from us a few month's ago for her daughter's birthday.
Customer feedback:
We loved the train favors, they were such a hit, you always make such wonderful things, we appreciate it!! Sincerely, Lesley B.
These cupcakes were ordered for a coworker birthday celebration for a woman who loves shoes and man who loves baseball. The shoes are made from dark chocolate and the baseballs from fondant
Customer feedback
Dana, the cupcakes were a big hit !! I brought them to the restaurant where we were celebrating 2 birthdays. After we had finished eating them the waitress had brought over 2 restaurant cupcakes. They each took one bite and were very disappointed. Your cupcakes were very moist and chocolatey and the "other" cupcakes were dry and boring. Thanks again for the yummy treats!! Becky Z
