Hope for Haiti

Soon after the devastating earthquakes hit Haiti, I learned of 2 amazing sisters from Pittsburgh that have devoted their lives to helping the orphans of this grief-stricken country for over 8 years.  I was blown away by their passion and dedication.  [Check out their non-profit Haitian Orphan Rescue!]

Because this is something so close to my heart, I was absolutely honored to be able to make a cake for their second annual fundraiser, Ti Kanaval, at Whim nightclub in Station Square.  

The bottom tier is the Haitian flag-- french vanilla sour cream cake with tri-berry filling and fresh raspberries. vanilla buttercream frosting.  The middle tier is hands of hope-- dark chocolate sour cream cake with hot fudge filling and chocolate fudge buttercream.  The top tier is a map of Haiti-- pineapple cake with coconut buttercream.  

This was such a fun and inspirational cake to make.  Thanks for the opportunity ladies and good luck on future endeavors!

Super Wedding

This past weekend I got the absolute pleasure of making a surprise groom's cake after my favorite childhood video game-- Super Mario Brothers!   I LOVE a challenge and this proved to be one... especially when the 9 inch cake toppers showed up...

but it was so much fun and I'm glad it was able to work out like I pictured it:

I was definitely tempted to break my Nintendo out to do "research."  Unfortunately I was too busy... Good thing I have every inch of every level permenantly burned into my mind.  ;)

The groom was surprised and it was fun to see the reactions of people at the wedding.

So fun! Thanks for letting me be part of your special day guys!  

(beautiful pics by friends heather & meesh... check em out at onewaystreetproduction.com)

Coach Purses and Halloween Curses

This week I had a birthday cake for a guy whose wife likes Coach bags.  I have never made a purse cake before and was pretty apprehensive.  The task proved to be as difficult as I originally thought.  The weather was going crazy-- beautiful one second and a tornado warning the next-- resulting in terrible humidity.  The fondant bubbled and peeled right off of the cake and it was a leaning purse... However, after many tears and my lovely boyfriend running back and forth to the store for me at 1 am, the end result was beautiful. 

I love how it turned out but I was glad to see this one go! Because of all the things that went wrong, I feel better prepared for next time.

Baby Shower Cakes

I was honored to be able to make a baby shower cake as a surprise for my friend Des' shower. I decided to make building blocks... because that's adorable! I made devil's food cake with coffee buttercream icing.

 Accents are made out of fondant, including baby booties, a pacifier, rubber ducky, and sleeping baby on top. 

What a fun cake to make! It was a big hit at the shower (and tasted great too).

A few weeks later, I made a cake for a coworker's baby shower.  I wanted to do something that was girly and modern. The party was on the smaller side, so I went with a 3 layer 9 in round. 

 

 The cake was devil's food with fudge filling and chocolate fudge buttercream frosting, covered in fondant.

Steelers Cakes

Apparently there's a big market for Steelers' cakes in this area (i'm not sure why that should be a surprise...)
I've had more requests for those than anything else. Which is awesome, because it just so happens to be something I'm pretty passionate about.
Here's the first birthday cake-- 

my favorite part is the terrible towel :)

 this of course led to another--

and another--

I love it!

Contact me for your Steelers cake ;)
jessxyoung@gmail.com

So i decided to start a cake business...

I've been wanting to make cakes for a living for as long as I can remember. I finally got around to doing it...
It began with a Starry Night cake Laura and I made for Natalie's Van Gogh themed bridal shower.

with sunflower cupcakes of course!

and just like that the business is under way :)
Prices for cakes are available upon request-- it kind of all depends on what's being done, how big, etc.