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Simply a wonderful couple. Jessy & Kevin planned their wedding in Sedona well in advance.The have the ceremony and reception at L'AubergedeSedona. It was a pleasure working with this couple. They new exactly what they wanted. A hand rolled white chocolate cigar cake. The colors of the fresh flowers looked so pretty with the white chocolate. Ohh I love the way they look but making those cigars is noting but a labor of love! Congratulations to Jessy & Kevin.
Gayelle first contacted me about doing a wedding cake for her son, Nickolas and Melissa. They had been on the web site www.SedonaWeddingCakes.com.
They wanted a simply classy cake with sugar flowers. Gayelle mailed in color swatches. Melissa and I spoke over the phone walking through her design and cake flavors. Melissa favorite flower is ranunculus. The last time I tried to make sugar ranunculus I wasn't to pleased. I wanted a more natural look. This is what I came up with.
I wasn't sure until I put the sugar flowers on the cake if I could capture the beauty of ranunculus in sugar. I did hear back that a few people thought they were fresh flowers.
Rust, reds, and black are the bridal couples colors. Donna Joy created these rust flowers from sugar along with deep red sugar roses. The three tier fondant cake is trimmed with black ribbon and adorned with random ivory swirls. The couple married in beautiful Tlaquepaque
Wow does time fly. I met with this adorable couple in August 2008 for their June 19 wedding in Tlaquepaque. They were both so creative and knew what they wanted. Brides favorite flower on top done with a pink center to match their colors. Groom love for blackberries created the side accents. They both loved a smooth buttercream finish. They were having a very intimate Sedona wedding so the cake was designed to have a single handmade sugar flower on top with blackberry accents on sides of cake.
We time flies and before they knew it their intimate wedding grew and grew. Since the cake was ordered in August 08 ten months before the wedding it slipped everyone mind that the cake was to small. Then the week of wedding it hit them. The cake ordered would not come even close to serve their guests. So the called the week of wedding and Sedona Sweet Arts quickly pulled a larger cake with similar ideas together. The Bride and I had spoken a few times on the ideas that may work well. Quickly Dana & I brain stormed. I had already made her sugar flower. Now I had to create something else as one flower alone would not be look good for this size cake. Dana suggested me to made quite a few of them that could be clustered on the top. I wasn't sure I could make these were a cluster would work. Since I had only two days to pull it together I came back that night and created these beauties. I made green sugar leaves which I used to tie the sugar flowers and berries together. The cake ended up being one of my favorites. The cake is simple and reflects the love of a wonderful couple.
I met with Becky & Greg in September 2008 to design their wedding cake for the end of May 2009.
They were a lovely couple with classic colors, ivory (cream), chocolate brown and sky blue. They wanted cream ivory calla lilies with yellow centers gentle clusters creating a cascade.
They told me the elements they wanted in the cake and I sketched it out. Here is the drawing done at the time of meeting.
We walked through so options with two size cakes, one larger one and one smaller one. they smaller one would have a sheet cake in order to save some money.
Rebecca then sent an email requesting a change initial they wanted pastillage Sugar Calla lilies on their cake but then switch to roses as the cost of fresh calla lilies in their bouquet were costly. The cost of the sugar calla lilies was 40.00 even though hand scultped sugar roses are usually more I kept the price of the same. Here is a photo of the hand scuplted roses for Becky and Gregs cake. As in all our wedding cakes a detailed cake profile was generated ans sent to the couple. Here is portion of their profile.
Party- Becky & Greg Wedding Date Saturday May 30, 2009
Reception Start Time 6:00 Delivery Time 5:30
Please be sure your cake is not being delivered too early. The food safety standard of the industry is to have the cake no sooner than 30-45 minutes prior to your reception.
Delivery times are subject to a fifteen minute plus or minus on the targeted delivery time.
Cake Delivery Location Sedona Golf Resort
The cake table needs to be set and level before your delivery time. It should be placed out of sun and in a cool environment.
Expected Guests
Wedding Cake
Tiers- Three plus side Cake Type- Stacked
Cake Flavors- White Velvet Cake Fillings- 50% Strawberries 50% Raspberry
Frosting Type & color
Type- Fondant Color-Ivory-Cream
Colors are subject to interpretation. Please send color swatches. Certain colors are not obtainable in sugar. Heat, UV rays and cold may change the color.
Cake Shape & Servings
Total Servings-may serve up to83+56=140
Shape-Square Wedding cake, Round side Sizing-5s/7s/10s+9r
The following are based on the Wilton Wedding Charts.
The standard in the industry is to cut wedding cake servings 1”x1.5”.
Sugar Flower /Item Type-Roses, Blue Bells- Hydrandras Colors- Cream colored Rose, Blue accent flowers
Any and all cake toppers or accents need to be delivered to the bakery. Toppers are reinforced but not attached to cake. The bakery is not responsible if they are knocked off the cake during the reception. It is advised that only Cake toppers are used, statues and other non cake items should not be used. Out of size items will be used in the best way possible. Accents include Fresh Flowers. Sedona Sweet Arts will not apply any topper not delivered to the Bakery Location to a cake If Item is provided by bakery it will be listed below in the detail of pricing.Sugar Colors are made as close as possible, some colors are not obtainable. Color Swatches are highly recommended. Some sugar flowers may have non edible stems.Please remove all accents before serving the cake.
Cake Design
Finish-Smooth Pattern-no Color- Ivory-Cream
Borders- Ribbon and Pearls Color-Brown Ribbon- Ivory Pearls
Sizing a cake up or down, changing the frosting may change the appearance of cake. Cake art is a unique talent. Artistic impression applies to all cakes.
Accent Design
Location of AccentsLight C cascade
Fresh Floral Requirementsno
All fresh flowers are adorned to cake by the cake artist only. The completion of cake is included in your price. Fresh Flowers need to be delivered to bakery prior to weddings.
Florist- na
Cake Bases Stands
Stand Type- Board Color-Ivory Shape
Rental-no Rental Return-no
Rentals have a $200.00 refundable deposit. The deposit is refunded after the item is returned in same condition.
The couple reviewed it and Rebecca sign it and fax it back on October 3, 2009
Two weeks before their wedding I started hand sculpting their sugar roses. I had to create anchors on them as the edges or lips of the cake were small. To create a gentle cascade they would need anchors or they fall off. I was afraid I would have enough of certain sizes so I did another production run of the roses. This worked out well as I ended up needing many more roses than I thought.
Check out this sweet three tier elopement cake. Chocolate swirls and dots are adorned on the sides of wedding cake with the wedding cake accents being hand created by Donna Joy.
Sugar Orchids and lace created this custom wedding cake.
The brides lace from her bridal gown created the champagne colored brush embroidery lace. The orchids were hand created by Donna Joy of Sedona Sweet Arts.
Such a nice couple. Sweet Sarah and Mike wanted a classic square fondant wedding cake.
Their wedding cake captured the elegance of their wedding. Blue trim at the base of cake, square offset and adorned with Donna Joy's hand sculpted pastillage sugar lilies and leaves.
Sweet Strawberry and Chocolate Square wedding Cake.
Smooth Buttercream frosting accented with Chocolate swirls and adorned with dipped strawberries. Held in the beautiful & romantic Tlaquepaque Chapel and courtyard. This cake was made for a Bride who Mom worked in Tlaquepaque. Check out the beauty of Tlaquepaque
Now we know why no one does carved car cakes. You see jeeps and trucks as the lines are fairly straight. This cake is a scaled Porche race car. Wanted to try it but do it in Gluten free chocolate Cake? Well we did. Hand carved porche car cake in Gluten Free! It was so moist hard to carve, yes are we nuts. No faux anywhere on cake. It is all edible. The cake was done to match it owners real race car. Color , number model. We love a challenge at Sedona Sweet Arts.
The hand carved ones are always a two man job. What an eye Dana has.
Simply classic white wedding cake, Today 20-30ish Brides are dreaming of the classic all white wedding cake. This cake was custom created for the bride with a white on white scroll each tier having a different pattern.
Simply adorned with hand sculptured sugar roses by Donna Joy.
The Bride and Groom had a carve football as a Grooms cake. The wedding and reception was at Creekside Los Abrigados.
How much fun! Jill and Mike's Birthday Cakes. Jill loves Egyptian arts, history and artifacts. So Jill birthday cake is a Pyramid adorned with a Gold seal in Old Egyptian writing HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Then Jill's cake is accented in two gold old Egyptian flowers. Love you Jill.
Mike is a great professional Photographer. What a fit a hand carved camera cake. Check out Mike incredible photos at Taltos. Happy Birthday Mike!
Sedona Sweet Arts receives a2009 Bride’s Choice Award! This award recognizes the top 3% of vendors from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellent quality of service, responsiveness, professionalism, value of cost and flexibility.
Unlike other awards in which winners are selected by the company, the Bride’s Choice Awards are determined exclusively by recent newlyweds through surveys and reviews. That means Sedona Sweet Arts past clients have spoken on their behalf and chosen them for this honor!
Ericka McCristen & Robert Muir had a beautiful reception at Sedona Golf Resort. Ericka favorite flowers are Hybiscus. She wanted them made in blue. So I used a color swatch to create these beauties.
Had so much fun trying to fiqure out how to make Sugar Hybiscus.
The couple wanted a wonderful tasting buttercream canvas for their cake but wanted a fondant flair with draping. I combined the two.
Check out any European wedding and you'll see the style are very different from US. the cake is a good example. White chocolate Cigarettes with marbleized white chocolate panels. Handmade Pastillage Sugar orchids floating down the front of cake.
A Sedona sweetheart Carrie McLean of Pink Jeep Tours knew exactly what she wanted. An understated simple beautiful fondant cake. Her deep burgundy and champagne colors were hand created in sugar flowers by Donna Joy of Sedona Sweet Arts Inside were two cake flavors pink champagne cake filled with fresh strawberries and whip cream. Along with classic white Velvet cake filled with a homemade zesty lemon curd.
Carrie and Josh reception was in romantic Tlaquepaque located in Sedona AZ. Laura Lane of Scared Unions coordinated the pre and post ceremony events as well as officiating a customized ceremony.
Award winning Pastry Chef and Culinary Sugar Artist Donna Joy creates custom wedding cakes and desserts for your special events. Winning Best Wedding Cake -People Magazine, Brides choice award- wedding cake, Best Dessert, best cake decorator.
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