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And I've been working like a dog.

Sweet jumping Jesus on a jackhammer. The last month was the end of the wedding season, and it really did go out with a bang. Every weekend I was working until 3-5 in the morning and then back at work the next day around 9. It's been crazy. The last two weeks though, they've been relatively easy, I've just been lazy and recouping. But I've also had a few people light some fires under my ass about getting back to work on this blog. I mean, it's really you guys who suffer. The lack of cakes every week, Im very sorry for being so neglectful :p

well, let's start this off with some bags



I think this cake was mostly made by my sister (except for the little dentist insignia thing, that was all me)



Louis Vuitton anyone? And yes, it took me a long time to hand do all those monograms. =P



I remember this shoe giving us a world of problems, I think between my sister, my mother and myself, we all had to give it several tries. I went on to other cakes and I think my mom and my sister ended up crafting this soulful creature.



One of my more favorite type of candies. This cake was a lot of fun to make. All the decorations were hand drawn/cut out of fondant on a yellow buttercream covered cake. The three "dots" Were pieces of cake covered and shaped with fondant.



When given the instructions for the designs for this cake from my mother, I got "just make swirls" and swirls is what I made. My sister made the butterflies. Unfortunately for her, she got typecast and now she makes all things butterfly. Special bonus, the spectral image of a ghost baker can be seen behind this cake. WoooOooohhhhOoohhhh.
This does however remind me that I have to design a Nightmare Before Christmas cake at some point. And also a Graveyard Book cake by the 31st.

Well, that's only a handful of the cakes I had left from a few months ago, that's not even touching the stockpile I have on my cameras.

No Im going to go back and recoup from a very good night last night with good friends and Halo ODST. I went over to hang out for a few hours, ended up playing until 5 in the morning. It was such a bittersweet moment. So I think im going to have a xbla shooter of Sam and Max.

Take care everyone!

~Kiyoshi

PS - if you were currently unaware, I do have a twitter that I tend to update a bit more than this when things get busy, usually with some cake design or random thought (as you do on twitter) so check it out if you want some more raw cake moments. (warning though, contains harsh language or macabre humor.) Twitter

And here's a little sumthin sumthin to get you guys pumped on a Tuesday afternoon:


Sugar Lumps - Flight of the Conchords

Yes, all the ladies do check out my sugar lumps. Haha. Ok, I go now.

I've been absent...again.

It's been a helluva week. Most of our staff was away on personal business. We had 113 mini cakes to make along with 2 bride/groom cakes, 5 normal wedding cakes and 4 specialty cakes. Needless to say, we have been completely swamped. We I even had to deliver on Labor day, so that was a fun way to spend a national holiday.

So I have some good cakes to post and some good stories to go along with them when I get a chance next. Just wanted to say hi, and let you know I hadnt forgotten, just been über busy this last week and some change.

How was everyone's holiday?

~Kiyoshi

And it was in a bar too.

I think the less I say about this cake the better. The photo does such a great job.

Real roses, fondant covering with fondant swags.

~Kiyoshi

We Used to Talk - Hello Stranger

It's a bit of a sad song, but it's a great band and my second favorite song from them.

Can you think of anything better than swimming in a jellybean ocean? Yeah, so can I. Don't get me wrong, Jellybeans are delicious for the most part, but I wouldnt want to dive into a pool of them.

I do believe this cake was a chocolate truffle. I really have to dig out all those old records for you. Sigh, it's been so long. Let's just pretend it's a chocolate truffle shaped like a whale and covered in fondant.

~Kiyoshi

At Sea - Flight of the Conchords

And I'll leave you on this triple cake shot Tuesday with this beautifully simple cake.

Every tier is covered in fondant with a contrasting ribbon on top, but wait, its raised half an inch to give it even more depth. The other unique part about this cake is the customized cake board I had to make, which was then also covered in fondant and had ribbon put around each of the layers. It was a fun little project that I enjoyed very much.

This cake was delivered to the Palmdale estates for probably around 80 to 100 people.

I'll have to look up all the cake flavors for you later, but sadly I do not keep all the paperwork at home anymore.

~Kiyoshi

PS - JOURNEY!

Wheel In The Sky - Journey

So what can I say about this cake? It's a pacman game. Complete with a little pacman, cherries and of course ghosts. What this photo doesnt show you is the other three borders which include more power pellets, and the other ghosts chasing another pacman.

This was a pretty fun cake to make, and the board is pretty much an accurate representation of the real game board. Maria was just telling me how I originally wanted her to roll out each little pellet out of fondant. What I didnt tell her was that I was just joking, cause that would be ridiculous. All the borders and pellets were piped on with buttercream. The cake itself is covered in black buttercream so that would have given everyone who ate it very black mouths. Which I also find hilarious.

~Kiyoshi

Pac Man (techno remix) - Apex Twins

See you next fall. Fall leaves made out of fondant. My sister cut them out and I ended up painting them in the luster dust fall colors. Pretty simple cake, but I think it really pops with the leaves and the fall theme. Maybe Im just a man who likes fall leaves. Or maybe Im just a man who likes Autumn. You never know.

Other decor on the cake are real ribbons going down each side of the cakes and triple dots on the top tier with single dots on the bottom.

~Kiyoshi

PS-again, sorry for the delay. Mondays are my only real day off and I was super lazy yesterday and forgot. Forgiveness please!

Im Hoping Youll Stay Around - Flight of the Conchords

A twofer

"A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible."

~Kiyoshi

PS-Anyone do anything fun this last week? I know I did. I played a metric butt ton of ultimate. Im very sore. =P

PPS-As some of you might have discovered, you can now join this community. Posts are still done by me and Maria, but I guess some of you were clamoring to join. I live to serve. hah.

This was a pretty original idea, at least around here. And it was really refreshing to see something different. Setting up those Callas were kind of a pain in the ass though. They are silk and werent supplied by us. But they did keep slipping around and when one moved slightly, the next one would slip a little and so on. I think I spent more time setting this cake up than I did driving to the location.

Sorry I didnt get to post yesterday, I was reinstalling windows on my computer, and that was kind of an all day event.

Hope you guys are having a good one!

~Kiyoshi

PS-does anyone know an easier way to post to a community via flickr?

So every Tuesday without fail is Rock Band Night with our group of good friends. It's pretty much just an excuse to get together during the week and make fun of each other. Cause that's pretty much all we did. Well this week was slightly different. We got our hands on the AC/DC track pack disc thing and decided to throw an AC/DC themed party. And lucky them, that means cake. And lucky you, that means cake photos. So here is the cake Maria and I made for the party:



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~Kiyoshi


Such A Beautiful Lie - Fergus Hambleton

I think Im gonna start adding some music every now and then, what do you think of that?

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~Kiyoshi

Man oh man. It's been an interesting year. It's been an even more interesting time getting this journal community up and running again. Yes, that's right. For those of you who haven't noticed yet, this is now a community. Which means I had to delete all the precious past posts. But fret not young cake admirer. For I archived all the old posts and will make those available for viewing soon.

I was up till 4 in the morning working out some of the more major kinks of this new community. As you can tell (or maybe not) there are a lot of smaller kinks to work out. I still have color schemes to change, layouts to move around, and I'm really not digging the new header image as much as I thought I would. But all that tweaking will come in time.

For now, I have to post what I promised. Cakes. I mean, really, that's why you are all hear. Waiting patiently for 8 months. That's dedication, and it makes a grown man cry (not me, but I am touched)

So here we have a new take on an old design. I remember delivering this cake to Nestldown up in the Santa Cruz mountains. Windy mountain roads combined with top heavy cake = bad news. Good thing I delivered this sucker in two parts. It was still a pain to put it together without ruining any of the decor, but I got it. Also, and you cant tell, but the cake is balancing precariously on one edge.  I kind of think this cake looks like an upside-down octopus or squid.  Some sort of cephalopod for sure.  What do you think?

I was expecting a phone call later that day telling me that the cake had toppled but instead I got one saying that the cake was amazing.
 

( Where have I been? )

So yeah, I hope everyone is doing well. I'm sorry for the long delay.

How is everyone? What have you been up to? I've read that some of you have gotten engaged/married. That's fantastic news!

~Kiyoshi

PS-it's good to be back, I've missed you guys.

PPS-If anyone is good with graphics, hook a cake baking dude up.  I'll probably hold another icon making thing later, cause that was fun and I like getting you guys involved.  If there was only a way for me to make a monitor where you could taste what was on the screen.  On second thought, that could end very badly for many people.  :)

 

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~Kiyoshi