Jenny from the blog Foray into Food is a fabulous cake designer. This is the third birthday cake she's done for me. She's also done a retirement cake for a former co-worker, birthday cupcakes for me in 2009, a Superhero themed cake and matching cupcakes for Bert along with Pokemon cupcakes for TC. She's done so much more for other folks (weddings, baby showers, bridal showers, etc) but you must check out her blog and flickr to see her other designs.
I loved how she was able to make a 2-d image come to life with these killer flower cake toppers. Look at the little star antennas! The straw was even striped!
I wanted different design elements on the cake such as this happy apple...
along with this vampire cherry and "Carnivora"(yes, it has a name!), the tulip with teeth...
as well as multicolored stars and the heart and crossbones Tokidoki logo...
I also wanted a lightning bolt separating "Happy" and "Birthday", which was inspired from the "Concerto Punk" Tokidoki design/Fall 2008) which of course is inspired by the AC/DC logo.
Not only did the cake look good, it tasted fantastic! The flavor was mango with lime curd filling which included bits of real mango and macadamia nuts.
Everyone really enjoyed this, so once again, a big thank you to Jenny for making my cake and my birthday gathering so memorable!
Here are the images that inspired the cake:
This is from the Tokidoki for Sephora Sodashop makeup collection tin ($49). The print is called "Sodashop" and is also reminiscent of the recent "Americana" (Happy Days/50's diner inspired print) print. Do you see the flowers?
The tin includes 12 types of eyeshadows (I've already used a few of the darker colors), a mirror on the lid of the tin, black liquid eyeliner (the quality of that wasn't so good) and a nail file in the shape of Sandy (the green cactus friend). It also came with a sheet of magnets (seen below) which are so cute I don't even want to put them on my fridge!
On my "Americana" print bag was this apple...
Here's "Carnivora" with the image taken from my 2011 Tokidoki calendar...
along with a fanged cherry...
and multicolored stars...
Here's a look at the cake once more...I loved it!!!
Here's my previous birthday goodies from Jenny:
2010 - Tokidoki inspired from the "L'Amore" print
2009 - Chococat cupcakes (my purple polka dotted cake not pictured)
Can't wait for next year! Her cakes make getting older a lot more fun!
11 comments:
Jenny did a great job! What an awesome looking cake.
Talk about awesomeness! Hope your bday was fantastic too doll :-)
Happy birthday! That is a pretty awesome cake!
hi darlene - yeah, she always does a fab job!!!! i still have a few slices left, diet be damned! ha ha!
hi dd - thanks - i had a great bday last week! i think this is my fave cake so far!
hi wc - thanks so much! been enjoying your recent posts! :)
WoW Awesome Cake!! This Jenny person is amazing. Happy Birthday CC!
Thanks for the bday wishes Dennis and yes Jenny is amazing and so are her skillz!
Your cake looks great! I should have done this for my birthday cake this year. The outside looks great and the inside flavors sound delicious. I still remember your cake from last year. Actually after I saw your cake last year, I started obsessing about that print. And a few months later I ended up splurging on the bag on ebay because I just really had to have that print!
Cool pics! I'm so glad you enjoyed it, thanks for challenging me! I'm definitely obsessed with those tokidoki bags now, I've resisted the temptation so far!
hi kirbie - omg, you bought a L'Amore on ebay???? wow, you really must have wanted that print. it's hard to find. one of the older prints i like from the tokidoki/le sportsac collab was "Inferno" - where all the characters are devils, and the "Foresta" print where everything is green and nature-like - so cute!
you should consider having jenny do a cake for you in the future! she's so awesome!
hi jenny - thank you so very much once again! the cake was so very lovely and i really hated cutting into it. after hearing all the guests rave about the flavor, i'm so glad that i took your advice on the lime curd with the mango. my husband enjoyed it very much.
you executed the little characters perfectly. your attention to detail was spot on! especially with the tulip flower toppers! :)
That's such an adorable cake! I love the little characters.
Thanks for stopping by Jamie! Yes, the cake was so cute! I hated cutting into it!
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