Alfred Angelo Opening a Success!

We are so excited to say that the Grand Opening of the Alfred Angelo Bridal Boutique was a huge success to say the least. We loved the fact that we were invited to take part in this event. Along with meeting many new brides n need of a cake, we were also able to provide our services to some of the staff as well! As always, we had a few of our delicious min cupcakes for samples and they went fast. We look forward to working with the wonderful staff at Alfred Angelo's in any other upcoming events or weddings. Here is a picture of our beautiful display cake, as well as some of our mini cupcakes. We featured our chocolate raspberry cupcake, lemon zest cake with french vanilla buttercream, apple strudel cupcake and our traditional white chocolate with pineapple buttercream and toasted coconut. Yum! The photographs are courtesy of Jenny Jacobs with HGW photography in Grand Rapids. For more information abou her services or to see some of her amazing photography check out her link on the side of our blog site.

Grand Opening of Alfred Angelo Bridal Boutique

Sweet Cakes Design has been chosen to be a preferred vendor at the Grand Opening of Alfred Angelo Bridal Boutique. Come see us this Saturday from 9:00-5:00, and Sunday from 12:00-5:00 and receive a complimentary sample.

Alfred Angelo
3763 28th Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49512

www.alfredangelo.com

InFrame Bride Give Away

Sweet Cakes is taking part in a Give Away with In frame Bride magazine. We have donated a $75 gift certificate to them to give away. Check out the link below to find out details how to win, and also check out the In Frame Bride Website.
http://www.inframebride.com/blog/2011/01/04/win-75-towards-sweet-cakes-design-january-giveaway/

Its the end of October!!! Wow!

We cant believe that we are almost through the month of October! But you know what that means......? HALLOWEEN!!! And..... Halloween cookies!!! This year we have decided to do something special! We will be giving away Halloween treats to ANYONE who stops in with a costume on! We are also hoping to get pictures of some of you in your costumes to post on the blog! So come out and get a free treat, but remember to wear your costume! On top of that we will be posting the pictures on facebook, then letting YOU choose the best costume. A 6" round cake of your choice will go to our fans pick of the best costume! (a $25 value!)

We would also like to thank all of you who came out to join us for the launch of our new cake balls!!! We hope you all enjoyed them as much as we did! Although we don't officially have them on our brochure yet they are always up for sale! Just remember, they do come as assorted dozens based on the bakers choice. Only specifics we are accepting at this time is if you have someone with a nut allergy, they can be prepared nut free.

Along with all of the other fun stuff we have had going on we have been working hard too! Wedding season is coming to a close and it seems like just yesterday we were saying we couldn't wait for it to start. We will have more time to work on fun new things that we have up our sleeves for next year. Can you believe it will be 2011!!! Wow! So keep an eye out on here and facebook for anything new! Here are some pictures of cakes that we have been working on the past few weeks! Hope you enjoy and remember, we love your feedback so leave us comments! Thanks!

They really wanted this girl to know she was turning the big 3-0! So fun with all the little numbers on each tier

We could use some of that sunshine now! Cant believe fall is already here! Happy hula birthday!

This was for a guy's birthday who is into architecture, very modern and interesting!

For a very special first birthday! The cake was almost as cute as the little girl in her birthday dress!

Lady bugs and flowers! Such a cute cake! Good job Rachel!

Here is the monster of a cake that was designed for Grand Valley's 50th anniversary Homecoming weekend! The whole event was based around the theme of Willy Wonka! So much fun! And here are the pictures

Cake Balls Are Here!!!!!

One of the newest trends in the world of cakes are cake balls! We have begun to see them popping up all over and recently were lucky enough to sample some from a bakery in Chicago, IL. They were so good and irrisistable it prompted us to begin making them ourselves. After several taste testings (darn, :) yummy) we have perfected the consistancy and flavor of cake balls!!! We are so excited to now be offering assorted cake balls that we are doing something we have never done before!!! Giving them away.... FOR FREE!!! Yup you heard it right, free cake balls! This coming Friday and Saturday, Oct 1 and 2 we will be giving away one dozen! astd. cake balls to each of the first 25 people to walk through the doors!!!! Thats 50 dozen free cake balls!!! Who can resist???!! The only thing we ask is one free dozen per person, and leave us some feedback either on our facebook or comment on here to let us know what you think about them!!! Hope to see you all soon! And remember we open at 9:00 both days so get here early!

Some of our Cake Ball Flavors include:
Chocolate Peanut Butter
Peanut Butter and Jelly
Chocolate Caramel
Citrus
Coconut Carrot
and many more amazing flavors to come!!!

Things Keep Getting Better and Better!

We recently were able to do a small replica cake for one of our bride and grooms from last year. We were very excited to do this cake as they were also one of our featured weddings in Grand Rapids Bride magazine! Here is the cute couple with their cake, as well as the pictures of their original wedding cake. Pictures were provided by their photographer, Phrene-Exquisite Photography. http://www.phrene.com/

We also have had several beautiful other wedding cakes that we would like to get out there. Thanks to all of our wonderful brides, and grooms for allowing us to make your special day even better with a beautiful wedding cake!

Just to show a few! We will be adding more pictures as the week goes on! Also watch for the pictures of our cake we are doing for the opening ceremonies of Art Prize, that will be featured downtown tomorrow, (Wednesday 9/22) at "the Hub" the new gathering place for all things Art Prize!

Amazing Crazy Cakes

Wow! There is so much to catch up on! We have had so many cool cakes the past few weeks and have so many photos to share! First off, without further delay I have the photos from our cake for the 105.3 HOT FM First Annual Bridesmaids Ball. Keeping with the theme of the fact that the groom was going to leave the bride at the altar...... He is running down the side of the cake trying his best to get outta town!! Which in turn leaves a not so happy bride at the top trying to throw her bouquet at the groom.

Overall the event went fabulously and we can not wait for next years event!!! Thanks to everyone who came out to the event, as well as the people who helped make it happen! 

Here are some photos of the other cakes that we have done in the past few weeks, that we know your just dying to see!!! Hope you enjoy, and remember when you look at our postings on here you can comment on them just as you could on our facebook! Click on the "comment" icon below the post and leave some feedback! We love to hear what you think of our cakes!

These baby blocks were done by one of our designers, Rachel, for her nieces! The blocks turned out almost as cute as the girls!!

Matching dinosaur cakes! These two brothers had birthdays just a few days apart! So of course, celebrate together with matching Cakes!!! 

This was for the beach loving birthday girl, Abigail! She and her friends are lounging by the water playing beach volleyball!!! So fun!

This was for one of our regulars, it was her daughters first birthday and they were having a carnival themed party! There were three seperate cakes, the one to show all the fun things to do at a carnival, one with a roller coaster and one to look like a carousel. Then there were these ADORABLE cupcakes that she placed on top of each round cake! Some were make to look like ice cream scoops, some to look like sno cones and my personal favorite! POPCORN! 

Tea time! What a sweet way to celebrate a little girls birthday! One large teapot cake to serve the adults, and on individual "teacup" cupcake for each little girl!

Now for some of our beautiful wedding cakes we love making!!! Thanks to all of our beautiful brides for allowing us to make your day special with a wonderful cake!

Small cake for cutting and individual cupcakes for each guest! This has become very popular with the growing trend of cupcakes. 

We were so excited for this cake as it was the first to be held at the John Ball Zoo!!! Covered in animal print, the women at the wedding were also encouraged to wear animal print dresses So fun! The ceremony was held across from the penguins, with dinner and drinks served on the boardwalk near the lions. The zoo staff even walked around with animals for the guests to pet and play with. Hopefully this is just one of many fun weddings we will be able to be a part of at the zoo. 

We hope you enjoyed all of the photos for today! Keep an eye out for many more to come later in the week!!!