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!!!

Busy, Busy and Even More Busy!

Wow! The last few weeks have been so crazy for us at Sweet Cakes! On top of all of the weddings we are working on and awesome special event cakes we participated in the first annual 105.3 HOT FM Bridesmaid's Ball at the JW Marriot. Everything went off with a hitch, unless you consider the groom walking out on the bride a hitch lol. The Dog Story Theatre put on a fake wedding in which that groom has several of his EX-Girlfriends standing behind him. Which of course caused problems, and the groom ended up walking out. However there was still a party and the reception went until all hours of the night. Our cake mimicked the fact that we knew he would be running off leaving the bride at the alter. We will be posting pictures of it soon, but as we all are cake decorators and NOT photographers we didnt get great pictues that would do the cake justice. On top of having a great display all of the tiers were different new flavors we are now offering.
      *Banana Split Cake- 1/2 Banana Almond cake, 1/2 white chocolate cake with french vanilla
        buttercream filling, chopped nuts, fresh sliced strawberries, chocolate buttercream and chocolate
        ganache

     *Chocolate Fudge cake with Orange Grand Marnier buttercream and fresh orange curd

     *White Chocolate cake with Blackberry fresh fruit and vanilla cream cheese, my new personal favorite!

     * Death by Chocolate- chocolate fudge cake with chocolate malt buttercream and chocolate ganache

     * Lemon cake with lemon creme filling and fresh lemon curd


If you have any other interesting flavor combinations that you would like to try for your next cake let us know, we are always looking for new flavors!

Keep an eye out for new photos that we will be updating later this week!

Bridesmaid Ball

Sweet Cakes Design will be part of an upcoming event hosted by the local radio station, 105.3 HOT FM! The event is going to be Friday August 13, at 7:00 PM. It will be an evening of fun and games. They will begin the night with a "wedding gone wrong" hosted by the Dog Story Theatre with radio DJ Ellen Tailor as the Maid of Honor, and DJ Gravy as the Best Man. It is a free event, however you have to have a ticket to the event and it is a 21+ event. Sweet Cakes Design will be making a REAL wedding cake, that will be a part of the reception area at the "wedding". We will be cutting and serving the actual cake, so for those of you who have never seen our cakes before this will be a chance to see them. It will be a full size wedding cake, with multiple tiers and a top secret design that will incorporate the theme of the wedding! Check out their website for more details, and tune in to 105.3 HOT FM radio station and listen to hear our name.

Babies, Birthday's and Graduations

Along with many wedding cakes we do each weekend we have been doing so many specialty cakes for other events! Also as you may have noticed we are still working on getting our website back up and running properly, keep checking it for new photos daily! Here are a few photos of some of the awesome cakes we have been doing!!!

This was for a first birthday, with a lolipop theme. So much fun!

We loved the story behind this one. It was for an new mother to be who was having a scheduled birth and they wanted to celebrate with a cake!

Monkey See Monkey Do! This was our intern, Angela's very first 3-D fondant character!

One of our photographer friends, Jen Kroll had a cake made for her son Ethan's Birthday. He is a HUGE fan of the Harry Potter Lego game for his WII, if you couldnt guess

This was a cake for a boy graduating from high school who was going to college to be a biochemist!!! Thus the microscope cake and the scientific writing. Hope he understands what it means, we sure didnt!!!

Website Under Construction!!!

In the process of trying to update to newer photos on our website we seem to have lost everything!! Yikes. So if you are wanting to look at the site, hang in there we are doing the best we can to quickly fix this problem. We know you are just dying to see some new pictures of our cakes we have been working on so we will be updating and fixing this as soon as possible!!!

On a happier note, if you have not yet added us as a friend on Facebook join soon! We are going to be having tons of fun giveaways this summer and have recently posted our first one! Starting July 1st and running until July 31st we are having a "Refer A Friend" event. We will be offering a 25% off gift certificate to each client that refers a first time friend to place an order with us. Only exceptions are on wedding cakes as we are almost completely booked for the year. Only one certificate per client :)

Along with many many wedding cakes that we have been doing, we have had the opportunity to do quite a few fun kids birthday cakes. Here are a few to share with you:

This top picture was for a little girls birthday who wants to be an astronaut!!!

A fun scooby doo cake!!! 

One fish, two fish. Red fish, blue fish. Cat in the Hat birthday celebrations!!!

One of our favorite cakes!!! Alice in Wonderland. We tied in all of the elements of the movie, and even put a little fondant figure of Alice sticking out of the rabbit hole!!! It even had a tea party set on top! So cute!

The one on the right was a fun sweet 16 party, and the cake on the left was for a baby shower that we decorated to match the sheets that the new mother to be had picked for the nursery.