Made Here TV Show

So we spent the day friday with a local TV crew filming a spot for a show called Made Here that features Ohio based businesses that manufacture unique products. It was great to meet Davey and Jerry and hang out with them all day while we made cakes. The episode should air sometime in June and will be on Time Warner Cable's local access channel. It will feature us working on the following weddings/event cakes:

Anjulika Singh

Janet Chimples

Lynn-Ann Gries (Bat Mitzvah for Annabelle)

Check it out and get a sneak peek into our kitchen!

Back from Denver....finally!

Denver was awesome! The challenge was fun, our cake turned out really cool, and we had a blast with all of the other competitors. Our kitchen was next to Mike McCarey's from Mikes Amazing Cakes, and seriously we wish we could have just watched him work the whole time instead of making our cake. The man is a robot. A robot that can make amazing mind blowing cakes.We had a blast with Lauren and Roland too-There was a half time group hug which I am sure they will not air for the show, but overall this was the most fun I have had at any cake challenge!

It just so happened that the day after challenge, Denver got hit with the biggest snow storm of the year. Over 20" of snow! We got snowed in to our hotel, our flight cancelled, but we made it back a day late. Our team of employees did a fantastic job holding down the fort. It was a busy week and we are glad to be back home. It was the first time we returned back from Denver from a challenge that our car was not snowed in at the airport.

The show will air sometime in late summer. It is going to be the most viewed cake challenge ever on the Food Network because of the Sesame Street theme. We were really honored to be part of it and cant wait to see it air. We will feature Cookie Monster cupcakes the week of the air date and they will be sure to turn your mouths blue!

Denver here we come!

So, I have to say I'm kinda nervous for this one. The past two challenges we have done, Lauren and I made the time to do a complete trial run to time ourselves for the 8 hours to do the cake. This time, we are just winging it. We have been super busy at the shoppe, and have not had any time to work on the Sesame street cake. The sad think is we have had the most time to prep for this challenge compared to the others. Well, say a prayer that our cake does not fall over. And that Kerry Vincent is nice this time. Oh, and that we can deal with the altitude and not feel completely sick like we did for the Horror cakes challenge. If we only had a few more weeks.....it serves us right for procrastinating. I am wearing a pair of bright blue tennis shoes for Cookie Monster, so hopefully that will bring us the luck to win!

Cake tasting....in the dark

So it figures we plan our biggest cake tasting of the year on 3/15, and the electric goes out at Laplace for 5 1/2 hours....Thank you to everyone who attended-we had almost 200 people come out for this one. We kept it goin with a generator and a few LED lights and made the best of it. At least all of the samples stayed delicious and the sun was shining bright into Laplace providing us with a lot of natural light. It was funny because some of our customers thought we did it on purpose to create some mood lighting-if only we were that creative. Thanks for being patient with us and for coming out today!!!

2 year anniversary at Laplace!!!

We have been so busy, that we completly forgot that it is our 2 year anniversary today! We officially opened our company back in 2006, but 2 years ago this day we opened our doors at Laplace and had our grand opening. It amazes me how time flies-we started the company when we were 27 and I cant believe we are about to be the big 3-0 in a couple months ! Our grand opening seriously was probably the last time Lauren and I dressed up for something since we are usually in frosting covered chef coats for most of the time now. I remember when it was just the two of us working into the night(and morning) making all the buttercream, baking all the cakes, waiting on customers, decorating all the cakes, and the list goes on...I do not know how we did it and kept going on absolutely no sleep, no time off, horrible diets and complete stress 24/7. Now we are moving away from having such late nights, the stress is getting better and we have a full staff of over 15 people to help us.
Happy Anniversary-heres to many more years!

Back from New York

We had a great time in New York City! We got to hang out with our competitors Mike McCarey, Lauren Kitchens and Roland Winbeckler. It was a pleasure to meet all of them and we had so much fun hanging out at Sesame Street. We did our interviews with our assigned characters(Cookie Monster is quite the talker!) and then be on the set while they were filming an episode. I can't believe how much production goes into one episode, and how many takes the puppeteers and actors have to go through for one good shot. The sets are amazing-Roland got to go into Oscar's garbage can, Lauren(Kitchens) and I got to sit on the famous stoop, and Mike hung out by Big Bird's giant nest. What a cool experience and when we left, we felt like 5 year old kids all over again!

Lauren(Bozich) and I went to see Stomp at the Orpheum theatre-it was awesome.  We ate some great meals, The taxi rides were interesting,  the city was incredible, but we are glad to be home.

Our next travels will be back to Denver at the end of March to compete in The Sesame Street challenge. We will be accompanied by my hubby Matt, and my mother-in-law Dianne-it is Dianne's birthday the same day as the challenge, so hopefully she will be our good luck charm!

The Sesame Street challenge is set to air sometime in November 2009, timed with the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street.  We will keep all of you posted once we know the date it will air, along with the air date of our Horror cakes challenge. 

New york, here we come!

So we are leaving Tuesday for New york to do the first part of our Sesame street cake challenge-I have to interview Cookie Monster and find out what kind of cake he likes! Part of our challenge is to interact with Sesame Street characters, so this should be interesting.....

We had a cupcake tasting day with all of our employees here at the shop to try out some new flavor combos we invented-the winners are....
Coffee Cake
Caramel Apple
Banana Creme pie
German Chocolate
White chocolate raspberry
Mint Chocolate chip
We will be introducing these new flavors within the next two weeks at our shop.Other than giving us all a massive sugar high, it was fun!

Thank you to all of the people who stopped by to say hi at the bridal show sunday!!!!This is going to be one busy wedding season!