TWC Podchat - Cake Coquette
Presenting another episode of TWC Podchat, an interview with Gabrielle Feuersinger, an incredible cake designer and owner of CAKE COQUETTE, a custom wedding cake and specialty cake design company in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Gabrielle has coined the term “Cake as Art” and from what I have seen, in person, it is really beautiful and absolutely an edible art. Listen to our chat and learn more Gabrielle’s art influence, her inspiration for creating cake masterpieces, her opinion about buttercream vs. fondant and which is her favorite to work with!
Photos Courtesy of Allure West Studios
Gabrielle is very passionate about cakes and prides herself in her perfection for details. Her cakes are truly an edible art! See for yourself and visit her cake gallery at www.cakecoquette.com. She also has a blog with details and more pictures of some of her favorite cakes. You can visit her blog at www.cakecoquette.blogspot.com
Truly Divine & Delicious…
What is a Petit Four?
For some of us, this means a small taste of a French dessert that can be eaten in one bite, such as a tartlet or éclair. For others, it means a miniature, multi-layered almond butter cake with a flavored filling, covered in icing and decorated with a rose bud, a ribbon bow, or monogram pattern. Mmmmmmm! Just where do you find these little pieces of heaven?
DIVINE DELIGHTS is a company whose specialty is making delicious, miniature cake petit fours. Their cakes and fillings are made from scratch using only the finest ingredients, such as real lemons, pure vanilla, the finest chocolates, and real fruits. These small bites are sure to delight any party crowd and can be delivered right to your door!
To see their full selection of traditional and seasonal petit fours, visit www.divinedelights.com
Not the same ol’ chocolates in a box…
Not the same ol’ chocolates in a box for your wedding favor…because they are now available on a stick, and they’re called TRUFFLE POPS!
Made by CHOCOLATES À LA CARTE, a California-based company that produces creations ranging from festive Valentine’s Day suckers to chocolate novelties topped with the logos of corporate clients, such as Print, Ford Motor Co, and IBM. They’ve made chocolate saxophones for a dinner for President Clinton and chocolate sunglasses for an event honoring actor Jack Nicholson.
You may have already read about CHOCOLATES À LA CARTE’s ability to customize chocolates for wedding favors in my previous posting “With these chocolates…the sky is the limit.” However, just in case, below is how to get your hands on these luscious lollipops.
The chocolatiers at CHOCOLATES À LA CARTE offer their creativity for custom chocolates through local caterers and event planners with resale licenses. You should be able to work with a professional to order chocolates and these TRUFFLE POPS for your wedding or event favors! As you can see in the picture below, CHOCOLATES À LA CARTE can customize the favor and apply an image to the wrapper.
To learn more about purchasing TRUFFLE POPS or custom chocolates for your upcoming wedding or event favors, or to request a copy of their catalog, then visit their site at www.chocolatesalacarte.com
With these chocolates…the sky is the limit!
Where do you go to get extreme creativity in chocolate?
CHOCOLATES À LA CARTE, a California-based company, produces creations ranging from festive Valentine’s Day suckers to chocolate novelties topped with the logos of corporate clients, such as Print, Ford Motor Co, and IBM. They’ve made Chocolate saxophones for a dinner for President Clinton and chocolate sunglasses for an event honoring actor Jack Nicholson.
Mostly, they create desserts that some of the nation’s top chefs pass off as their own, or they create elements that chefs use in their own desserts—like white or dark or marbleized chocolate shells in shapes, such as cups, tulips, swans, magnolia leaves, and seashells. The company’s 4,500 customers include hotels, resorts, country clubs, airlines, cruise ships, and premier restaurants.
How does this help you? The chocolatiers at CHOCOLATES À LA CARTE can offer you their creativity for custom chocolates through local caterers and event planners with resale licenses who should be able to special order these custom chocolates for your wedding or event favors! Too, although there is a huge selection of themed shapes and sizes in their catalog, if CHOCOLATES À LA CARTE doesn’t already have something you are looking for, then creating a mold and customizing a chocolate is not out of the question.
I was once asked to bring a little bit of football to a very elegant wedding for 250 people at Sunset Magazine. The groom was a football coach, and the couple wanted the favor to reflect something about him. Of course, the first phone call I made was to CHOCOLATES À LA CARTE to see just what they already had available in their bag of tricks—a.k.a. their “product catalog.” As you can see in the picture below, they have a few great football-themed products available to choose from. The white decal can even be further customized with any team’s mascot…How cool is that?!
Another example of chocolate creativity by CHOCOLATES À LA CARTE can be seen in the picture below. I just couldn’t resist wowing a crowd of 650 for a “Surf’s Up!” themed fundraiser event. I worked with CHOCOLATES À LA CARTE to create these custom white-chocolate surfboards with my butterfly logo to serve on individual blue fondant cakes with brown sugar splashed on top to give the appearance of sand. This dessert was a tremendous success, and it turned out that most of the adults wanted to take the surfboards home to share with their kids.
To learn more about customizing chocolates for your upcoming wedding or event favors, or to request a copy of CHOCOLATES À LA CARTE’s catalog, then visit www.chocolatesalacarte.com
A book worth a look…
…And it is Martha Stewart’s Wedding Cakes, by Martha Stewart!
This book can be purchased from www.Amazon.com
I bought this book a few weeks ago; and when I started to thumb through it, I just couldn’t put it down! I enjoyed page after page of the incredible details and cake creativity. Since, I have found some of the book’s cake pictures in the wedding section of the MARTHA STEWART website. And although you can see some of the yummy pictures on the website, the main reason to not hold back and splurge on purchasing this book is to see the detail work up close and read about the inspiration for many of the cakes.
Wedding cake design photos from www.marthastewart.com
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Additionally, on the website you will find a Martha Stewart Wedding Video on “Choosing Wedding Cakes.”
To view this video, visit www.marthastewart.com
