Cake Camp 2011

California Cake Club presents

Cake Camp 2011

Green Valley Ranch Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada

Green Valley Ranch Resort located minutes from the Las Vegas Strip is an oasis in the desert.

The site for Cake Camp 2011 was an amazing resort complete with convention hall, banquet rooms, casino, shopping district, swimming pool and spa. 

Amazing teachers such as Colette Peters, Mike McCarrey, Marina Sousa, Debbie Brown, James Roselle and so many others were all present to teach more than 500 attendees of the camp. 

Cake Camp wouldn't be complete with out a Cake Challenge during the Friday night banquet.  The theme of the cake challenge was In the Vineyard and Ruth Rickey lead her winning team to Victory!

The banquet tables were all decked out with decorated cakes.  This one is a Carrie Biggers aka Carries Cakes original.

Thank you to the volunteers from the California Cake Club who put in countless hours to make Cake Camp such a success!!!

New York In January! Cold Cold Cold

Took a trip to New York city to create a special birthday cake for a special birthday girl!

 

 Happy Birthday to Colette Peters of

Colette's Cakes!

 Colette's Birthday cake was created by her assistant Jen, her intern Laila and me Lori Vreeke of Pastries By Vreeke.  Colette's cake was themed after the work of artist Hundertwasser.

Leila and Jen painting away on the birthday cake

Colette's Cakes 681 Washington Blvd. New York, New York

One of many treasures to be found at Colette's Cakes.

This is a mosaic wall Colette made on a wall separating the entry from the kitchen.

It was very cold and snowy in Manhattan, but that didn't stop me from window shopping while visiting the city.  Jen and I had a fun time trying to catch snow flakes on our tongues and going out for Matzo Ball Soup.

TOP 10 CAKES OF 2010

I created some wonderful cakes in 2010 for some wonderful clients. Some were for weddings, some parties and one for TLC's Ultimate Cake Off.  

#1

This is definitely one of my all time favorite cakes. This creation was for a wedding for a great couple in the movie industry. They both travel a lot for work, hence the luggage and the sugar film reels represented the movies. All the labels and tags on the luggage were of places they have visited together.

I love getting unique orders like this!

#2

This beautiful cake served 600 guests for a beautiful couple who were married at the beginning of the year at the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott Hotel. Everything about this wedding was beautiful from the ballroom itself to the floral centerpieces that adorned each table.

#3

This is one of my favorites because I just loved the colors of the roses. The pastel colors are so soothing to the eye, I could look at this picture forever.

#4

This cake was so fun with the Mardi Gras theme with the deep purple and golds. It's always fun to carve the cakes a bit to achieve the funky look of each tier. Bella Victorian Vineyards is a great backdrop for an outdoor wedding, nestled in the mountains, not far from the Pacific Ocean, surrounded by vineyards.

#5

This softly sponge painted cake in shades of violet was stenciled with beautiful patterns. The monogram was created with sugarpaste and the cake was made even prettier with edible butterflies.

Oh how pretty!

#6

Just a simple cake but oh so elegant. I love changing things up a bit and alternating the tiers between square and round.

#7

This "Monkey Boy" bridal shower cake was created for a couple that I made a wedding cake for. I used their invitations as a guide for the design. I love making custom cake toppers, gotta love the monkey :)

#8

The reason I love this cake so much was that it was created for a groom serving in the US Marines.

God Bless all the military personnel who make our country safe.

#9

This is one of 13 dogs I created for a Bat Mitzvah. Each table had a different breed of dog as the centerpiece. The dogs were auctioned off at the end of the evening to the highest bidder and the money collected went to a charity.

#10

I can't take all the credit for this cake that was created for TLC's Ultimate Cake Off. I was just part of Colette Peter's winning team that created this cake in 9 hours for Griffith Parks 75th Anniversary.

I have never worked so hard in my life, but it payed off in the end.

Thanks Colette for having me as part of your team!

I'd love to know what everyone thinks of my favorite cakes of 2010.

Which one's your favorite?

Happy New Year to all my followers!

Ultimate Cake Off!

Pastries By Vreeke was lucky enough to be a member of Team Colette Peters on TLC's Ultimate Cake Off. Our winning cake was center stage at Griffith Observatory's 75th Anniversary!

All that hard work paid off when the winner was announced!


The Yellow Team - Richard Medina, Lori Vreeke, Collete Peters & Adrian Theopolis

Lori, starting the motors before it faced the judges!

Colette always has a great time doing what she does best.... decorating a cake!

Gotta love her :)

All the little cars are on the drive up to the observatory for the big party!

The chocolate astronomers are keeping watch on all that cake!

Colette hand painted the astrology signs

The swinging pendulum was modeled from the actual pendulum in the observatory.

James Dean & Einstein. Colette is truly amazing at carving these characters and makiing molds for us to reproduce.

75 wonderful years of Griffith Observatory is celebrated.

Blown sugar planets topped the cake at 6' tall.

I have been going up to the Griffith Observatory since I was a small girl, looking up at the stars, wondering what is up there. Since then, I have brought my children to experience the observatory and most recently was lucky enough to share the observatory with Colette.

Everyone should see this place, it's great!

These guys do a great job loading up the cake for transport to the Observatory!

Lori and Jennifer having a blast at the 75th Gala Event!Thanks TLC for another great episode of the Ultimate Cake Off!

Keep watching future episodes of the Cake-Off.........

I'll be back

Cake Cruise 2009 to Mexico

What could be better that spending a week cruising the Mexican riviera with 140+ cake friends. December 2009 the California Cake Club hosted the annual Cake Cruise aboard the Oosterdam, featuring cake demos, classes and the newest, cake challenge. We all had a fantastic time, met a lot of new cake friends and had a blast with all the events. Oh and the ports of Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta & Cabo San Lucas were great also.

Colette, Maria & Lori at the Lifeboat Drill aboard the MS Oosterdam

Zane Beg, Lori Vreeke & NormDavis enjoying one of many get-togethers during the Cake Cruise

Norm Davis & Colette Peters judging the Cake Competition. Love those headbands!

Judges Susan Carberry & Colette Peters interviewing the competitors. No stress, just fun!

For those of you who don't know about the California Cake Club, it is based out of San Diego California and currently has over 500 members. The CCC hosts Cake Camp every other year and a cake cruise every year. Next year they will cruising to Alaska.