THE cake

I was looking back through my posts from 2011 and realized that there was not ONE post about my birthday. WHY NOT? I have no idea really.

I thought I would go back and share some thoughts about my birthday.

Originally I wanted to go away for my birthday. I just thought it would be amazing to be celebrating a new decade anywhere but home. But that was not to be. So, I decided to throw myself a party.

I didn’t just want “any” cake – not cakes by Robert, not store bought, but created, by a designer….maybe my love for Cake Boss or Ace of Cakes, but that is what I wanted.

When I shared this idea with a friend, she advised that I contact the lady that made the cake for her wedding. So I did.

Her name is Karey Large and she owns a company called Kake Kreations http://www.kakekreations.ca/index.html and when I emailed her I told her what I wanted to do. She told me to email her some pictures of my idea and she would let me know. So I did.

I was so happy when Karey wrote me back and said that she also was a lover of Coach and she was so excited to make the cake I wanted. She told me to send her picture of my purse so she could get an idea of how to make it.
As you can see from the pictures on the side, this cake was EQUAL to anything seen on Cake Boss or Ace of Cakes. It was so real and true to life, it blew me away.

Only three people knew what the cake was before the party – the designer, Martine and myself. My mom didn’t know – she actuallly thought it was going to be a cruise ship, which also would have been a great idea (why didn’t I think of that?). There was one other person who actually guessed, which shouldn’t really have surprised me, that someone would have guessed what it was considering I was making such a deal that I wasn’t telling anyone!

When Karey came to deliver the cake my mom went out to help her and when she opened the trunk, my mother didn’t realize that the cake was the cake. When they brought it into the room, I was blown away. I had no idea WHAT to expect, but it was amazing, and so real to life.

I had put the cake on the dessert table and it was the only item on the table, and when people started to come into the party, they thought it was a gift table and my purse was on the table….until I had to say, “did you see the cake?” The reply was “what cake?”.

The pictures don’t even really do it justice. It was a 3D – masterpiece. It was almost 24″ high (and even wider), close to 12″ deep and every single part of it was edible – the hardware, buckles, the straps, even the coach ‘tags’ that she cleverly put on the cake. Mind blowing!
When it was time to cut into the cake, I didn’t know how I was going to do it, or if I even wanted to.

The intertesting thing was the way it was constructed. If you have every seen some of the cake shows, you see that they use PVC pipe, and have to screw it down to the base of the cake so that has they build up, it all stays together. As you can see from below, that is what she did for my cake.

The cake was filled with chocolate and vanilla cake, with mocha butter cream and then covered in fondant to make the amazing design of the coach purse. I forgot to include a picture here of the actual purse which you would not believe how amazingly real this cake was.

Even all these months later, people are still talking about the cake. A friend told me yesterday she showed someone a picture of it just last week. That is a good feeling, that the lasting impression of an amazing cake at an amazing birthday party will last a very long time!~