Teal 40th Sea Shell Birthday Cake

We created this two tiered buttercream cake for Happy 40th! Over The Hill Birthday with a seashore, nautical seashell theme. Teal buttercream tiers are detailed with silver sugar pearls, white chocolate seashells tiny blue sugar starfish and sugar sand.

Tiered Butercream Cake: Tiffany Teal Blue with Seashells & Starfish

We created this two tiered buttercream cake for a Cape Cod seashore themed cake in Rochester, Massachusetts.

White chocolate sea shells and blue sugar starfish adorn this teal tiffany blue cake. An inscription of "Happy 40th" is written on the side of each tier.

Cake flavors included altnernating layers of chococlate and vanilla cake with fresh raspberries.

Christmas Menu 2009

Holiday Menu

Holiday Cupcakes: 4 Vanilla Butter, 4 Chocolate, 4 Red Velvet iced in vanilla buttercream, 2” diameter x 3” tall. With assorted festive handmade décor: snowflakes, gingerbread men, holly leaves, and mittens. $24.00

Pillar Candle Cake: Alternating layers of chocolate and vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream. 7” Serves 10-11. $35

Bûche de Noël: Yule Log Cake, vanilla genoise filled & iced with chocolate ganache buttercream. With fanciful holiday décor and “Joyeux Noel” gift tag. Serves 8-10. $35

2 ½# Holiday Cookie Tray: Our holiday favorites and traditional cookies scaled down to a smaller size, 2# cookies per tray. Tied with a ribbon. May include but not limited to: Coconut Macaroons, Raspberry Linzer, Pistachio Amaretti, Cranberry Biscotti, Shortbread, Cape Cod Mudd, Oatmeal Raisin Berry, Ginger Molasses. $27

Hand Decorated Mitten Cookie: An extra large, all-butter sugar cookie hand decorated in the spirit of the holidays. $3.75

9” Classic Deep Dish Pies $14.50 each
Honey Pumpkin Pie
Local Apple Pie
Wild Blueberry

9” Specialty Deep Dish Pies $17 each
Chocolate Mousse
Southern Pecan

Breads
Cinnamon Bobka sweet braided cinnamon bread with honey glaze $7
Chocolate Bobka sweet braided cinnamon bread with granny smith apples & honey glaze $8
Rustic Ciabatta Rolls small dinner size $4/dz
Herb de Provence Rolls small dinner size $4/dz

Wedding Cupcakes @ Independence Harbor, Assonet, Massachusetts

Wedding cupcakes are little cakes meant to be eaten, this is not to be said that cake is not to be eaten, but for some reason cupcakes scream, "Eat Me!" which is why I really prefer them for any wedding!

These little cakes inluded toppers of hand made sugarpaste calla lillies colored individually in fall tones: cranberry, orange burst, and ivory.



Flavors included: lemon cake with vanilla buttercream, chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream and vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream. We included three distinct toppers to indicate to guests the different flavors. One the cake table we included a card this reads...."Vanilla butter cupcakes with chocolate ganache buttercream, white calla lilly" and so on.

Sugar Paste Flowers: Gerbera Daisies

I love the process of flower making and so does our resident arist: Jodi. Although her original mediums of choice were clay and acrylic paint she has adapted well to sugarpaste and edible paint(food colors mixed with lemon extract).

Here are some pretty gerbera daisies she was in the process of making today....



Although she can spend up to 4 minutes on these little flowers and 2 hours on one large magnolia blossom, don't let her time fool you....she actually has the best spot in the bakery: climate controlled at 63 degrees with 50% humidity. And by the way, the rest of the bakery was running around 87 degrees today with 80% humidity.

Monsterous CupCakes

We created these cupcakes for a Kids' Table at a wedding recently held at Wamsutta Club in New Bedford. I love the idea of a kids' table and for that matter "Kid's Only" CupCakes - can't you remember going to weddings as a youngster and waiting for the cake to be served and falling asleep well before the ceremonial cake cutting!

Vintage 1969 Antique Rambler Car Cake

We created this cake for a "car collector" this was his favorite in his collection. Even the color was true to the original and many of the little details including the bumper, lights, and grill were pulled from the original pictures.




The cake featured our devilish chocolate flavor.

Abby Cadabby Cake

We sculpted this Abby Cadabby figure for the top of a birthday cake using sugarpaste and modeling chocolate. Her coloring and dress were made to match the plates at the party. The three dimensional frigures are a great alternative to our flat-art cakes and trust us-- kids love to eat them too!
The cake included fun multicolored borders along with a sprinkling of fairy dust over the entire cake!

We created this cupcake cake for a 1st birthday in Tiverton Rhode Island this cake was frosted and decorated out of buttercream, a great altnernative to fondant!

Here is the note we received from the birthday girl's mom:

Good Morning, I would just like to say Thank You so much for the Beautiful Cake for my Daughter Olivia’s first birthday (Sat, May 30). Not only was it beautiful, it was DELICIOUS! It was the talk of the party…attached is a pic.

50th Anniversary Classic Buttercream Design

We created this classically decorated buttercream cake for a 50th Wedding Anniversary. The decorations included buttercream sqags, rosettes and swirls reminiscent of the 1940's and 1950's. The topper, a beautiful display of ivy, white sugarpaste calla lillies, and pale green lily of the valley was made by hand.



One of my multi-talented employees, Melissa Bliss, took some fantastic photos while working yesterday morning, she is available for kid's parties, birthday, and small weddings and can be contacted by Email at: deliriumgirl@gmail.com

Coastal Life Magazine

We were so fortunate to have Joe & Sarah Hopfenspirger of Coastal Life Magazine feature an exclusive story about The Artisan Kitchen in one of their last issues.

If you wondered how The Artisan Kitchen got its start, where we're going, what we do, or just wanted to get a look inside the bakery click the link below to read the entire article starting on page 63:

Our Article in Coastal Life Magazine

Signature Nastursham Cupcakes: Cupcakes decorated with edible organic flower blossoms

Signature CupCakes for a Wedding in South Dartmouth



We created 250 cupcakes for a wedding at Hawthorne Country Club in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The weddings colors were autumn shades of deep reds, burnt orange, cranberry, and hunter green we coordinated the nastursham and mallow flower blossoms from Lucky Field Organics farm with the wedding colors. We used three cupcake stands, two of our small stands (hold 40-70 cupcakes each) and one of our medium stands (holds 100-120 cupcakes. The blossoms are totally edible and taste a little peppery (yum)!

The cupcake flavors included: cafe mocha w/espresso buttercream, pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese icing, and vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream

Signature Graduation Cake

Signature Graduation Cake

10" Round Buttercream Cake with Diploma, Seasonal Flowers in School Colors, and Inscription of Your Choice
Serves 20-25 Large Dessert Slices or 30-35 Small Buffet Slices

Flavors: Vanilla Butter, Devilish Chocolate, Red Velvet or Alternating Layers of Chocolate and Vanilla
Frosting Flavor: Vanilla Buttercream

$60.00

Additional Sizes and Servings
12" Serves 35-45 Large Dessert Slices or 50-55 Small Buffet Slices $75.00
14" Serves 60-70 Large Dessert Slices or 75-80 Small Buffet Slices $95.00

Graduation Cakes

We created these two graduation cakes for a client who was receiving her Master's degree and graduating from Northeastern University. Her mom wanted to incorporate her favorite quote along with the school's logo, so we decided on two cakes. The cakes traveled north of boston to newton, ma for the surprise party. Congratulations Cristina!

Graduation cakes can be created in a variety of colors and styles. Our most popular has a gumpaste diploma and a small grouping of gumpaste flowers in the school colors.

Tartlets: Lemon Cream & Fresh Fruit

I have been posting so many cakes lately, that I think it's time for some pastries. Here is a shot of our single serving tarts. The tarts on the bottom feature a pate sucre sugar cookie crust with vanilla bean pastry cream and fresh fruit. The tarts on the top also have a pate sucre sugar cookie crust only with a pleasing tart, yet sweet, lemon curd and a quenelle of whipped cream. Honestly, the perfect ending to any meal.

Barn Cake

This barn cake was delivered to New Bedford, Massachusetts for a 3rd birthday party. Horses, ducks, cows and pigs were some of the animals living on the "edible farm". A fun fence surrounded the bottom cake, we hand shingled the roof in tiny fodant circles. A pile of hay, duck pond complete with reeds, and classic barn doors completed the design. The cake flavor was alternating layers of chocolate and vanilla.

Oldies but Goodies

Here are some cakes from past years. Some are classic buttercream cakes with hods to the 1950's - 1970's. Others are fun designed focused around the seashore, sea shells
1)Small cupcake tier display on our small cupcake stand, with edible organic flower blossoms
2)Classic buttercream cake with real seashells and classic piping
3)Buttercream design in chartreuse green with fun fondant flowers with a tropical flair