Saturday, March 30, 2013

Emily and Chris Weddin March 16

Loved this wedding cake what do you guys think about off centers cakes like this?

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Lauren Bewick Wedding Cake

Our favorite Cake of the year!!

Via Flickr:
We love how this cake turned out. Almond Sour Cream pound.
Photo credit goes to Rachael Moore

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Audrey The dog cake


Audrey The dog cake, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

Don't you just love dogs? This one is a cake!

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Don't you just love lego's?


, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

We love Lego's especially Chocolate with amaretto buttercream and amaretto cake with vanilla buttercream en-robed in fondant for protection and perfection that Lego's need!

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

The Glass Wedding


east-12, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

We loved the Glass Wedding. Joe Hendricks Photography rocked this photo shoot out! We love it when our cake is captured by talent as this. http://joehendricks.com/Weddings/

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Monday, June 4, 2012

Jessica and Seth


seth and jessica 1, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

Lovely wedding we made for this sweet couple cake flavors are Strawberry and Almond cake. Flowers are by one of our favorite vendors! Fresh Weddings By CarryAnn and she shared this lovely photo today with us as well.

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Hollis wedding cake


Hollis wedding cake, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

We love sugar people it is a challenge always, sugar people will be starting at a new price of 250.00 per couple and up based on how close the details need to be.

Hollis motercycle cake


Hollis motercycle cake, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

Motorcycle gas tank and seat. Red velvet and cream cheese icing not always are the best combinations for carved cakes. We will suggest from now on a less soft cake and cream cheese icing only in the middle.

Friday, May 4, 2012

Friday, March 30, 2012

Vintage cupcakes Scrap paper design bellwood

We love designing cupcakes! we do very custom work most of the time with all of the cakes we make here at www.cakesbyshara.net.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Monday, February 20, 2012

3d apple cake 3


3d apple cake 3, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

We love fun cakes like this one.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Blues guitar


blues guitar, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

We love cakes like this! Yellow cake with buttercream icing. Artwork that you can eat what can be better this is what the client had to say which makes it all worth while!


Shara, the cake was fantastic! We loved it and everything about it! It tastes fabulous! Thank you again and I look forward to the next time. We're trying to come up with a date in June for our 1yr anniversary party! Thank you again
*T. Mitchhart*

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

vans1


vans1, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

We Love cakes like this! Vanilla bean cake with vanilla buttercream en-robed in fondant to keep all the most yummy goodness inside.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Nicole and Kyle Wedding Feb 11

We Love custom sugar people and fun cakes always! We love the colors on this cake fun happy red handmade sugar roses and turquoise!
Red velvet cake with cream cheese icing on the inside and fondant en-robed with royal icing piping.

Friday, February 10, 2012

The Difference Between Fondant and Buttercream and how much your guest REALLY get on their cake slice.

I thought it would be helpful to blog about fondant covered cakes and the difference between the two finished product.

Here is the first picture.

This Is a buttercream finished red velvet cake yes it is pretty smooth.
This is a fondant en-robed buttercream covered cake like above but better now because all that yummy buttercream is now staying moist and the cake is protected from air. 

This is the size of the top of your cake this is how much fondant we are talking about for most guests.The only guests that would receive more would be those that get end pieces. In 120 people wedding that might be about 30 people. 

This is the thickness we strive to roll to. We DO NOT believe your cake should have a SLAB of 1/4 inch wide fondant on it. That IS just nasty and really unacceptable today.

Here is another look at the thickness we roll to.

Now some questions which one looks better to you? Does it help to see how big the fondant slice really is for your guests? Did you know that 99% of all the cakes you see in the magazines are fondant en-robed cakes? Did you know that most bakers cannot make buttercream look like fondant because buttercream is buttercream and fondant is fondant period. If you can make it look like fondant you better REALLY like Italian meringue or Swiss meringue buttercream to me it tastes a little like a stick of butter not icing and it will cost you a lot more because we are going to make that icing in small batches. That is the only way we could make a super smooth finish happen without it cracking or showing many imperfection.  Or we must use a all shortening based icing and to me this is not my favorite. I like American Buttercream.
Fondant look with Swiss dots

Buttercream look with Swiss dots

Which finish looks better to you?

Monday, January 23, 2012

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Brides Choice Award on Weddingwire

We are honored and thankful to be chosen by our brides.

As a recipient, Cakes By Shara is recognized as part of the top 5% of Wedding Professionals nationwide.

Weddings, Wedding Venues
2012 Bride's Choice Awards | Best Wedding Photographers, Wedding Dresses, Wedding Cakes, Wedding Florists, Wedding Planners

Sunday, January 15, 2012

sugar rose progress on cake


sugar rose progress on cake, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

Here are some VIP sugar flowers I am working on. the cake is half Styrofoam so we could start work early. I think we are finally understanding how to make a rose. the small buds are production roses ordered in to save time but each of the large and medium roses are hand made.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Erika Wedding Cake Professional photo

We love to share when Local photographers share their talent when they capture our work. enjoy the work of

Nashville Wedding Photographers-Jen & Chris Creed.

www.jenandchriscreed.com

Thursday, December 29, 2011