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A Glimps Of Us At The IMAX Gala

2011-02-14T10:10:00.000-08:00

Here are some great pictures of us at the Grand Opening Gala for the IMAX theater. We were lucky to have our good friend Mike Miville of Miville Photography join us all evening to capture great pictures of us working at the gala.

Yummy...pumpkin spice with chocolate chips!

We would like to give a special thank you to Mike Miville of Miville Photograhy for spending the time and taking such amazing pictures of us and our cakes!

Emily & Steve~October 10, 2010

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Emily has worked with Megan at ClipperMagazine for many years. We where so happy to be asked to create her and Stave's wedding cake.

Invitation Design

Sample of Center Piece

We did not create a formal sketch for this cake. Emily & Steve meet with us for their tasting and design consultation. During the meeting we decided to use their invitations and center pieces as the inspiration.

We decided to make the cattails 3D and keep the rest of the design flat and graphic.

The cattails are chocolate cake that has been pressed into the shape of a cattail and dipped into milk chocolate. To give the cattail the right texture they were rolled in a fine grain sugar. The leaves of the cattails are made from gum-paste.

The cake topper is two love birds with their necks wrapped around each other. The topper is 100% edible. It is made of rice cereal treat and modeling chocolate.

We had made some extra cattails just in-case some broke. After putting the cake together we knew we would not be needing the extras for the cake. We decided that it would compliment the look of the cake to make two bouquets of the cattails to place on the table with the cake. They were the finishing touch to the table.

The cake was the grooms favorite, chocolate cake with peanut butter filling.

It was a great pleasure to create such an original and one of a kind wedding cake for two very special people. Emily and Steve we wish you the best of luck in you marriage. All of the pictures were taken by Jason, a friend of the bride.

IMAX Public Grand Opening

2011-02-14T10:08:00.000-08:00

November 19, 2010 was the Grand Opening of the IMAX for the public. We were asked to create a cake for everyone to enjoy that night. Mike from Miville Photography joined us again that evening to capture these great pictures of our creation. The style of this cake was the same as the gala cake. With this cake we focused on the Harry Potter film as that was the opening weekend for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1. The public cake was a chocolate cake with butter cream filling and covered in fondant. This screen for this cake was done a little different then the gala cake. This screen was a sheet of rice/wafer paper that was airbrushed to give an spooky night sky look. The paper was then lit from behind to give a glowing look behind the dragon & castle. The castle and dragon were made of modeling chocolate. We tried to use key elements that represented all of the Harry Potter films. Hagrid was re-made to make another appearance on the public cake. He was made of rice cereal treat and modeling chocolate and his lantern was lit with a single LED light. The Hogwarts Express was made of rice cereal treat and modeling chocolate as well. Hagrid's Hut also made it onto the cake. It was made of rice cereal treat and modeling chocolate. The Weasley's car was made of chocolate cake covered in fondant & modeling chocolate.The Sorting Hat also made an appearance on the cake sitting atop the screen. The hat was made of just modeling chocolate.The back of the cake was again similar to the gala cake but the film canisters are for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 & 2.

IMAX Grand Opening Gala Part 2

2010-12-09T11:21:00.000-08:00

So here are some more amazing pictures taken by Miville Photography of the IMAX Grand Opening Gala cake. We had a great time creating this cake. The Green Hornet car was the one figure that was created out of cake and covered in fondant and modeling chocolate. Optimus Prime was created out of rice cereal treat and lots of modeling chocolate. We lit him using blue LED battery operated lights. He stood over 14 inches tall. Like Optimus Prime, Hagrid and the Tron bike were also made of rice cereal treat and modeling chocolate. Both wheels of the Tron bike were lit with single white LED lights. Hagrid's lantern was also lit with a single white LED light. Spider-Man was hand painted on rice paper using food coloring as the paint. He was then attached to the screen. His arm and web are made of modeling chocolate.The film canisters that held the back side of the cake up were pumpkin spice cake with chocolate chips covered in fondant. The labels on the film canisters represent the movies of the figures featured on the front side of the cake. We put the original opening dates of the movies, the rating and where it played, the original Penn Cinema or the new IMAX theater. We would like to thank the owners and their family's of the IMAX for involving us in this great event. We are truly honored to have been a part of your Grand Opening Gala. We wish you the best of luck with the new IMAX theater. We would also like to give a special thank you to Penn and Aimee Ketchum for picking us and giving us this amazing opportunity. It was truly a pleasure working with you both.

IMAX Grand Opening Gala

2010-11-22T16:08:00.000-08:00

We are excited to launch our blog and what better way to do it then with the first of two amazing cakes. We are honored to have been chosen to create the grand opening cakes for the new IMAX theater here in Lititz, PA.

The first cake that we created was for the Grand Opening Gala on Wednesday, November 17, 2010. This cake was to represent some of the great movies that have made IMAX what it is today, and a sneak peek at what is coming. We chose to use these films: Harry Potter, Transformers, The Green Hornet, Spiderman and Tron.

You can't tell but the headlights of the Green Hornet's car, Hagrid's lantern, the wheels of the Tron bike and Optimus Prime all light up. The Green Hornet's car is made of cake and the other figures are made of rice cereal treat and modeling chocolate.

This cake is pumpkin spice with chocolate chips, iced and then covered with fondant. This cake is the first of two for Lancaster county's new IMAX theater.

Wednesday November 17 the who's who of Lancaster County arrived one by one to support and admire the newest attraction of Lancaster County. The evening was filled with flash after flash from the area's finest photographers. Miville Photagraphy, Beth Cardwell Photography, Fine Living Lancaster, and the Lititz Record all made their way through the crowd capturing one amazing shot after another. Plum Street Gourmet gracefully delivered hors d'oeuvres, and catered the event. The IMAX cake was cut by the four men responsible for Penn Cinema and the new IMAX; Jonathan Byler, John Byler, Bob Tucci, and Penn Ketchum.

We would like to thank our friends and family for helping us make it through one of the longest and hardest weeks ever. With their support we were able to create these amazing cakes. Without them none of what we do would be possible!

We will be posting more pictures of this cake and the Grand Opening for the public cake later this week so stay tuned...