We recently created a lamp post cake for a company holiday party. It featured a wreath with sugar covered ornaments, lamp panels made of sugar & a blown sugar flame. Inside the flame was a real light to illuminate the lamp post, which stood over 3 ft tall!



The cake was chocolate with madagascar vanilla filling & white cake with raspberry filling.

This interesting wedding cake is another gluten-free creation we've done in the past couple months. The top tier is sculpted into the shape of a chef's hat, and various gum paste kitchen tools, like a whisk, spatula, and spoon, are scattered around the tiers. The teal colored rouched band around the bottom tiers matched the bridesmaid's dresses.


We received this wonderful email from a friend of the newlywed couple:

"I just wanted to let you know what a fantastic job you guys did on Helene's gluten free wedding cake and the groom's cake.....they were each truly a work of art and were the receipients of too many oohs and aahs to count. The Max groom's cake was awesome and the wedding cake was just perfect.

And as gorgeous as the wedding cake was to look at, it was even more satisfying to eat----my daughter relished every single bite of her two pieces of gluten free cake! The guests had no idea that they were eating gluten free cake---they just thought it was delicious chocolate wedding cake.

Again, thanks again and I will definitely recommend you guys as much as possible!"

A few weeks back we got an email from Amy, organizer for the Celiac's About Town group in NYC. She said that her group along with the NYC Celiac Disease Meetup Group were having a joint holiday party, & she asked if we could provide them with a cake.


We created this open ornament box cake for them made of gluten free chocolate & gluten free vanilla cake with raspberry filling. The ornament itself had a "100" on it because that party also marked the 100th meetup for one of the groups.

From all of us here at Jacy Cakes, we'd like to wish you a very Merry Christmas! We hope this holiday season is filled with joy and wonderful times with friends and family! We hope you enjoy these pictures of a Christmas lamp post and wreath cake, and a giant ornament nestled in a festive gift box. We love this time of year and we love all of the wonderful cakes we are able to create for the holidays!

This rifle and helmet cake is modeled after an image in the hugely popular "Call of Duty" video game. The helmet is resting precariously on the butt of the rifle, which is decorated exactly like a real rifle, even down to the scope and trigger! We love the "dirt" around the base and on the scuffed helmet!

This sleigh cake is one we decorated for Erin (of the Homepage Wedding Cake fame) and her new groom's Hanukkah dinner. It is decorated in blues and silvers, with edible crystal-laden orbs, sugar pine cones and needles, and blue hydrangeas from their actual wedding cake! It is resting on twisted metal rails and is all wrapped in a gorgeous blue bow, with hand-painted silver swirls. The inside was a flavor we just developed- a S'mores cake! We baked a graham cracker cake, filled the layers with a milk chocolate ganache, and iced it with a delicious marshmallow buttercream!

It was really fun to make this cake a few weeks ago. The couple, Whitney and Kevin, met at a Halloween party- he was dressed as Indiana Jones, and she was dressed as a 1920's flapper girl. In the spirit of making a fun and unusual groom's cake, we suggested incorporating elements of their costumes into their cake.

We created this designer bag cake for a bridal shower a few weeks ago- we are always happy and excited to make highly detailed cakes like this! The bride's mother, fiancé, and bridal party were instrumental in helping with not only the concept of this cake, but also with investigating the actual brands and models of her cell phone and sunglasses, as well as getting us detailed pictures of the bag from every angle possible!


The cake features a Coach hand bag sitting in front of a Coach shopping bag. Inside the bag is a pair of her favorite Dior sunglasses, the lenses of which were made of poured sugar and the arms made of fondant with Swarovski crystal details. On the board, a replica of her cell phone with a charm saying "I love James", her fiancé. The cake flavor was white cake with cookies and cream buttercream.

A few weeks ago we delivered a 30th birthday cake to the World Yacht in NY featuring a replica of the recipient's speed boat! The cake itself was made to look like water with rippling waves around the boat, and the lounging birthday boy was behind the wheel enjoying the ride. We were asked to pay special attention to the details and writing on the boat because he would surely notice any discrepancies, so we were really happy when we got this email the day after the event:

Josh & I are really big Cake Wrecks fans and we were beyond excited when it was finally confirmed that we would get the opportunity to make a cake for the NY stop of their book signing "World Tour"! It was such a huge deal for us and so surreal that we would actually be making something that would be on the website we read and enjoy so much. We didn't want to talk about it to too many people, just in case it fell through and we were left crushed. Right up until the moment we were actually there I was still in disbelief that it was happening, but it did! So now we can tell you all the story about the cake we made that we secretly built up in our hearts to be such a huge deal, that ended up being in an actual cake wreck!
So we created this big cake design that had several elements to it and we split up the elements between us to work on separately over the weekend. The theory was that we would join our elements a few hours before the event, airbrush a pearl sheen on it all, take pictures, and be on our way- best laid plans... What ended up happening was so ridiculous! We ended up having to work on our sections basically the night before since we were so busy with other cake orders and only slept a few hours to make sure everything was perfect and detailed. It still wasn't finished, so I went over to our office to meet up with Josh and finish up what was left and move on from there. I arrived in New York four hours early and proceeded to drive around looking for a parking spot - NY parking.....sigh.....

So anyways, after an hour and a quarter tank of gas, I started to cry. Then I drove back to the street of our building and resolved that I would just wait there until someone left. It was just as I turned onto that street that I finally got a spot! But I lost an hour of vital working time so I rushed up the 5 flights of stairs, that's right, 5...flights...of stairs- no elevator- and frantically worked on finishing up everything. We finally finished an hour before the event, which meant we had to airbrush the sheen, take pictures and get going in half an hour in order to get there in time. Any other day that would be no problem, but since we were on such a time crunch, of course, our airbrush gun was clogged and didn't work! I took it apart and quickly cleaned it, but it still didn't work, but if i tilted it in a certain angle, a little bit of pearl would come out, so I was resigned to airbrushing in this crazy angle in triple the time it should have taken!!

We were going to set up the cake for quick pictures, but we had exactly half an hour before the event and we still had to carry this monster of a cake (it ended up being almost 100 lbs!!!) downstairs and into my car. We had to choose between taking pictures and being on time-we chose being on time, and we have officially learned our lesson- we will never ever again not take pictures! The cake was 3 layers of gluten free cake decorated to look like a stack of the Cake Wrecks book. A separate dummy book covered in fondant leaned against the stack with the cover facing the front, & on top of the stack was another dummy cake covered in fondant and decorated with fabric in the colors of the cake wrecks website, with silver flourishing in the middle. All this was on top of a mini table we made to mimic the table the books would be signed on. We also made up a pen with a tiny dangling carrot jockey with the writing "CW 'World' Tour- NY Take Two" on it. We had to split up the different elements of cake & each bring down some of it, but Josh ended up carrying the heaviest part of it down the 5 flights of stairs. By the time we got to the bottom, he looked like he was about to collapse, so I put down my stuff and try to carry his part the rest of the way-- for the first time in my career I wasn't able to carry a cake for more than a minute and it started to drop! So he had to take it back and we got everything loaded. Finally, we were on our way.

Once we got there though, we discovered that 2 table legs had broken off during the trip and the cake had crashed onto the floor of the trunk, slamming the front piece of the cake into the dummy book cover! The fondant table cloth was all over the place, the front piece was missing a chunk - at that moment, all we could do was laugh, take off the remaining table legs and give in to the will of the universe, which was apparently to have a real cake wreck displayed at the Cake Wreck book signing!!

We want to thank the Barnes & Noble staff members that helped Josh carry in the cake the rest of the way while I parked my car, which only took a few minutes that time thank goodness! Thanks to John & Jen Yates for being not only hilariously entertaining but so nice, but for giving us signed copies of the book and of course for giving us this great opportunity!

So now here are the best pictures we have of the night- the only side view picture here was the least blurry one of the bunch, but after carrying that huge cake so long Josh's arms apparently couldn't hold the camera still enough to get a good shot! We're hoping some better pics surface eventually, but I think you get the general idea ;o) There are a few pre-wreck pictures of the dummy cakes, & then the rest were after. Enjoy!

We had the immense pleasure of being included in the WiiNoob blog for our Wii cake. WiiNoob is a fantastic blog about not only the Wii system, but practically everything to do with Nintendo--from reviews of new games and accessories to reader-submitted Nintendo art and crafts! It's an amazing blog and we are so excited to be included! Thanks to Eran from WiiNoob for all his amazing work! Check out WiiNoob HERE!

This past weekend was Josh's niece Devin's 8th birthday, and, as tradition has it, we made a fantastic cake for the occasion! Her theme was a Mexican Fiesta, so we decided to make a broken pinata with candy spilling out and various fiesta-inspired sugar items surrounding the cake, including a cactus "8", a pinata stick, maracas, and chili peppers! Devin was so excited to see her cake--we kept it a surprise from her until the day of the party, and when she first saw it, her jaw almost fell to the floor! We are so happy we got to make this cake for Devin and that we helped make her fiesta a success!

We made another casino-themed cake this week, this time in the shape of a roulette wheel! It was for our friend Erin's future brother-in-law James. Inside was our delicious chocolate brownie cake and cookies and cream buttercream. We had so much fun decorating this cake and we wish James a very happy 30th birthday!