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!

We picked the winners of the donation drive raffle yesterday & have delivered the donations & prizes! We, along with While You were Gone Petsitting Service would like to thank everyone who participated & would like to share some pictures below of everything we brought to the Jersey Coalition Animal Shelter. Your generosity really made a difference this holiday season to those animals, so THANK YOU!!

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!

We received a picture from one of our clients of their decorated gluten-free gingerbread house. We love how it came out, and we love seeing all the fun and creativity that our clients put into their creations!

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!

As we mentioned late last week, we are participating in the Menu for Hope 6. As of last night, the bidding has officially begun! If you are on our mailing list, you have already been notified and given instructions on how to help this important charity. Just go to the FirstGiving page for all the details.  Once you're there, click on the link to see all the wonderful items up for bidding, scroll down to "How Can You Help?" and choose your region.  You'll need our prize code (UE12) to bid on our own wonderful item we are offering. So check it out, give all you can, and good luck!!

Our friends at Cake Wrecks, Jen and John, have come up with a wonderful and ingenious way to help over two dozen different charities in the next two weeks-each day, they post a different charity program (to which they are personally giving at least $200 to each, btw!) with a link to it's donation site. They are asking their readers, which are now numbering in the tens of thousands, to each give only $1 per day. Imagine-with 80,000 readers, that's a LOT of dough and a LOT of warm fuzzy feelings! So we wanted to share this amazing event with you- head over to the Cake Wrecks blog, look for the charity information at the bottom of the day's post, (or just head to their Charity Countdown page) and give your dollar. We are sure it'll be the easiest and quickest way to get into the holiday spirit!



Location:New York,United States

Hanukkah began at sundown on Friday December 11th so we are a little bit belated in our good wishes, but we'd like to wish all our Jewish friends a very happy Hanukkah!

Another great charity event we are participating in is the Holiday Pet Supply Drive, hosted by While You Were Gone Pet Sitting Service in Morristown, NJ. Your donations of collars, leashes, food, toys, and cleaning products will go directly to the Jersey Coalition Animal Shelter- an all volunteer, not-for-profit, no kill shelter that has rescued and placed over 7,000 stray and abandoned pets since it was founded in 1989.

We are so honored to be taking part in the Sixth Annual Menu for Hope, an annual fundraising campaign raising money for the UN World Food Programme, helping to feed hungry people worldwide. WFP is the world’s largest food aid agency, working with over 1,000 other organizations in over 75 countries. In addition to providing food, the World Food Program helps hungry people to become self-reliant so that they escape hunger for good.We are so excited to be taking part in this wonderful and unique event-- the Menu for Hope is a collection of bloggers from across the world who donate a wide assortment of food-related goodies, classes, art, or whatever they can think of. The items are then listed on a donation site and the visitors purchase $10 virtual raffle tickets which they can apply to whatever item they choose. At the end of the raffle, all the tickets are tallied and a winner for each item is announced.

The items Jacy Cakes will be providing are four seasonal shipments of a dozen of our large hand-decorated sugar cookies over the course of the upcoming new year, one shipment every three months. Each cookie will be individually bagged and tied with a satin ribbon, ready to enjoy on the spot or give as gifts. Our cookies are made with the highest quality ingredients and are decorated, bagged, and shipped within two days of their baking, and are shipped priority mail overnight to ensure their freshness.  We can offer our traditional sugar cookie as well as a vegan or gluten-free version. These cookies can easily be shipped anywhere across the country.

The Menu for Hope raffle begins on December 14th and ends on December 25th. Keep an eye out for a link to the donation site on December 14, where you can start your raffling engines! If you're already on our mailing list, we will notify you. If you're not, why not go ahead and sign up?

For more information on the Menu for Hope, check out the Chez Pim blog. Remember, any amount you can give will make a difference!!