Gluten Free 25th Anniversary Cake

This gluten-free 25th anniversary cake is adorned with ivory gumpaste roses and rhinestone picks. The piped monogram & swirls covering the sides of the cake & base board are highlighted with silver, traditional for a 25th anniversary. Inside one of the tiers was gluten free chocolate cake with alternating layers of peanut butter & chocolate buttercream filling, & the second tier was gluten free red velvet cake with alternating layers of raspberry & madagascar vanilla buttercream filling.
We got this email from the client recently:
"Hi Josh & Cathy!
I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to email you sooner, but I just wanted to say thank you SOOOO much for the gluten-free Anniversary Cake. It turned out absolutely BEAUTIFUL and everyone just loved it, especially my parents!
--Caitlin"

Merry Christmas!

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!

Gingerbread House Raffle

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!!

Helmet and Rifle cake

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!

Decorated Gingerbread House

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!

Sleigh Cake

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!

Menu for Hope is now up and running!

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!!

Cake Wrecks Charity

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

Happy Hanukkah!

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!

Holiday Pet Supply Drive

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.

As a special treat for our human friends, Jacy Cakes will be raffling off 3 of our decorated gingerbread houses- regular and gluten free! For every item you donate, you will get a ticket- so the more you donate, the better your chances! Our festive gingerbread houses available in a traditional red, green, and white color scheme or blue, yellow, and white.

We will be picking up & collecting donations until December 22, 2009. At the time of pick up, please specify which variety of gingerbread house you would like to be in the running for. On December 23, 2009 we will pick & announce the 3 winners of the gingerbread houses, & they will be delivered by December 24, 2009.

If you'd like to donate & are in the Morristown, NJ area, please email whileyouweregone@gmail.com

If you are not in the Morristown area, please call Jacy Cakes at (888) 828-7312 or email info@jacycakes.com

Location: NJ area

Menu for Hope 6

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!!

Holiday Gingerbread House Kits!

In the spirit of our cupcake party kits, we are now offering Gingerbread House kits! These kits are a perfect way to spend time with your friends and family this holiday season. Our kit includes one prebaked gingerbread house, assorted candy, tools and more, and we're also including a make-your-own snowman kit! We are also providing the option of having a gluten-free house kit for our friends with Celiac disease or with gluten allergies! Our kits are available in a traditional Christmas color scheme of red, green, and white, or a blue, white, and yellow color scheme for those celebrating Chanukah or who are looking for something outside of the traditional Christmas colors. Please contact us for ordering and pricing information!

Homepage Wedding Cake

This wedding cake is on our homepage and here is the story behind it. The cake was red velvet with raspberry buttercream filling, and the design of the cake was based on incorporating the flowers that were in the bride's bouquet & elements of the bride's dress-including piping that mimicked the beading on the bodice of her dress. It is a good example of one of the options we offer to help with the cost of a cake that we think is really useful to anyone having a big event these days. To achieve the look of a big and beautiful cake without paying the cost of making the whole cake be real, consider having some tiers be dummy cakes. By doing that, you can not only replace tiers of cake that would have been real otherwise, but you can also add on more and make the cake even bigger and more impressive than it would have been without the extra dummy tiers! In this cake the only tier that is actual cake is the bottom tier and as you can see, having dummy cakes for the rest does not take away from the overall effect. That is because although the inside is not really cake, the outside is still decorated in the same way, using the same materials as if it were real cake. Along with the cake for the showpiece on display at the reception, we provided "backup cake" to serve the remainder of the guests that the showpiece cake did not cover. Doing this cut down the cost of this cake considerably from the price of what it would have been to have the whole showpiece be real cake.


Today we received a really sweet thank you card from the happy couple that I couldn't resist sharing here:
"Dear Cathy & Josh,
Thank you so much for the gorgeous cake. You took our ideas to the next level! We could have never dreamed of a cake so beautiful. People still talk about how amazing the cake was-in looks & taste. You guys rock!
Love, Erin & Matt"

Hat and Dress Gluten Free Groom's Cake

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.

Inside the cake was gluten free red velvet cake with chocolate and vanilla buttercreams, and gluten free chocolate brownie cake with chocolate buttercream. Surrounding the hat and dress are a fondant bullwhip with weaved strips around the handle and a fondant flapper sequined headband with a real feather to accent it. We were so happy to get this email from the groom a few days after the wedding:

"Hi! You may hear from my new wife, Whitney, but I just wanted to reach out myself to thank you again for how amazing the Indiana Jones Hat and Flapper Dress was!!!! It was incredible and as I imagined, it stole the show. And it was absolutely delicious too! You guys are truly fantastic artists, and we will recommend you to anyone who wants to listen or see the pictures. Thanks again for contributing to our wedding experience!!! -Kevin"

Designer Purse and Shopping Bag 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.

Zen-inspired ReFined Sugar Free Crystal Cake

This is certainly one of our most unique cakes, both in design and flavor: a square, ivory, four-tiered cake, with alternating layers of refined-sugar free brownie and vanilla cakes, filled with a refined-sugar free sour cherry balsamic compote. The most unique elements, though, are the crystals and tumbled rocks made completely out of sugar!

















We were so excited to make this cake and are thrilled at the results!

Cupcake Party Kits!

Just in time for the holidays, Jacy Cakes is now taking orders for cupcake party kits! A great activity and fun for all ages, cupcake parties will both entertain you and your family and get your creative juices flowing. Avoid the hassle of baking cupcakes and searching for supplies-instead, let Jacy Cakes provide you with everything you need to host your own cupcake decorating party including cupcakes, icing, sprinkles & more! Let us know what the theme is and we can make custom decorations to fit the occasion- a holiday party, birthday, or just a fun get together with friends.

For larger parties, someone from our staff can deliver your kits and stay to help oversee the event. These parties are not kid exclusive, this can be a fun activity for adults too! Try it for a fun and unusual alternative to the usual bachelorette party- we are more than happy to make special requested fondant decorations, just ask and we can accommodate! As with all our products, we can make your kit to suit alternative diets whether you need them be gluten-free, vegan, refined sugar-free, anything at all. Contact us for more details or to place an order!

Speed Boat Cake!

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:

"Hi..

Just want to thank you for doing such a great job on the cake. It was truly incredible and delicious! Everyone flipped when they saw it and could'nt grab their cameras fast enough. My husband could'nt believe all the detail work..he was so happy. You really helped make his night special. GREAT JOB!

Sincerely,

Danielle "

Thanks to Danielle for providing us with pictures in almost every angle of the boat in & out of the water, we love getting to do detail work & they made it so much easier to do!!

West Village Dog Run Halloween Party

The West Village Dog Owners Group was founded over fifteen years ago with the purpose of establishing off-leash recreation facilities for dog-owners and their pets. Due to the lack of public parks in the West Village, WVDOG located potential dog-run sites, lobbied public officials and Community Board 2 for the space, then built, insured and operated the dog run without any public funding.

On Halloween they have a party at this dog run where their dogs come dressed in costume to party with all their friends. This year we were happy to be a part of it by providing them with a cake to look like a dog in costume, assorted cupcakes & homemade all natural dog treats for the dogs' goodie bags & prize baskets! Through raffles they were able to raise funds to donate to the Mayor's Alliance for their programs to help shelter animals, a very worthy cause indeed :o)

Here are some pictures of the costumed dogs from that night..

Cake Wrecks Book Tour- NY stop

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!