Friday, January 23, 2009

Sedona Cake Couture Featured in New Cookbook!


Sedona Cake Couture's Pastry Chef - Andrea Carusetta-Blaut is proud to announce the release of a new cookbook titled The Sedona Table. An entire chapter is devoted to Andrea's phenomenal desserts!
It's the first cookbook focused on Sedona to be published with a major book publisher. The brain child of Deb Weinkoff of Sedona Monthly Magazine sedonamonthly.com , it took 2 years in the making and includes 12 chapters featuring 14 Sedona chefs and a total of 60 recipes. Each recipe has a great color photo and the book is filled with beautiful shots of Sedona, the chefs and restaurants. You can purchase it at www.amazon.com before March 3rd to get a great discount!

Monday, December 15, 2008

It's Christmas at Sedona Cake Couture!


My 5 year old grand-daughter Breanna was a big help in the kitchen! We had SO MANY cookies to decorate. She is a very talented decorator and tells me that she is going to help me make beautiful cakes when she gets bigger! You see her wearing her Tiara - it's her birthday celebration this weekend!! And the  very best part was watching her decorate her very own cakes (with no help from her Grandma! She is truly amazing and one of the special loves of my life!!!

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Long Stemmed Sugar Flowers in a Box!

This amazing showpiece includes a box and lid (made out of cake) and hand-made sugar roses. The choc0late birthday cake is decorated with sugar candles!!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Trends in Wedding Cakes in Sedona



We are noticing a trend in our wedding cakes lately. Personal details, taken from the wedding invitation, are cropping up on our wedding cakes. In this wedding the invitation had fleur de lis, which we added to the design of the wedding cake.  

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Enchantment Resort Wedding in Sedona, Arizona

This fabulous wedding cake was the vision of a dear, sweet Australian bride who chose Sedona , Arizona for her wedding and Sedona Cake Couture for her wedding cake! The bride wore silver, as did the cake! The scenery is breathtaking and the wedding was exquisite!
Here is a photo of the bride and groom with fabulous red rock views at Enchantment Resort here in Sedona, Arizona. It is such a joy to meet wonderful people like Romy and Dom. We wish you the best of luck in your future together!!

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Sedona Library Cake

A stack of books ....or is it a cake! Completely edible down to the embossed white chocolate "covers" , these books were devoured at the annual Sedona Festival of Wreaths held at the Sedona Public Library. Thanks go to my friend and fellow cake competitor on Food Network Challenge - Michelle Bommarito - michellebommarito.com for her help and advice with this cake! 

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Sedona Wedding of the Year at L'Auberge de Sedona

This is the work of the very talented and very creative boys at eventsbyshowstoppers.com
The details and floral were beyond anything I had every seen before!
The entire ballroom at L'Auberge de Sedona was transformed into a magical mecca of colors, textures, lighting - ambience is too pale a word!





In this photo (all photos courtesy of the famous duo - Katrina + Andrew - who are sedonabride.com) you 
can see the incredible color palette that we see in so many of our fabulous Sedona weddings. Notice the Morrocan tray over the fireplace, the shimmery linens, the dancing lights on the walls.






















And here's the cake!











 With beautiful 
designs embossed with antique 
Morrocan fabric stamps and hand-painted with shimmering color.

The bride told me later that she was so in love with her cake that she kept putting off the cake cutting as long as she could!

































Weddings in Sedona in the Fall

Weddings in Sedona  in the Fall are a spectacular sight to see. The beautiful rich jewel tone colors of Sedona are the choice of many brides when designing a cake for a Sedona wedding. 


In addition to the flame cala lilies, this bride chose to add sugar feathers to her cake.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Sedona Cake Couture Featured in Inside Weddings Magazine


Sedona Cake Couture is proud to be featured in one of the industry's leading magazines - Inside Weddings insideweddings.com
This was the incredible wedding reception of Marcella Hofelich and Nicholas Chambers at the Silverleaf Club is Scottsdale, Arizona.
Fabulous photography by Jared Platt plattphotography.com
and the amazingly beautiful floral was created by Flora Europa floraeuropa.com
The design of the cake was inspired by the fresh flowers used in the arrangements, the color of the cake came from the bridesmaid's  dresses. The room at the Silverleaf Club is old-world European looking- with enormously high ceilings, massive chandeliers and stone walls, reminiscent of an old castle! Congratulations to Marcella and Nick!

 

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Christa and Tommy's Sedona Wedding


She's a nurse. He's a Fireman. They met in the ER. They both save people! And they are an amazing couple. Today Tommy and Christa were married at beautiful Oak Creek Terrace in Sedona, Arizona. And here are their cakes!
This is Andrea with her Assistant Cake Artist - the talented Kelsey Fink, after setting up the cakes in the gazebo next to Oak Creek.
This is a cake! Chocolate, in fact. And delicious as well! It's a replica of Tommy's fire truck with the Surprise, Arizona Fire Department. The wheels are made with chocolate clay (www.sedonachocolateclay.com), 
There is a marzipan "nurse" atop the wedding cake - dressed in a sugar nurse's uniform and a sugar fireman  on the chocolate wedding cake adorned with pink sugar calas. It was the perfect symbolism of this magical couple. We wish you the best, Tommy and Christa.