Happy Birthday Eliana!

On Saturday, May 16 Eliana celebrated her 1st birthday! Her mom contacted me to do a Strawberry shortcake cake in the shape of a strawberry, made to look like Shortcake’s house. So, I did some research and found tons of Strawberry Shortcake cakes. There were about 5 really cute strawberry shaped cakes that I used to reference my design. I took a few of the elements  I liked best from each and incorporated them into my design. Eliana’s mom also wanted 4 dz cupcakes, marble with plain green vanilla frosting. She had little paper toppers she wanted to use, instead of having me make some custom ones for her (so I don’t have any pics of those). 

 Def the best part of the party besides my baby girl of course.. Monica is the best…

-Carmen Trevino (Eliana’s Mommy)

This cake was a lot easier than I had anticipated and I had a blast creating it! I delivered it to the park at about 1:00 (in between baking/decorating a wedding cake and baking 1,000 minis for the Arthritis walk) to a local park. Well, I pulled up to the park and quickly realized you had to pay $5.00 for parking! I had zero cash on me (I never do) so I decided I’d have to charm the parking attendant to let me in just to drop off the cake. Well, first off it was a woman parking attendant (shoot!), I thought I’d give it a go anyway!

I explained to her I was just dropping off a cake for the party and wasn’t staying and asked if she could waive the fee. She then asked if I owned a bakery/business. I had the cake up front with me and she saw it. she started saying how professional it looked and again asked about the business. I told her that yes, we did own a business and before I could get another word out she tells me I am not an approved vendor and I could not enter for liability purposes! She told me I’d have to inform the person in charge of the party and they would have to come pick it up. So, I parked my car, called Eliana’s dad and he met me at the entrance. A friend of his pulled up in their car and he hopped in with the cake crossed the entrance, parked literally 30 feet away (where the party was being held), handed me the cake and we continued to the party site for set up. Kinda weird, but whatever…it all worked out. Eliana’s mom LOVED The cake and it looks as though the party was a big success!

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The Two Parts Sugar kitchen whipped up a last minute, I mean last minute order of cupcakes for a ladies bunco gathering….and they were featured on Cupcakes Take The Cake!

For those of you out there unfamiliar with Bunco here’s the rundown: Bunco (also Bunko and Bonko) is a parlour game played in teams with three dice. A winning throw in Bunco is to throw three of a kind of a specified number. Bunco is a social dice game involving 100% luck and no skill (there are no decisions to be made), scoring and a simple set of rules. Women who are part of a Bunco club take turns as the Bunco hostess, providing snacks (CUPCAKES), refreshments and the tables to set up the games. The hostess may also provide a door prize. Small amounts of money can be involved as well. The object of the game is to accumulate points and to roll certain combinations. The winners get prizes (provided by the hostess or pooled from the club resources) for accomplishments such as the highest score, the lowest score, or the most buncos. Prizes frequently center on themes associated with the game such as fancy dice, dice embedded in soap, t-shirts featuring illustrations of dice, etc.

So Chris, we wish you the best of luck in your Bunco game and hope you like the cupcakes! Thanks for including us in your gathering! A big thanks to Cupcakes Take The Cake for the post!

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St. Patrick’s day is upon us, and what better way to celebrate than with cupcakes of course! The Two Parts Sugar kitchen made a few sample cupcakes for this approaching occasion, one of which was featured on one of our favorite blogs Zen Cupcake. If there are any of you out there that still don’t know about this amazing blog, you’ve got to check it out! It’s all cupcakes all the time and we love it! Here’s what they said about our creation…

…”Another unique and stylistic holiday cupcake.”

 Thanks Zen Cupcake for the kind words and continued support! We love your blog and will continue to follow it religiously!

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That’s right!  The baking-mits are coming off! We have just been accepted to participate the 2nd annual LA Cupcake Challenge! On Sunday, March 29, the Two Parts Sugar crew will be heading to the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel, to compete with a total of 18 bakeries for the prestigious title of best cupcake in LA! Last year’s competition was fierce as judges like LA Weekly food writer Jonathan Gold, Eating L.A.’s Pat Saperstein and Caroline On Crack chowed down on dozens of cupcakes to determine the winners in three categories: traditional, original and overall. 

Wish us luck on our quest to become LA’s best cupcake! If you’d like to place an order, have any questions, comments, or would like to send us well wishes, you can do so here!

Two Parts Sugar has been working diligently to master new recipes and offer lots of new sweets and treats. One of the goodies we recently perfected was our BABYCAKES!  They are a rich raspberry red velvet cake combined with our raspberry cream cheese frosting, then filled with more frosting, covered with a rich vanilla coating, and kissed with a dash of sprinkles.

Just today we were featured on Sweet Cuppin Cakes Bakery’s blog! They are a blog about what else… …cupcakes, cupcakes, and more cupcakes! They said:

We just love how moist this looks. The raspberry cream is such a good combination for red velvet.

We have not come across Sweet Cuppin Cakes until now, and we just love everything about them! Thanks sweet Cuppin Cakes for the kind words! We appreciate the support and look forward to reading your blogs!

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We created what we thought was a unique Mardi Gras cupcake on February 17th and it was posted on Cupcakes Take The Cake!  Cupcakes Take The Cake is a blog devoted to EVERYTHING cupcake and we love it!  Funny enough, there was another cupcake created that looked just like ours!  We are so happy to see our creations on their blog and enjoy seeing what others come up with.  A big thanks to Cupcakes Take The Cake for the continued support!

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Happy birthday Alissa and Melissa!

We just finished a cake for Alissa who turned 4 and Melissa who turned 2!  The two were having a joint birthday party and the theme was fairies!  We haven’t done too many cakes here at Two Parts Sugar, so, we were all thrilled when we heard the theme!  We searched the internet for ideas, but  surprisingly there weren’t too many fairy themed cakes (that we could find) out there.  So, after tossing around a few ideas, this is what we came up with!

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Our first Valentine’s day at Two Parts Sugar has come and gone.  We had more orders than we expected and had a ton of fun creating each delectable treat!  

From corporate orders for companies like O.C. Med Trans, to our local real estate agent Ernie Aguilar, to everyday couples, this Valentine’s Day is not one to soon be forgotten.

A big thank you to everyone who entrusted us with their hearts on this special day!

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With love in the air, we’ve been up to our ears in frosting!  Yesterday, Cupcake Ideas For You posted our Valentine’s cupcakes on their site! Cupcake Ideas For You is a new blog we came across and LOVE! They post “the best cupcake ideas around the world!” They said: