Had a good time tonight at a Carpenter Company retirement dinner for a long time good friend. I had the honor of making his cake for his party and really loved the contrast from the actual picture of the rig he first drove for Carpenter 40+ years ago, to the one he drove right before he retired this year. This is a half sheet vanilla cake, layered with chocolate buttercream filling drizzled with real melted chocolate, and loaded on the outside with a super sweet chocolate buttercream. Happy Retirement, Mark (Thin Man)! Wishing you the best! 🙂

Loving the theme of this 50th birthday! I started with a half sheet cake that is half chocolate and half vanilla flavored. Covered in vanilla buttercream and decorated with buttercream rosettes and roses, and of course topped off with glitter dust anywhere I could add it. 🙂 And what's a 50th birthday without CWCs sugar cookies? All in the wine theme of the party with sparkly wine glass cookies and adorable wine puns, they're the perfect sweet treat to top off the big 5-0! Welcome to the 50 club, Vicky! I hope you have a great birthday! 🥳

❤️💋 Happy Valentine's Day from Cake Walk Cafe! This gift basket full of Valentine Otters is on its way to brighten an office near you! The otters are CWCs classic sugar cookie. And the otter sayings cookies are a brownie chocolate chip sugar cookie. Just a little added sweetness on this sweet treat filled day. 😋❤️💋

Is there any dog more adorable than a dachshund? Turns out there is: how about a family of chocolate dachshunds on a cake? 😁 This is a half chocolate, half vanilla cake, in a half sheet size. (That's alot of halves ha) This cake is layered and covered in vanilla buttercream, and decorated with little chocolate dachshunds. These pups were hand crafted here in the cafe out of modeling chocolate and are completely edible. Happy 60th Birthday, Alex!

One more week to go! Don't forget to mark your calendars for next Saturday, February 11th. Come on out and see us at our booth. We're going to have a ton of Valentine's sweet treats available for purchase, and even some superbowl treats. There will also be some special baking themed items (pot holders, tumblers, etc) available to buy. Not to mention all the other awesome vendors that will be attending. Come check it out! 😁

This beautiful mint green cake left the Cafe today. This is an 8" round French vanilla cake, layered and covered in CWCs signature vanilla buttercream. The stethoscope was also handmade here in the cafe out of sugar gum paste and jazzed up with some edible disco glitter. Congratulations Julie!! 🥳 I hope this cake helps to make your special day even more special!

Okay folks, time for your daily dose of cuteness! When this adorable 5 year old customer of mine draws a picture of a cake, and asks CWC to make it come to life, you can bet we're going to make it happen! Skylar is the star of the show today, she asked her mom to send me this picture of a Halloween, Valentine's Day cake. She designed everything about it. From the flavor (chocolate) to every color, spider, witch hat and heart, this girl designed a winner. And that big smile on her face says it all! I think I nailed it. Haha thank you Skylar for your awesome design! And thank you to her mom, Kaitlyn for supporting her in her creativity.❤️

CWC's latest creations: a cake and cookies made for a princess. A Sweet 16 princess that is. This two tiered cake holds two wonderfully sweet flavored cakes. The bottom 8" tier is a vanilla cake layered with a made from scratch raspberry filling and whipped cream frosting, made with fresh raspberries. Covered in buttercream rosettes in an ombre of rose gold, blush, and cream. Which of course are blinged out in gold, rose gold, and blush pink glitter and luster dust. The top tier is a confetti flavored cake, layered and covered in vanilla buttercream, blinged out with gold candy pearls. And topped off with a little edible glitter to bring out that sweet 16 shine. All of this is accompanied by some of CWC's signature sugar cookies, beautifully decorated to match the occasion. Happy Sweet 16, Kaylen!! Enjoy! 🥳

When someone says, they'd like a birthday cake for their husband and he's an avid reader. Do you have any ideas? Oh you bet ya CWC had an idea: a carousel of cake books! 😁 This is a large 10" round, four layer high, butter pecan cake with a maple buttercream filling. Decorations are made from a mixture of fondant and sugar gum paste. The books have general designs and titles except for a few that were designed with some of his favorite book titles. (And a few plant decorations and titles since plants are also a hobby of his.) Accompanying this butter pecan cake were a dozen cupcakes in matching colors. These were half chocolate and half vanilla flavors.😋

Okay y'all, time for a little reminder. 😉 Only three weeks to go until the Valentine's Vendor Market at Southgate Crossing!! Cake Walk Cafe will be there with a booth loaded with Valentine's Day sweet treats ready for direct sale! And we'll also be having a few freebie items, just to thank you for coming out and supporting us with your purchases. We look forward to seeing y'all there! Mark your calendars for February 11th💘

This awesome stack of birthday sweetness left the Cafe today. This is an 8" round, four layer high, cookies and cream flavored cake. Layered inside with chocolate chip vanilla buttercream, and covered outside with cookies and cream buttercream. Topped off with a Ghirardelli rich chocolate drip and oreo cookies for decoration. This one was hard to let go. All of my favorites in one package! 😋

Let the party begin with this cute and colorful cake! This is a 10", four layer high French vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream. The "TWO" on top of the cake is made out of CWCs signature sugar cookies. The Sesame Street sign and all the red swirl decorations were made here in the cafe out of sugar gum paste. Along with the chocolate chip "cookies", pieces and crumbs that cookie monster attacked on the side of the cake. They may look like real cookies, but they were created here by hand. 😉Happy Birthday, Margot!! 🥳

Okay everybody, Cake Walk Cafe is doing something a little different this year for Valentine's Day. 💘 We will be one of the vendors at the upcoming Valentine's Vendor Market at Southgate Crossing in Elkhart, IN. This takes place on Saturday, February 11th from 10am to 3pm. This place is a beautiful location that will be hosting a number of awesome local vendors with a variety of products. And CWC is honored to be one of them. Over the next few weeks, we will be posting pictures of some of the adorable Valentine's items that we will have available there for direct sale. So mark your calendars and come on out to meet us! We look forward to seeing y'all there. 😁

Now that we have Christmas 2022 behind us, it's time to start planning the new year. And January's calendar is filling up. Cake Walk Cafe already has orders on the books for January and February, so if you're looking for sweet treats for an upcoming event, just message me here at the Cafe soon to lock in your date before availability is gone. (Especially since February has Valentine's Day and the superbowl, which make it a busy time here at CWC) Looking forward to hearing from y'all!

And one more Christmas time birthday celebration for the books this year! This is a 10" square, French vanilla cake layered with homemade strawberry and whipped cream filling. Made from scratch with real strawberries and homemade whipped cream frosting, it's the perfect compliment to the French vanilla cake. All of the coupon and money decorations are made from edible icing. (And from current store ads too 😄) Happy Birthday and happy couponing!

And along with those festive Christmas cookies, is this two tiered Christmas candy cake. Your holiday sweet tooth will rejoice when it sees this tower of sweet goodness. Inside it's a French Vanilla cake layered throughout with a chocolate buttercream. Outside it is covered in a vanilla buttercream and decorated with sugar gum paste snow and snowflakes. Then topped off with real swirl suckers, sugar sprinkles, and lots of Christmas gumdrops. And of course it had to be sporting some bling, because what's Christmas without a few Christmas lights? 😎

Let there be cookies! Christmas cookies of course. Another unique batch of cookies are on their way to a Christmas party. With a variety of decorating styles, these are sure to be a hit with the kiddos and grown ups alike. (Or save a couple for Santa too.) 🎅😉

Next up were these festive Christmas cupcakes. Half yellow cake and half triple chocolate with creamy buttercream frosting. Topped with holiday sprinkles and glitter with half also having gumdrops, just to add a little variety for everyone's tastes. 😋

It's another busy day for Christmas pickups at the Cafe today. First up were a few more of these doggie treat stockings. You guys were awesome this year in treating your fur babies with these adorable stockings, Christmas bandanas, and healthy treats! 🎁🎄

Sent some more Christmas cookies out the door tonight. This colorful assortment was for the awesome crew at Arbor Lakes Apartments in Elkhart. I even included an Arbor Lakes leaf covered in snowflakes. Merry Christmas to all of you from Cake Walk Cafe!! 🎄