You Can Make It: Sugar Mama's Swiss Meringue Butter Cream

I'm a self taught baker and cake designer. Everything I've learned is from books, TV, videos and trial & error...alot of error; but the things I do well I'm more than happy to share and believe me, if I can make it...You Can Make It: Sugar Mama's Swiss Meringue Butter CreamIt's no secret that I love Swiss meringue butter cream and so do my clients. When I started using it in all my cakes a few months ago the difference...

WeTV's My Fair Wedding- Season 3 Casting Call!

If you've never seen My Fair Wedding, it's basically a show where "less design aesthetically inclined" & budget challenged brides get a total celebrity matrimonial makeover 3 weeks before their wedding. If this sounds like you, keep reading. Unfortunately, I'm getting married in Barbados. David, will you come to Barbados!?!
Would you like to be on WEtv’s hit series “My Fair Wedding” Celebrity Wedding Planner, David...

The Glenn Beck Show 1st Anniversary

Last Tuesday, The Glenn Beck Show on the Fox News Channel celebrated it's 1st anniversary on the air and called me to make a cake commemorating the occasion.I didn't know much about Glenn Beck other than what I've seen on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report but the producer that ordered the cake provided me plenty of photos and details to create the perfect cake for the occasion.The cake was to be a simple blue cake...

Cake of the Week: Sassy Circus Cake!

Last Thursday I got the call every cake designer loves, not! Yup, that just happened. hello 1992.It was a desperate husband looking for a spectacular cake for his wife's birthday...that weekend.I would've immediately said no while staring at the wall full of clipboards listing things that had yet to be molded, sculpted or crumb-coated but this guy was a total sweetheart and convinced me that a few hours less sleep this...

Karma Cakes: Doughjangles - Sweets by Aaron

In Karma Cakes, I highlight an organization or individual that uses baking to make the lives of others a little better. If you know of a bakery, organization or individual that does this please let us know.Most everyone I know that bakes, including myself, do it because is makes people happy. Then there are those that use baking as way to reach people in other ways like...------website and logo design donated by Oddulent...

Sugar Mama loves MoMA

First of all I like to wish every one a Happy New Year and welcome to the new and improved Sugar Mama NYC blog!-----Lately, I've been finding myself overtired, overworked and overstressed. I love my job but I felt like I was drowning in an endless sea of Hermes Bags, Louboutin Shoes and Tiffany Boxes; which wouldn't sound so bad if I wasn't talking about cakes. I was beginning to feel stagnated and uninspired; not good...