Mini Dress

Mini Dress, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

Little Mini Cakes are great for Bridal showers and bridesmaid gifts with a tag that says will you be my bridesmaid. Check out our website at www.cakesbyshara.net for contact information.

Blog Luv Award

Blog Luv Award



Tara with Lavish Events sent me a blog Luv award and I want to pay it forward.
Thank you Tara!!

Here are some of the blogs I love.
Gray Photography Blog
Rhonda Patton Designs
Duce2Duce Wedding Videos
A Magical Affair
Ashely's Bride Guide
A Delightful Day
Lavish Events
Get Relish
Daisy's Favorite Things the Fabuless Newleywed
Brocade designs

Here are some of the blogs I look at daily. Congrats to you guys, and keep paying it forward!

Honorees please follow these instructions and share the LUV!

1. Put the logo on your blog or post.
2. Nominate at least 10 blogs which show GREAT ATTITUDE and/or GRATITUDE

3. Be sure to link to your nominees within your post.

4. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog.

5. Share the love and link to this post and to the person from whom you received the award.

New topsy Turvy

New topsy Turvy, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

Fun Fun Fun!!

Let's Eat Cake

Masterpiece Weddings, an event coordination agency founded by Melissa Margarita-DiStefano, is working really hard to put on an amazing fundraiser in February called Let’s Eat Cake! - which will benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital - an incredible organization that’s dedicated to treating children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases.

Let’s Eat Cake! is a wedding cake competition, featuring Wedding Cake confections from all over the United States. Bakers will feature their cakes to be judged by Local and National Culinary Celebrities. In addition bakers will be asked to make enough cake to feed the general public, so that they may judge the cakes as well!

The goal is to raise $50,000 for this extremely worthy cause. (Donate here!) Please help spread the word about our goal, and our mission. If you can help financially, that’d be great, if you blogging about this right now…. your spreading the word - and that’s all we can ask for!

Thank you!

Cakes By Shara's Booth At Weddings the Bridal Show Saturday

Thank you to all the brides that came out to see us at "Weddings The Bridal Show." You will be notified if you were a winner of the bridal shower cupcakes we were offering.

Gray Photography! We Love Zach and Jody Gray.

Our Friends at Gray Photography took these lovely pictures of our cakes. Please visit them for your photography needs.
www.grayphotograph.com

Weddings The Bridal Show

Come see The Cakes By Shara booth at Weddings the Bridal Show Jan 3rd from 10:00 to 4:00 Show specials, Rental Cakes, and free samples. looking forward to meeting all the lovely brides and grooms. Be ready to make your cake appointment date and or book your rental cake. Special deals will apply to show bookings from 10% off to deeper discounts. We will have new flavors to try as well.
See you in less than a week.
Shara Lunn
www.cakesbyshara.net

Chocolate bark

My creation, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

Step One: Get your favorite candy coating or bark.
Step two: Melt the chocolate according to the package directions.
Step three: Mix in toffee bits or nuts.
Step Four Spread out the chocolate
Step Five: Melt a little white chocolate.
Step Six: Drizzle over the chocolate mixture.
Step 7: Take your fork and marble the chocolate.
Step 8: Let the mix set up.
Step 9 cut the chocolate with a pizza cutter.
Sept 10 Break apart and package for Christmas gifts.
yeild: Makes about 1 pound 8 ounces.

AshleysBrideGuide.com Best of Nashville Weddings Vote for Cakes By Shara

Nashville Newlyweds:

AshleysBrideGuide.com is searching for Nashville’s best wedding vendors according to you, Nashville newlyweds. We know you’ve been asked this before - by The Knot, Wedding Wire, etc - but this is the real Nashville award, given by people who really care about Nashville brides and the Nashville businesses that make their day magical. ABG seeks to honor the best in Nashville weddings…and we need your help.

If You feel Cakes By Shara was Nashville best in Cake Vendors please vote for us here

If your wedding took place between December 1, 2007 and December 1, 2008, we want to hear from you!

Even better, you will be automatically entered to win a $100 VISA gift card. Voting ends January 31, 2009.

Thank you to all the wonderful brides and grooms we served this year and we are looking forward to a fabulous 2009 wedding season.

One 5 Teir Rent A Cake and 7 new looks all for the low price of 250.00 Plus a Refundable Damage Deposit. Total savings over 1000.00

DOES THE ECONOMY HAVE YOU DOWN ABOUT YOUR WEDDING BUDGET?

Rent A cake of your dreams this year and save. This cake will rent for $250.00, you can get Sam's sheet cake to feed 100 people for about $30.00 that is .30 cents per serving. NO one in Town can beat that price and on a cake this large. I would retail real cake at no less than $1200.00. You can also custom design rent a cakes starting at $300.00. Each cake in addition to the rental price has additional security damage deposit that is fully refundable most damage deposits will be $200.00. Damage is deducted if necessary from this deposit. If you decide to keep the cake, no problem, it is yours for the $200.00. No Shipping is available at this time, but we are checking into how to ship these for your use.

We will have at least 8 cakes that can be rented at Weddings The Bridal Show January 3rd. Get ready to book on January 3rd for your wedding. If you book at the Show you will receive a special show price. You can reserve your rent a cake with a 100.00 retainer fee. The security deposit and remaining balance will be charged 4 weeks before your wedding. We will have cakes renting as little as 150.00. See you at Weddings The Bridal Show.

Gray Photography Studio warming

Gray Photography Studio warming, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

Cakes by Shara was asked to make cupcake for Gray Photography's Studio warming party. Such a cutting edge couple in the world of Photo Journalist! they really are amazing. Check out there website at.
http://www.grayphotograph.com/

Happy Birthday Ellie

Happy Birthday Ellie, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

Love cupcake tree's in a nice beach theme.

Under the Sea for Ellie

Under the Sea for Ellie, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

I cannot help but think of Stacey now when I do under the sea and ocean themes.
I really wish I lived on the beach somewhere also good for weddings birthdays and just because!

And the Winner of the CMA song of the year 2008 is..... We hope Lee Miller!

And the Winner of the CMA song of the year 2008 is..... We hope Lee Miller!
Originally uploaded by CakesByShara

Good Luck Lee! This is a personal project from Cakes By Shara.

New Crazy Daisy Cupcakes

New Crazy Daisy Cupcakes, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

Happy Colors For Birthday cupcakes Or a fun spring wedding as well.

Dark Chocolate frosting on Dark chocolate cupcakes, And Vanilla buttercream on dark Chocolate cupcakes. Fondant flower toppings. $3.00 each per 20 for small and $4.00 each per dozen. Prices for weddings may receive a price break based on volume orders.

James and Jena Story Wedding of the week

Cakes By Shara is honored to be mentioned in the Tennessean news paper today as the Wedding of the week.
Congratulations again to James and Jena Story. Read the Story here and a special thank you to Tracy Pulley. http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081026/FEATURES01/810260311/1004/FEATURES



Here are pictures of there cakes as well.

Iron Cupcake Challenge Cheese: Spice Cupcakes with Dulce De Leche filing Frosted with Real Vanilla Bean Mascarpone Cheese

Vote For me No one puts cupcake in a corner

Spice Cake with Dulce De Leche Filling and Vanilla Bean Mascarpone Cheese frosting.

Spice cake recipe
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 cup milk
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
I like a lot of cinnamon so I added 2 tablespoons

¼ teaspoon ground cloves maybe a tiny bit more if you like these.

A dash of all spice
3 eggs

Directions

Preheat oven to 350

Cream butter and sugar together then add eggs one at a time mixing completely after each addition

Sift all dry items together

Add dry a little at a time alternating with the milk until it is mixed.

Scoop into cupcake liners with a ice cream scoop filling a little over half full.

Bake for 20-25 minute or until a toothpick comes out almost clean.

Cool in the freezer.

When cool cut a core out of the top of the cupcake fill with Dulce De Leche then replace the tops.

Frost with Vanilla Bean Mascarpone Cheese and top with your favorite fondant toppings.

Filled Middle with yummy gooey Dulce De Leche Caramel

Dulce De Leche Recipes:

Easy way:

boil a can of sweetened condensed milk for three hours on medium heat to low heat keeping the can covered with water. Let cool then use the caramel.

Frosting Recipe:

Vanilla Bean Mascarpone Cheese Frosting

8 ounces cold Mascarpone Cheese it will soften in the mixer

8 ounces real butter at room temperature

One teaspoon vanilla bean paste

Powdered sugar until the icing is thick about one to 2 pounds if the cheese is really gooey like mine was.

A couple of dashes of salt to enhance the flavor and cut some of the sweet taste down.

Place in piping bag and swirl up.

My Daughter said MOMMY I just tasted October MMMMMMM this is what fall should taste like.


Prizes to be won:
ETSY artist ART ON THE MENU with her awesome little cardboard cupcake, her link is: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5738002
and a pair of cupcake earrings from Lots of Sprinkles at http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6057281.
As an added bonus for October only we have a sassy and sweet T from Bakelove Bakewear, http://www.bakelove.com/cupcake_t-shirt.html. Last and certainly not least, don’t forget our corporate prize providers:
HEAD CHEFS by FIESTA PRODUCTS, http://www.fiestaproducts.com,
HELLO CUPCAKE by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson, http://blog.hellocupcakebook.com,
JESSIE STEELE APRONS http://www.jessiesteele.com; the CUPCAKE COURIER http://www.cupcakecourier.com;
TASTE OF HOME books, http://www.tasteofhome.com.
Iron Cupcake:Earth is sponsored in part by 1-800-Flowers, http://www.1800flowers.com .

Womens Final 4 Site Visit at The World Famous Wildhorse Saloon

Womens Final 4 Site Visit at The World Famous Wildhorse Saloon, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

Site visit at the World Famous Wildhorse Saloon.

Purple topsy turvy

Purple topsy turvy, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

A fun purple topsy turvy cake with dulce de leche caramel and ducle de leche buttercream.

Poodle Wedding cake for Dog Lovers

Poodle Wedding cake for Dog Lovers, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

This is a non traditional wedding cake with to cute poodles as the bride and groom created for a wonderful couple. Chocolate cake with keepsake dog topper.

Rivas Wedding

Rivas Wedding, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

We would like to thank Wes Libby and Staff at the Gaylord Springs for making our cake set up easy and seamless.
www.gaylordsprings.com

Michelle's cake was a delight. It was the first time I worked with cake charm pulls. Ladies they are neat. I have never used them in a wedding cake but I have made pulls for bridal shower cakes or baby shower cakes.
Matt Andrews Photography was on site to take pictures of the day. www.mattandrewsphotography.com
Michelle and Mathew I hope your day was fabulous!

Halo 3 x box

Halo 3 x box, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

Grooms cake for a gamer.

Melanie cake

Melanie cake, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

For a modern Bride who keeps up with the current New York Trends and colors. Going to Mackey's In Green Hills TN.

A fall wedding

, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

Strawberry Cake with vanilla buttercream and Red Velvet cake with cream cheese icing.

Fall Cupcake

Fall Cupcake, originally uploaded by CakesByShara.

Fall Line of cupcakes for special occasions or weddings.