Holiday Cakes November-December 2011

2011 Holiday Sweets menu

Happy Holidays everyone! It’s that time of year again, it’s time to start having visions of sugar plums dancing in your head… or better yet, Flirt with Dessert sweets! I am offering some amazing specials on some new flavors and new items just in time for the holidays! This year I am expanding my menu to cake pops, pies and cakes to delight all your taste buds! Not only can you get a sweet treat, you will also be helping out in the sweetest way. This year on any order $50 or more, Flirt with Dessert will donate a Teddy bear for the children who are spending their Christmas at Texas Children’s Hospital in Katy. Please join me to help bring the Christmas spirit to those children who will be spending their Christmas at Texas Children’s.

Cakes, Cupcakes & cake pops:

1. Chocolate crème de mint cake. – Simply decorated chocolate cake with a smooth chocolate crème de mint ganache. Makes Santa skip the cookies and go straight for the cake!

2. Speculoos Spice cake with a cinnamon espresso cream cheese frosting. Speculoos is a traditional Dutch flavor consisting of spices and a rich butter flavor. This cake is a favorite in my house and I know it will be in yours too! The cinnamon espresso cream cheese frosting adds that finishing touch to tie all the flavors together. Perfect cake to have along with your latte or hot cocoa!

3. Italian Cream Cake with a cream cheese frosting. This is a traditional smooth white cake with walnuts and toasted coconut finished off with a sweet cream cheese frosting. Perfect for any family dinner even if you are not Italian!

4. White Chocolate Christmas Torte- A white chocolate cake with pecan pieces and a red raspberry filling finished off with a white chocolate buttercream. Such an elegant cake for your holiday table!

5. Eggnog cake- A delicious twist on the traditional Holiday drink. A smooth dense cake with a sweet & fluffy nutmeg frosting leaves your taste buds wanting more!

6. Christmas Red Velvet Cake- This cake is always a Southern Favorite! A luscious red cake with a hint of cocoa finished with a smooth cream cheese frosting. Cut into this beauty at Christmas and your guests will be filled with the Christmas spirit!

7. Pumpkin spice cake with a gingersnap cream cheese frosting. A light and airy spice cake with a hint of pumpkin topped off with a smooth gingersnap creamcheese frosting… this cake is a holiday on it’s own!

Item numbers 1-7 are available in:

Layered 8” round cake with decoration $35 ( two or more cakes are $25 each)

Dozen cupcakes $25 with decoration

Dozen cake pops $30 choice of: Apple, Pumpkin, Snowman, Ornament or Christmas tree

Pies: - New for this Holiday season!

1. Amazing Apple Pie cake with butter crumble- Traditional American Pie with a Dutch twist. This pie is THE traditional pie to finish off a perfect holiday feast. Filled with sweet apples coated in sugar & spices, covered with a flakey pie crust topped off with a butter flavored crumble… Johnny Apple Seed would be proud of this apple creation! $20

2. Pecan Pie with Chocolate. A sweet twist on the Southern favorite Pecan pie. Flakey, buttery pie crust gets a sweet coating of a rich smooth chocolate ganache before the pecans join the party. This pie is sure to make you thankful you are in the South! $20

3. Pumpkin Pie. A holiday pie that was part of the offering with the Pilgrims and Indians…well maybe not but if they did, I am sure it would have been this sweet take on pumpkin pie! Sweet creamy spiced pumpkin pie is finished off with sugar cookie cutouts. Simple and elegant for the Holidays! $20

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Coffee Cake: New for this Holiday Season!

1. Coffee cake Holiday wreath. Sweet toasted almonds on a buttery puff pastry with a simple sweet glaze shaped as a wreath with dried cranberries to add that holiday cheer. This simple & sweet 10”pastry wreath is the perfect gift for a neighbor or just to enjoy on Christmas or Thanksgiving morning with the family. $30 ( two or more are $25 each)

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas to you and your family! I wish you all the best this holiday season and look forward to baking memories for you in 2012! – Daphne Powers

Texas State Graduation Cap

This is a graduation cap for a college grad from Texas State.

Bows and Buttons

Baby girl baby shower cake. buttons on the sides of the cake, and a pink bow ontop of the cake. The baby is white chocolate made from a mold.

Minnie Mouse cake & cupcakes

I got an order for a Minnie mouse cake and some Minnie "ears" cupcakes... this is the end result. there are 24 total cupcakes, I just grabbed one of each flavor for the picture.

changes are coming....

Hello everyone! I hope you had a nice & safe 4th of July! I sure did. Took a little mini-vacation with my family and went camping in the new RV that my parents got! Such a great way to camp!

I have some news coming down the pipe line.... I will be taking some time off to stay at home with my new little addition to the Powers family. Some time around the first of September we will be welcoming our son to the family... so I will be taking a little break from cakes for that time. Starting August 22nd - October 17th 2011. During that time, I will be coming out with the new holiday flavors and will start taking orders on October 17th and continue to take orders until December 31st at a discounted price for an 8" round cake or cupcakes.... and possibly cake pops decorated for the season.

During that time, there will also be a couple of other changes in the works. I will be setting myself up with a DBA and will have a website! All the information that's on my blog will be changed over to the website. I will also continue to have my Facebook fan page so you can always become a fan there and get updates as soon as I post them!

I thank you for your continued support and wish you and your family the very best!

butterflies & polka dots

This cake was for a baby shower. The nursery had butterflies in it and the hostess wanted to incorporate that but she loved another cake that I created for a baby boy shower with dots. So we combined the 2 and created this cake! The butterflies are all made from gumpaste and have disco dust on them to give them that extra sparkle.

Crawfish Season!

Have you had your crawfish this season? I took on 2 orders for crawfish themed cakes and I think they both turned out great!

First crawfish cake was a crawfish sitting on top of a table cloth with corn, potatoes and a beer can with a custom label.... 30th birthday.

The second cake was a cake that I revisited from doing my very first cake. I recreated the crawfish boil themed cake. Since I have worked on my talents alot more than that very first cake, I was very happy with the outcome. So was everyone else! I got tons of compliments and people telling me that they wanted to have an excuse to have a party just t

o order one of my cakes! Here's the picture......

notice the name was done to look like fish hooks. The birthday boy's passion is fishing... I thought it added a neat touch. The beer bottle ontop is a sugar cast beer bottle. I made the mold and the bottle. The one on the bottom is a real bottle.

Hope you like it as much as I did!

I'm still alive!

Some of you might have begun to wonder where in the heck I have been! I don't blame you! I have so much to update I need to get started now. Geez, last post was in OCTOBER!!!! HEllo??? I would also like to thank those of you who ordered cakes for the holiday season, it was a huge success and I will be doing something similar for Easter. So I think it's way past time for an update. so let's see here....

Let's start with Christmas. On Christmas morning, my husband and I discovered that we are expecting our newest little bundle of joy in early September! We couldn't believe what a surprise it was to discover that we are expecting again! And to find out on Christmas?! That was the icing on the cake! So we had to keep it hush hush for a couple more weeks since I was only 4-6 weeks along. But a couple of weeks ago, we broke the news to the Facebook world and our friends and family! So this Friday I will officially be 15 weeks pregnant! So excited and can't wait to find out if a little boy or a little girl will be our blessing! We should find out in April..... as long as it's healthy!

Next update, my Brother is engaged and is getting married to the best soon to be sister in law ever! I am so excited and so is my family! Their wedding will be soon after the baby is born... so I will that person working out like crazy to get into my bridesmaid dress!

In February I entered a new cake into the cake competition that is held every year in Austin, Texas. I entered as an adult beginner and unfortunately didn't place but was congratulated by so many people because they thought I had won with my cake! Needless to say, I wasn't the only one shocked and disappointed by not placing with my cake! That's okay, it gives me more time to create a winning cake for the next competition! I will reuse this cake but add more to it to still have the same theme but reworked to show off more of my creativity. It's a learning experience and I am learning! But I did get to see some cake celebrities! I got to chat it up with some of the contestants on the TLC show, The Next Great Baker! I also managed to get a couple of pictures with some of the contestants! I also got the chance to take a picture with, Michelle Bommarino, Lauren Kitchens, Corina, Karen and the winner of the Next Great Baker, Dana Hebert. I also talked with, James Rossel, Nicolas Lodge, Marina Sausa, Michelle Bommarino and Lauren Kitchens. I really had a great time at the show and can't wait to do it again... but next time, with a winning entry!

So now that just about catches me up. I am going to offer cakes and cupcakes for a special pricing for Easter. It's going to work alot like the Holiday cakes but the decorations and flavors will reflect the season. I am getting the flavors together and once I get the whole thing organized, I will send out another post and also with emails, and through Facebook. So keep an eye out for the Easter cakes!

I have attached a picture of the last competition cake from Austin! enjoy!

Holiday cakes! October 2010 - January 2011

I will now be offering some special cakes for a special price. Starting October 18-January 3,2011 I will be offering three layered eight inch round cake for $35.00 for one cake. If you buy two cakes the price is $60.00 If you buy three or more the cakes are $25.00 each.
Are you hosting Thanksgiving dinner? Christmas dinner? Halloween party? Going to a holiday party? Then let me take care of the desserts! These cakes will be the perfect touch to those holiday gatherings.

These flavors will only be offered during October - January so make sure you order at least one!
Pick up dates:
Halloween cakes- Friday October 29th
Thanksgiving cakes- Wednesday November 24th.
Christmas cakes- Thursday December 23rd.

For all other non holiday dates, call me 832.659.3338

F lirt with Dessert

2010 Holiday Cake Menu

October 15, 2010 - January 3, 2011

 Pumpkin cake with creamcheese

 Texas buttered pecan cake with caramel crème filling

 Apple “pie” cake

 Speculoos cake ( Dutch dessert)

 Tiramisu cake

 Chocolate chocolate chip cake with chocolate mint ganache

 Cranberry cake with orange creamcheese filling

 Eggnog cake

 Coffee Toffee cake

 Pink champagne cake with a fizzy frosting

These cakes will be the perfect addition to your Halloween party and Holiday

dinners or just to have that something sweet!

Each cake will be three eight inch layers and can feed 10-15 people.

Each cake is $35.00 each or two for $60.00 or three for $80.00

Call for pricing if needing more than four cakes.

I thank you for your continued support and I wish you and your family a wonderful Holiday season!

Wishing you all the best this Holiday season,

Daphne Powers- Owner 832.659.3338

www.daphnesflirtwithdessert.blogspot.com Daphnesflirtwithdessert@gmail.com to schedule your cake!

Oklahoma State Sugar Arts Show in Tulsa, OK

Hello all! I just wanted to update you since it's been a little while that I have done anything on my blog. There's a reason for that!! But first let me thank my mom, Lydia and my husband, Corey for helping me out as much as they did. With out their help I wouldn't have gotten to Oklahoma!
For the last month or so, I have been getting my entires ready for the Oklahoma show.I started off thinking that I was going to enter five entries... ..then it came time to doing those five entries.... and we ended up with 2 completed cakes.
I entered the adult beginner division and entered a novelty category and a holiday category. my holiday cake was five cakes that were made and covered to look like fondant Christmas presents. They had sugar bows and sugar gift tags and then stacked ontop of each other all sitting on a round tree skirt that was used as the base. My novelyt cake was a red cheese wheel with a wedge removed and all hand painted "sticker" details and sitting on a wooden cheese board. And that happened to turned out to be the first place winner!
My next competition will be in the Austin in February. more details will come when I get more information to pass along!
Thank you all for your continued support!
All the best,
Daphne Powers

pictures are coming!

90th birthday cake

This client wanted something todo with the quilts and cardinals. Everything on this cake is sugar except the metal on the pins and the string. Everything else is sugar.

Safari Birthday!

New EMAIL address!

Hello Everyone! I wanted to let you know that I have created a new email address for this blog and my cake business. I will take orders from my new email and questions/comments. I will keep my cell phone number the same so you can always place an order that way too!
Just to keep you informed, I will be offering Holiday/seasonal cakes starting in October so stay tuned for flavors and more news!
I hope you are all well and staying cool in this weather! And always remember that I appreciate your support and your referrals!
Daphne
832-659-3338
daphnesflirtwithdessert@gmail. com

beer cake

It's Twins!

This cake was for a baby shower for twins... boy and girl... so, to keep it simple and cute- this is what I came up with!

4 cakes coming up this weekend!

I know it seems like this blog has been a little dead lately but that's because I have been SO busy! Busy is good, but I need to be able to keep up with this blog! Fear not! I have some down time next week so I will be back on the ball before you know it.
I have 4 cakes due this weekend! That's the most I have EVER taken on. I know I can do it! I have started to get a little system down now and it seems to be working! After this weekend, look for the pictures of the following cakes completed over the last couple of weeks:
1. Mustang Saleen
2. How to train your dragon cake- Toothless Night Fury
3. twins baby shower cake
4. Beer bucket
5. the Hungry Caterpillar- cupcakes
6. Luau themed cake

this weekend's cakes are:
1. KHS Class of 2010 Graduation cakes- I have 2 of them
2. 1st birthday- Farming and Cowboy themed
3. Baby shower cake- it's a girl

If you have an upcoming event and would like to get more information about my cakes, please feel free to contact me! I need at least a week in advance for cake orders. But I prefer two weeks notices for all orders!

Thanks!
Daphne Powers 832-659-3338

Mustang Saleen

This was a fun request that involved alot of carving and lots of attention to detail. The client wanted a black Mustang Saleen with green pinstripes. I got a call from them after they got the cake to let me know how happy they were with the final outcome! I think we were all happy!
Pictures coming

Luau themed cake

This was a cake request that someone had found on the internet. It was asked of me to replicate this cake for a 4 year old's birthday party. The cake was all chocolate-chocolate chip with the ganache filling covered in fondant.
picture coming soon-

The hungry caterpillar

This order was unique in the fact that it was all cupcakes. Cupcakes were Vanilla bean and chocolate chocolate chip.
picture coming-