WeddingWire 2012 Brides Choice Award

We are excited to share with you that Bittersweet Cake Design has been awarded the Wedding Wire Brides Choice Award for 2012! It is such a great privilege to be recognized in the industry as being in the top 5% of wedding professionals nationwide that demonstrate quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism.

We are so honored to be selected for this achievement. We wish to thank our clientele for their support. We also wish to thank Wedding Wire for giving us this award and we are elated to display this badge with pride!

Chef Jesse Jones Collection

Award winning NJ Chef Jesse Jones has teamed up with Bittersweet Cake Design to create his signature line of cookies and TrufflePops® for his clientele and fans to order. Check out Chef Jesse on Facebook.

Seen here with Rap Artist Jim Jones and his fiance Chrissy after an appearance on an episode of the VH1 reality TV show "Love and Hop Hop". Chef Jesse prepared and served a meal for the couple during the episode.

Chef Jesse Custom Cookies

Chef Jesse Custom TrufflePops®

You can now order these items directly on our Website, and you can also find out how to order your own custom designed cookies and TrufflePops® as well.

Arts and Eats Gala Logo Cookies

Recently we did some logo sugar cookies for the Volunteer Lawyers for Justice of NJ .  They provide free legal counsel and advice and also pro bono representation to economically disadvantaged people with the goal of securing fair and equal treatment within the legal system.

I think this is such a great service to the community especially when there are so many people that fall through the cracks due to legal red tape and not having the money to afford the representation of a lawyer to help them through the legal systems court process. As Karen Sacks, Esq., Founding Executive Director sums it up, "We hope you can join us in our goal for equal justice for all".

Last week they held their Arts and Eats Gala at the Montclair Art Museum in NJ, to celebrate the continued growing success of the organization in its 11th year. After the event, I received a glowing email from Karen saying they received many compliments on the logo cookies, and they not only added something really special to their event, but that they were delicious as well.

I wish the Volunteer Lawyers for Justice much continued success in the upcoming new year. Keep up all the hard work you do for NJ and it was our pleasure to be a part of your event. We also donated a gift certificate from Bittersweet Cake Design for their Auction which was also held at the Gala. Congratulations to the recipient and we hope to hear from you soon!  Below is a picture of the logo cookies we made.

Arts in the Environment Benefit

Today I had the honor of attending the "Arts in the Environment" benefit held at St. Andrew & Holy Communion Church in my town South Orange, NJ. It was an Interfaith exhibit of Visual Arts, Song and Dance, and Poetry Readings. I also sold my sugar cookies that exhibited my interpretation of different elements in the environment. It was a very beautiful event with great vocal artists and great poetry readings. All of which were depicted around the environment. There were various artists there also selling some of their art pieces. Such beautiful artwork. I wish I had taken pictures but I wasn't able to leave my table and do so.  A 20% donation of the proceeds made from the sales were given to help raise money for thewaterproject.org. An organization dedicated to bringing clean, safe drinking water to Africa.

Below are pictures from the event.

Dragonfly with Ladybug and Beehive with Bee

Beautiful Butterflies

 Sun with Earth and Tree with Leaf

 Fall Leaf, Red Apple and Butterfly....oh my!

 Colorful Fish with Sea Turtle

These sold out quickly.... as did the Squirrel with Acorn....

Squirrel with Acorn and Colorful Leaf

Mini Sugar Cookie Cylinder....all gone within the 1st hour of the event....they were actually kinda cute. Who doesn't love anything bite size, right?

Bidding For Good - Wish Upon A Wedding Auction

This wonderful organization Wish Upon A Wedding is one of the greatest charities I have seen thus far.  They offer free of charge weddings to couples in need and that are facing terminal illness. Just reading some of the stories had me crying and smiling at the same time.

 They celebrate the courage, determination and spirit of couples in love during their most challenging times. Officially launched in January of 2010, Wish Upon a Wedding will have 30 chapters spanning across the United States by the end of 2012.

I am participating in the auction to help raise funds for the organization by auctioning off 75 custom made Wedding Cake shaped sugar cookies.


Ending October 31 2011, Wish Upon a Wedding hosts the largest nationwide online charity auction of its kind, offering hundreds of luxury products and services in the realms of weddings, travel, fashion and cuisine.
Items are carefully selected to help couples create the perfect wedding or event. Proceeds from these items will help make Wedding Wishes come true throughout the United States.

So,  head on over there and check it out. There are so many categories to choose from and bid on. Christmas is coming and you might find a great gift there and you will be helping such a worthy cause.

Thanks!

Halloween Cookies! Booooo!

It's that time of year already when the baking really begins and it kicks off with Halloween! I love making Halloween cookies. There are so many talented cookie decorators out there that use many different methods like royal icing or fondant. I prefer fondant and I like to use the royal icing to add accents to my fondant. Royal icing dries really hard but as far as taste goes I prefer the taste of fondant.

Hope you enjoy them! I especially like the skeleton face. Scary isn't it? Kinda reminds me of that all too famous mask from the movie  "I Know What You Did Last Summer" ....Creepy.

Happy Halloween everyone and let the Holiday eating baking begin!!!

Frosting For The Cause

Recently I came across a website that caught my attention. It was a blog that was posting stories from people who know women that have been affected by breast cancer. The idea was to invite cookie and cupcake makers and decorators to share their stories about that person and also share a recipe. This is a 365 day project, so every day a new submission is posted. Mine is today, October 15th.

I delivered this basket to Dr. Bonni Guerin and her staff at Medical Diagnostic Associates, P.A. in Summit, NJ. She and her Nurse Assistant Catherine were thrilled to receive the basket of treats. A special thank you to them for all of their hard work and dedication.

I can not tell you how honored I am to participate in this wonderful project. It was a great experience and it makes me feel good and also motivated to do something for such a worthy cause. In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I salute all of the women who are fighting their battle and wish them the utmost courage and hope. You inspire me and I am grateful for the opportunity to be sharing and giving in support of the fight against breast cancer. I will be making a donation to the Susan G. Komen Fund and I hope you will too.

You can check out my blog post on the Frosting For The cause website at www.FrostingForTheCause.com.