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Camille Gallant-Gotta and I have been friends for over twenty years now. Sometimes your just lucky, I know I am. Who would have ever thought when I was thirteen I would grow up to be a cake artist and have a local wedding cake business and that Camille would play the harp professionally and we would even end up working some of the same events. Pretty amazing. I can tell you she is fantastic, her music is beautiful and she is very professional. I have added 9 of her songs to my page here on imatt… Continue

Ordering a creative flavor and getting an amazing cake that fits your tastes and preferences does not have to be intimidating. Learn how to order outside the box and have something custom at your next event!

I love being creative and inventing something custom for my client. Many clients enjoy this but do not know how to go about placing an order for something other than a standard cake they have had a thousand times before. Ordering something fun and different is exciting. My favorite way to g… Continue

Flowers, Flowers and more Flowers! Forty four labor hours of gum paste flower making went into this cake! Never mind the labor hours baking, icing and delivering. Whew! I am sitting on the sofa sipping a warm drink after having completed this one!!!!! It is still the moment when you bring the cake in the room and the family ohhhs and ahhhs and the photographer rushes to take pictures that the exhaustion turns into elation and we cake decorators of the world remember why we’re in this business an… Continue

I am so glad I went to the World pastry forum this past summer! I feel like each new rose I make looks better than the one before it. I cannot wait to see people’s faces this weekend when I deliver their cakes encrusted in these flowers. I just love them, of course I’ve always had an obsession with roses anyway. When everyone else was doodling in school I was sketching roses trying to make my drawings look more realistic each time. Now it’s sugar roses! Who would have ever imagined. I did tell m… Continue