Pinwheels and Cupcakes

Happy September 1st!! I hope everyone had a great summer, I know we did with lot's and lot's of birthday cakes! Here's a great way to end summer with a colorful fun filled 1st birthday!

I had the pleasure of being apart of this little boy's 1st birthday! Maryanne (the birthday boy's mom) did such a great job decorating and thinking of every detail !!! This party look like load's of fun! Special thanks to Crystal Garcia for the fabulous pictures! You can see more of her work here http://www.crystalgarcia.com/

Hope you all enjoy these pictures as much as I did!!

Carnival Birthday!

We had the pleasure to work with Karie Potts for another one of her fabulous parties! Karie is so talented from photography to invitation design! We based most of the design of the cake off of the invitation and add a few other carnival ish items, we had so much fun creating the cake! Here are a few pictures from her party, ENJOY!

To see more of Karie's work visit her at http://www.kandkphotographyonline.com/

We made "cotton candy" out of marshmellows and then airbrushed them. NOTE to all: Real cotton candy will slowly shrink and dissolve into nothing (like it does in your mouth) in this lovely louisiana humidity, we learned the hard way ha ha ha!

They even made funnel cakes! mmMMmm,,,

Wedding Bliss

We had the pleasure to do this sweet couples wedding cake(s) and mini cupcakes. When I first met with Hannah I knew this was going to be a great wedding to work on. She had great style and completely trusted us to come up with a great design. We went off of our beaded rose cake used for this

http://socialbitesofruston.blogspot.com/2010/02/photo-shoot.html

photo shoot as inspiration. We wanted to keep it more classy with pearl beads and a hint of pale pink roses. She was open to mix it up a little by adding mini cupcakes to the display. The wedding cake flavors included: italian cream cheese cake, strawberry cake with fresh strawberries, vanilla cake with buttercream. The mini cupcake flavors were chocolate cake with cream cheese, red velvet cake with cream cheese, chocolate swirl cake with buttercream.

Thanks Hannah and Brian for allowing us to be apart of your special day!

Thank you Kelly Moore Clark for the pictures, you rock! To see more of kelly's work check her out here:

http://kellymoorephotography.com/

T-shirts and a little giveaway!

We now have T-shirts for all you Social Bites lovers!
I think this calls for a giveaway. All you need to do is post on your blog, facebook, or twitter "Social Bites has t-shirts! want one? www.socialbitesofruston.com". Then comment with a link to your post, you must comment with your link, this is your entry to the giveaway.

Sorry, this giveaway is now over.
The winner will be determined by http://random.org/

And the winner is....... Jennifer Tingle!

Adult Small- XL
$15

Adult 2X & 3X
$17

Thank you to Libby Gifford for the awesome design!

Vintage Dream

We were contacted by Valarie from Southern Fete Event Planning about doing another photo shoot. Of course I was jumping up and down.I counldn't WAIT to work with Valerie again. Check out our last photoshoot together: http://socialbitesofruston.blogspot.com/2010/02/photo-shoot.html She directed me photographer's website who's vision was to create this photoshoot and I was BLOWN away. I fell in love with her work. I was stoked that they wanted us to be apart of their vision! After I recieved their inspiration board I started sketching right away! I had just received this button mold I had been dying to use for a cake, and then I went searching antique stores looking through old jewelry to make molds out of. I found a few pieces and began working on my vision for the cake. I used lace, vintage brouches, buttons, pearls, and a hint of ribbon. All of which are my favorite things! Courtney also thought it would be fun to have some desserts. Well... of course I was stoked about doing that! We did mini pecan pies, banana pudding shooters, chocolate chip cookies, and a new item homemade mini peach pies! I am super excited to show you guys these images. I couldn't believe all of these ladies attention to detail from the props to the invitations, and much more. This was truly awesome experience. I want to thank Courtney, Valerie,Katie and David for showin' off our desserts so well, Cherie for traveling, helping, and all of your creativity, and Anne for allowing us to use her kitchen for prep!

Here are a few images. Also visit Courtney's blog for more pictures and storyline :)
http://www.dellafiora.com/blog

Growing up:)

I would like to start out by thanking ALL of you for being so supportive of Social Bites.
When I first started this little biz in September of '07 I honestly had no expectations. I thought, man wouldn't it be cool to have this as a full time "job" one day. Quickly that "one day" became a "right now". I was so overwhelmed with the response of people wanting MY cakes, something I came up with. It was such a weird feeling of people paying MONEY, real MONEY, to have something that I created.
Let me give you a quick background of where we began. I worked out of my parents house for quite awhile (almost 2 years) until I knew I completely out grew it and certain circumstances came along where I HAD to move. Well we searched for about 3 days when we received a phone call about a place that was for sale.It was truly a God thing, It was a little portable building that had to be moved but it came with most of the equipment needed. We jumped on the opportunity and now we have a little shop still located by my parents house. I was super excited to "have a place of my own" all of my cake "junk" was in 1 place!
I then quickly realized that I needed help. When I was working out of my parents house I would always have some family member doing something, whether I had my dad (who just walked in from a hard days work) mold me fondant figurines, or have my Mom (the perfectionist) make me what seemed like 100 buckets of icing, my brother roll out fondant or make bra and panty petit four toppers (we still make fun of him for that)or my sweet hubby to ice cookies. In this new place I had none of the free labor. I searched around and had emails of people looking for employment. This was a tough one for me, I have NEVER had an employee, I was only 21 years old. How in the world could I "boss someone around??" Well this is still a daily struggle but I think I am finally going in the right direction, I now have a employee,and just hired the 2nd!!! Is this real??
This business has completely changed me, I am constantly looking for inspiration, adding new things to the menu, thinking of business ideas and how to improve. I am still learning how to run a business. Sometimes I walk in the door and I have 10 messages on my voicmails, 14 unread emails and I am so completely overwhelmed. I am trying to do the best I can. Sometimes I make a mistake on a cake, or forget to call someone back, or think I have emailed someone back when I havent. I am asking for all of y'all to forgive me. I am working on being the best I can. I know I can't always please EVERYONE, but I can sure try to please as many people as I can. Happy Customer's = Happy Heather. Sometimes we as people want to point out only the flaws, I do this if I have a bad experience at a place of business, then I sit back and I say "Heather, think about this as if this was your business, do you want people to talk bad about you? Then my whole attitude changes.
Again, I am so BLESSED to have this business. We cannot WAIT to see what our future holds and we hope you continue to help us GROW GROW GROW!!

Dessert Bar -Ross + Rachel

I was given the opportunity to create my first dessert bar for a couple of pretty awesome people (Ross and Rachel)! The wedding was held at Lincoln Parish Park. It was the perfect day for a wedding! I was so excited to have this opportunity and I thank Ross, Rachel, and Kelly for thinking of me! Of course I have to thank my wonderful hubby and my parents for helping me at the last minute:). Brandi- Your vision was amazing!Thank you to Mrs Shannon Inman for the awesome calligraphy! You can see her work at www.paperglaze.com. Lastly thank you to the Moore family for all of your love and support!
Photos by: Kelly Moore

Here are the desserts: