Category Archives: General Cakes

Let Them Eat Cake!

For today’s blog, we want to showcase a few of our most recent Cabo wedding cakes! Cabo is actually a very small town and there are not many of us making American-style wedding cakes for our Cabo brides so we are proud to have such a coveted spot and to be so well-loved by our brides.


We have a large variety of flavors & fillings, and we know what your guests want, what they are expecting from your wedding cake. Some of our most popular flavors are: lemon cake with lemon curd filling, Mexican chocolate cake with white chocolate filling, and white almond cake with hazelnut mousse filling. We always recommend a butter cream frosting as we can be a bit warm here for your Cabo wedding! For more detailed information regarding our cakes and other desserts, please check out our Cakes section of our website.

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We are here to help you design and create the most amazing wedding cake for your Cabo Destination Wedding. (We also provide flowers & events rentals as well.)

 

Cactus Cupcakes: Add some Baja to your wedding dessert table!

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Kyle & Lauren, like many of our brides & grooms, wanted to incorporate a bit of Baja into their Los Cabos wedding! What better way to do that than to include a cactus or two into their wedding cake design! They decided to  add some “cactus” cupcakes to their wedding cake.

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They are a popular request, our cactus cupcakes! We provide them for rehearsal dinners, as favors, as part of the wedding cake set-up…or just for fun parties!

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We also can design succulent cupcakes (in the same family as a cactus cupcake, but with more of a succulent look.)

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There are all kinds of ways to play with this fun trend! (And, by the way, these are all completely edible. Our cake designer creates the “cacti”  and “succulents” out of fondant, candy bars, cookies, brown sugar, frosting and more.)

For this kind of cupcake fun & more…please contact Donna Gray @ caboflowersdfb@gmail.com.

 

 

 

 

Groom’s Cakes…some fun for your special guy!

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We love our Cabo brides and truly delight in creating beyond-their-wildest-dreams beautiful wedding cakes, but…we love our grooms too! We love the fun and creativity we get to incorporate in dreaming up the perfect groom’s cake…just like these! Sports fan? Check! We’ve got a cake for him!

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Special hobby? Unique pleasure? Really into cigars? No problem, using fondant, and other magic we’ve got up our sleeves, a cigar box cake like this is easy-peasy…and really is a cake, that we can slice and serve…and it tastes great too!

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Take a minute to peruse some of our latest fabulous groom’s cakes…

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and then contact us so we can get started on your groom’s cakes for your amazing Cabo wedding!

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What’s On Top Of Your Cabo Wedding Cake Matters

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When designing your Cabo wedding cake, one of the things we always want to talk about is: how will you top your cake? It’s an important question because your cake topper plays an important part of your wedding cake cutting celebration.

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Your cake topper for your Cabo wedding is a perfect chance for any destination wedding bride to bring a bit of home with her and to make her mark on her wedding decor!  This bride and groom brought this cake topper with them, with H as the initial for their newly shared last name, and with a silhouette design of their beloved dog they’d left at home for the week-end. They made their wedding cake personal…for them!0750KJWPP

Photo credit: Pink Palm Photography/Wedding Planner: Katie Thompson, Dazzle ‘Em Event Design

Whether your cake is for  a vow renewal, like the picture below…

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Contact us today for a quote or just some good old fashioned advice about how to create your once-in-a-lifetime wedding cake!

4 Ideas You Can Steal From Wedding Cake Trends in 2016

2016 is still a new year, so it’s not too late to continue looking at wedding trends! Our focus this blog is…the coolest new wedding cakes.  The trends in wedding cake design are fun and colorful…perfect for a Cabo wedding!  Check out our favorite 4 trends for 2016 – we are excited to create these for you! So…let’s get started…

Trend #1: The naked cake in CHOCOLATE! (Yes, the naked cake was really popular in 2015, but almost always in vanilla or a neutral color/flavor. For 2016, the hip way to create this cake is by embracing the chocolate, and letting it all hang out!)

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Trend #2: Gold flaking on the cake! Not the whole cake…just a touch of shine. Let that cake glow!

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Trend #3: The color drip! It’s actually a sweet flavored icing – delish – that also adds a touch of the creative to your cake design.

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Trend #4: The geometric wedding cake! Either the shape of the actual cake or the shape of the design on the cake…both options are magical!

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DO YOU KNOW HOW TO CUT YOUR WEDDING CAKE?



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This may seem like a very simple question, but we here at Cabo Flowers & Cakes actually hear it a lot.  And the reason is…there is a ceremony that goes with cutting your wedding cake!  Even when you are in Cabo, for your Cabo wedding! We’ve all seen it a hundred times before at weddings where we’ve been a guest, but when you are actually in Cabo, cutting your own wedding cake, it feels different!  This is YOUR cake and you are the one who has to cut it!  If you are working with a Wedding Planner (and we recommend that you do…contact us for our recommendations), she will know how to do the cake cutting, so follow her instructions. If not,…here’s how:

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  1. You should have a separate cake table, decorated beautifully, with a linen, candles, and of course flowers from Cabo Flowers & Cakes! The table should be located in a central area, where there is plenty of room for your guests to stand in front of it, while you two stand behind it. (The table can be moved into this more central area right before the cake cutting time if you want it to.  Just don’t move the table with the cake ON it.  No cake crashes, please!)

2.  Your cake should be on a cake stand on the table (again, have a professional move the cake onto the stand, on the table.) Also on the table should be your cake cutting knife and your cake server.  If you want your champagne glasses on the table, that is fine too.

3.  You also need a small plate, a napkin, and two forks.  These should be set up behind the cake, which is facing your guests.

4.  When it is time to cut your cake, your DJ should begin playing your pre-selected cake cutting song, and the MC should ask your guests to gather around the cake cutting table. Your MC can narrate the cake cutting if you are comfortable with that.

5.  Know ahead of time which layer you are going to be cutting into.  (Some cakes have fake tiers and you do not want to cut into that!)  You will normally cut into the bottom tier of your cake.

6.  With both bride and groom holding the knife, make a small slice in the cake.  Go all the way through, from the top to the bottom of the cake.  Most cakes will have their bottom tier on some type of cakeboard.  You don’t need to cut that.

7.  Then, together, grab the cake server, and place that under the little cake slice and gently lift the cake slice onto the plate.

8.  Using the server, cut the slice into two bite size pieces.

9.  Determine ahead of time whether you will be feeding each other cake from your fingers or your forks.  Forks?  Each use a fork to place the cake in the other’s mouth.  Fingers, go one at time (bride first), placing the bite size piece in our spouse’s mouth. Gentle or smearing icing all over the place? That’s up to you!

10.  Enjoy this traditional moment!  And make sure the photographer was there the whole time getting photos!

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Make sure that, for your destination wedding in Cabo San Lucas or San Jose del Cabo, Cabo Flowers & Cakes is the one to supply your wedding cake!

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By The Sea: Beach Inspired Yummies for your Wedding

Yes, we know, Cabo is one of thBlue sea and flowerse top destinations for a beach weddings (if not THE top destination!)  Our ocean is teal blue, our Cabo beaches are golden, and the sunsets are truly painted with an artist’s brush!  So, we here at Cabo Flowers and Cakes get it, the beach and the ocean are truly inspirations for your event.

That’s why we think you should consider including a Cabo beach theme as part of your wedding treats…whether it’s your actual wedding cake or maybe some other type of treat (see our cute beachy cupcakes below.)

Cabo Flowers and Cakes specializes in white chocolate and/or milk chocolate shells, that you can use to decorate your wedding cake.  (Look closely and see how adorable this cake topper is!)  The shells can also be colored (think coral for star fish or just get creative) to match your theme.

 

fun beach cupcakesTo be used as an after-event treat, we can create these cupcakes with sunglasses, flip flops or palm trees.  (Get creative and let us know what else you’d like to include…we are always open to your ideas!)

This wedding cake below showcases some of our white chocolate shells options.  We can also include Bride/Groom sea horses as a cake topper, if that’s what you’d like.

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Let Cabo’s beaches inspire you…let Cabo Flowers and Cakes help you create a wedding cake or wedding treat that fits with this ocean theme!

YES, YOUR CAKES NEEDS A STAND!

OK, Cabo brides, we know how it is with cakes.  You’ve done your research, you’ve searched your heart (you may have even drawn sketches) and you’ve done your cake tasting.  You’ve finally determined your perfect wedding cake, and you’ve submitted your fabulous ideas to us!  Good job!

But, as we look over your order, we notice…something is missing!  What exactly is your stunning wedding cake going to stand on?  Yes, you need a cake stand!

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A cake stand completes your look! A cake stand makes a 3-tier cake appear to be a 4-tier cake, or your 2-tier appear to look like a 3-tier. (You get the idea!) A cake stand keeps your cake  about 6” off your beautiful linen.  And a cake stand is one more decor element that you can use to add dazzle and elegance to your overall Cabo wedding. It also makes your cake easier to cut (raises it to cutting level) and looks great in pictures.

Convinced?  If not, then take a look below at some of our gorgeous cake stand options that might work beautifully for your Cabo Flowers and Cakes wedding cake.  Let us know your favorite!  (Plus we custom design cake stands, too, if needed.)

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BLACK AND WHITE WEDDING: A CAKE TO MATCH

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As black and white themed weddings have become more popular (even at destination wedding locations like Cabo San Lucas), we’ve upped our game when it comes to cake decor.  Black and white wedding cakes have become high-end and on-trend, and we here at Cabo Flowers & Cakes are specialist for this type of cake.

Here are some examples of how a black and white wedding cake stays traditional, elegant and yet unique.  A few things to be aware of for a black and white Cabo wedding cake:

1.   An expert cake designer, like we have on staff at Cabo Flowers & Cakes, must make sure your colors do not run!  The black stays black, and the white stays white.  This is the #1 consideration when creating a beauty like these cakes.P1010074

2. Keep it classy!  One way to do this is to have more white than black on your wedding cake.  This keeps your cake amazing, not scary.P1020208

3. Pull in the decor from your bridal attire and/or event decor.  Black polka dots or stripes on your event linens?  Pull that theme into your cake decor as well.

In the end, a black and white cake is a perfect way to pull together all of your black and white event decor.

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CUPCAKES VS. CAKES – WHICH IS BEST FOR YOUR EVENT?

Remember being a kid and loving the cupcakes your Mom brought to school on your birthday?  People have always loved cupcakes…they’re cute, individual and easy to eat.  Face it, they’re fun!  It’s no different here in Cabo…we love our cupcakes too. 

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But cupcakes for your Cabo wedding?
Cupcakes have reached a new level of popularity with many of the cupcake reality shows like  “The Cupcake Girls” and “Cupcake Wars.”  However, unlike in the States, here in Cabo we don’t have a speciality cupcake shop on every street corner.  Therefore, if you want a cupcake, you need to order one from us, Cabo Flowers and Cakes.
But, again, the question, cupcakes for your Cabo wedding?
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Sure, if you want them!  Wedding cakes have always reigned supreme and probably always will.  But cupcakes add a touch of whimsy to what can be a very serious affair (your wedding!)  The brides that choose cupcakes do so for the following reasons:
  1. Fun!
  2. A variety of flavors
  3. As a unique decor item
  4. As part of a larger dessert bar
  5. In conjunction with a wedding cake
So, go ahead, order cupcakes for your Cabo wedding!  Let us know what flavors you want (yes, you can add a filling to a cupcake as well) and we’ll help you design something that will make your guests smile (and grab a chocolate one AND a strawberry one!)  Because, sometimes, with cupcakes, just one won’t do.