Styled Wedding Photo Shoot

I had a wonderful opportunity to work with The Wedding Girls and Laura Lorraine Designs when they asked me to design a cake for their Palm Springs wedding photo shoot! The directions were simple: geometric cake with a minimalistic design. MUSIC TO MY EARS! Since I knew we were going to be working in the desert, I threw in some sugar sculpted succulents onto the cake.  For more photos check out: http://www.brookemerrill.com/brookemerrillblog/2013/5/15/palm-springs-ca-styled-wedding       Credits: Event Read more [...]

Metallic Silver Wedding Cake

I recently had the honor of having my cake featured in a photo shoot by Spot N Photo!  The cake is a 4 tiered wedding cake and the top most tiered was made using edible 23k silver! The third ruffle tiered was designed using Maggie Austin as an inspiration.I had a great time working with Pablo from Spot n Photo! Here are the images: Read more [...]

Star Wars Wedding & Death Star Cake

I recently designed an entire dessert table for a wedding. Part of the table included the Death Star groom's cake for a huge Star Wars fanatic. When I say huge, I mean HUGE! I was told he even dressed up as Han Solo for the couple's first dance!! Here is a picture of their wedding countdown: I snapped pictures (unfortunately they are poor quality, I'm sorry!) during the process, so here is a small pictorial! But first, the final product: My team and I sculpted the Han Solo and Princess Read more [...]

Harsanik.Com Features Shakar Bakery!

Shakar Bakery - From Enginieering To Baking This week we are excited to feature Shakar Bakery on our blog! We recently met Shantal, owner of Shakar Bakery and we fell in love with her work! Shakar Bakery specializes in designer cakes that are unique and customized to your specifications and you can find out all about her work on the Shakar Bakery listing on Harsanik.com. We were very intrigued when we found out that Shantal has a Master's degree in engineering and relatively recently switched Read more [...]

Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend

Do you sometimes wonder how a business was discovered? What was it that set it off in a strong direction? There's always a special moment during the growth of a small business that helps set it apart from all the others. Mine was this cake, and its story has been long delayed.This blog gets personal...It's a rare insight that I choose to share with you. Back in March, while I was working on a very complex cake, I received a phone call from a good friend of mine, Manya, asking if I could put Read more [...]

Featured In Wedding Bells Magazine’s Blog!

Shakar Bakery's chocolate covered strawberries were featured on a Wedding Bells Blog!! We are so excited with this find, and are super grateful to Wedding Bells for sharing our work with their readers! Follow them on Facebook for updates! Click herefor the link, or see below for a pasted version: Wedding Bells Blog Previous Post planning 15 Ways To Incorporate Fruit Into Your Sweet Table Posted January 23rd, 2012 | 10:32 am ‹‹ Back to Post Image 15 of 15 ‹‹ Read more [...]