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
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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
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It's not every day your 5th grade teacher finds and adds you on Facebook! I was so excited to reconnect with my favorite elementary school teacher. She is one of the few people who helped shape me into the person I am today. Growing up in an Armenian community wasn't always easy and thinking "outside the box" used to be very unconventional during my youth and more often than not I stuck out like a sore thumb amongst my peers. But this teacher embraced my "weirdness" and encouraged my imagination 
The most common question a baker will ask is: how many cake tiers do I need for X amount of guests? Cake tiers range from 4" in diameter to 18+" (it must be pretty awesome to have an oven large enough to accommodate 20" diameter pans!) and are usually 4-5" in height.
When I was an amateur baker I took a lot of care in measuring my cake pans to calculate the correct servings. Thanks to my engineering background I even used math for my calculations! My equation was simple for a 2" tall cake:
C=πD 
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:
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 
Valentine's day can be a little cliché - a box of chocolates being one of the biggest. I don't know about you, but I've always appreciated romance a lot more when effort was put behind a gesture. This Valentine's day treat your loved one with a sweet surprise that will not only please both your palates, bellies and chocolate loving souls, it will make it more personal and memorable (besides, we all know the fastest way to win a person's heart is through their stomachs).
Sweet Surprise #1
Ingredients:
1 
I'm not a fan of condensed milk. There, I said it. I feel a lot better now! Why add all that extra fat and sweetness to a coconut macaroon??? After researching alternatives, this is the recipe I concocted to create gluten-free macaroons!
Ingredients:
1 whole egg
4 egg whites
1/4 cup honey
2 tbsp coconut flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 package sweetened shredded coconut
Pre-heat oven to 350°F
In a small bowl whisk the whole egg until smooth. Add honey, coconut flour, 
From the Library of Congress:
"The centuries-old Armenian tradition agra hadig is celebrated worldwide by Armenians, no matter where they live -- Armenia, Turkey, Lebanon, Iran, or the U.S. Agra means "tooth," and hadig refers to a traditionally cooked wheat dish eaten on this occasion. The agra hadig celebrates the appearance of the baby's first tooth. The mother props the infant up on a table or on the floor and places five objects in front of the child; the first object the baby selects 
Today I remembered I had left over heavy cream and decided to make dark chocolate pudding! Feel free to substitute the dark chocolate with milk chocolate, but make sure you reduce the sugar by half to compensate sweetness!
Here's an original Shakar Bakery recipe! Makes 4 servings.
Ingredients
1 cup milk
2 cups heavy cream
1 cup coconut sugar
1/2cup unsweetened Ghiradelli dark chocolate
2 tbsp Corn Starch
1/2 stick organic butter
Pour milk and heavy cream into a sauce pan and