Ok, I guess Steeler games and Mardi Gras are not the most popular holidays, so how about Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years and Easter? Well, we have special creations for all of those, too.
Thanksgiving is our training for Christmas. It is definitely busy, but not as crazy as Christmas. We make stuffing bread, pack cookies and various other things for the days before Thanksgiving. We are busy for about 4 days before Thanksgiving day. When i say that we're busy, I don't think anyone that doesn't work there would truly understand. We open at 6 a.m. every morning, but on the day before Thanksgiving we have to open the doors at 5:30 because there are people waiting outside to be let in. Its the same with Christmas. Crazy, right?
This is my favorite item we sell for Thanksgiving.
It is a Pumpkin torte made from pumpkin spice cake and a cream cheese
icing for the filling. The decoration are made of icing and fondant leave.
Absolutely beautiful and delicious.
Next, white meat and dark meat cupcakes are popular with kids
as well as adults. They call the chocolate turkeys dark meat and the
yellow turkeys white meat.
Cute!
This chocolate log is made of delicious dark chocolate cake. It is rolled up with
our signature buttercream icing, and iced on top with creamy fudge icing.
Finally, its decorated by our very talented cake decorators.
Voila!
For days and days before Christmas, we pack cookies, make thousands of cookies trays (no, i'm not exaggerating), and get everything ready for everyone to put on their tables. No, we don't sleep much. Again, we let people in at 5:30 for 2 days before Christmas. The store is completely packed and ready throughout the day. Bakers bake around the clock. Decorators create wonderful images. Everyone puts all their energy into making it a great Christmas.
For Christmas this year, we had at least 4 people making cookie trays at all time.
Thousands we made, and by Christmas Eve at 3 p.m. we had to make more.
We close at 4 p.m. that day.
They were taking the trays out of our hands when we put them on the shelves.
These are 7 dozen cookie trays. We also have 2 dozen and 4 dozen trays.
This is the 3 tier snowman cake. You can get it in any batter.
Such a great seller!
This is our Santa cupcake cake. It has 2 dozen cupcakes all iced together
to form a cake. Its a simple solution when someone doesn't know how
to cut a cake. Just pull the cupcakes apart and get ready to devour.
Ah, New Years. By the time we live through Thanksgiving and Christmas, New Years is a piece of cake. No put intended.
Ringing in the New Year is made easy with the bell cupcake cake. Just like
the Santa cake, this is an easy cake for kids or just great to look at as a centerpiece.
This is my favorite cake we had this year. Also made of cupcakes, this cake
was a popular conversation piece sitting on our counters.
Finally, instead of getting drunk on actual champagne, pop open this cake.
Another cupcake cake that won't get you drunk, but will make you happy.
Easter brings us little lambs and bunnies. Oh my, how people love those cuddly-looking cakes. I know what you're probably thinking. Easter isn't a huge holiday for eating sweets. Well, you are wrong.
Look at this cute lamb. Don't you want one?
I know I did when i first saw it.
What about this bunny cake. I know--adorable.
Paska Bread is a popular Easter bread. It is a sweet dough.
Can be plain or with raisins. We can slice that for you, also.
Don't worry everyone, tomorrow you will learn about more holidays at the OB that you NEED to know about.
Oh my gosh, I CAN NOT believe you make thousands of those cookie trays a day! And they all look so good. I think my favorite cake(as far as appearance goes since I haven't actually had one yet) is the 2012 cake. It looked like so much fun to make!
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