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While we prefer to use our usual, familiar, top-quality ingredients in Berliosca cakes, we try to be flexible when customers have particular requests. Elle’s mom, Deidre, knew exactly what kind of ladybug cupcakes she wanted after enjoying Berliosca’s cakes at two parties she had attended in the past. For Elle’s birthday, Deidre wanted 100% organic. [...]

Who would have guessed that stereos and record players could be such a popular theme for cakes? For Berliosca, it all started with the boom box cake for Monte’s 80’s-themed birthday party. From that portable cassette player, we moved on to an old-fashioned turntable to celebrate Tony’s greatest hits, as well as his 60th birthday. [...]

. Madeline’s aunt contacted Berliosca all the way from New York to order her birthday cake. Happily, the party was in Vancouver, so we didn’t have to worry about shipping logistics. Panda bears are really important to the family and the cake design was taken from a t-shirt that the little birthday girl was going [...]

When Lauren contacted me to order a rectangular cake with decoration based on a poster that really just had text on it, we never imagined how special it would turn out to be. The cake was based on the poster for a documentary film called Helvetica. Helvetica is an independent feature-length documentary about typography and [...]

I learn a lot when researching the cakes I make. For example, I’ve learned about everything from juvenile arthritis to 3-D animation techniques because of cake requests. I have also dissected a tiger lily in the name of cake-science. This summer, thanks to an 11-year-old Titanic aficionado, I learned that contrary to our image of [...]

Katie, my fellow straw-stealer (don’t ask), recently commissioned a cake for her 21st birthday. She has been working this summer at the store where I share kitchen space, so we often spend hours chatting and laughing while I do my designing and sculpting. She keeps me from talking to inanimate gumpaste figurines, so I probably [...]

The gentleman who commissioned this bikini cake, as well as the birthday boy, really appreciated the intricate details and, shall we say, textures of the buxom torso. Some customers are easier to please than others… While we’re on the subject, clicking the pink button on this site gets you karma points in promoting breast cancer [...]

Apparently the birthday lady wrote the words “no presents” right on the invitation, so my client creatively circumvented this rule by bringing Disco Cake to the theme party. I wonder if this guy was invited… .