Happy 2010! Remember to Have Your Cake and Eat It ,Too!! (Originally Posted on January 1st, 2010 @ http://bit.ly/8o1NHA )

Today on the first day of the year I am going to eat whatever I want to! You won’t hear me say, “Oh, no I am on a diet!” or “I can’t have any cake it’s my New Year’s resolution!” Nope, not me because on the first day of the year, I’m celebrating and I am going to do as little or as much as I want. Who wants to start a brand new year with self-placed restrictions? I’m all for discipline but restrictions? Certainly not this lady. I will save that for the second day of the year. January 1st will be a celebratory day of life’s simple pleasures and tasty indulgences in our household. It just might involve more than one piece of cake, too! ” OMG! No she didn’t?” Oh yes I did and I will!

My love for cake started a long time ago. I grew up in a household with two amazing cooks; my mom and my grandma. No bakery in New York could beat grandma’s homemade Granny Smith apple pies or mom’s pineapple upside down cake. So it’s really hard for me not to judge the taste of any pastry or cake, especially the most important of all…wedding cakes. I believe that a wedding should not only look good it must taste good, too.

Undoubtedly, the ladies in my family made yummy cakes but they didn’t look anything like these! At first it would be so hard for me to cut into these beauties…but if they taste as good as they look, I’d get over that in a NY minute! Especially if it was January 1, 2010!

This black and silver cake is by Judy Tallant of Tallant House. An amazing combination of sophistication. I am in love with the elegant simplicity of this cake.

It’s not hard to see why BethAnn Goldberg of Studio Cake won the 2009 Food Network Challenge. Her cakes are vibrant and cheerful much like BethAnn describes her self. I love the color pink and of all her cakes this is my personal favorite.

If you have “Martha Stewart’s Wedding Cakes” , then you’ve seen April Reed’s cakes. Her cakes are visually stunning and are like no other cakes out there. One of my favorite that I kept in a folder called “My Dream Cakes” was this “Monochrome Cake”, Madagascar vanilla bean cake, raspberry preserve, Plugra buttercreme, handmade Magnolia blossom, and Mokuba ribbon.

Cake Opera featured the first forest themed cake in Grace Ormonde Wedding Style fall 2009 issue. The color combination is cool yet sophisticated. Perfect for an enchanted dream wedding. I just had to say that. Cake Opera has been a fan of mine because like me, they seem to like all thing Parisienne and have a love for Marie Antoinette. Your gonna love these cakes!