Flavors

cup_cakes_01The Components

These are just suggested and what we commonly work with. We also do custom flavors. However, not all flavors are available for all cake types.

Cake Flavors:

  • White/yellow
  • Decadent chocolate
  • Devil’s Food / Red Velvet
  • Rum
  • Toasted nut
  • Lemon/Orange
  • Pumpkin
  • Carrot
  • Green tea
  • Browned butter
  • Toasted Coconut
  • Apple

Icings:

  • Meringue butter cream: Light and rich at the same time and not too sweet. This delectable butter cream is the standard.
  • Mousseline butter cream: A bit richer and more flavorful than the meringue butter cream. This one incorporates egg yolks as well. Not recommended for hot temperatures.
  • American butter cream: Classic Duncan Hines-style frosting
  • Rolled Fondant: A pliable sugar dough that is used to coat and decorate cakes. It tastes like marshmallows, but is also available in white chocolate and chocolate.
  • Ganache: Rich and dense cream-infused chocolate; the frosting equivalent of a truffle.*
  • Chocolate Glaze: Shinier and lighter than ganache.*

*We use high-quality single-origin chocolate.

Fillings:

  • Lemon curd/ mousseline (many other flavors available)
  • Pastry Cream
  • Meringue butter cream
  • Mousseline butter cream
  • American butter cream
  • Marshmallow frosting
  • Fruit confits or jelly
  • Fresh fruit: Not available for all cake choices.
  • Salted Caramel: Caramel made from scratch and lightly salted with Fleur de Sel
  • Chocolate ganache: Made with single-origin chocolate from Central America.
  • Fresh homemade sweet ricotta

Butter creams / frostings:

  • Vanilla Bean: Made with seeds from Tahitian vanilla beans
  • Honey and Vanilla: Made with vanilla beans and raw honey from Provence
  • Buttermilk
  • Cream cheese
  • Praline nut: Made with praline powder homemade with real caramel and nuts
  • Chocolate: Made with single-origin chocolate from South America.
  • Peanut butter: Made only with natural peanut butter
  • Dulce de leche: Made with dulce de leche from scratch
  • Lemon/orange
  • Green tea
  • Creamy ginger
  • Coffee
  • Fruit: Seasonal local fruits from the farmers’ market
  • Maple: Made with real Vermont Maple sugar

Recommended combos:

  • Classic vanilla: White/yellow cake with vanilla bean pastry cream, frosted with vanilla butter cream.
  • Decadent chocolate: For true chocolate lovers- Decadent chocolate cake with Mousseline chocolate butter cream or ganache.
  • Carrot: Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting or buttermilk butter cream.
  • Neapolitan: Alternating layers of strawberry, chocolate and white cake, filled and frosted with vanilla butter cream or alternating layers of strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla butter creams.
  • Cherry Almond: Toasted almond cake with cherry vanilla butter cream.
  • Strawberry shortcake: Yellow cake with strawberry preserves or macerated strawberries and vanilla bean butter cream.
  • Tropical: Rum cake with pineapple/mango/passion fruit filling and coconut butter cream.
  • Spring: Lemon cake with blackberries and violet butter cream.
  • Summer: Browned butter cake with roasted peaches and blueberries and peach butter cream.
  • Autumn: Pumpkin cake with buttermilk butter cream or coffee butter cream.
  • Winter: Chocolate cinnamon cake with praline butter cream.

*Classics like Black forest cake and German Chocolate cake also available.

Kids’ combos:

  • Neapolitan: See above.
  • Strawberry shortcake: See above.
  • PB & J: Yellow cake filled with fruit preserves or jam and frosted with peanut butter butter cream.
  • “Hostess” Chocolate : Yellow or Devil’s Food cake, filled with marshmallow frosting, frosted with chocolate frosting or fudge glaze.
  • Lemon: Lemon cake with lemon butter cream.

Favors:

  • Cookies flavors: Old-fashioned sugar cookies, ginger cookies, lemon sable cookies, chocolate cookies, peanut butter cookies, ma-cha (green tea) cookies.
  • French macaroon flavors: Raspberry rose, Red fruits, Meyer lemon, blood orange, pistachio, green tea, blackberry violet, Tahitian vanilla bean, passionfruit, mango, hazelnut chocolate, espresso, salted caramel (fleur de sel). Flavors are completely customizable.
  • Truffle favors: Dark, Milk, and White chocolate available in customized flavors.