Valentine's Day Every Day

The Evil Cake Genius loves her some love.  Hearts and frills, a little bit of romance, and in this business...sugar...and lots of it.

Valentine's Day isn't just a flower holiday anymore.  Especially for us bakers who focus on wedding cakes.  That's why we created some of our best Valentine's Day Stencils to pull double duty for all of your wedding clients...after all, that's like Valentine's Day on steroids!

Let's start with LOVE:
Isn't that all you need?  Just ask the Beatles?  They knew it, and now they could eat it, with our LOVE Mesh Stencil Set in two sizes.  Here's the large one done up perfectly for some adorable little Valentine's Day Cupcakes and a pretty gorgeous Valentine's Cake

But, after the helium has seeped out of your Balloon bouquet, and you're sweeping up dead rose petals off of your floor, this stencil is still a keeper.  The Evil Cake Genius is DYING to see this bad-boy used on the side, or as a stand-up topper panel on a wedding cake.  Who's in?

How about some matching LOVE Cookie favours for the wedding guests?  We've got you covered.

Chalkboard Art:

It's all over Pinterest Wedding Boards, so we've reverse engineered this trend into the most adorable Chalkboard Cookies you've ever seen.  And it's a set, so after the only chocolates left in the heart shaped box are the lame pink fluffy nougat that you're not quite sure should be consumed by humans, you still have a gorgeous "Love" stencil for your Pinterest-y bridal clients.

Haven't tried using our Mesh Stencils yet?  They're so easy to use, you'll love them.  Oh, and stop wasting time piping around the edges of your sugar cookies and flooding them with Royal Icing.  Check out how we do things over in Evil Cake Genius Land.  Your piping hand will thank us, and you may even see the light of day on a cookie day for the first time in years.  Check out our Chalkboard Heart Cookie Video.

 How do I love thee...?
Well, more like how do I love Deb Williams Cakes use of our Vintage Poetry Mesh Stencil set on this Valentine's Day Cake? 

But what's more to love, is that these little bits of prose can be used to make the most charming cupcake or petit fours toppers you've ever laid mouth on.

Now, just for a little "OMG, cutest damn thing ever" check out these adorable little Chocolate Champagne Bottles.

After our Video of making these little sweeties for New Year's Eve went super-viral, we decided to add a Valentine's Day Champagne Bottle Set to our line up of Painfully Adorable Mini Champagne Bottle Molds and stencil sets.  And, wait for it....we just added a wedding set as well.  Insanely adorable favours.  And since they mold hollow, this Evil Genius is just waiting for pictures of wedding guests sipping Champagne out of straws stuck into the tops of these little sweeties!  Just heat up a large piping tip, and melt a hole right through the top, then let the caterers fill them with champagne as a mid-dance treat.  Boozy chocolate....doesn't get any better....


Inspired?  Or maybe a little drunk with power after watching that video?  You can shop all of our Valentine's Day Stencils HERE

Now settle down, go dig out that last pink goo-filled chocolate from last year's Valentine's Day box.  All this talk about chocolate has probably made you desperate enough to finish the job.  It's only a few weeks until you'll get a new box and you can be choosy again.  The Evil Cake Genius understands you....she just did the same....Ew...pink nougat...

The Origins of Spider-Ben...and Evil Cake Genius

People often ask how a mild-mannered cake lady transformed into The Evil Cake Genius.  I'd like to tell a tale of a radio-active cake spider, and an evil government plot to take over the world one cake at a time.  Alas, the story isn't quite that sexy...although it does involve Spiderman.

Travel with me, cakey sidekicks, to the year of our Lord 2010.

I was minding my own business, making a graduation cake for Ben.  A self-professed book-nerd and lover of all things video game and comic book related, he was my dream client for a grad cake.  I came away from the appointment with a list of new books and video games to try out in the off season, and one big problem.

How can this mild-mannered cake lady possibly do justice to a comic book classic, Spiderman, when the client is a true aficionado of the genre?  A hand-painted comic, would not only be imperfect, but would take an obscene amount of time, that in the middle of wedding and graduation season, simply isn't available.

So I looked into having a custom stencil cut.  But the level of detail I needed just couldn't be achieved without the stencil falling apart.  What I really needed was a stencil that was attached to a fine backer that could hold all of the individual pieces of the stencil together, but still let frosting go through. 

Ouch!

What was that?

I think I just got bit by a Radioactive spider.

And so was born, the Mesh Stencil (insert trumpet chorale here) and...the Evil Cake Genius.

To get the color, we made several photocopies of the original art, and cut out with an craft-knife, the areas that were to be red on one sheet, blue on another, and layered them over the Mesh Stenciled pattern and airbrushed teh color over them.  Pretty sweet...Spider-Ben approved.

Enter Misha.

The same week that we were making Ben's graduation cake, I had a design meeting with one of my brides, Misha.  When she brought in samples of the Toile fabric that she was having made into chair covers, I swooned and panicked all at once.  Mild-mannered cake lady wanted to include that gorgeous pattern on the cake, but was far too intimidated by the amount of hand-painted perfection it would require.  But Evil Cake Genius said "let's do it!" and promised Misha a cake covered in completely edible Toile ribbons.  The Spiderman victory had clearly inflated her cakey-ego.

So, Misha went on her merry way, and mild-mannered cake lady curled into the fetal position on her bakery floor, eating handfuls of chocolate chips, and swaying back and forth chanting "what have I done? ... what have I done?"

Evil Cake Genius just laughed her evil Bwa ha ha, and had another mesh stencil made. 

And, Cakey-sidekicks, that is how it all started.  Spiderman and Toile, like peas and carrots, right?

Now, to be truly evil, would be to hog all of this new cake-awesomeness for herself, but remember...mild-mannered cake lady is still in there holding steady, so we opened EvilCakeGenius.com (because Mild-ManneredCakeLady.com sounds lame) and have created thousands of Evil Cake Minions in the process.  Ahhh, Evil never felt so good.

Since then, we've added more Toile patterns to our collection.  A full-size Classic Toile, and even a charming-little-french-kids-doing-french-things Kid's Toile pattern in one or even two color!