AJ’s Moonlight Bakery Blog

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but sometimes it’s fun to recreate some of the excitement here.

Happy Birthday Erwin!

Jeanne
AJ’s Moonlight Bakery

All kids, and many kids at heart, recognize the Transformers logo. I don’t see and appreciate the complexity of many designs like this logo, until we make the cake.

Atti loves eveything that’s Transformers. His birthday had the Transformers decorations, bouncer, goodie bags, and of course, the Transformers Autobots Logo cake. Atti was excited as every new Transformer was revealed. I was happy to get a good hug for the cake. And I was glad to hear Atti’s dad show off the cake, explaining that the painting on the Autobot face and Transformers logo is exactly like the real thing.

Atti ~ I was excited to be there when you came into this world six years ago, and I love getting to see you grow up. Happy Birthday Atti!

Auntie Jeanne
AJ’s Moonlight Bakery

I’ve just recently discovered blogging communities and blogs on blogs when I found this! Brittney Gilbert from Eye on Blogs on cbs5.com writes about local blogs and posted a review of the AJ’s Moonlight Bakery blog. We’ve been excited about the reviews we’ve received from our clients, and now this is great to get a local plug for the blog on cbs5.com.

Cute!: Charming San Jose Cake Blog

Check out the First Unitarian Church Flaming Chalice Celebration Cake, the Deluxe Scrabble Board Cake, and Tweedledum and Tweedledee Sweet 16 cake to see works of the works of art. This blog is a great example of a business using the medium of blogging to market itself in a highly effective way. Seriously, now I’m craving cake.

Sweet!

Check out Eye on Blogs to find more local bloggers that Brittney Gilbert has discovered.

This lemon cake with lemon buttercream frosting celebration cake is decorated with the flaming chalice and symbols of the First Unitarian Church in Downtown San Jose for the ordination of Jennifer Debusk. Delivery was a little tricky with Jennifer going down the same hall that we were walking down with the cake.

First hidden behind many people, and then out of sight with the cake, we were shown to the cake table. Many ladies surrounded the cake to marvel at the realistic symbols around the cake, and ask what the symbols were made of and how they were made. Despite speculation that we found molds of these symbols, they were actually hand-sculpted by Amy. She studied the church flyer to be certain to get the symbols just right.

The ladies were so impressed, they had to show us the actual large symbols lined up around the altar. It was great to see these impressive symbols after looking at the pictures for so long to make the miniatures.

If you’re downtown, go visit the First Unitarian Church on 3rd Street. Everyone there is extremely friendly and will welcome you with open arms.

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This letter was forwarded to us by Kelly who worked with us on the design of Jennifer’s cake:

Dear Kelly,

Wow! I continue to bask in the afterglow of my ordination. Thank you so much for being in charge of the delicious meal. Many people commented on the wonderful food and helped themselves to seconds. And what an amazing cake! Beautiful, artistic, and delicious. How perfect for an ordination that celebrates the arts and nourishment of the body and soul.

I have attached for you a couple photos as fond memories of my ordination. Once again, thank you for making this celebration so special!

Blessings,
Jennifer

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Thanks for sharing with us! It was a pleasure to be included in this special occasion.

Congratulations to Jennifer Debusk on her Ordination!

Jeanne
AJ’s Moonlight Bakery

For ordering information, email me at Jeanne@AJsMoonlightBakery.net or visit AJsMoonlightBakery.net.

Manny is raising his daughter, Annalise, right. Just like daddy, she’s a Sharks fan. Manny admitted that he wanted the cake for himself, but he can get his own on his birthday.

Happy Birthday, Annalise!

Jeanne
AJ’s Moonlight Bakery

This is Sharks territory.

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Shana’s sister, Maria, loves Scrabble. This cake was designed to look like the Deluxe Scrabble board that sits on a wood base with wood trays and tiles. It’s a delicious combination of chocolate cake with chocolate cream cheese filling and white chocolate buttercream frosting.

We had to play the game to figure out how to get these requested words on the cake: “Happy Birthday Maria”, “Beatles”, “tattoo”, “trees”, and “Obama”. Some of the rest of the jumbled letters were put in the trays surrounding the cake. We had memories of getting the tray with all of the high points letters. Our guess is that Maria knows just how to use them.

I’m just wondering if Maria showed Shana her tray in front that spelled “sisters”.

Jeanne
AJ’s Moonlight Bakery

To see more cakes, and for ordering information, please visit www.AJsMoonlightBakery.net.

Austen celebrated her achievement of making 2nd degree black belt with her first cake ever. We received an inquiry from Austen’s mom, Jeannine, requesting a gluten-free cake since Austen is allergic to wheat. My own mom is allergic to more foods than can be written on both sides of a 3×5″ card in small letters. We’re sympathetic to people that cannot enjoy what many of us take for granted as everyday foods. However, allergies are tricky, and we’re not nutritionists. Knowing Austen’s story and that her mom wanted a great decorated cake, we were moved to do something special for her.

Jeannine worked out a deal with us where she would buy a couple of gluten-free cakes from Whole Foods, and we would cut and assemble it into a 4-tiered cake that we could frost, drape in fondant, and decorate. Austen drew the design that showed all the belts you must achieve before getting the 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Shooting stars, silver ribbons, dragees, and her Tae Kwon Do figure with the 2nd degree black belt also decorate the cake.

When Austen finally saw the cake that she designed, she was speechless. Her mom and sister kept exclaiming, “It’s gorgeous.” Her dad just stared before saying, “You rock, dude.” Obviously we do this to make a living, but the real payoff is seeing a person’s reaction. And when we heard Austen say “I can’t believe that’s my cake”, we knew we did a good job. Congratulations, Austen! You designed an awesome cake and made the great achievement of 2nd degree black belt!

We encourage feedback on our cakes, and were happy to receive this letter:

Hi Amy,

The cake was AMAZING!!!! An incredible work of ART….and it tasted really delicious! Comments when people saw it for the first time WOW! This is Awesome! Are you really going to cut this piece of art? Some people just stared at it and commented on all the spectacular details. Thank you, thank you so very much. You made Austen extremely happy on her very special day. It was a goal achieved for her to receive her 2nd Degree Black Belt and a dream come true to have a very special
cake that she could eat for her celebration.

Much continued success with your wonderful bakery.

Thank you for a FABULOUS Cake.

Jeannine

Jeanne
AJ’s Moonlight Bakery

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The first year of a baby’s life is full of firsts. First smile, first step, first laugh. Jashunpan’s parents wanted to celebrate his first birthday with a cake that shows what he has learned in that critical year, his first words: tabla (the Indian drums), socks, airplane, brush, ball, sports car, balloons, and blueberries.

Jeanne
AJ’s Moonlight Bakery

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California is not only a destination for vacations and honeymoons, but also weddings. So when a couple comes from Rhode Island to get married, of course their 1969 Volkswagon Bug comes with them.

We received a picture of the exact car to make, including their license plate. The car was sculpted out of coconut cake with coconut buttercream into the classic VW Bug shape.

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a Rhode Island plate, but when a specific element is requested, we study it to get the details just right. Can you see the light blue wave in the license plate?

AJ’s Moonlight Bakery

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My dream boat is a sailboat that I can take in the bay, under the Golden Gate bridge, and out to the ocean. Robert’s dream boat is the Fleming 55 Yacht.

We brought this cake to Robert’s birthday party through the busy streets of Santana Row up to the Cielo Restaurant and Bar on the top of Hotel Valencia. It’s so much fun walking with a showstopper cake, seeing the surprise and amazement on people’s faces, and hearing the recognition that we’re carrying a cake like what they’ve seen on the Food Network’s Ace of Cakes. The comparison is an absolute honor.

Robert’s other love is the barbeque. Robert is the captain of the BBQ and the “Hungwah” yacht at his birthday party adventure cruise. Happy Birthday!