Mix It Up DJ and Cakes Service

10/21/2024

Today’s wedding cake!

This 6-inch diameter, 4-layered carrot cake with cream cheese frosting for the filling and covered in vanilla buttercream frosting fits perfectly under the glass dome and just inside the rim of the gold stand. The only thing I could not add to the cake to fit the image they shared are a couple more flowers along the bottom edge of the cake. (Staff said they would add it later when it’s time to remove the glass cover).

Feedback: “Good morning! Thank you so much! We and the guests loved the cake!! It was absolutely beautiful and tasted amazing!! “

10/07/2024

Sunroof? Yeah .. I prefer it for looking at the stars.

10/06/2024

Congratulations Marissa and Tyler! 🎉

The Barn on Gobeille Farm in Sharon, VT is a beautiful venue with lots of options. The sunset last night just continued to get better with each passing minute! If you zoom in on the sunset photo you might be able to seen the crescent moon between the trees.

It was a beautiful VT Fall day!

09/29/2024

Two cakes and cupcakes this past Saturday.

The small birthday cake was for a birthday and the only decorative direction I was given was “Make is a ‘spooky and scary” theme but not specifically ’Halloween’”. So, I went with a haunted house look on one side and scary eyes on the other, with a blood red buttercream drizzle. She loved it! (As did her daughter). In fact, when my adult daughter saw it before I boxed it up she said, “Sick! Can I have that for my (Spring) birthday?!” 🤷🏼‍♂️😬

The wedding cake is a 3-tiered (4 layers per tier) “naked” finished vanilla cake with Maple buttercream filling for the top two tiers and cream cheese frosting filling for the bottom tier, all covered lightly in a vanilla buttercream frosting. The newlyweds loved it! I can’t wait to see the professional photographer’s photos!!

The 72 cupcakes are vanilla and chocolate with vanilla buttercream frosting on top.

I was also their Wedding DJ. Two for one! 😏😊🎉

09/22/2024

When you are the cake person .. you have extra Maple Buttercream frosting .. and they have cider donuts for a treat .. 🤔😏😉😊

09/13/2024

Just a little PSA .. 😏

09/03/2024

09/01/2024

Andrew & Olivia @ The Inn at Grace Farm in Fairfax, VT.

The weather was beautiful during the ceremony, but switched to rain just after the I troductions to the Reception. Fortunately, the clouds started to break providing a wonderful opportunity for rainbow photos, when sunset photos were originally in the plans.

Dinner was a taco bar with all of the fixings and was perfectly done, followed by a dessert table that had a small cake for their Cake Cutting, but primarily set up with a variety of cookies and some cupcakes (not made by me). Their Maple Cookies were fabulous!

The Bride & Groom selected some songs that fit their crowd perfectly and the dance floor was hopping from the first song right through to the end. Many songs had their guests singing loudly together as one big group, which is always great to see!

Congratulations!!

08/18/2024

Another 5-star Review received today! 😊

Congratulations Aaron and Terra! 🥂 🍻

08/18/2024

Another wonderful wedding to have been a part of! 😊🎉

08/18/2024

Congratulations to Aaron Fondry and Terra Plocic on your marriage today at the Tempson Barn!

The wedding cake is a 3-tiered lemon cake with a combination lemon curd and blueberry filling, decorated with a vanilla buttercream frosting, and decorated with live flowers set aside by their florist.

07/07/2024

Another wedding in the books!

It’s nice as I’m packing up my gear to overhear, “Best party ever!” 😊 Gives ya warm and fuzzies all over.

06/04/2024

Admittedly .. I’m not a SpongeBob SquarePants follower. In fact, when the kids were younger I didn’t let them watch the show, as it drove me nuts. 😬🤷🏼‍♂️

However, when a friend I’ve known since we were little asks for a SpongeBob-themed cake for their daughter’s high school graduation, you put your personal feelings aside and give it all you’ve got!

I’m quite happy how this 10-inch diameter, 4-inch tall, 4-layered marble cake with both chocolate and vanilla buttercream filling, covered with vanilla buttercream frosting turned out.

06/02/2024

Busy weekend .. DJing LI All-Class Reunion Friday night .. DJing Opening Day of St Johnsbury Baseball this morning .. DJing SJA Reunion Banquet on Brantview Drive this afternoon .. baking and decorating a birthday cake tomorrow (Sunday) .. then start prepping for next Saturday’s wedding to DJ.

05/21/2024

Death Cafe cake.

Cake orders are certainly picking up, almost as if they too have their own season, which would be a weird concept. There is always an excuse for cake. 😏

But anyway. A cake order I didn’t expect to get was for a “Death Cafe”. Excuse me .. Death Cafe 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️?!

Apparently, this is a workshop of sorts where people gather to talk about the various aspects of end of life stages and events. It includes topics like Living Wills, Paliative Care, Hospice, funeral plans and so on. Understandably, to a degree, a topic many of us do not like to discuss, if not completely avoid.

It’ll never happen to me, right? Well .. actually .. it will happen to ALL of us, eventually .. some of us more than once 😉😬😂.

So, in that sense of trying to keep such a heavy topic a bit on the lighter side to help make it easier to consume emotionally and mentally, when asked to make a cake for the event I thought “what about a Sugar Skull design?”

It’s related to the topic of death, yet is more about celebration of life and remembering those that have gone before us. Death will never be easy, and extremely difficult for some when losing close family and friends, but it is certainly tougher if we don’t discuss it and plan ahead. That’s what this Death Cafe was all about.

This was their first time presenting this event, but sounds like there will be more to come. So next time you see one advertised .. come for the discussion and education .. or come for the cake .. or .. come along for both. 🤷🏼‍♂️

(Oh .. the cake .. a 10-inch diameter, 4-layered, 4-inch tall Gluten-free, one half vanilla with vanilla buttercream filling and one half chocolate with chocolate buttercream filling, all covered in vanilla buttercream frosting)

05/18/2024

Baby Shower.

Here is the latest cake I made. An 8-inch, 4-layered funfetti cake with vanilla buttercream frosting.

I don’t often do buttercream flowers as I’m still learning how to do them. I think I just have a habit of overthinking it: placement, look, finishing touches, etc. I’ll just have to keep at it. Someday I’ll get it “right”.

03/20/2024

I am extremely humbled to see so many people wish me a “Happy Birthday!”; so many in fact that if I clicked “like” and responded to each one it just might take a full day. 😊

I read each and every one of them and truly appreciate you all for taking a moment of your day to think of me.

Thank you! ❤️ (I think I got to them all 🤔😊)