Ice This Cakes

Mom's with Cameras Workshop

2012-01-31T09:50:00.000-08:00

Hello Friends! It's been a while since I posted much but last week I was able to hook up with my dear friend Evin of Evin Photography in Franklin for her Mom's with Camera's workshop. It was a lovely night full of lots of camera info, fun girl time and good food. I provided a few desserts for everyone to munch on and Evin sent me the beautiful photos! She is amazing and makes my food look better than I could ever imagine! She will be hosting another workshop in March so look out for more info on her site, www.evinphotography.com If you have kids you will not want to miss this super informative night of how to capture each moment of your baby growing up!!
Thanks dear friend for letting me join you in the fun!

Yippee!!!

2011-10-07T11:40:00.001-07:00

Check out my ad in the Best of 2011 Nashville Scene on 145! I was so excited to see my name in print again I grabbed about 10 copies! I feel like I won all over again!

Cupcakes for a Cause

2011-10-05T08:09:00.000-07:00

I have been so blessed in my life! I have been blessed this last month to be able to participate in some fun shows to promote my "new" business and have been able to meet many new people and add some new clients to the Ice This client family! I have also been blessed beyond this business in my life with people who have come in and out that have made a great impact on me. I am sure each of you reading can same the same.
This month is breast cancer month (For those of you who have been under a rock!) and in honor of this month I will be honoring a dear friend who left a huge footprint on my life and a dear family member by launching two new pink flavors including the "Arete" cupcake and the Pink Velvet.
Ms. Lisa Kee is the first of those I will be honoring this month. Her motto "Arete" meaning to "be the best you can be" was exemplified in her life from the moment I met her until the moment she passed from this earth. She and her husband were best friends of my parents my whole life and I remember taking extremely long road trips from South Texas to Tennessee to visit this family. I loved making the turn onto Keelange Road because I knew that there were some great memories that would be had shortly. I was so blessed to be able to sit in her giant kitchen and spill my beans to her, she seemed to bring out the beans in everyone. She was the only older woman I knew who could stay up to the wee hours of the night and not require a nap the next day. She loved life, she loved her family, she loved God and these things were so evident to all around her. As my dad said at her service "I will look forward to seeing her again and I hope to have my house next door to her in heaven". Ms. Kee went on to be with our maker in February 2006.
This month I also want to honor my dear Aunt Reci! Reci my mom's youngest sister. She is the life of the party at any family gatherings. She was diagnosed with Breast Cancer when I was in high school and was able to fight it head on and come out a winner! She has amazing strength and has an awesome throng of earthly angels who have been through this battle with her from the beginning. I know she has many dear friends who are still fighting. I am so thankful she came through this journey and made it to the other side! We are all so blessed by her and I am glad to have her in my life!
So, I ask that you please join me by purchasing some cupcakes for a cause. The "Arete" cupcake,which is a pink champagne kissed cake with strawberry buttercream and the Pink Lemonade which is a fluffly pink tart batter topped with creamy raspberry buttercream, will be on sale this month for $3.00 each with a dollar of each cupcake sale going to the Susan G. Komen foundation in memory of Ms. Lisa Kee. This will be my first official donation to the foundation from my business and I ask that you please help me make it a good one!!There is a minmum 1dozen cupcakes per order.
Please remember to pray for those who are still fighting, thanking our creator for those he has helped make it through this battle, and for those who have won this fight and are dancing on the other side! And, please help me with the achievement of arete this month at Ice This!

2-Legit!

2011-08-23T11:20:00.000-07:00

So, I have finally found my big girl undies and am have decided to got totally legit with my business. I have my business license and will start working out of a commercial kitchen! Wahoo! I have been praying about God's timing to move forward with my business and he has been faithful in putting this path before me.
So, In honor of this big day I am offering a 2-LEGIT two week sale on all cupcakes!! Cupcakes that are ordered and picked up between August 29-September 9th will be only 1.25 each with a minimum of 24 ordered. You can choose up to two flavors per order! For all of you throwing a Labor day party, some yummy red velvet or creme brulee cupcakes will be the best addition to your party! I look forward to serving you over the next few years and thank you all so much for your business and support!! Enjoy

While you were gone.....

2011-08-23T11:17:00.000-07:00

Here is some recent work I have done. You know how awesome I am at actually taking pictures! Log on to facebook and you will see some additional work that others have shared. Enjoy!

Willis

2011-08-23T11:15:00.000-07:00

This past week I was asked by a friend to replicate the office building he worked from. He works for Willis, you know, the Willis Tower (use to be Sears). The CEO was flying in from NY and they were having a large open house for the company. It was a challenge but was very rewarding to drive up and know that my creation looked pretty close the building I was delivering it too...except that my floors were made of cake and buttercream instead! They love it and it was a pleasure working with them. Enjoy!

Wow, almost a year!

2011-01-24T08:48:00.000-08:00

I can't believe how long it has been since I posted! Time has flown by. Well, I have done a ton of cakes and had so much happen in life, and as usually my camera has NOT been by my side most of the time but here are a few updates from the past few months! Take care all and I wish you all many blessings for 2011!!

Updates

2010-04-27T11:46:00.000-07:00

Wow, time really does fly by when it is full of babies and life and sugar! I have been very busy filling tons of orders and playing with my babies. I just launched my facebook page announcing that I am now doing petit fours in an almond and chocolate! They are so yummy! Here are a few of the things I have been working on lately. Enjoy!

National Pig Day Cupcakes

Past and Present

2010-03-08T12:55:00.000-08:00

It has been a very fun past couple of weeks! I had a booth at the Little Sprouts sale in Franklin that was a hit. I created a Candy Land themed cake that seemed to catch the attention of everyone big and small! I have also done a few girly cakes the past few weeks, everything from 4th 16th and 30th birthday cakes which are always fun since I don't get to do much girly in my life! Being surrounded by boys has landed me in a sea of blues but I am trying hard to add as much color to my life and theirs as possible! This past weekend I was able to do a birthday cake for one of my younger clients. My friend Jacob turned 5 this past week and this was my third cake to do for him. I love doing his cakes because he always has such an imagination and I love being able to come up with crazy cakes and see his eyes light up! So for the big number five the theme was magic school bus and I think it turned out to be quite magical. I didn't get any pictures taken but mom and dad have promised to send some soon that I will post. I ended up having the bus flying in space and suspended up in the air! It was so fun to be part of his big special day again!
I have a very very busy next month with everything schedule from showings and weddings to parties and showers! We will be hosting a couple of parties here at the house from friends and I will be participating in a few events as well. On Wednesday, March 24th I will be at Brentwood United Methodist for their Spring event so please come on out and get some cake! I will also be participating in the annual Tennessee Cake Festival in April so please cross your fingers that I can 1. get the cake done and 2. nothing comes up to stop me from participating! The theme this year is "Spring Carnival" and after many sketches I have finally come up with a winner. I am in it to win it since the prize is $1,000 so wish me luck! This will pay for the remodeling of the basement to put in my commercial kitchen!!!!
I will post some pictures soon, until then, enjoy this sunshine and happy baking!

It's a...cake!

2010-03-01T19:07:00.000-08:00

So today I got to make my most special cake to date! One of my dearest friends had her 20 week appointment today and instead of finding out the gender of the baby they had it sealed in an envelope, delivered it to my house and I got to open it up and bake a cake in either pink or blue depending on what was inside! What a huge honor to be entrusted with such a huge secret! I let out a small peep when I read the news but tried my best to keep my cool until the mommy left! I quickly went to work on baking a yummy cake that they pick up three hours later to take to a family dinner. After dinner they sat down to cut the cake to reveal the news!!! I can not be the one to tell what it is but it will hopefully be a night and a cake they will remember for a long time. Go to http://www.littlelambsandivey.blogspot.com/ to see the news. I look forward to meeting baby Ivey and pray for a life full of many blessings and miracles!! I love you sweet baby

Me a dot com?

2010-02-23T11:17:00.000-08:00

I have been holding out for as long as I can but I have finally put all of my info on a dot com! Check out http://www.icethiscakes.com/ to see pictures and updated information. What a leap of faith this has been but I am so blessed!

Little Sprouts!

2010-02-23T11:16:00.000-08:00

Watch out for Ice This Cakes at the Little Sprouts Consignment Sale in Franklin, TN this weekend! Ice This will be sharing chocolate cake samples and you can enter for a chance to will $25.00 of your next Ice This Cake purhcase! I can't wait to see you all!
http://www.littlesproutssale.com/

Happy Valentines Day!

2010-02-10T13:42:00.000-08:00

For those of you who attend church at Harpeth Hills, please bring a few bucks on Sunday to purchase a cupcake for the one you love! All proceeds will go to the HHYG missions and Haiti relief work. Happy Valentines Day from Ice This!

Busy, Busy!

2010-02-10T13:39:00.000-08:00

Birthday parties are in the air!! Here are a few things I did in January. From Rock Climbing to Wrestling, there is a lot going on! Enjoy!

Discounts anyone??

2010-01-29T20:21:00.000-08:00

So, most of you know how terrible I am at taking pictures of cakes, life, my kids, etc!!! But, I am offering all of you out there a deal that I think is pretty good! From now on, if you purchase an Ice This Cake and email me a picture of your cake that I can use to post on my blog I will in exchange give you $5.00 off your next purchase. I will even allow this to work for those who have ordered cakes in the last six months who have not sent me a picture of a cake. Also, if I have done a birthday cake for you before and you allow me to create another birthday cake for your or someone special in your life I will also give you $5.00 off your new order!! Just mention this posting when you contact me and I will add the discount.
This has been a busy year so far with orders and the phone is really starting to ring! I look forward to making many new friends and baking lots of cakes this year! Blessings to all and happy baking!

Happy New Year!

2010-01-22T21:15:00.000-08:00

What a crazy past couple of month this has been for our family! We had a wild Christmas vacation that included spending 15 hours in the car with two little ones to only drive 14o miles through the worst blizzard to hit Virginia in years to being homeless and living with family for six weeks to finally buying our first home! We are so excited to have our own place to call home and I am ready to start the remodeling downstairs to hopefully open up the "Ice This" storefront soon...and to buy furniture to fill up all of our rooms.
Since we moved in two weeks ago my phone has been ringing off of the hook for cake orders and I am so overwhelmed and excited! God has blessed me so much and I am so glad to be able to share this gift with new friends all over. For those of you that didn't know, I was contacted by Graceland in December to compete for the birthday cake for Elvis Presley's 75th birthday celebration. Unfortunately, a local Memphis baker won but what a huge honor to be one of only four bakers selected! But, since we moved in our house only three days before the event took place I was glad to not be totally stressed out! Thanks to all of you who voted for me anyway and hopefully the word got out to a few more locals about my business.
I hope to have new pictures up soon of some of the fun cakes I have going out over the next couple of weeks...and maybe a picture or two of my sweet little boys! They are the reason I do what I do.
Happy baking and happy new year to all! I look forward to hearing from you soon

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

2009-12-02T05:55:00.000-08:00

So much in life has happened in past few months! We welcomed a new addition to our family on September 21st, Mr. Finley Knox O'Dell and have welcomed two cousins as well! We are also in the process of moving to our first purchased home and have plans to soon renovate and get to baking! It has been a wild ride for all of us but we are so blessed! I am so thankful this time of year to all of my friends and family and new friends I have found through this business who have blessed my life and have allowed me to do what I love best! Thanks to all of you and I hope you have a very happy holiday season!

2009-08-02T18:52:00.000-07:00

Cupcakes Galore!

2009-08-02T18:45:00.000-07:00

It has been about a month since I last sat down to write up a wrap up. It is so amazing how time flies! This has been a really great past month. I have been really blessed by some great contacts and clients and have been asked to participate in some really great events very soon...if I don't pop before then! This past weekend I participated in the Otter Creek Church of Christ Christmas in July Festival! It was fun to see old and new friends and share some yummy holiday cupcakes with all of the guests. I have done a couple of huge cupcake weddings and am excited about getting some pictures of those events soon. In a couple of weeks I will be providing some dessert for Nashville Cream, a battle of the bands and sweets at the Cannery Ballroom put on by the Nashville Scene. For more info check out www.nashvillescene.com. I will have a selection of cupcake flavors for all to enjoy! I was also contacted by March of Dimes a few weeks ago to participate in their Signature Chefs Auction and Event in September, incidentally the day before my scheduled delivery! They pick people who they believe are the top 20 cooks/chefs in Nashville so this is a HUGE honor! I am so excited and hope that my bun is still in the oven so I can get them some sweets to share with all of the guests!
Here are a few pictures of some past events and cakes, ranging from first to eighteenth birthday and more. Enjoy and happy baking!

Time to Breath!

2009-06-28T20:32:00.000-07:00

It has been so good to hear from many of you who have located me through my blog! I have been so busy with life, cakes and cooking these past few months that I have not had much time to catch everyone up on Ice This! I am going into my third trimester with my second baby boy so I am starting to slowly not see my feet or ankles. I have made some fun new creations in the past few weeks but like always, I have forgotten to take any pictures. If you are a client and have a photo of an Ice This creation you would like to share, please email the image to brookelit@hotmail.com. I would greatly appreciate it! From whales and ducks to giraffes and monkey's I have been creating just about every animal known to man out of sugar the past couple of months! This past week I also had my first cupcake wedding, only 400 of them, and was able to test out my new custom made cupcake stand! It turned out better then I expected and I hope the bride was as happy as I when she saw the 4' tower of sugary heaven! I promise to post pictures soon.
Have a great HOT holiday weekend. Happy Baking!

Diaper Cakes

2009-06-28T20:22:00.000-07:00

In the past few months I have participated in a few shows for my cakes and have become friends with Jacqueline of baby2bnashville.com. If you are going to be throwing a shower for anyone or know of any who is expecting and you need to purchase a gift, baby2b offers a huge selection of amazing and sassy custom made diaper cakes. I happen to know of at least 15 people expecting right around the time I am due so I could easily keep Jaqueline busy for the next couple of months. She and her partner hand make each cake and can customize every aspect for the cake from the burp cloths and blankets to bows and trimmings. Unlike my cakes, hers can be shipped anywhere and will not melt or crumble on the way! Her work is beautiful and I highly recommend a baby2b diaper cake! By the way, I am expecting another boy :)
www.baby2bnashville.com

Long time, No blog

2009-04-26T16:13:00.001-07:00

Just because I have not blogged lately doesn't mean that I have not been busy! Our life has been so full of surprises lately it is almost overwhelming. I am currently 18 weeks into my second pregnancy so that alone has made me forget almost everything and be too tired to remember what I didn't forget. Wrigley, my baby is a month away from being 3! It is hard to think of how fast three years has flown by! I want to just sit down and bottle him up right now and capture each word he says and each face he makes and pray that I never forget these precious moments! In the past couple of months I have had a cake showing at the lovely Spruce in Brentwood, had a cake on the cover of the Valentine's issue of the Nashville Scene, been in my best friends wedding and did her cake and been to Oklahoma for my mom to have a last minute health procedure! We have been so busy but life is really good and our cup is really running over. I have been so bad about taking pictures of some cakes (what's new?) but some of my clients have been kind enough to email me their orders and I am so glad. I have several weddings on the books so far for this summer so it looks like it is going to be a fun year coming up. Enjoy and happy baking!

Sweet and Sassy

Mario Kart

50 and Fabulous

Baby's First Birthday!

Where's My Ben? I can't find him!

2009-01-25T13:07:00.000-08:00

My good friend Julius turned 4 this year so I was commissioned to do another cake. His ratatouille cake I made last year was part of my "coming out" as a cake baker to the world. This year we decided to do a cake based off of his favorite book, Firefighters to the Rescue! In the book a little boy's dog is lost and found in the fire so I made sure Ben was also part of the cake. I did vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream, just in case any of the 30 children decided to test out Carrington's stain resistant carpet!

Monkey Business

2009-01-25T12:54:00.000-08:00

I have had a great start to my new year and hope you have as well. Here are some of my January Creations. Enjoy!

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing and Burnt Sugar
Vanilla andChocolate Buttercream Cupcakes with handmade paci's, bows and baby pins.

Vanilla cake with Chocolate Buttercream and handmade bananas.

Ice This at Little Spouts!

2009-01-07T18:31:00.000-08:00

Ice This Cakes will have a booth set up at the Little Spouts Sale next month in Franklin! I will have free samples and a give away prize! The dates are February 13-15, 2009. For more information go to www.littlesproutssale.com. See you soon!

Holiday Wrap Up

2009-01-04T11:22:00.000-08:00

Here is some of my work from December. I had a busy month with birthdays and other special events! Enjoy

Real Fresh

2009-01-02T17:43:00.000-08:00

I like pink. I am a girl, what can I say? But after spending hours on end looking at several cake related websites for the Nashville area I have decided that being part of that select group of people must require you to have a pink web page. So, for this new year I decided to change my page to something other then pink. I had to. It is like purchasing wall paper out of a book at Home Depot. I can't do that. I can't be a creative thinker in my kitchen when I know that 10,000 others are standing in their kitchens with the same images of apples or fruit just below their crown molding. It's like showing up to prom in the same dress as someone else. Therefore, Ice This has a new face for 2009. I hope you enjoy.

2008 was a crazy year for me and my family! We had many major life changes, some great and some not as great. But for Ice This is was an overall great year! I think I put out about 75 creations this past year and I was recognized twice by the Nashville Scene! Isn't that amazing?! I have my Best Of award hanging in my dining room and it is all I can do not to call the local electrician to add some fancy lighting.

I have had a busy past couple of months and hope to post pictures soon. I have been really bad about taking pictures of cakes! You would think with as much time as I spend creating and carving I would quickly grab my camera. Oh well. But, I have several pictures that have just arrived from some of my clients so I will post pictures soon. Promise.

2009 will start off with some really fun events for Ice This. I plan to participate in the Nashville Cake show at the end of February at Sweet Wise. The theme for the show is "Love Affair with Music City" so if you have any great ideas, please pass them along. I have come up with a design but it is always subject to change. My best friend is also getting married in March and in addition to being the mother of the ring bearer and a brides maid I will also be making the cake. I can't wait!! I did a taste test with her this past week and we all had a hard time not licking the platter! I think it might become a signature flavor in the near future! I will also be doing a few baby showers soon and birthday celebration cakes. It looks like it is going to be another great year.

Warm wishes to all of you for a happy new year! Let's all eat cake!

Jingle Bell Rock

2008-11-06T18:42:00.000-08:00

It's my favorite time of the year! The air is crisp and family is at the forefront my mind. I have so many wonderful memories associated with the fall and winter and each year I look forward to pulling out my James Taylor, October Road album and going down memory lane to each song.

Last year I came up with a few of my favorite holiday flavors for cakes to share with friends and family. I have added to my selection this year but will be bringing back the originals. Here is a sneak peak at the 2008 Ice This Holiday Favorites! Seasons Greetings and Happy Eatings!

Peppermint Patty: This delightful combination of chocolate cake, dark chocolate peppermint filling and light pink peppermint frosting is sure to put you on the naughty list!

Merry Mayflower: Perfect pumpkin pie spice cake layered in cinnamon laced white chocolate ganache and surrounded in brown sugar buttercream– no need for turkey and trimmings!

Rock the Halls: Yummy Southern Red Velvet laced with white chocolate ganache and surrounded in cream cheese buttercream– this will get any party started!

Winter Wonderland: Fresh coconut cake filled with dark chocolate ganache, surrounded in creamy coconut buttercream and topped with toasted coconut– It’s a beautiful site!

Pep Rally

2008-11-06T18:29:00.000-08:00

For anyone that knows me, it is no secret that sports are not my spiritual gift. Yes, I happen to have a child named after a baseball field but that was my husbands doing that Isomehow agreed to! It is funny to me how much I have learned about sports since I started doing cakes. I had never heard of people like "Bear" or thought twice about the UK cat until I had to reproduce such images out of sugar! Here are a few pictures of my ESPN collection.