Surrey-based Golf Pro, Gary called us yesterday and asked us to deliver a dozen chocolate cupcakes to Aloha Golf Club as a surprise for his friend Heinz, who is having a 70th birthday celebration dinner there this evening… and here they are!
Yesterday at 2.30pm we received a call from Jordana from El Oceano Beach Hotel, telling us of a bride who had just heard her wedding cake had been totally ruined in a car accident (no injuries, thankfully!) whilst being driven to the venue, La Cabane at Hotel Los Monteros… and could we bake a wedding cake and 150 cupcakes by 6.30pm?!
We do love a challenge, and below are a couple of photos of the finished result – four hours door to door – job done! It was a bit like a fire drill – good to know we can respond quickly and efficiently, but not something we want to do too often! We hear the night was a great success and look forward to posting some official photos soon.
Hi Mark,
I just wanted to let you know the cake was lovely, very moist and rich which was what I knew Veronica would love. She loved the cake and she handed out your cards to all the ladies who came to the dinner party.
It’s my boyfriend’s 40th In August and we’re having a small gathering so I’ll be in touch to order another cake.
Thanks again
Sarah Bartlett, London
Just to prove we are enormously versatile (!) here are some chocolate cupcakes we baked for 14 hens over here for a few days of naughtiness before settling down to wedded bliss – Puerto Banus, watch out! P.s…. it is a well know fact that cupcakes are a miracle hangover cure ;)
Linda and Elliot
We have just received these absolutely beautiful photographs of the cake and cupcakes we baked for Lie Chen & Peter’s wedding at Hacienda San Jose recently. Shot by the awesome photographer, Jeremy Standley, we are very happy to share them with you.
For more of Jeremy’s stunning images, see his portfolio website here… and if you are looking for a wedding photographer to perfectly capture the memories and images of your big day, look no further!
For more of Jeremy’s stunning images, see his website here.
Hi Mark
Thank you so much for our cupcakes-they were amazing! All our guests commented how delicious they were, and we even managed to get the top tier home for my son’s Baptism! I have attached a photo for you to see how lovely they looked.
Many Thanks,
Danielle
We have just set up a tower of cupcakes for the wedding reception of Faye & Chris at Finca la Concepcion – a beautiful venue and always a pleasure to spend time at. Amongst the rather serene team today were Laura and her team at Fiestasol Catering and Laura at Reviva, so bride and groom were in very safe hands!
And here are some of the beautiful photos taken by photographer, Jeremy Standley – need we say more!
We have been enjoying the beautiful Spanish cherries for a good few weeks now, but as yet haven’t posted any pics – so here are some extra cupcakes (accidentally on purpose!) we had left over from an order for a customer today – one of the perks of the job ;) Jen told me to title this post ‘life’s a bowl of cherries’, but I couldn’t quite bring myself to :o
I thought I would share this extract from an email we received from a Costa del Sol wedding planner this morning…
‘Hi Mark – I just wish I had given your details to my other brides this summer. There is simply no comparison – what you do is highly more visually pleasing. (Had a cake delivered to Calima, a beautiful setting, on Thursday and was disappointed).’
I was absolutely satisfied with cupcakes I ordered with “Cake Marbella”! Not only they tasted really delicious, on the next day my friends were calling me asking if there were still something left from the party, but they also looked fantastic. The colourful cupcake tower was with no doubt the main attraction of the evening, making me a very happy host! Thank you and I will definitely be back to order more.¨
Just about now, 36 hungry 10 year old’s will be devouring these paintball themed carrot cake cupcakes at Swan’s School in Marbella – Happy Birthday, Jonathan!
The new and very stylish Avanto Restaurant, (Torrenueva Playa, La Cala de Mijas) are having their official opening party tonight, and I have just returned having set up a tower of 150 Red Velvet and Chocolate cupcakes in their beautiful restaurant overlooking the beach. I have not eaten there yet, but it is definitely next on my list!
Hi Mark – as always the cupcakes were fantastic – both children and adults loved it!!!!
Thanks again xxxx
Maggie Allam, Marbella
Hi Mark,
Just wanted to say a huge thank you for the stunning cupcakes you made last week. They went down a storm!! And dare I say it, they’re so much nicer than M&S’s ones!!
Thanks again,
Rachael Betteridge
Generator Systems Ltd., UK
These fabulous photographs have just come in from photographer Richard Wall at CaptureMyLife.com. The wedding was a couple of weeks ago at the Don Carlos Hotel in Elviria, Marbella, and Richard has captured the bride Louise and groom Gary perfectly – they are a lovely couple and we very much enjoyed working with them, and wish them every happiness in the future!
P.S. Louise used to sing with the girl group ‘SuperSister’, so scroll down to the YouTube video and check out the gorgeous blonde!
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Just got back from a beautiful private villa wedding, where we baked and set up a tower of Vanilla Cupcakes on a tower scattered with wonderful asian orchids – the evening sun lighting up the villas and palm trees of El Madroñal is a sight that always makes us appreciate living here. The happy couple have flown over from California, USA so they obviously think it’s quite special here too!
36 eight year-old’s were in for a chocolatey treat today, as Luca’s mum (the lovely Daniela at Ristorante Regina, Nueve Andalucia) called us to bake three dozen of our finest Chocolate Cupcakes for Luca’s 8th birthday celebrations at school – ¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Luca!
The stunning Hotel Villa Padierna, Marbella is the venue this evening for a wedding reception for 100 guests, who will be wined and dined and dance on another of Marbella’s balmy September evenings. Villla Padierna, where Michelle Obama and her daughter stayed last month, plays host to some of the most lavish weddings and events on the coast, and this evening will be no exception.
Laura from Reviva Weddings and her hard-working team added all the fabulous visual touches, while Heather and Alexandro from Fiestasol Catering provided the wonderful food. As usual, we have to make do with my iPhone snapshots while we wait for the official piccies in a couple of weeks!
This is a photo of a tower of cupcakes we did for a client´s wedding reception at Hotel Don Carlos, Elviria last weekend – the slightly unusual thing about this photo is that it was taken in the hotel´s walk-in refridgerator! That was basically as far as we got, so we await the rather more glamourous official photos in a few weeks!
We received an email a few days ago from Nicola in London, asking if we could bake a dozen Red Velvet Cupcakes for her friend Mel, as she and some friends were flying over to Marbella to celebrate her 40th birthday. Mel, apparently, likes her shoes… as well as partying in Puerto Banus! Glad you had a great time here, ladies – let us know how the cupcakes went down :)
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¨The cakes were gorg, so yummie. At first I thought I bet they’re sickly how so wrong I was. They were so soft and fresh. The lovely scrummiest cream on the top was divine. I can not tell you how amazing they were. They were so beautifully decorated and presented. Lovely lovely lovely.
Thanks for making them, a ZILLION percent would have them again ;)))¨
Melanie Kimbke, London
Yesterday, to celebrate the wedding of Kathryn and Andrew, we baked a tower of chocolate cupcakes, topped with a giant cupcake and covered them with sweeties – you remember all the wonderful ones we all used to munch at school (Crunchies, Curly Wurlies, Rolos, Dolly Mixtures, Refreshers, Sherbert Fountains, Smarties etc…). The reception was held at El Oceano Beach Hotel & Spa at Mijas Costa, and it was our first time there – lovely people, very professional set-up… and what a stunning view!
We have just received these beautiful photographs of Claire & Johnathon’s wedding at Finca La Concepcion last month, taken by the amazing Jeremy Standley. It shows how important cake is on a wedding day, and that it always puts smiles on faces!
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Chilli Chocolate cupcakes were the hot favourite at last night’s party held for friends and family by England and Liverpool defender Glen Johnson at his new villa in Sotogrande. Laura put on a great evening with flamenco dancers and fire jugglers in the grounds, while the guests tucked into a delicious spread by Fiestasol caterers and Eton Mess, Key Lime Pie and a tower of cupcakes supplied by yours truly!
After the big Stephen Webster party at Marbella Club last week, we got a call this week from his London office, asking us to send a dozen ‘Thank You’ cupcakes to the girls at his boutique in Puerto Banus. The girls, as you can see, were very chuffed and stepped out of their beautiful air conditioned showroom for a moment to give us a wave with their cupcakes!
Last night’s cupcake soiree (!) was ‘celebrity jeweller’ Stephen Webster‘s party at Villa del Mar at Marbella Club, where the security was as tight as the jewellery displays were flamboyant and expensive. 300 glamorous guests gathered as the sun went down and our 300 ‘Purple Velvet’ branded cupcakes were a small but perfectly formed part of a very rock ‘n roll night!
Four times Jeweller of the Year, and Creative Director at Garrard, Webster has a rock star’s image – tattooed, tousled, ears glinting with black diamonds, he is ring-master of a world-wide celebrity circus – no surprise then that the evening was a lavish, glitzy, alcohol-fuelled party. Business as usual in Marbella ;)
Stephen Webster pictured with Kate Moss (top) and Sienna Miller (above)
As I write this, there is a park in Benahavis full of lively 5 and 6 year olds, running riot at Lucy’s 5th birthday party – whether they eat these very pink cupcakes or throw them at each other remains to be seen, but our Louie is there too, so we will hear all about it soon!
We have just baked and delivered a dozen of these chirpy Chocolate ‘Golf’ Cupcakes with vanilla cream cheese icing as part of some 40th birthday celebrations in La Cala de Mijas – Happy 40th, Andrew!
Yesterday, we were at the breathtaking Villa del Mar at Marbella Club, where the owner’s son, Daniel Shamoon, and his bride Nadine held their wedding reception for 400 guests. We baked Red Velvet and Chocolate cupcakes, and set them up on a pair of six tier towers, trimmed with ivory satin ribbon. We heard the bands doing their soundchecks and saw all the final adjustments being made and, by the time we left, the first guests were being chaufeured to the villa in the Marbella Club buggies. It was a perfect Marbella summer evening, and we look forward to seeing some party pics!
I have just got back from H10 Andalucia Plaza Hotel in Estepona, setting up a tower of Lemon, Vanilla & Chocolate Cupcakes for a wedding reception which will by now be in full flow! Heather from Fiestasol and Laura from Reviva were there making sure all was running smoothly, and I am waiting to see the official photographs by Kris McGuirk, so I can post some proper photos! Anyway, our very best wishes to the gorgeous bride Tracy and lucky husband Gavin, from us all at Cake Marbella :)
Here are a few photos I took while setting up a tower of Chocolate Cupcakes at the gorgeous Finca la Concepcion in Istan, Marbella. There will be some wonderful photos on their way soon, courtesy of Jeremy Standley. Catering the reception was Heather and her team at the excellent Fiestasol, who also planned the whole wedding, and styling was by Marbella’s ‘Fairy Godmother’ Laura Charles at Reviva Weddings. Stunning venue, beautiful sunshine – days like these make me feel very lucky to do what I do, where I do!
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Hi Mark – gosh I’ve been so rude not sending you a thank you for the birthday cake. It was unbelieveably amazing and sooo delish. It was presented to Anna at the Polo House after our meal – she was sooo excited and she even tried to blow out the sparkler they had put on it like a candle! We even offered Mr James Hewitt himself a piece but he declined – ha!
Anyway big thanks to you and your cake gang!
Amee, Gibraltar
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Here are a couple of snaps of some Chocolate Cupcakes with Rosewater cream cheese icing, (topped with crystalised violet and rose petals) that we baked for a wedding reception this evening in Ronda. We have been promised some photos of the sumptuous Moroccan themed party, so we’ll keep you posted!
1 Tarta de Chocolate €30 (servir 10-12) + Grafico €5
We are very happy to post these beautiful photographs of Håkon and Irene’s wedding and reception at Roca Tranquila, Fuengirola recently, taken by excellent wedding and portrait photographer Jeremy Standley. Norwegian Håkon and Irene were a dream to deal with and we were very happy to bake a mixture of Chocolate, Carrot Cake, Red Velvet and Vanilla Cupcakes for their special day – we hear they went down very well! Very best wishes to you both from all of us.
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Hi, Mark – we never got to see you, but I want to thank you very much for the cupcakes – they looked very good and tasted fantastic!!! Thanks for making us a fantastic wedding cake :-)
Regards,
Håkon and Irene.
It’s that time of year again – we have just got back from setting up two sumptuous cupcake towers at the fabulous Suite del Mar party, Hotel Puente Romano, to celebrate their official opening for Summer 2010. Marbella’s beautiful people were eating lunch while we were setting up, and we got the distinct feeling that their eyes were on the Chocolate and Red Velvet cupcakes… so we reckon that by now all 160 will already have been devoured!
Vanilla, Lemon, Chocolate
Red Velvet, Courgette, Passion, Carrot Cake
