Wahine Bakeworks: 2010

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Holidays are here!!!!

We'be been so busy with events lately that we almost didn't realize the holidays are here. If you are looking for a special gift or you want to bring unique treats to your holiday get together, let Wahine Bakeworks sweeten the occasion.

We’ll be offering our gift boxes in the following sizes:

Small Box:

* 2 Alfajores

* 1 Thousand Sheet Cake

* 1 French Macaron

* 3 Assorted Cake Bites

* 1 Heavenly coconut Tartlet

$18/box or $16/box for 6 or more boxes.

Big Box:

* 3 Alfajores

* 2 Thousand Sheet Cakes

* 2 French Macarons

* 6 Assorted Cake Bites

* 1 Heavenly Coconut Tartlet

* 1 Quince Tartlet

$25/box or $23/box for 6 or more boxes.

The big box will travel well and stay fresh for at least a week. If you want to mail it, just let us know and we will pack the contents safely and have it ready for pick up by December 17th to allow for some mailing time.

Cutoff date to place your order is December 13, 2010. Pick up date is December 18. If you need it before that date, let us know and we'll coordinate with you for early pick up.

wahinebakeworks@gmail.com

(808) 620-6573 (808) 265-7787

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Sunset Beach Xmas Fair

One more year,we were present at this fun event to promote our products. Unlike last year when we had boxes for sale, we brought product to be sold by the unit so people could take home their favorites. A lot of work AND a lot of fun!

This was our booth

We had Lilikoi Macarons, Coffee Macarons, Thousand Sheets cake, Alfajores and Cake Bites in four flavors.

There were samples too!!

Our holiday boxes for display.

Guest book and Catalog

Some of our greatest clients showed up, like Ryan and Casey.

Kendra and Jeannie.

Matt, Connie and baby Kai.

The Wahine in action :)

Who's sweeter? Little Sakura or the pastries?

So off to get ready for the holiday rush. If you want to place your order just email us at wahinebakeworks@gmail.com and we'll be happy to help you out!

Mahalo nui loa!!!

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Catalog photoshoot

We had the plan of taking new pictures of our products for months now. We though we would have a little break during summertime but honestly orders kept coming in, so we had to put it off. Just in time before the holiday season we were able to do most of the shooting. It wasn't easy given that it involves baking, planning the compositions and props, styling the food and photoshooting. But we are happy with the way they turned out considering the little time we could devote to it. An amazing improvement to the pictures we had when we started off, that's for sure!!!

Cake Bites

From Bottom: Vanilla, Chocolate, Lemon, Coffee Chocolate, Red Velvet, Orange Chocolate and Pineapple Coconut Cake Bites

Chocolate and Vanilla Cake Bites

Pineapple coconut and Lemon cake Bites

Chocolate and Dulce de Leche Alfajores

Dulce de Leche Alfajores rolled in organic dried coconut

61% Dark Chocolate covered Alfajores

Chocolate Temptation Cake

Moist chocolate cake filled with dulce de leche and chocolate ganache

Thousand Sheets Cake

Thousand Sheets cake filled with dulce de leche and strawberries preserves

Coconut Dulce de Leche Tartlets

French Almond Macarons

Chocolate ganache filled Macarons

Vanilla bean white chocolate ganache filled Macarons

Raspberry jam filled Macarons

Macarons trio

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Cake Bites extravaganza

It's proven that the best advertising is first, people sampling your product and second, word of mouth. A while ago I sent a box of Cake Bites to a hospital's Emergency Room to thank for taking care of my mother in law when she had to go in. Two months ago I had to go in myself and I met Alana, who had previously tried our desserts and told me she wanted to get some for her upcoming wedding. Last thing I though when I went to the emergency room was ending up doing business before leaving :)

Two months and seven stitches later she contacted us and requested 300 Cake Bites with a coral colored flower. So we produced some samples for her:

After seeing the samples she asked if we could do a plumeria flower, so this is what we came up with:

She ended up going for the first samples and here's a shot of the whole order:

We had to make a little box to be able to pack the 300 Cake Bites, and we added a little gift with a bride and groom:

And so off they went and we hope she had a wonderful time on her wedding day. Thanks Alana!!!!

On another note, here's a picture of the Cake Bites made for our friends' baby shower, Monique and Denis a little while ago...

And another shot of an order made for my neighbor Natasha. She took it to her family in California.

The possibilities are endless with these little sweets so we are going to keep adding more designs soon.

Aloha a hui hou!!!

Friday, July 23, 2010

Two weddings

Last week we catered our friend Meie's wedding. She needed the desserts to be gluten free and it was our first request for this. We were very happy with the way they turned out and so were the people judging by the few pastries left on the table at the end of the evening. It was a very fun wedding and we wish Meie and Mike the best!!!

Here's the table set up with the cake.

This was a gluten free version of our Chocolate Temptation Cake, with handmade gumpaste plumerias on top.

Everything ready for the bride and groom to cut the cake.

The table featured gluten free Alfajores, gluten free Cake Bites and Thousand Sheets Cake.

So a week later, our friend Grace told us she was getting married... in four days :) This was a small beautiful wedding so it was easier to pull it off with such short notice.

For the cake, we dressed our Chocolate Temptation cake with handmade fondant shells. All shells were edible (except the ones on the table)