Sweet Cheeks Baking Company

We are pleased to announce our latest list of Featured Flavors:

Note: All of our Cheesecakes listed below have a New York base and are “Naked” or made with no crust, as we like them to remain gluten-free

{Espresso Cheesecake}

fused with the decadent flavor of espresso

{Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheesecake}

 blended with swirls of real peanut butter and chocolate chunks, sprinkled with chopped peanuts

{Pomegranate-Blueberry Cheesecake}

fused with pomegranate and blueberry purée, topped with fresh blueberries

{Oreo Cheesecake}

loaded with crumbles of “America’s favorite cookie” and white chocolate chunks

{Banana Peanut Butter Sammies}

peanut butter mousse between our fresh banana cake

{Apple Walnut Bread}

A perfect way to start your day!

walnuts and fresh green apples, peeled sliced and chopped, and finished with just a touch of cinnamon

A Look at our not-so-traditional wedding “cakes”!

Non-traditional weddings have never been more chic. Short dresses, vintage décor, and of course the modern wedding cake, or lack thereof, have quickly become the standard for brides everywhere. Whether you have a fascination with buttons, a love for outlandish design or a favorite childhood character, the Sweet Cheeks design team can bring your ideas to life. We absolutely adore the creativity and individuality that all of our couples bring to us.

The gals at Sweet Cheeks Baking Co. have devised, designed and created some of the most elaborate cakes in SoCal, but it doesn’t stop there. Many couples have decided to ditch the cake completely. Cupcakes and mini-dessert bars have become the preferred alternative, allowing our couples to be innovative with not only elements such as design and décor but also with how they showcase their fabulous desserts. Companies like Enticing Tables, specialize in enhancing your dessert display with cupcake towers, dessert towers, and much, much more.

Inspiration is everywhere! We challange you to look all around to find what truely inspires YOU! Whether it’s vintage, blue, borrowed or brand new… we can help bring it to life for your next special event!

Many thanks to the wonderful and talented people who that make these beautiful weddings possible!

(From top to bottom)

Photographs: Elaine Ardizzone

Venue: Rancho Valencia

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Photographs: ABM Wedding Photography

Venue: Estancia

Florist: Kathy Wright

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Photographs: True Photography

Venue: Mission Beach Women’s Club

The true meaning and spirit comes alive this December with…

Join the gals from Sweet Cheeks, December 16 – 18th for the inaugural year of “A Christmas Tabernacle” at the NTC Liberty Station. We will be celebrating the Christmas season all weekend long with live performances, interactive workshops, play areas, a live nativity set and much, MUCH more! Running from 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. daily, the Tabernacle offers activities to entertain the entire family.

Sogoal and Jess showing off the final product! 

Team Cheeks will be in attendance, alongside over 100 specialty vendors. We will be featuring our Bikini Gingerbread Women and Boardshort Gingerbread Men!  Come play in our DIY Decorating Station or take home some gingerbread men decorating kits… super cute and easy fun for the kids or for your friends to share.

One-day passes start at $12 for children (ages 4 – 12), $18 for Adults and $15 for Senior Citizens (ages 65+)

Three-day passes start at $24 for children, $36 for Adults and $30 for Senior Citizens

Please check out the website for a full list of activities, vendors, directions and more!

http://www.christmastabernacle.com/

The 8^th annual San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival drew in nearly 9,000 people this year. Showcasing 170 wine and spirit purveyors, 70 of San Diego’s Top Chef’s, 30 gourmet food companies and over 800 wines, this star-studded extravaganza has been recognized as the largest wine and food festival on the West Coast.

Produced by the World of Wine Events, the festival is not just about indulging in the best of the best. Through it’s wine and food tastings, seminars, silent auction, dinners, live entertainment, and of course the Grand Tasting, nearly $180,000 was raised to go towards scholarships for the American Institute of Wine and Food.

Competing for the 5^th year in a row, Sweet Cheeks Baking Company is no stranger to this event.  Once again, “Team Cheeks” walked away with the award of “Best Dessert” for our Lemon Lavender Blueberry cakes-in-cups. Can you believe that lemon is a REAL cake??

Also, we are proud to announce that our very own Donna Cellere was named in the Top 15 in the  “Chef of the Fest” competition!!  Make sure you check out the cool video at the top of the page, created and produced by Savor San Diego and FortyOneTwenty***

Congratulations to Donna, Elaine and the rest of “Team Cheeks” for another successful year!

Blessed are we for having such amazingly fun industry friends!

Julie & Mick Scrivener celebrated their 10-year Wedding Anniversary with a VOW RENEWAL to “CHOOSE LIFE,” as the all-pink 80′s tees read, at the Culy Warehouse in Downtown San Diego. What a blast!
As owners of the famed Elite British DJ and coordinating company The Best Wedding For You, these two have built a great following in both clients & friends to last a lifetime of photos, but here are a few to enjoy from this special night.

We danced the night away with many pink-laden friends, most of whom were carefully hidden from photographic view by sheer luck…(wink-wink-nudge-nudge, Liz and Kevin….)

Mick’s surprise “Cat in the Toilet Bowl” cake to Julie was a red velvet hit at the party! Apparently a nod to their loveable kitties at home who believe that water bowls are a thing of the past. So glad we could add some humor to their already joyous occasion.  Welcome the white chocolate PORTMAN, the PINK KITTY.

Hope the African safari is treating you well, Newly-reweds!
Thanks for sharing such a fabulously fun party!
Photos by Eddie & Kellye Bojorquez at Studio 512.
Set up & party help by Melissa McClure and Regina O’Calahan of Aquilone Events.
Cake by Sweet Cheeks Baking Co…uh, duh.

San Diego Style Weddings Magazine kicks off another season with their annual fall release party. Held on the lawns of The Inn at  Rancho Santa Fe, Dena Malasek’s party stunned us once again with a lavish carnival theme. Complete with psychic readers, cartoon caricatures, photo booths, our mini cupcake “ice cream cones” & Bergamot-black pepper shortbreads, and of course…COTTON CANDY

We are so pleased to have been there to celebrate the release of the latest issue of San Diego Style Weddings Magazine with our good friends and all of the other talented vendors. It’s truly an honor to be featured in such a great publication.

Special thanks to the fabulous Dena Malasek for hosting another amazing party and all of the vendors that  helped create our awesome display!

Check out the Animal Cracker CAKE showcased in the center of our display!

Indulge Flowers & Events

Floral Arrangements and Vintage Flags

www.indulgeweddings.com

Enticing Tables

Forged Metal Cupcake Screens

www.enticingtables.com

Carmin Cermak of Carmin Designs

 Glass Tableware & Candy Jars

www.carmindesign.com

BBJ Linens

Table Linens

www.bbjlinen.com

…and of course a BIG thanks to

Xavier Bailey Photography

for providing us with these amazing pictures

www.xavierbailey.com

Don’t forget to pick up YOUR copy of the San Diego Style Weddings Magazine

Ahhh, Vida, the very essence of her name is LIFE!

The beautiful baby girl of our good friends Fabiano & Andrea Silva celebrated her first birthday in grand style.  Friends from all over San Diego and Brazil attended to share in her special day.

We love so many of these people, many of them known from our Little Italy restaurants of Buon Appetito and Sogno DiVino (Elaine’s alma mater as opening manager years ago).  Fabiano is one of our personal favorites for so many years, we had to create a festive, fun, Disney-themed, and PINK cake for the lovely baby Vida.

Photos by Renata Amazonas of Amazonas Photography

Kim's THANK YOU cake...yum!

We will miss you, Kimberly!

What a great help and friend you have been to all of us at Sweet Cheeks Baking Co.!  We appreciate your time, your assistance, your fun, your work ethic, and your terrific smile.  (And the delivery guys will all agree that she ROCKS the Sweet Cheeks yoga pants!)

Kimberly played in the kitchen with us over the past couple of months and is just a gem.  Her career path carries her further into the wedding industry, where she will no doubt offer great expertise to bridal couples in their quest of The Big Day.  She currently works as an event coordinator at Red Letter Days with the every-lovely ladies Rebecca Gaffney & Mia Sailing and shows a brilliant future in educating clients on cake selection, eating, and enjoyment…among many other things!

We look forward to working with you on lots of future events, Kim!

Your friends on the Sweet Cheeks Baking Team

TRUE Photography, Gavin & SPAM

Victoria surely surprised her new groom Gavin at their wedding with their now famous SPAM cake! What a riot they are! We were so thrilled to make this cake for them that we dove into it with abandon and gave them a screaming deal. So many people have seen our initial post with the photos but thought it was just photos of SPAM cans, so we decided we needed to blog it briefly with the real shots we now have of this beautiful couple and their (2) cakes from our talented friends at TRUE Photography! Thanks to Gavin for using his sword to cut the Vanilla Sour Cream Cake with Slow-Cooked Chocolate Fudge, he made it all too much fun.

TRUE Photography, SPAM sliced

The happy couple and their elegant wedding cake:

Their main Wedding Cake

Letter from the Bride:
“Elaine,
We received our wedding photographs and I just wanted to send a few your way! Gavin was so surprised with his Spam Cake and let me tell you, it is REALLY hard to surprise a Marine haha
Everyone loved it and it was one of the highlights of our wedding Well it was probably THE highlight of the wedding, but I would like to think my walk down the aisle was haha
Thank you again for everything! And we have decided each anniversary we are having one of your Spam Cakes! So I hope it wasn’t too much trouble,

Victoria”

Click onto Cupcake Wars! to see air times on Food Network Tuesday, July 19.
Krista Lautenbach, our “Master Sugar Shaker,” and Katrina Swietek, “Cupcake Mixologist” from Sweet Cheeks Baking Co. will be showcased and will be battling it out!

Watch them “Shake the Sugar!” on your local network…