From champagne bottles to designer bags to amoebic chapes, Fort Lauderdale-based specialty cake boutique We Take the Cake can design anything imaginable. Whether the event calls for an elegant or outrageous dessertm this company will work to create a cake that tastes as good as it looks. Their champagne bucket cake is ideal to celbrate comapny anniversarices and milestones. The bucket can be customized with any logo, the cake can be painted using the company's colors and it can be made for 100 to 1,000 people. A similiar version was created for Freixenet Champagne for $2,300. Prices for sheet cakes start at $100, which specially made creations range from #250 to $2000, depending on the size and design. For corporate gifts, ship a Bundt cake - available in tropical and traditional flavors - in a tin customized with your company's logo. We Take the Cake will also include any corporate literature along with a personalized note in the shipment - ideal for hospitality events, thank you gifts or prospective clients.
BizBash: Fresh Faces: Lori Karmel and Dominique Beckers of We Take the Cake
WHAT THEY DO: Create out-of-the-ordinary sheet,
traditional layer and premium layer cakes. They also focus on corporate gifts, specializing
in Bundt cakes (there's a variety of flavors and sizes), each packaged in its own stylish tin.
HOW THEY GOT STARTED: When Lori Karmel bought We Take the Cake in September 2002, she had her sights set on changing the shop's image and bringing in master cake maker Dominique Beckers. Beckers, who created cakes for Let Them Eat Cake, serviced a high-end clientele and wanted to maintain an upscale image. When Karmel explained her vision of changing the existing casual, tropical image to a sophisticated, elegant environment, Beckers was intrigued and watchful. "If the image really changed, I was willing to give it a shot," said Beckers. And in a few short months, the showroom, packaging, color and logo were redone and We Take the Cake was reborn. In January 2003, Beckers joined the team and the rest is history.
CLAIM TO FAME: Their cakes not only look good, but taste great, too. "The key lime bundt cake is our signature cake for corporate gifting," says Karmel. "Everybody loves it. And our strawberry cake is the favorite specialty flavor."
CLIENTS INCLUDE: Saks Bal Harbour and Boca Raton, Bloomingdale's, Fed Ex Orange Bowl, Bank Atlantic, Landmark Bank and Mercedes of Fort Lauderdale.
HOW TASTY: Bundt cakes come in two sizes and more than 10 flavors including sour cream coffee swirl with white chocolate truffle glaze, pumpkin with creamy caramel glaze and island coconut dusted with Confectioner's sugar. Traditional cakes are available in more than six flavors and premium cakes include Turtle cake, German chocolate, double chocolate banana cake, coconut cream desire and more.
ULTIMATE GOAL: "We'd like to be the Tiffany & Company of cakes," Karmel says.