Something New

I've always wanted to try to make one of those cool topsy-turvy cake, the ones that look like the tiers can fall over any minute. Finally someone asked for one.

A friend's daughter, who's turning 12, knew exactly what she wanted. She found a picture online, printed it out, pointed out what colors she wanted, what areas needed to be changed into something else, etc. For my 12-year-old birthday party so many years ago, I think I was only involved in who I wanted to invite.

Well, the cake took way more time and ingredients than I expected. Good thing my mom is here to visit this month, so she played with my son while I worked on the cake. I kept running out of frosting so had to keep making more, and more, and some more. The cake was a lot of cake, a lot of frosting, and weight a ton.

They loved the cake and I was told that they drove home 40 mph the whole way with the hazard blinkers on. haha....

The cake looks empty on top, yes, that's because they were going to put 12 candles on top when they get home.




The second cake is a Ben 10 cake for a 5-year-old. It's supposed to be the omnitrix, that watch looking thing that Ben 10 wears. I really have no clue coz I've never seen the cartoon. Found a picture online and tried to make it look decent. I think they liked it but I thought it turned out looking kind of weird and disproportionate. Well, try better next time if I need to make another Ben 10 cake.

Busy Week

Hello, quite a busy week it was. I made 2 cakes and a half this week. The half cake is a little one that I made for Alex to take in to nursery for his birthday. It was just something very simple since I didn't think a bunch of 2-year-olds would care too much about how it looks.

Then I had a double birthday cakes order on Saturday. One Scooby Doo and one colorful lizard. The Scooby Doo one wasn't too bad but the lizard one took ages to finish. Came out rather nice though. I hope it's not too busy with all the different colors. Everybody was amazed by it. I couldn't decide whether I would make Scooby face with frosting, frozen butter cream transfer, or fondant. As you can see, at the end I went with fondant.

Here are the pictures. Thanks for looking.

My son is 2!!!

Can't believe my son is 2 already!! Time has gone by fast this year. For his birthday, I made him 2 trains, Wilson (the red one) and Brewster (the blue one) from the Chuggington cartoon. I planned on making all three of the main character trains, but it was 4:30 in the morning by the time I finished the two trains, so I decided not to finish the third train (Koko) and went grab a couple hours of sleep. Koko is still sitting in the fridge frosted with frosting right now. It will probably stay that way until we eat it. =)

Wilson and Brewster took a very long time to make, but I am very happy with the results. We ate half of Brewster today when Alex's little friends came over. I am sure we will eat the rest tomorrow when we have a BBQ.

Have a good weekend, everyone.

Alex blowing out candles. Happy Birthday, big boy!!

Black & White

Made for a friend's anniversary. I asked her if she wants elegant or cute; she picked elegant. I thought of a few different designs and at the end decided on this black and white theme. It looked simple but it took me hours to put those black embroidery designs on.

late entry

Hello there, sorry I haven't been posting my latest creations. Things have been kind of crazy and my brain is all over the place with everything that's going on. Then you know how it is, once you put off a task, it just keeps getting put off day after day. So today, I finally said, OK, it's time to work on my cake blog.

I made two cakes since last blog. The first one is just a simple one for my friend, Joe's birthday. His wife wanted a golf theme and brought me the trees, golf cart and flag pole. Asked me to make a fondant Joe and a golf course. Due to the size of the cake, I couldn't really make a whole golf course, so I just made one hole. I am not very good at making fondant people but I guess "Joe" came out alright. At least neither the head or other parts fall off.




The second cake is for a dual celebration, it's for a lady's daughter and mother's birthday. At first it was just going to be a 2-tier cake with the top dotted tier and bottom diamond tier. But then she called after a few days and said they need more cake so I suggested adding the middle stripey tier. She also wanted a few roses on it. I added only two coz I didn't want to make it too busy. Overall I am very happy with the outcome and they loved it.

New Chief

Made for my husband's former boss, who got promoted to Chief Master Sergeant this month. Congratulations!!

Porsche

This one, at first he wanted me to make the cake looks like a Porsche SUV but I didn't know how real I can make it look, so we decided on making just the emblem. His girlfriend loved it. She actually wanted to freeze the cake and asked him to go get a little cake from a store because she didn't want to cut the cake. It's pretty funny.