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.

Baby Shower

The day after I finished the AF cake, I made this baby shower cake. Oh what a busy week that was!! I had made the bow during the week, love the two-tone effect. The decoration of the cake wasn't too difficult but I hated frosting the cake itself. I am never very good at frosting square cake, this one was no exception. Good thing it's covered with fondant so it's not too noticeable. I don't think I'll ever be able to smooth a square cake nicely, EVER!!