Extreme Sports Snowboarding Birthday

Well this was cool. Customer asked me to do a cake for his college son. His favorite sport is snowboarding. So why not make a winter cake with his favorite sport. So this was a vanilla sponge cake, chocolate mousse with fresh strawberries as the filling and chocolate fudge as the icing. Then layered on top a white fondant with clear sprinkles as the snow. Tree, snowboard shoes, snowboard and goggles made out of fondant.
Happy Birthday Dude!

A Toy Story 2 Birthday Cake

This is why I love making cakes. The challenge, being creative and having fun. Someone asked me to do a birthday cake for there 2 year old son. His favorite movie is Toy Story. So I started to watch the movie and what caught my eye is when the characters are on the bed hanging out.
So I did a vanilla cake with chocolate mousse inside and the outside icing chocolate fudge. The bed and the wooded floor was made out fondant. The color of the blanket was brushed with edible blue powder. Now I could of made the characters out of fondant but I decided to buy the little toys so the birthday boy can have it and treasure it forever. Happy Birthday Alex...To Infinity and Beyond!!

Strawberry Shortcake

This is my favorite cake. Customer asked if I can do a strawberry shortcake for her son's birthday. But wanted strawberries dipped in chocolate as the topping of the cake. So I did a sponge cake soaked in a semi-sweet syrup. Layered it with fresh strawberries and fresh whip cream which the cream was also the icing. It's heavenly delicious.

Wine Crate Cake

The best things in life get better with age. Wait! Maybe it should say, "get better when you eat a wine crate cake". What better way to get a cake for your 40th Birthday that represents you.
This was going to be a big challenge, but i took that challenge.
So I started off by making the wood pieces out of fondant, made the pattern and then brushed it with edible powder paint . I also made the leaves out of fondant too . After that, I mold the wine bottle out of dark chocolate and shaved white chocolate as the shredded paper. The grapes were real which gave it a nice touch and the cake is red velvet with cream cheese. At the end the cake looked awesome!

Baby Shower goes Zebra

So this was different. A customer asked me if i can do a 3 tier cake using her invitation as inspiration. It was a zebra theme. "This is going to be one cool cake", I though to myself.
So I sketched a really quick drawing of what I thought the cake should look like and she loved it.
So I did a red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. The animal print I used a sugar paper that was edible, made the pink bow out of fondant brushing it with edible glitter and made the animal diaper out of fondant. This is one cool mommy-to-be.

Pea in the Pod Baby Shower

Someone asked me if I can do a Baby Shower cake and favor cookies for a Pea in the Pod theme. This was so much fun. I decided to do a chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling/chocolate ganache and the icing vanilla buttercream. For the topping I did a pea with a baby head in fondant. The roses are molded in pink chocolate. The butter cookies are shaped out of a pea. The baby face is made out of fondant with green icing and then bagged and tied in pink and green polka-dot ribbon. This was fun!

Melissa Chica-Floral Design Specialist

Someone asked me to do Pea In the Pod Baby Shower Party and wanted to know if I can also do the centerpieces.  So, I decided to ask my friend, a floral designer,  if she can do them because I had alot of baking to do for this party. She did such a wonderful job and the customer was very happy.

Melissa Chica is a home-based floral designer. She takes great pride in giving customers her undivided attention and guides them in making the right decisions on where to save but still maintain quality and style, that will ensure complete success for their special occassions. Feel free to contact Melissa for a floral consultation. She will be setting up her Website and Blog soon, where she will showcase her other beautiful arrangments.

Dulce De Leche Cake

The customer who asked me to do the Gluten-Free Cake wanted a regular cake for people who are not Gluten-Free.....lol. So I decided to make a Dulce De Leche Cake. Inside is chocolate cake with vanilla cream cheese filling, drizzled with chocolate ganache and caramel. The icing is vanilla cream cheese frosting drizzle with chocolate ganache. I made chocolate roses, the letters and flowers I made from fondant....oh and the banana too. Why is there a banana? Well.... it's a personal joke......lol.

Gluten-Free Chocolate Mousse Cake.

A customer asked me to make a Gluten-Free Chocolate Cake for her birthday. What is Gluten-Free? Well what's Gluten? Gluten is a protein composite found in foods processed from wheat and related grain species, including barley. So when using regular flour it has wheat. It gives elasticity to dough,  helping it to rise and to keep its shape. So for those who suffer from a wheat or gluten allergy may have Coeliac Disease. Or some people just want Gluten- Free foods because they are health conscious.

So when using a Gluten -Free Flour, there is no wheat. It has rice flour, tapioca starch, potato starch and whole grain brown rice flour. Now people might think it might not taste so great, but it actually taste good. It all depends how you prepare it.

This cake is a Gluten-Free Chocolate Mousse cake. Inside, Gluten-Free chocolate cake with a chocolate mousse filling and outside a chocolate fudge buttercream. Since she loves monkeys, I decided to design a monkey with pretty flowers out of fondant.

Christmas Bundt Fruit Cake

  Fruit cakes, either people hate it or love it. Some have too much dried fruits and some cakes are too dense that you can probably throw it at a window and the glass will shatter....lol. Well here is my version of a fruit cake. It's not a loaf and it doesn't have 10 different types of fruit where you can't even taste the cake itself. It's like a pound cake and the 4 main ingrediants are cranberries, walnuts, red cherries and a taste of orange. Not heavy on the fruits and not too sweet........:0)