Bubble Guppies!!

I was so excited when my friend asked me to do this cake. My kids LOVE this show and I was ready for a challenge :)

It was vanilla cake with chocolate pudding and was super delicious (I had some!). The cake is frosted in buttercream and the 'sand' is brown sugar. All the Bubble Guppies are hand cut out of fondant and I painted the faces on with food coloring. I really liked this cake and so did the birthday girls :)

Catching Up!

Here are some cakes I've done in the past I keep forgetting to post.

This one is a vanilla cake with cream cheese filling and fondant decorations. It was a super last minute cake for a repeat client :)

This one was done for a friend's kid, who sadly never got it :( No worries, my kids enjoyed it!!

This cake was for the winner of June's cake giveaway :)

These are mini cupcakes I did for my daughter's 3rd birthday, a looong time ago. I completely ran out of time and only had time to pull off the cupcakes, she still reminds me she didnt get a super awesome cake :)

This was a cake I did way back when I still thought I had to make individual cakes for each tasting! I think this was actually the first tasting I had . . .

This cake I pulled off in like 2 hours I think, or something crazy like that. I was looking for clothes for my kids on CL when I saw this post for someone that was asking for used toys for a little girls birthday party because there was an unexpected cost and all the money for the party had been used. I didn't have any toys, but felt really touched with the courage of that mother so I called her up and offered a cake. A few hours later, there she was on my doorstep elated with the cake!

This one was a small anniversary cake for a friend. Its vanilla cranberry with cranberry filling.

This was a smash cake for a friend's kid. I think it was chocolate with buttercream frosting and I handmade the Elmo and #1 out of modeling chocolate and the decorations are all fondant.



July

It's been exactly 30 days since my last blog. I've been sooooo incredibly busy. Here's what I've been up to cake wise in July.

Cat in the Hat cupcakes. 

Princess cake for one of the most adorable little girls I've ever seen. I did the smash cake out of chocolate and the 2 tier cake out of marble and chocolate ganache for one tier and chocolate with cream cheese and strawberry filling for the other.  The cakes were covered in fondant and all the decorations were made out of fondant / gumpaste. It turned out super cute!

This is a yellow cake with buttercream filling for a baby shower. Its decorated entirely in buttercream because the client is not a fan of fondant, and who can blame her?! The taste isn't that great but you can do oh so many pretty things with it :)

Here are some super duper adorable fondant covered Hello Kitty cupcakes.

This is one of my favorite cakes. I made the peacock entirely out of fondant and wire for stability and made it a few days to allow to dry hard. The cake itself it just plain ol' chocolate with chocolate buttercream and frosted in white buttercream with a pearl border. No need to do anything fancy with this beautiful peacock on top, lol!

This cake is a 3 tier Buzz Lightyear / Alien cake. It took me forever to hand make all the aliens and fondant decorations, but I was super happy with how it came it out. But this cake almost made me give up doing cakes. I was depressed and super embarrased about it for like a day and a half and then I got over it. Bottom tier is yellow cake with buttercream, middle is chocolate with strawberry filling and top is red velvet with cream cheese. So anyhow, one hour after pick up, mind you it was a very humid day and the cake left my place intact, I get a call that the cake somehow fell apart and the client is super dissappointed. Nothing is worse than a disgruntled client and they can do wonders to discredit all your hard work so I cheerfully offered to refund all $120 back. I still cannot understand how it is that the cake fell apart with all the wooden support in it. Its not my first cake and it was pretty solid. Other than it being humid, I am baffled as to what happened. But in all my years of customer service, the one thing I've learned is that the customer is always right! C'est la vie!

Moving on . . . this next cake is the best cake ever! I say that because it's my birthday cake. Yes, I know how silly it is that I made my OWN cake but that just how I am!

Its a 2 tier cake, the bottom tier is carrot with cream cheese and the top tier is pink velvet with lemon filling. I covered it in fondant and added gold sugar balls. The flowers are handmade out of gumpaste. I absolutely LOVE how it came out and it tasted really good too. 

And with that I say, Welcome August! Can't wait to work on some very exciting cakes I have coming up. Look for my Justin Bieber cake and and a Tiffany and Co. inspired wedding cupcake tower coming soon!! Enjoy the rest of your summer <3

Cat in the Hat

This is the first sculpted cake I attempted. The hat part is cake and the fish bowl is rice cereal. The fish is all fondant and then I used edible marker for details.

Here's a picture I took, but I forgot to take a picture of the cupcakes that went along.

Luckily, here's a picture my client took WITH the cupcakes :) They're purple cause they're suppose to look like the ones in the movie!



Happy Father's Day

I am so behind on these posts. I have a million cake pictures (okay, not literally a million!) and a ton of orders to do. But, I'm not complaining! I LOVE keeping busy. Anyhow, here's a picture of the cake I did for my hubs for Fathers Day.

It's a PS3 console. Its made out of vanilla cake and buttercream and covered in fondant.

And here's a picture of him enjoying it. It ended up being WAY too much cake and we ate about half of it before I threw it out. Happy belated Father's Day!!!



Angelito de La Guarda

This is a cake I did for a babyshower. Its a 3 tier with chocolate & strawberry filling, banana & cream cheese, and vanilla & buttercream. There's little feet all around the cake and a baby sleeping on top of blocks that spell out 'bebe' or baby in Spanish. Around the middle tier it says, 'Angel de la guarda, de mi dulce compania, no me desampares, ni de noche ni de dia' which translates into 'Guardian Angel in my sweet company, do not forsake me in the day or at night. '



My First Cupcake Tower

I love cupcakes, they are easy and cute. Put them on a cupcake tower and you get a instant elegant centerpiece to any party! Here's my very first cupcake tower I attempted.

I think there were 70 cupcakes total, consisting of a mix of standard size and mini cupcakes. I also did a small 6" cake on the top for the birthday girl. This also was the first time I got to use my Cricut Cake ! I did all the decorations out of gumpaste. You can't really tell but I did two different kinds of butterflies for cupcake toppers and little #1s.



Wedding Cake

Apart from doing the two 1st birthday cakes, I also had a wedding cake order.

Here's a picture of the finished product. It was a 3 tier cake (6",8",10") and was all carrot cake with cream cheese filling and buttercream frosting. I piped interlocked hearts and little dots all over and then decorated on site with fresh flowers.  This was the first cake I had to deliver long distance. I delivered it to Valley Center and let me tell you, I was sweating the whole way! It took me about one hour total to get there and it was in a rural area in mountains with a single lane all the way up. I keep having to pull over to let cars pass me cause I was too afraid to go faster. I thought the cake might tip over. Luckily, the cake made it all right and I got there right before I had a nervous breakdown, lol. So what do you think? Good job or not?



1st Birthday Cakes

I absolutely love kids birthday parties. Especially 1st birthdays. They are my favorite. This week I was lucky enough to be booked for TWO 1st birthday parties.

Here's one of the cakes I did. This was a BIG cake. Its a three tier (8", 10", 12") and feeds about 88-118 people. I made it out of chocolate and strawberry filling. Its frosted in hot pink buttercream and then I added zebra frosting sheets to the middle tier, and did hand painted zebra tiaras, bow and #1 out of fondant.  I also did a matching smash cake, but forgot to take a picture (boo).

This cake I did for a friend. Its a 2 tier (8", 10"). I did the top tier out of carrot cake and cream cheese filling and the bottom tier red velvet and cream cheese filling. I frosted it all in buttercream and did gumpaste flowers, butterflies and the #1. I absolutely LOVE this cake. I always work so much better when I'm given free rein :) OOh, plus I was invited to the party so I actually got to eat some (bonus)! 

Lazy Weekend

I've been super busy these past few months with all the kids activities, cake tastings, cake orders, and  work (oh yeah, did you know I also have an real job? As some people say. Yep, yours truly is a spanish teacher!) I thought I'd give myself this weekend off cause I earned it :) But of course, that didn't happen. I of course booked the entire weekend with cake tasting, because I'm just not me if I'm not busy doing something :) I'm sitting here in my patio enjoying this lovely weather, blogging away, in between tastings.

Here's a peek at my earlier tasting.

Hope you enjoy your weekend!

Morgan Wedding Cupcake Tower

I like to think that cupcake towers are my 'thing'. It's super popular but I don't see alot of people in my area doing it. They're convenient because no cake cutting is involved but they're still really pretty and dramatic looking. Almost all the weddings I've done have been cupcake towers. This one right here is my favorite.

 I did this beautiful cupcake wedding tower for the sweetest client I have ever had! It was a pleasure to work with her. I've been pretty lucky and had some amazing clients but this girl topped 'em all! She emailed me for a consultation and told me she was looking for a cupcake tower like a previous one I had done and she wanted navy and silver as her colors but definetely wanted a silver pearl look. At first I didnt know what I could do with those colors. Anyhow, I met with her and her fiance and they were the most polite people I had I ever met. They loved the tasting and booked right there and then! Yay! A week later I got a pretty pink envelope in the mail, it was a thank you card! That seriously made my day right there.

Here's a picture of the tasting. We did white cupcakes with cream cheese filling, yellow cupcakes with cream cheese filling, and marble cupcakes with chocolate mousse all topped with vanilla buttercream. They chose the white with cream cheese filling.

This is what I came up with. You can't really tell by the picture but all the cupcakes have a navy flower with a silver ball in the middle to match the cake on top. Here's a side view picture.

All in all, best client ever, she even brought the tower back before it was due :) and gave me a big ol' hug and thanked me for my service. Jennifer, thank you for being so sweet! I would love to work with you guys again!!

Celebration Cakes

Cakes are not just for birthdays and weddings. They sweeten every occasion. Here are some cakes I've done in the past.

This is a Halloween cake I made for my friend Carolann's party. It wasn't my best work and my husband did not like cause he hates the taste of fondant. I'm not crazy about fondant either. It's definetely an acquired taste but its amazing the things you can do with it that you just can't do with buttercream!

This is an Easter egg cake I did. It was for a clients husband's birthday which happened to be on Easter as well. Lucky fellow :)

Yes, this is a cake! Its a flower pot cake I made for my friend Karina for her mama for Mothers Day! Its actually the second one of these I made. I will post the other one later. It looks complicated but its actually really simple to make.

Like I said, you don't need any special occasion to have cake, or in this case cupcakes! Pictured here are some strawberry cupcakes filled with vanilla pudding and topped with vanilla buttercream. I made these dainty pink cupcakes for my sister just because :) I made one dozen but somehow only 4 (mom and grandma . . .) made it to her!

This cake is my most recent. I made last thursday for my daughter's preschool graduation ( . . .sniffle . . .). Yes, ladies and gentlemen she is now a KINDERGARTENER!! It doesn't seem like that long ago we brought her home from the hospital :(  Its  a pretty simple concept that I came up with earlier knowing I wouldn't have much time to do. It took me about 25 mins to bake and another 20 mins to decorate. I cheated a little and bought those new Wilton frosting sheets. The taste wasn't that bad and it beats using 3 bottles of dye to get that nice dark black color. I wanted to do the writing in actual powdered sugar to look more like chalk but tried and failed, plus time was not on my side. I'm pleased with how it came out and my daughter was elated! She couldn't believe that she could eat the cake. She keep saying, "So its not for sale, Mommy?" Lol, don't feel bad for her. I always make extra because who can really say 'no cake' to kids when this is what you're doing all the time at home?!

Giveaway

In honor of my new blog I decided to do a giveaway for all my blog and FB page followers.

And the winner of her choice of either a 6" cake of 12 cupcakes is . . . CALI CLARK!!! Congrats to her! And if you didn't win this time, don't fret, there'll be plenty more opportunites to win soon! 

Kids Birthday Cakes

Here are a few kids birthday cakes I did early on.

I did this Spiderman cake for my friend Annabel's son's birthday party last June. I used piping gel on wax paper to outline a coloring page and then transferred it to the cake. I then tinted more piping gel and filled it in. I learned that I dont like doing designs like this, lol.

I did this cake for a client. It turned out very nice but imagine painstakingly piping all those individual stars! Needless to say my hand hurt :)

After that I got another request for a Toy Story cake. This one was for 2 sisters having a joint birthday party. I learned from the Buzz cake and did cut out fondant decorations for this one and just piped details to clean it all up. This is one of my favorites and my client LOVED it :)

Baby Shower Cakes

Here are some cakes I've done for babyshowers.

This cake I made for my friend Karina's coworkers babyshower. I had been experimenting with cake flavors and had taken her a piece of my banana cake recipe a couple weeks before which she loved and requested for the shower. Turned out to be a good move because from that cake I got several orders from those in attendance and made banana cake one of my two specialties!

I made a 10" round and did cream cheese frosting for filling and frosting. I used fondant for all the decorations.

This is one of the cakes that came from that. Again it was banana cake with cream cheese frosting. I was given free rein on this cake so I did some googling and combined with my ideas this is what I came up with. I did buttercream for frosting and stabilized whipped cream for the clouds. The stars and moon were made out of a 50/50 gum paste & fondant mixture. Then I wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star . . . Soon we'll find out who you are". This is one of my favorite cakes :)

The next babyshower cake I did was for my friends Annabel's friends shower. Again I was given free rein :) This is my husband's favorite cake, he always tells people how the teddy bear is solid chocolate. He was so amazed that I could do something like that, lol. I can't remember exactly, but I think the bottom layer was chocolate with buttercream and the top was yellow cake with buttercream. It was frosted in buttercream and the dots were chocolate buttercream. The blocks were rice cereal coated with fondant and piped with buttercream. I wonder who got to eat the chocolate teddy bear . . . ?

First Paid Cake

So after a ton of practice cakes I got my first paid order. I did a 1/4 sheet cake for a client whose son had just been accepted into the Airforce.

Getting Started

So after much procrastination I finally have my blog up and running. Thanks SOOO much to my friend Carolann who helped me put it together because as good as I am with cakes I am equally bad with technology :)

I've been making cakes for over a year now. I started by taking a Wilton basic cake decorating class because I had no idea what a crumb coat, torting, or crusting buttercream meant. My son's 2nd birthday was coming up in May and I figured it was as good a time as any to start cake decorating and make a cake for him.

So this is what I came up with. I did chocolate for all the tiers and did buttercream with bits of chopped up Oreo cookies in it. For the decorations I used my new found skills :) I did red piping down the sides and a shell border. I made the clown, seal, and balloons all out of modeling chocolate and voila! I was done. I was very proud of myself and thought I had done an awesome job for it being my first! I even made a little smash cake to go with it. And my friend Karina from http://karinafloresphotography.blogspot.com/ was super nice enough to take these wonderful pictures from me. Aren't they wonderful?!   

So anyhow, there's my cake beginning. If you're still reading this, thank you so much for following me! Now let's see how long it takes me to post all my other cake pictures :)