To celebrate Mina’s birthday, I was inspired by her Japanese heritage and the season of sakura.
This two tier petite cake is covered with vanilla rolled fondant and small flower cutouts.
The cake is a Lady Baltimore cake with Vanilla Buttercream and Cherry filling.
This cake was made for a baby shower with Noah’s Ark theme. The cake is a Strawberry Sponge Cake with Whipped Cream Icing as the mother-to-be, I was told, liked light cakes and fruits.
Since a sponge cake with whipped cream icing cannot handle any heavy decorations on the top, I opted with hand painted rolled fondnat. Each piece was painted with edible color and then cut out and assembled.
I have to give my wonderful multi-talented husband credit for drawing the giraffe, lion, and the monkey. They are adorable!
This cake was made for a young lady who enjoys the beach and sailing. I created a ombre color effect for each layer which is a bit difficult to see from the picture unfortunately.
A very last minute order for a 6″ chocolate ganache cake for a birthday.
Mabel’s older brother was about to have another birthday again. However, this year’s birthday is more special than others. He was also going to retire on the day of his birthday!
Mabel’s brother, I was told, liked fishing and bright colors. Since he was about to really “gone fishing” at leisure, I thought lounging in the fishing boat would be most appropriate.
The fishing rod has the details of reel, guides under the rod, and fishing line. (Yes, I confess I am no fishing expert and I cheated by Googling “fishing rod” to figure out these terminologies.)
Here’s the bait box with a little lady bug resting on top.
As our fisherman lounges, little animal friends are out to check him out including the fishes that are evading the fish hook!
There are also colorful and whimsical fish swimming among water plants.
This is the ultimate relaxation cake. Happy birthday to Mabel’s brother!
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What do we associate with when we think of Valentine’s Day? Rose and Love of course! Here are two cakes perfect for your Valentine whether as a regular cake or in miniature version. You may click on the pictures below to go to the original blogs on these cakes and for more photos.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Along the theme of Africa, this is a cake very simply decorated with a safari scene: A pair of giraffes walking together on an open African safari under the setting sun. This will be a place I will visit one day.
Here’s a slice of the cut cake.
Not knowing that, one day, my fate was going to be intimately tied to this land, Africa seemed a place too distant to be reached as a child. Its vast species of animals and the wild beauty of its landscape have fascinated me from an early age. As a trip to this exotic land was a far dream back then, I had to settle on following “Nature”, the TV program, to give wings to my little heart to glide over the open fields and mountainsides of Africa.
Although my dream of going to Africa has not been realized just yet, an opportunity presented itself for me to celebrate the birthday of one of my dearest friend, E, by taking a trip down memory lane Back to Africa with him. E had brought back a beautiful wall ornament from African. This ornament is like a small painting. As I admired this piece of art, E explained that it was made with banana leaves, depicting a scene from an African village in the older days with traditional huts and women beating corns in a bucket. Although these traditional huts rarely exist today, E fondly remembered the times he did spend with his grandmother in huts just like these as a child.
So for E’s birthday cake, I decorated the cake with a scene from a traditional African village on top of a vanilla butter cake with raspberry chocolate ganache.
The huts are sculpted 3-D cakes covered with straws on the roof made with modeling chocolate. The huts have wooden doors and windows made with modeling chocolate.
In front of the huts, two ladies are beating corn with a wooden stick.
Another lady is carrying a water bucket on top of her head as traditional African women do.
A typical African tree stands to the left side of the huts.
Ah, the beauties of Africa! My heart longs to be Back to Africa to glide over its meadows again, even it is just in a dream. May this cake give wings to your heart, to take you Back to Africa to relive some of your fondest memories, dearest E. And Happy Birthday!
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I made this cake for a gentleman whose Chinese zodiac sign is of the year of the Rabbit.
The rabbit and grass are made with modeling chocolate.
The cake is a banana cake with french custard filling and chocolate ganache frosting.
What to do with a cake for a winter celebratory event? How about snowflakes?
Growing up in the north as a child, I remember being outside on snow days, looking up to the sky with eager anticipation for the snowflakes to drift down. I would wait for them to land on my cloths so that I could have a few seconds of taking in the beauty of each flake before they melted. As I got older and life got more hectic, the fascination over snowflakes gradually slipped away.
I always took it for granted that everyone knew that snowflakes were hexagons. It was not until the snow storm of last winter that I found out that my husband, having grown up in warm climates, had no idea that snowflakes actually had shapes! I happily pointed out each snowflake as quickly as I could for my dear husband as we excitedly waited for the snowflakes to land on the windshield. As we observed these snowflakes in wonderment, we were also amazed at how God took so much care in the design of something as small as a snowflake and that He created no two snowflakes alike. Each snowflake had its own structure and variation. The curiosity over snowflakes led me to further research and I came across this website, http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/class/class.htm. I then found out there were even more shapes to snowflakes then I knew!
For the snowflake cake, each snowflake looked different from the next as it should have been. This is just a small attempt to capture a glimpse of the beauty of God’s creation which is far better. Here are some of the snowflakes that I piped out with chocolate. Enjoy!
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