Monday, July 25, 2011

Playful Tigers



On Saturday, we had the opportunity to make a cake for little Sophie in San Diego.  She kept insisting that she wanted a tiger cake and when asked if it was because of Tigger in Winnie the Pooh, she gave us a blank look.  I was then pretty sure they were tigers she saw at the San Diego Zoo.

So keeping the tigers 'looking like tigers' and not like Tigger, this is the cake we came up with. Guess what was the only thing little Sophie ate off the cake? Yup, the tigers lol!

Cake was vanilla with a vanilla buttercream filling.

Friday, July 1, 2011

Flower Garden















After a long winter, we look forward to Springtime with the same yearning of a child longing to buy candy displayed in the candy store window. We put away our thick coats, bring out our spring clothes and buy a bunch of vegetable and flower shrubs to fill our pots and planters.

These cake balls were made for a spring party to celebrate the passing of winter and the beginning of color.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Spring chicks



















Cake pops have become all the craze  recently and many clients have asked for cake pops at their party rather than a traditional or sheet cake.  I have to agree that these little cake pops appeals to the masses from adults to little ones and having just one is physically impossible.  It is also such an ease during parties with kids since they are able to serve themselves by picking pops from it's display.

Having said that, I have made more cake pops in the last six months and Spring Chicks are by far the cutest pops I've ever made.  With it's little feet and feathers fluttering in green grass, it is just a joy to made these little bites. This is exactly why I LOVE my job!!

Monday, May 16, 2011

Graduation Mania


















This weekend we were honored to be invited to attend the masters graduation of Ms. Hoong Yan See Tao at the University of Texas, El Paso. A cake was requested for her graduation party to serve at least 40 people and above is the cake designed for her. Having managed to extract information about the graduation colors, textbooks and desired cake flavors and filling, I created a 2 layered chocolate and vanilla cake with a raspberry filling for all 4 tiers of the cake. The edge of the cake board is also lined with cake pops in the shape of a mortar board with white tassels. Cake pops were moist chocolate cake with milk chocolate filling.

My surprise for her was the little figurine studying late nights with never enough coffee and books strewn all around the table. I though it was a perfect description of every college student's life. Below is a close-up of the sleeping figurine.



















Congratulations again Ms. Hoong Yan See Tao!!! and all the best for your future pursue of a PhD.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Fashionista Bag



















I had the most amazing opportunity to spend three days in New York City with Chef Elisa Strauss in a cake sculpting class hosted by the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE).  The class was constructed to teach students how to structure, carve and ice cakes to make them look realistic, which is one of Chef Elisa's specialties. Lots of creativity was brought on by Chef Elisa during these three days and it was so much fun!

Having spent three days learning everything from basic information to cake decorating tips, I believe it was worth every minute being there. We interacted one to one with the instructor and realized that there is more to cake decorating than just icing the cake. It's the time, love, effort and details we put into each of these custom cakes that make each one special and different.

Above was the cake I designed.  This cake was white vanilla with vanilla buttercream filling. Mark and I had the privilege of sharing this cake with some of our friends and it was heavenly!! Now I finally know what a minimum thousand dollar cake tastes like.

Check out more photos of the cake sculpting class at ICE with Chef Elisa of Confetti Cakes, NY using the link below. My cake is featured in the third photo (with three flowers on the cake board):

Link: Cake Sculpting Class at ICE with Chef Elisa Strauss

Monday, March 14, 2011

Who Lives In A Pineapple Under The Sea?
















Last Saturday, we were in El Paso to deliver a cake to 7 year old Joshua whose one sole passion is SpongeBob.  He had requested a Spongebob cake weeks ago but had forgotten all about it. The morning of his birthday arrived and when the cake was displayed, all Joshua could whisper was "SpongeBob". I think he really liked the cake and I felt so honored to have had the opportunity to give this little boy his dream cake.

Cake is dark chocolate with a milk chocolate ganache filling.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Pink Ballerina



















Last weekend, I had the opportunity to design a cake for a little 5 year old who loves ballerinas. When asked, this little girl had told me that she wanted a ballerina cake.  Having that in mind, I started researching possible ideas for the cake and most of them consisted of a ballerina figurine (which I was already going to make).  So, I decided to design the cake around ballerina colors - pink and white. The cake above is what I came up with. 

To compliment the cake, and since it was a party for other little kids, I added about 40 cake pops surrounding the base of the cake (photo below).  It was really cute watching little 3 - 5 year old kids walking up to the cake to pick up their cake pops.

Cake was chocolate with Oreo cookies & cream filling and cake pops were devil's food cake with milk chocolate filling.