Ferrari F430 Cake!

I gotta say that this cake was probably one of the most challenging cakes that I've ever made and not to mention, it's my first "car" cake so I was really excited when Melody came to me with this idea.

Melody wanted to surprise her boyfriend with a special and unique birthday cake. She contacted me with a design in mind which is to make a cake in the shape of a Ferrari F430. To top it off, this cake will be more special to her boyfriend Jeremy because it will be a replica of her boyfriend's car. Melody provided me a toy car model for the sculpting of the cake. Her boyfriend only eats cakes that are bittersweet and I had a perfect recipe that I know they'd love. The flavor of this cake was my very own dark chocolate cake, with whipped ganache. The cake had dutch cocoa powder which gave it a more special dark chocolate flavor. The ganache was flavored with my favorite rum and vanilla. I saved some of the carved left overs on the side and my boyfriend made several trips from his computer to the kitchen to take bites lol!

Why was this cake one of the most challenging cakes? Well because as easy as the idea of making a car cake may seem, it's not! I had to make sure that I could get all the measurements as close to the model toy car as possible and to do so, I had my trusty ruler, pencil, paper, and calculator. I felt like I was designing a real car! Haha.. =P I had put lots of hours into this one! Later that evening, Melody sent me a text message saying that the cake was amazing and they enjoyed it very much! My hard work was lifted off of my shoulders after reading this text and I was overjoyed that they enjoyed it so much!

So here is the final product of the cake. I hope you viewers enjoy the overall design.

(A photo of Melody, Jeremy, and the cake!)

Calculator Birthday Cake!

Thu (pronounced "to") had requested a cake from me for her husband's 30th birthday! Her husband is an Accountant so she wanted a cake that defines his profession... a Calculator Cake!

The flavor of this cake is red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. I covered the cake with rolled fondant then added the keys. Each number and sign is piped by hand. The screen shows 7,22 which defines Thu's husband's real birthday. On the top right corner of the screen, I added the brand name "SHARP". The paper scroll is made out of rice crispies and then it is covered with fondant. The sides of it is accented to make it look like a real "paper scroll". The cake didn't feel complete till I added the No.2 pencil and the yellow folder that labels "Birthday Expense".

Thu absolutely loved the cake when she saw it. She loved the vibrant colors and she was surprised to see the details of the pencil and the folder.

Wedding cakes & Dr. Suess Cake!

Last weekend was probably the most busiest weekend for me. Phuong's wedding was this past Sunday and a referral client named Ann's twin babies were turning one years old the day before on Saturday.

Phuong is also a referral client from my good friend Linda (the one who I made the Tank Cake for) and she wanted a wedding cake that can serve up to 300 people. She specified on what she wanted in terms of the design of the cake. She dropped off the pink orchids and calla lilies and the rest were up to me to decorate. The flavor of the cake is a vanilla light sponge cake, and it is layered with butter cream and fresh strawberries. Her husband wanted a grooms cake that is carved out in the shape of a fleur de lis. Half of it was to be colored like The Saints team in football, and the other half was to be colored like the Hornets team in basketball. I am sad to say that I don't have pictures of the grooms cake but am trying to request a photo from her. She also wanted 100 pieces of French Macarons. The flavors that she picked were lemon, hazelnut, strawberry, and red velvet. Here are some pictures of her wedding cake:

On Saturday my friend Emily referred her friend Ann to me in regards of a birthday cake for Ann's twin babies who were turning one years old. Coincidentally my friend who's name is also Ann, was having a baby shower on that same day and she is expecting twins! I was notified yesterday that she had given birth to them already so Congratulations Ann and Tony!!! =)

Ann (Emily's friend) wanted a "Thing 1 Thing 2" cake from Dr. Seuss! Her cake was three-tiered and it serves 35 people. We both talked about the decoration of the cake and she liked the idea of Thing 1 and Thing 2 holding a Happy Birthday sign. She also requested that the cake had the number one on there. Her cake was a strawberry layered cake with cream cheese butter cream.

I have to say, my boyfriend was pretty proud of me when I was done with the cakes and macarons! =) He is a busy guy and he still put time aside to assist me when I needed help so thank you and I love you very mucho!!! Also, thank you Henry and Larry for helping me with the wedding cakes! You guys are my best muscle men! =)

R2D2 Cake and Bunny Baby Shower Cake!

Christi (Maxton's mother) said that Maxton absolutely loves Star Wars and his favorite character is R2D2! He also collects R2D2 figurines and have posters all over his room. After knowing this about Maxton, I knew that I had to make an R2D2 cake. At first I was going to make a carved out cake of R2D2 (like as if R2D2 was lying on the cake board) but then I thought that making R2D2 standing up would definitely make Maxton super happy when he sees it... and I knew that the extra work and effort put in to that cake will make it worth while. Christi wanted to see the cake as soon as I was done with it so I sent her a picture message of the finished product. When Gabe and I delivered the cake, Christi was overjoyed with the finished product and Maxton was very happy and surprised to see his cake! So here's the final product:

The flavor of the cake is yellow cake with chocolate icing.

Hang needed a baby shower cake for her co-worker who's having a baby girl! The top tier had to be sugarless due to a special request from her co-worker and they thought of having a baby bunny cake topper. The baby bunny is dressed up in a baby girl dress and she's also wearing a pink and white baby headband. Intricate piping work was done all around the cake. Hang was super excited when she saw the cake and loved the baby bunny!

More Macarons!

For the past weeks I've been having requests on french macarons so I've been developing new flavors! Red Velvet (red), Hazelnut (light brown), and Pistachio (green). They're all made with natural and fresh ingredients. You don't want to miss these new flavors! YUM =)

The Red Velvet is sandwiching cream cheese frosting.

The Hazelnut is sandwiching hazelnut chocolate.

And the Pistachio is sandwiching pistachio nut cream.