Thursday, December 22, 2011

Christmas Ball Ornament Cake

The Drum Up Business Event was a complete success!  This was my first cake order after the event held at my company.  Since it was the holiday, the cake design was a Holiday Ball Ornament.  I had some share of troubles when decorating this gorgeous holiday cake.  The original bow dropped and broke in to pieces.  I was so lucky that I had some red fondant left to create a new bow. Overall, I really like how the cake came out after my fair share of trouble.

The cake was a chocolate (popular flavor) and mocha Italian buttercream filling (another popular flavor).  The cake was adorned with marshmallow-butter-flavored fondant.



Ho Ho Ho!!!  Happy Holidays!

The flattering feedback I received from Maria on January 11/2012 12:24PM:

"Just wanted to let you know the cake was a big hit with my entire family on Christmas eve.  I used it as the centerpiece for the table and it was gorgeous and tasty for dessert!

Thanks so much for creating another original for me!
Maria "

Friday, December 16, 2011

Mini Cupcakes for Drum Up Business Event at Pfizer Biotech

I was out on leave when a good friend e-mailed an information about FREE business promotion event to be held in our company. When I came back to work, I joined the Drum Up Business Event.  I found this as an opportunity to show my skills in cake decorating.  As part of promoting Hotkist Creations, I made a hundred mini chocolate cupcakes with mocha buttercream filling.


 

It was a hit!  I enjoyed being part of the event and I met Mr. and Mrs. Santa Clause giving cookies and hot chocolate at this event!!! What did I do?  Sat on Santa's lap and made a wish..... Santa, I wish for a million dollar... LOL!!!
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Pen Holder Cake for a Golden Birthday Celebration

This is Katrina's forth cake order (LV bag, Laker's basket ball, and Hermes purse cakes).  I am so delighted that she is very pleased with my work and with the cake flavors.  This time she wanted an antique pen holder cake in honor of her uncle's 50th birthday.



Another angle of the picture to show the top view of the cake. 



The cake flavor was chocolate cake with Italian buttercream vanilla filling.  Vanilla bean from Italy was added to enhanced the vanilla filling's flavor. 

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Diaper Dress

Sara and John are expecting a baby girl by December 31, 2011. A beautiful baby shower was thrown for the couple in celebration to their first child.

I made a diaper dress, as shown in the center of the picture. The diaper dress was branded with Calvin Klein in honor of John, who is an exectutive in Calvin Klein company.

Christening Dress Cake for Ethan

Late posting for November.

After a successful Onesie Baby Shower cake and cupcakes, Aunt Eden requested me to make another cake for her daughter's son's Christening.  This time it was a Christening Gown cake and cupcakes.  It was a coincident that her grandson's Christening is the day after my baby son's Christening.  I was grateful that my sister, Sheena, who is also a cake decorator in CA, helped me with organizing my son's Christening and with Ethan's cupcake decorating.  We delivered the cake to the venue at Fiesta Catering in the northern New Jersey.



Here's how it was packaged.



The cake was a chocolate cake with chocolate-caramel mousse filling and covered with vanilla buttercream and adorned with fondant.  The Christening dress was airbrushed with pearl food coloring to give a smooth-satin look.

The baby shoes was made in gum paste and fondant.


Toy Box Cake for Benjamin

Another late posting for September.

It's sad that I wasn't able to finish the cake for my son, Benjamin David. It's a mimic of his Toy Box in his nursery room. It's difficult baking and decorating cake when you have a newborn baby who demands milk and changing of dirty diaper.



Thanks for the inspirational work from Rheena, a flawless cake decorator in San Mateo, CA.

Finding Nemo

Late posting for September.

On Sept. 22, I was 37 weeks and 2 days pregnant when making and decorating this gorgeous "Finding Nemo" birthday cake. It was difficult with big belly bump bulding from my stomach and rolling fondant. However, I was so happy and pleased with the outcome of the cake.

The following day (Sept. 23, 8:00AM) I was in labor when I was about to deliver the cake. Who would expect that I would give birth to a healthy and beautiful baby boy on that same day, Sept. 23 at 6:05PM?

I am still thankful that my aunts and uncle up to this point for delivering the cake while I was laying on the hospital bed giving birth to my son.




This cake was a chocolate cake with mocha Italian buttercream. The decorations were made from fondant. The characters were made from rice crispie treats and adorned with fondant. The cake was airbrushed with blue food coloring.
Happy Birthday, Angelina!!! To my friend, Mike and his wife Cindy, I hope you like the cake.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Bicycle Diaper Cake

Another diaper cake for a baby boy shower.

My friend. Mi-Mi, loved the tricycle diaper cake I made for Rob and Kelly. This time we teamed up to make one for her niece, Nina. She brought the materials we need and assembled them together. When we finished diaper cake with bicycle cake topper, we noticed that we didn't have a plush toy - the bike rider! I'm resourceful so called my friend John Johnson to borrow his children's plush toys for the purpose of picture taking!

Here it is.... the finish product - bicycle diaper cake!




Saturday, August 13, 2011

Baby Shower Diaper Cakes and Cake

Robert and Kelly Lau are expecting a twin - a girl and a boy. The perfect pair! To make the celebration fun, a baby carriage diaper cake is for the baby girl and a tricycle diaper cake is for the baby boy.

For the guest, a slice of moist and delicious mocha sponge cake filled with Italian meringue butter cream. The fondant was airbrushed with warm brown food coloring.

Inside the baby carriage diaper cake for baby girl are more diapers, receiving blankets, onesies, pacifiers, baby bottles, blanket, nipples, and toys (see basket on right for twin baby boy - exactly the same, but different colors).


Here are more closer picture of the each diaper cake.


And, here's a closer look of the cake for the guests.


Upon assembly, both couples were so happy with the result of the diaper cakes and were also pleased with the edible cake toppers.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Abby Cadabby Fun Cake (My First Halal Cake)

Making this cake at 31 weeks pregnant wasn’t easy. I was standing for an extended period of time with a huge canon ball around my belly that always gets in the way. Since cake decorating is my hobby and my passion, I can’t complain. I was having a great time decorating this cake for a beautiful 2-year little girl named Hifza. I am so proud of my work how it turned out. Abby Cadabby is just so adorable character!




The bottom tier cake was a vanilla sponge cake filled with Italian meringue vanilla-flavored buttercream with layers of crushed pineapples. The top tier was a chocolate cake with Italian meringue hazelnut-flavored buttercream.




To make a cake with Halal ingredients was a challenge. Some special ingredients requires researching if it is vegetable or animal derived ingredients. The ingredients I used for this cake have to be purchased in certain locations. And I am so pleased and happy that I was able to produce my very first Halal birthday fun cake! I really love how the cake turned out to be. There’s so much going on that it doesn’t look busy, yet it really look a child’s cake.


Hifza’s mom’s (Sofia) Remarks:

Thank you so much! It was absolutely AMAZING!!!!!!!!! You are extremely. talented!!!!


Summer Wedding

My husband's cousin (Cindy) e-mailed me asking if I can make an authentic Filipino cake - ube cake. Ube cake is a purple sweet yam cake, which is one of Filipino's favorite delicacy. In my experience, ube cake is very challenging to make as it requires mashed, or finely grated purple yam that tends to absorb the liquid in the batter and could result in a dry cake.

For this gorgeous wedding cake, the cake is a sponge “ube” cake filled with Filipino buttercream and layers of macapuno. Macapuno is a young coconut preserve.



The cake is adorned with marshmallow-butter-flavored fondant. The flowers are chrysanthemum orchids, airbrushed and dusted with edible, African violet petal dust.

The challenge for this cake it to maintain it’s shape due to the extreme heat wave of the summer. The temperature outside the wedding venue was 110 deg F and the weather inside the building was 70 deg F (not accounting the body heat from at least 150 guests). My concern was the “will the buttercream melt and ruined the shape of the cake?” Overall, the cake was moist and tasted authentically Filipino. The bride, groom, and guests were very pleased with the taste and right balance of the sweetness.

No wasted cake and no leftovers to bring home!



Remarks from Cindy:

Thanks Ev! the cake was a success! Chrissie Seto and Alan Perez and their guests really enjoyed the cake!

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Darth Yoda

Serena had her 30th "Mets" birthday cake from Jean. This time Serena placed a Darth Yoda cake for Joyce who was turning 30.
Yoda, the cake topper, took over 8 hours to make, starting from scultping the rice crispies to covering it with modeling chocolate. The slowly scultped his face to give it a grumpy old man look like how he is in most movies. I was glad that the number of the cake topper characters was reduced from three (3) Star Wars characters (Darth Vader, Yoda, and Luke Skywalker) to just Yoda. Otherwise, I'll be jumping hoops trying to find time finishing up three characters in as short as one week.
I had my first sculpted Yoda trashed due to air brush malfunctions. Glad that after 4 days working in phases with Yoda, I was able to pull it through. Here he is..... To add humor, he's using Darth Vader's stolen/acquired red saber...
Yoda was made of rice crispies and covered with modeling chocolate. His robe was made of fondant airbrushed with brown food coloring to give it a nice old, dirty look.
Cake was a chocolate cake filled with Italian chocolate-mocha buttercream.
I am happy that Serena "Loveeeee it" [cake].

Monday, June 20, 2011

Hermes Purse Cake

Surprisingly, this cake was Katrina's 3rd order. Her previous orders were the Louis Vuitton Speedy bag cake and the Laker's basketball cake. I glad that she was very pleased and happy with her orders that she decided to place another order.

I would humbly say that this was one of my best purse cake creation. I liked the crocodile texture. It brings a character to the purse cake.


Her aunt Nelia loves purses, so we agreed to make her Hermes cake replica. She also loves the purple color, so we decided to make an ube (purple yam) cake with buttercream frosting and macapuno (young coconut preserves). I made her extra cake accessories that she did not expect at all. I made it extra special since she had ordered previously. I made her edible LV face foundation, LV lipsticks, Movado watch, pearl necklace and bracelet, and Hermes price tag.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Laker's Fan

This was one challenging cake to make. The roundness of the ball was difficult to achieve. With challenges, the cake turned out the way I hoped it to be. However, the humidity in this season (summer) is not cooperating with me even with full blast airconditioning. What I need next is to purchase a dehumidifier. Hope this will solve my problem with humidity.
This cake was gifted to Uncle Boy on his 50th birthday from his beloved niece Katrina and nephew Jepoy. She wanted a simple cake, but I made it more than what she expected. She was ecstatic! It's more that what she expects!
The cake was made in mocha sponge cake filled with mocha Amaretto Italian buttercream. The cake was airburushed with orange food cloring to bring out the true orange color of the basketball.
The Laker's Playoff Ticket was made in icing sheet printed in food coloring and attached to fondant. The Laker's Logo was hand carved on fondant.
Once again, another happy birthday celebrant! Happy Birthday, Tito Boy!

Monday, May 16, 2011

Baby Shower Cake from Khat and Family

Coming out from a routine 8-hour day shift and being pregnant at the same time, was exhausting and energy draining. To top that, I had to decorate a special baby shower cake for a friend. Oh boy! I had to admit that it was a challenging day for me. I learned a valuable lesson that day. My body is not as it used before – not pregnant. I cannot juggle multiple activities at the same time and stayed up late for long hours, like I used to. I was so tired.

Although, it was a tough and long night for me… I was able to deliver, yet another beautiful cake. I am happy and pleased with the outcome of the cake considering I had faced few challenges – crooked cake at first and dropping the cake later due to fatigue, and baked new batches of 6” cakes, make new batches of fondant, and start to re-decorate again.



This cake was a vanilla-butter cake. The cake was filled with rich and sinful American chocolate buttercream with crushed almonds. The cake was decorated with marshmallow-butter flavored fondant and adorned with edible pearls. The baby teether keys and hair clips were made of fondant. The "Mary Jane" shoes was made of fondant. Basically, everything were edible. Kids would love them!



Thursday, May 12, 2011

Baby Bodysuit/Onesie for Capt. Baby Ethan!

Aunt Eden requested a "onesie" cake and 50 pieces of cupcakes. Since it is going to be a baby boy, I suggested for a sailor theme onesie design. I provided a sketch...oh boy, was it a hit! Viola! Here's the cake...




I am happy that the cake turned out to be so beautiful and that aunt Eden was delighted!



The cake is a chocolate cake, filled with Italian mocha buttercream, and adorned with marshmallow fondant. to give the shirt a little texture look, I airbrushed the "onesie" cake with baby blue food coloring. The sailor hat, shoes, and teether keys were made from fondant and are edible. The cupcakes were also decorated with edible sailboats made with fondant.




This is the picture before it was delivered.


Friday, April 8, 2011

Tangled. Who?

After a long night decorating the LV Speedy cake for Katrina, another long night again to finish this princess cake - Rapunzel from the Tangled movie, for Tita Imelda. Can't complain. I enjoy cake decorating. I even purchased a pay-per-view of the Tangled movie to see the movie's highlights / climax. In the movie, when the little girls braided her hair and adorned with flowers, I used that moment to make this cake. I also added the edible lantern since it was part of that touchy moment.

Tita Imelda liked that cake. She was wow'ed and shocked seeing this gorgeous cake. Originally, she asked for a three-themed cake - Tangled, Spiderman, and Lady Gaga theme. Since I only had limited time to make a three-themed cake because of the previous LV cake, she decided to have a Rapunzel cake instead. VIOLA! Here's Rapunzel.


Cake was a red velvet cake filled with cream cheese buttercream. Rapunzel was made of rice crispie treats and modeling chocolate. Lantern was also edible made of fondant.

Thanks for the inspirational work from Rheena, a flawless cake decorator in San Mateo, CA.

Purse Lover

This is totally a deceiving present - a Louis Vuitton purse, but a cake. Katrina asked if I can design another Luis Vuitton purse cake for her aunt in Canada, who is celebtrating her 50th birthday. She was very happy and astounded to see the cake. The cake was a mocha sponge cake filled with mocha Italian meringue buttercream with amaretto liquor. There were extra pieces of the cake after sculpture. Brought the extra cake slices to work to get people's critics. This was a review e-mailed to me by my colleague, Tony: "Very good flavor balance: not too sweet, good mocha flavor, but not overpowering. Really good job! And the cake is just how I like it: light, but firm and substantial. "

Monday, March 28, 2011

2011 National Capitol Area Cake Show by International Cake Exploration Society

International Cake Exploration Society sponsored the 2011 National Capitol Area Cake Show in Annandale, VA on March 26 – 27, 2011. According to the NCACS, they have not anticipated to have at least 3,000 visitors on the show and at least 350 registered competitors. There was overwhelming number of crowd and overflowing cakes on the tables for each competing division. It was one kind of an event that I’ve never been to. TLC and Food Network Channels were there shooting a cake challenge episode called Castles of the Silver Screen.

In the Wedding Cake Category in my Division, this is the Modern Bride wedding cake I designed and entered for the competition. This Modern Bride wedding cake was place 3rd, which surprised me and brought me some tears. I humbly say that my competitors have some talent. This cake was nowhere close to the cakes that took the 1st and 2nd place. Overall, I was so proud that my piece that I worked for almost 2 days, took the 3rd place.
In the Sculpted Cake Category in my Division, this is the sculpted cake (R2D2) I created and entered for the competition. This R2D2 was placed 2nd, which according to one of the NCACS judges who wrote the critic/review card that this could have been placed 1st place in the Tiered Cake category and not in the Sculpted Cake category. Darn! Lessons learned… for me.



These are the Tiered and Wedding cakes for Master's Division decorated by Norman Davis, a multiple 1st place winner of the Food Network Cake Challenge.



The Tiered Cake (above) and the Wedding Cake (below) by Norman Davis.

These are the cake decorated by Zane Beg, assistant of Norman Davis and also a multiple 1st place winner of the Food Network Cake Challenge.





The Scultped Cake (above) and the Wedding Cake (below) by Zane Beg.


Overall, I am very thankful to my husband who was so supportive and caring. He drove me over 4 hours to Virginia, so I can compete and enjoy my passion as an aspiring cake decorator. During this competition, I am proud to say that I was placed 2nd and 3rd with only 11 month of cake decorating experience. Looking forward for more challenges!

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Baby Shower Cake from Dee!

Dee’s daughter is having a baby, but the baby’s sex is unknown. So, she decided to have a pastel green for the cake’s theme and the cake design is one of my previous cake designs. I didn’t expect that I will be making a baby shower cake with previous design, but different colors. Overall, I am happy to do it over again. This time it came out great! I am so happy that the family like my creation.

The cake is a butter cake filled with chocolate icing and covered with marshmallow-butter fondant. The pacifiers, shoes and cube are edible. The cube is made with rice crispie treats.



I would like to thank my colleague and a friend, Jana, for spreading the word to her friends about my cake baking and decorating hobby. I got an order from her. Thanks, Jana!

This message was sent to me by Dee on Sat., Mar.12, 2011 at 10:12 PM, "I just wanted to thank you again for such a beautiful cake...it was so much more that I imagined...it was the hit of the party...even the owner wanted to know where we got it...so appreciated all the work you put into it...thank you again... :)Dee"

This message was sent to me by Marisa on Tue., Mar. 15, 2011 at 9:42 AM, "Evelyn, I just wanted to thank you for the cake you made for my sister-in-laws shower, it was beautiful. You really did a great job; I can't even get a ribbon to look that nice never mind have one make out of icing! Everyone at the shower was so impressed and I think they will all want one for themselves. Hopefully you will get some more business out of it. Thank you again, Marisa"

Friday, February 18, 2011

Flower Pot Cake

Most everyone wants to keep their birthday low. But, there are those who are thoughtful and remembers that it's your birthday. For this cake, my very good friend Medha, wasn't expecting anything at all, but just go to work like any regular days. Meanwhile CK and I we've been planning what to do for her birthday. First, we surprised her with a "Flower Pot" cake since she loves flowers and gardening. Second, we took her out for lunch. Third, we surprised her with ice cream birthday cake for dessert.



What made this cake special was it looked so real. She placed these cakes on her desk and caught few people's attention. Some were wondering where did the flowers came from since it's not Spring yet. The closer they looked at the pot of flowers, they noticed it was cake. Thus, I received a lot of compliments.


I am so happy that Medha loves the flower pot cake. She is worrying she might not eat the cake because she doesn't want to ruin it! ahhhh.......so sweet!

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

JDRF Bake Sale - "Pie" Cupcakes

I am an aspiring baker and cake decorator. I love to share my creations especially for a good cause! My company hosted a JDRF Bake Sale on Feb. 15 where my company will match 100% of the profits from the bake sale. The proceeds will be donated to the foundation. Once more, I helped the JDRF organization at my job site to raise money. I donated my time to bake "pie" cupcakes and chocolate chip cookies.

During the fund raising, each colleague is entitled to vote the "Best Dessert". MY CUPCAKE WON!!!! second place! ... I wish I had more cupcakes to make the voting last a little longer. I dropped off the cake at 7:30 AM and by 8:45 AM all of my cupcakes were sold out. Thus, I didn't get enough votes because cupcakes were all gone for the other to vote ...next time! oh! The contest is not over yet.... I SHALL WIN THAT iPAD!!!! I shall make more and much creative cupcakes for the next Bake Sale to take that iPAD home!!!

The baked goods that I donated were chocolate chip cookies (no pictures) and red velvet cupcakes filled with cream cheese buttercream. Each cupcake was decorated with M&M chocolates and vanilla buttercream to accent it as the pie curst.

Five minutes after I delivered the cupcakes to the JDRF Bake Sale Site, which I was still there standing in the room, one of the two trays was completely sold. The "PIE" cupcakes was selling! It was sold for $1.50 each. It was a hit!




I received e-mails and compliments from people who had the chance to purchase these cute oh-so-delicious "pie" cupcake creations of mine before it ran out. I was so flattered that one of the e-mails I received was inquiring about my class .."if I give baking classes." For me, this is one of the best compliments ever!

I hope to participate more to future bake sales, such as the JDRF Bake Sale! The next tentative JDRF bake sale in my company is in October 2011.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Zachery Jacob Baptism/Christening

To be blessed with a healthy baby is a wonderful gift from The Almighty. My cousin Ann and her husband Richard were blessed to have such a healthy and beautiful baby boy named Zachery Jacob. Zac was baptized at the St. Michael’s Chapel in Central Square (Syracuse), NY on Feb. 7, 2011. My nephew is now Catholic! God bless him!



My gift for Zac’s Baptismal is of course a custom cake. We made him a moist and dense chocolate cake filled with not-so-sweet cream cheese butter cream. The cake was adorned with marshmallow-butter-flavored fondant topped with Converse / All Star baby shoe cake topper. This cake didn’t fail to awe my cousin’s guests. I felt bad that this cake could have been perfect, but damages could not be avoided especially travelling from NJ to Syracuse, NY. It was supposed to be a four-hour trip, but ended up to be a seven-hour trip… I think longer. Oh oh! This cake in a box and was on my lap for almost the entire voyage.




This cake had some story of its won. The cake and a spare baby shoe cake topper were very well protected during its transportation. My aunt Christine was very cautious not get the shoe topper damaged. Five minutes away from the destination, we went for a quick stop. I placed the shoe cake topper on my seat and quickly hopped out from the truck to stretch my legs. After coming out the convenient store, my aunt Jean and I rushed to the truck avoiding being covered in fluffy and thick snow. We accidentally switched places and I totally forgot about the shoe cake topper that I placed on my previous seat. As my aunt Jean sat, she noticed that there was something on her seat. Instead of looking at what she sat, she grinds her butt hard to the seat to level out what ever was on her seat. As she pulls the “STUFF” out from her seat, she blushed! “Oh oh, Lyn, check this out,” is what she said. All I saw was a flattened and severely damaged baby show topper that was beyond any repair. Everyone in the truck were silent for a moment then followed with loud laughs and giggles. We looked at each other's eye... OMG! all the precautions and hard effort we did to prevent this situation from happening, actually happened when we were so close to the final destination! The spare shoe cake topper did not made to the dessert table.... ahhhh.



Overall it was a nice trip to be away for a weekend, but it was a long and slightly treacherous trip to Syracuse. It was snowing heavily in Syracuse.

What matters the most was we arrived safely to celebrate this special occasion for my baby nephew, Zac, as he enters the world of Christianity!

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Giant Cupcake

On the way home from work on Thursday, my good friend Medha asked if I would be able to accomodate a very very last minute request... to bake a cake for her niece, Anya, for the weekend. She wanted a simple cupcake good for four people. "Houston we have a problem!" I won't be in NJ to make and decorate a cake on the weekend. I am going to Syracuse, NY for my cousin's son's Christening. My only option is to bake on that night and give the decorated cake to Medha on the following morning.

For a very good friend, I won't justmake a cupcake... I want them to look good presenting a gift from my creations. So, instead I made her a giant "cupcake" cake.

I loved to see her face after seeing the cake. She was happy and surprised. The cake was not what she expected. The cake was made and presented more than what she expected. She loved it!

It was so worth it making this cake especially it's a very very last minute one.

I see another happy face! Am glad....................



Happy Birthday, Anya!

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Baby Elmo, Baby Big Bird, and Baby Cookie Monster

Maricel's daughters loves Elmo, but who kids doesn't? Maricel asked once more to have me make a cake for her daughter Brianna's first birthday. This time the Elmo cake is not Abigail, or who knows maybe both!

Happy Birthday, Brianna! I am happy that not only this cake put a smile on a child's face, but to the adult's as well.


Good to hear that your Uncle Rigel made to your birthday party, despite the snow storms we had in the East Coast that caused air traffic delays at the Newark International Airport. Glad that he had a safe trip.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

METS fan Birthday Cake made by a NY YANKEE fan!

It's been a while since we were in touch with Jean. One day, we received an e-mail from her requesting to make a cake for her friend, Serena, who is celebrating her 30th birthday. Serena is big Mets fan, while I am a NY Yankee fan. Does anyone see the challenge or difficulty here? A Yankee fan making a Mets cake...just kidding! Well, Jean wanted to include the Met's mascot, Mr. Mets, as the cake topper. To make the cake interesting and to spice up the party with friendly NY team rivalry, I decided to add a Yankee beer bottle and a Yankee flag that Mr. Mets will be carrying. Boy! can't wait to see Serena's reaction!

This was a very interesting cake for me to make since I don't know much about Mets team. So, I decided to incorporate the arch windows of the citiFIELD stadium, but since the cake was not high / tall enough, I decided to make just one floor of the stadium. I notice one thing that I forgot to attach... the citiFIELD logo.



I wish I have that picture of Serena's face when she saw Mr. Mets with the Yankee stuff on it. It would have been PRICELESS!!! Thank you, Jean for the picture below. Serena had two cakes for her birthday...lucky lady!


Happy Birthday, Serena!

Happy Babyshower, Kamila and Faiz!

My friend and colleague, Khatira, saw my first cake - The Yankee Jersey cake. Since then, she told me, "I will ask you to make one for me one of these days."

Then, the time comes. She made a very last minute request for me to make a cake for sister-in-law. I had a baby shower cake for Pam and a Mets cake for Jean. Not only that I had two cakes that week, I also had to work crazy hours that same week. At work, I was covering two 3rd shifts in a row (10PM to 9AM), leaving at 9PM, and coming up to work 3AM. It was definitely odd hours coming to work due to a media simulation study. It was a very long day and week for me that screwed up my sleeping regime. The last night I had to work 3rd shift, I had to finish Khatira's cake. I was glad that I had enough sleep and rest before starting her cake. This is Khatira's cake.



Happy Baby Shower, Kamila and Faiz!

Happy Baby Shower from Pam!

My sister, Andrea, was proud of my work. She was saving pictures of my work in her cell phone and started showing it off to her friends. Her friend's mom saw pictures of the cakes I made. One day, she asked me to make a cake for her relative.

This was the 2nd cake design that I made twice. I made the same cake design for Jenny on her surprise baby shower, but in pink.


Happy Baby Shower from Pam!