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!

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.

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!

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!