Happy Birthday Trixie!

Happy 10th Birthday Trixie!  Trixie wanted a vanilla birthday cake with Pusheen the cat on it!  Pusheen is a really cute character and I was excited to finally get an opportunity to create it for a cake!  Lily loves Pusheen too!  Pusheen, little Pusheen, the present, and the cake are made of fondant, and the cake is covered in fondant as well.  The balloons and Happy Birthday sign are made of paper and attached with foam stickers onto cake pop sticks!  I can't believe Trixie is now 10 years old!  I went to high school with her lovely mom Thuy.  That was so long ago, before the iPhone even existed!!  Haha.  I hope you had a wonderful birthday celebration Trixie, What an amazing milestone birthday your parents threw for you!!  I wish you many many more awesome birthday celebrations and I can't wait to see you grow up into a beautiful lady!  Happy Birthday Trixie!

Happy Baby Shower BenjAlina!

Congratulations to the wonderful parents to be Alina and Ben!  I got the honor and privilege of making BenjAlina's baby shower cake!  Their baby shower theme is Disney's Peter Pan Neverland theme that is gender neutral since they won't be revealing the gender of baby LeeSan until after birth!  So I made a simple silloutte Peter Pan gold with gold fairy dust and added some greenery for the woodsy theme!  I'm so excited for Alina and Ben and I can't wait to meet baby LeeSan!  I know they will be amazing parents, the love they have poured into their child's arrival preparations already shows you that!  They are so kind, generous, smart, and fun loving people, I know they will raise an amazing child and will definitely make this world a better place!  I love you guys, congratulations!!!

Siv & Carney's Baby Shower!

Congratulations to my good friends and the parents to be Sivhour and Carney!  I got the honor and privilege of making their baby shower cake!  The theme is "You Are My Sunshine", so I decorated a two-tiered cake with bright yellow and white flowers with fondant daisy designs around the cake.  I'm so excited to meet little baby Chan and I know he will be super duper cute!!  I'm very excited for Siv and Carney to welcome their little baby boy soon, he will bring lots of joy, love, and happiness to their lives!  I know that he will be so loved and cared for by Siv and Carney, and he will be lucky to have such a sweet and kind mother like Siv, and such a smart and funny caring dad like Carney!  Can't wait to meet you baby Chan!!  Congratulations Siv and Carney!!

Happy 5th Birthday Lily!

Back in June my sweet amazing Lily pad turned 5 years old!!  Happy 5th Birthday to my princess Lily, Happy 2nd birthday to my sweet amazing Leo too!!!  I threw her (and Leo) a birthday party at home and made it a unicorn theme since she loves unicorns and rainbows right now. I went all out for her milestone celebration and got a bounce house, balloon twister/face painter, and a photobooth! She had such a blast and gave all the guests a big hug when they showed up and a big hug good bye! She saw me working on the cake for a few days, and she was so excited and really wanted to eat it! She was majorly bummed when I told her she couldn’t and that it’s not real…She didn’t quite understand but she eventually got over it haha.  I also made chocolate cupcakes and fruity pebble macarons in the shape of unicorns!  I’m so grateful and humbled by the person she’s becoming and my heart is overflowed with love for her. She is very generous, thoughtful, silly, funny, and oh so happy! She is also very clumsy and tends to fall and hurt herself (and others by accident) a lot, but I’m afraid that’s my quality that got passed down to her…haha. She’s just so excited about everything that she can’t contain it in her tiny little body haha. I’m so happy to have such a beautiful little girl both inside and out as my daughter. I love you so much my Lily pad, happy 5th birthday!!! Can’t wait for more adventures and memories to come! (PS: Thanks Phong for some of these dessert photos!)

Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Fujita!

Congratulations to Kristin and Hisami on their beautiful wedding day back in May!  I had the honor of making the happy couple's wedding cake, but I also got the privilege of being a bridesmaid for my sweet friend Kristin!  She is one of the sweetest, kindest, most thoughtful people that I know!  Hisami is the perfect partner for Kristin as well and I am so lucky to witness their new chapter in their lives!  I wish you guys so many many many years of love and happiness and I'm so excited to see you grow your life together!  I'm so happy for you guys, you guys are seriously such great people!! Congratulations!!!

Happy Baby Shower Kat!

Happy Baby Shower to the beautiful mommy-to-be Katherine!!  I had the wonderful honor in throwing my amazing friend a baby shower for her sweet baby boy that we are all so eagerly waiting to meet!  Her favorite color is purple and so I got some purple flowers along with some pretty white, soft pink and colorful succulents (from my garden!) for her dessert table.  I made her a rustic naked carrot cake with whipped cream cheese frosting.  Whipped cream cheese frosting is my favorite for this type of cake because carrot cakes are already rich in flavor but this frosting makes it very light to balance it out!  I also had help with my awesome friends in putting together this relaxing and sweet baby shower for our Kat!  I chose a bohemian dream catcher theme for her baby shower because I feel like her baby, along with all babies, are a dream come true!  They truly are miracles and we are all so excited and happy for Kat and Dennis to have their own special blessing arriving soon!  I hope you feel all our love and well wishes for you, Dennis, and your sweet little son!  Happy baby shower Kat, you will be such a wonderful mommy!!!

Happy 1st Birthday Henry!

Happy 1st Birthday Henry!  I had the honor and privilege of making Henry's 1st birthday cake!  It's a vanilla cake with blackberry and blueberries filling covered with buttercream from Givral!  I made all the decorations from the hungry hungry caterpillar to the sun and food items out of fondant.  Lily was my sweet little helper too in placing the little colorful circles around the base of the cakes.  This is one of Lily's favorite books still, and so it was very fun to make!  Happy 1st birthday cutie little Henry!  You are so loved by so many people, here's to many many many more birthdays to come!