Happy 1st Birthday Chloe!

Happy 1st Birthday Chloe!  I had the honor and privilege of making Chloe's 1st birthday cake for display! It's a topsy turvy cake that is winter theme with snow, snowballs, snowflakes, and a cute little penguin on top.  All the decorations are made of fondant and accented with silver dust for some extra wintery magic!  Chloe is so cute and adorable and so calm too.  Her party was very cutely decorated and her mommy did such a great job with all the decorations and making the festivities fun and happy for the birthday girl!  I can't wait to see you grow up into an amazing little lady, happy happy 1st birthday sweet little Chloe!!  We all love you so much!!

Christmas Macarons!

 

Merry Christmas Everyone!  I saw these snowman and penguin macarons online and just had to make them myself for our yearly cousin Secret Santa Exchange!  I was thinking about what other shapes I can make and so I also made gingerbread men macarons as well!  I was a little worried that the gingerbread men wouldn't turn out right because the macaron batter tends to settle a little bit after you pipe them, but once they bake and rose, they turned out quite nicely!  The snowmen and penguins are basic vanilla macarons with swiss meringue filling and the gingerbread men are chocolate macarons with swiss meringue filling.  I used edible ink markers to draw on all the designs, and I had a special crew of helpers for my gingerbread designs (thank you Jennifer, Andrew, and Khoa!).  This time of year is my favorite time because of all the holidays.  The greatest part about the holidays though is having all your friends come together and spend quality time with one another, and just be happy and enjoy each other's company, friendship, and love.  Making cute little tasty treats are also fun as well =).  I wish everyone a wonderful happy holiday, and here's to a fabulously sweet new year!

Holiday Cupcakes Part 2

Chi Hai and I made this holiday wreathe using a little under 40 Mini Mint Marble Fudge Cupcakes with Swiss Meringue Buttercream. We added some gold dust for some sparkle and as well as some pre-made royal icing decors like the Merry Christmas banner, poinsettias in the middle of the wreathe, and the giant holly on the bottom of the wreathe, all other decorations were done with buttercream piping! We had a few mini cupcakes leftover so I made mini pointsettias as well.

Holiday Cupcakes

Jackie, Van and I got together as Khoa and Bao played Band Hero to make cupcakes for our holiday party with the cousins. These are a Oreo mint chocolate cupcakes with Swiss Meringue Buttercream frosting.