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!!!

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!!!

Anna & Mike Engagment!!

Anna's Cinderella Cupcakes!Mike's Angel's Baseball Cupcakes!Anna & Mike's Engagement Cake!Congratulations to Anna and Mike on their wonderful engagement!! I was honored when Di Anh asked me to make her cupcakes and a cake for their special engagement celebration! She wanted Cinderella theme cupcakes for Anna, and Angel's baseball theme for Mike. She wanted a heart shape cake with lavendar roses around the cake. All these are red velvet with whipped cream cheese frosting and the cake is filled with whipped cream cheese frosting with fresh raspberries and blueberries inside as well. All the flowers on the cake were piped on with basic buttercream accented with edible pearls. The letters along with all the other cupcake decorations are made of fondant. The Cinderella tiara is piped out with royal icing and metallic pearls. Special thanks goes out to my friend Roger for taking the time to come over and make those awesome baseball theme decorations, what an artist he is! Also, thanks to my husband Khoa for rolling out the fondant for me to cover the heart shaped cake! Rolling out a big piece of fondant is really tiring work so he really helped me out a lot! =) Once again, I want to with Anna and Mike a happy engagement!!! I'm so happy for the two of you and may your love inspire others! I can't wait for the wedding in two years! CONGRATS!!!

Happy 6th Birthday Roxana!

Happy 6th Birthday Roxana! Roxana is having a big princess party and the theme is Tangled, with one of her favorite Disney Princesses, Rapunzel! I made all the letters, Rapunzel's braided golden hair, her pet chameleon Pascal, and the sun symbol flower all out of fondant. I use frosting to pipe on the sun symbol flower itself. I made Rapunzel's tiara by piping royal icing on parchment paper, then letting it dry on the paper towel cardboard roll so that it hardens in that curved shape. I also put on metallic pearls and painted it gold for that extra glamour and bling that every princess needs! This was a huge order of 120 cupcakes, that just shows you how loved Roxana is!! I hope you enjoy your cupcakes and your birthday party and celebration Roxana, and I hope all your wishes come true!

Introducing, our very first signature Sweet Dreams Cupcakes thanks to my wonderful husband who design engineered and produced the fondant impression stamp to make this happen!!! =)

Little Mermaid Birthday!

Happy Birthday 4th Gemma! Gemma's mom, Gretchen, wanted me to make a Little Mermaid cake for her daughter's 4th birthday, and since I didn't have that much time, I had to buy a toy cake topper for the top of the cake. But the cool part is that underneath the topper, there's a plastic tube and there's Little Mermaid stickers in there for Gemma to play with! This is a chocolate cake with fudge filling covered in fondant. All of the decorations (the seaweed, coral, fishes, starfishes, and sea turtle) are made out of fondant. The rocks are made out of chocolate rocks, and the sand is made out of smashed graham crackers. I hope this birthday was a special birthday for you Gemma! I had a lot of fun making this cake!

Here are some cute fishy humor:
- What is the most valuable fish? The goldfish!
- Why is it so easy to weigh fish? Because they have their own scales!
- What kind of fish goes well with peanut butter? Jellyfish!
- Why do whales sing? Because they can't talk!
- What has no beginning, end, or middle, and touches every continent? The ocean!
- What happens when you throw a green rock into the Red Sea? It gets wet!

Disney Halloween Cupcakes!

Trick or treat! I wanted to make some fun Halloween cupcakes for my friends and so I decided to make Disney Halloween cupcakes because I LOVE Disneyland and all the cute lovable characters. Chi Ba also suggested that I do Nightmare Before Christmas (great suggestion, thanks Chi Ba!) since I'm going with the Disney route so this is what I came up with! I made Jack Skellington and Zero, his pet ghost dog, and I made Mickey Mouse in his mummy costume and Minnie Mouse in her pumpkin costume! To find a fitting flavor to go with my themed cupcakes, I decided to make Pumpkin Spice cupcakes with Bavarian Orange Cream filling, mhmmm! I want to give special thanks like always to my wonderful assistant Jennifer for helping me with these lovely tricky creations! Thanks a bunch sissy!

So here's how I made these sweet treats! Mickey Mouse's eyes and ears out of fondant (thanks Khoa for jumping into eye duty last minute!) and piped on mickey's mummy wrappings! My pumpkin cupcakes were frosted with orange buttercream, topped with orange sugar crystals. The trunk of the pumpkin is green twislers, and the vines are green licorice rope. Minnie's bow and ears are made of fondant. Jack Skellington is decorated with buttercream and only his eyes are made of fondant. Zero is my absolute favorite and he is made out of fondant and I used black food coloring to dot his eyes! I wish I had a Zero of my own to be Luna's playmate! =)

So of course, how can I have fun Halloween cupcakes without some super awesome fun Halloween jokes?? Ready?? Here they are... How do monsters tell their future? With horror-scopes! What do ghosts add to their morning cereal? Boo-berries! Why was the skeleton afraid to cross the street? Because it had no guts! What do you do to mend a Jack-O-Lantern? A pumpkin patch! hahaha, ok that's enough =P. Anyways, enjoy and have a safe and fun time on Halloween, or as birds would say, "Trick or Tweet!" =)

Birthday Trio

Andrea:

Audrey:

Jacob:
My work was celebrating not, one, or two, but THREE birthdays this month! So I made 3 different themed cupcakes to fit their different personalities. All these cupcakes are chocolate with basic buttercream frosting and all the decorations are made out of fondant, but for flower stamens, those aren't edible, same with the metallic pearls, but the pearlize white ones are edible.

For Andrea's cupcakes, her favorite Disney character is Tinkerbell, so I made the Tinkerbell slippers, her magic wand, and fairy wings. I brushed on some silver luster dust on the slippers for some magical touch to it as well. For Audrey's cupcakes, she is also a Disney fanatic and her favorite characters are Bambi and Thumper. However, when trying to portray any well known and recognizable classic Disney characters, you must be SPOT-ON with your design otherwise it won't look right. So instead of trying to go on that route, I went with the symbolism route and stuck Bambi and Thumper into the cupcakes with Bambi's tail sticking out, and depicted the popular butterfly on his tail. As for Thumper, the scene I remember most about his is his large thumping feet and him being in the flower bed.

For Jacob's cupcakes, he is the most different from the two, and his biggest hobby currently is playing World of Warcraft (WOW)...and he had a long history of being part of the Alliance, but then became a traitor apparently and join the Hord! All you WOW fans out there, please go easy on my with my designs for this because I am a "noob" when it comes to these games...haha. But here they are, the simplified logos for the Alliance (the yellow and blue logo) and Hord the red one), and xBox 360 game controllers because he really wants one, so hopefully this will get him that much closer to getting one =).