Congratulations Aaron!

Congratulations Aaron on graduating from High School! Your parents are so proud of you for your great accomplishments and achievements! These are chocolate with white chocolate chip cupcakes with buttercream frosting. The mortar boards are made of Ghiradelli chocolate squares on top of mini Reese's cups and the diplomas are made of fondant with gold luster dust on the ribbon and tassels. Also, brown, white and gold are the school colors. Special thanks to Natalia, Thien, and Khoa for all your help with these! Once again Aaron, congratulations and your whole family and friends are so proud of you! Keep doing your best and you definitely go far!

“You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.”
- John Updike

Graduation Humor:
A young man hired by a supermarket reported for his first day of work. The manager greeted him with a warm handshake and a smile, gave him a broom and said, "Your first job will be to sweep out the store." "But I'm a college graduate," the young man replied indignantly. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know that," said the manager. "Here, give me the broom - I'll show you how."

Happy Birthday & Graduation Mimi!

Happy Birthday & Graduation Mimi! Happy 18th Birthday to my sweet cousin Maxene and congratulations to you on graduating from Serra High School, class of 2011!! We are all so very proud of you and so happy to celebrate your accomplishments! Theres cupcakes are pound cake cupcakes with bavarian cream filling and Swiss Meringue frosting. Mimi's favorite colors are pink, lime green, and turquoise, so I colored the frosting with those colors. She really loves music and likes to play the guitar, so I made whimsical music notes, guitars, and groovy headphones! Also to celebrate the graduation, I made diplomas with blue ribbons to represent her school colors, and mortar boards with the blue tassle. The mortar boards are made of Ghiradelli squares and mini Reeses Peanut Butter cups. Everything else are made out of fondant with some gold luster dust on the diploma ribbons. For the cake, I decided to go back to basics and brush up on some piping and pipe on sunflowers because those are one of Mimi's favorite flowers! I used a black ribbon for the base border and made fondant swirlies in the middle of the sunflower bunch. I would like to give special thanks to my lovely assistants Natalia, Thien, and Khoa for all their help with these cupcakes! You guys rock and I love the enthusiasm! Once again, Happy Birthday and congratulations Mimi! We love you so much and we know you will succeed in anything you put your mind to! The sky's the limit Mimi!

For today's humor, it will be a joke that our little 5 year old cousin, Bao, told us today that is quite cute and funny:
Knock knock!
-Who's there?
Will
-Will who?
Will
-Will who?
Will
-WILL WHO?
Will ya please stop yelling???

Hehe. Happy Birthday and Graduation Mimi! =)

Tami's Debut & Graduation Celebration!

Congratulations Tami! Tami's mom, Tita Ambel contacted me and wanted me to make Tami cupcakes for her special Debutante (18th Birthday)/Graduation celebration. She had a very specific design in mind, a specific flower, with brown cupcake liners and olive green frosting to match the party favor boxes. I hope I matched the design well! These are French Vanilla cupcakes with buttercream frosting. All the flowers are made of fondant with metallic gold pearls in the middle. When I delivered the cupcakes, I got this wonderful and very sweet thank you card from Tami. I also feel really honored because these cupcakes will be used for the "18 candles" ceremony! It truly is nice and special to have your work appreciated like this! Special thanks Tami and Tita Ambel (and Drex for the referral) for having me be a part of your special occasion! Also thanks to my hubby Khoa for helping me with the flowers too =). Also, thank you so much to Drexelle and David at D. Park Photography for taking these wonderful pictures of Tami and my cupcakes! You can go here to see more of their wonderful work: D. Park Photography.

Candle Quotes:
Buddha - "Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
Bob Hope - "You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake!"

Candle Humor:
- Why is a burning candle like being thirsty? Because a little water ends both of them!
- The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.
- I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake!

Happy Debutante 18th Birthday and Happy Graduation Tami!!!

Congratulations Dr. Steve Le!

What's up Doc? hehehe... My cousin is official Dr. Steven Le now and for his graduation from UCI Medical School celebration, I made him red velvet cupcakes filled with cream cheese frosting. I used basic buttercream for the top frosting because my cream cheese frosting wasn't stiff enough to keep it's form. I made all the decorations (the bandaid, pills, blood pressure tester, stethsoscope, and letters) out of fondant, except for the graduation cap, I used bite size Reeses Pieces and a Ghirardelli Mint Chocolate Squares (not caramel since he doesn't like caramel! weird I know! who doesn't like caramel??) for the cap with fondant tassles. Props go out to my sister Jennifer for cutting up the awesome letters! I also used a metallic pearl for the center of the tunable diaphragm of the stethoscope and in the middle of the bow on the diploma. Also, Steve likes the colors blue (midnight blue to be exact, but it's a tinsy bit hard to get that color with frosting...) and yellow to fit his graduation theme so that's why I chose the colors I did. I also used silver luster dust on the letters to give it some pizazz.

Congratulations once again Dr. Le! You worked so incredibly hard to get to this point and it is only the beginning! We are all so very proud of you and I'm so glad for being able to witness all your accomplishments and success. You're a true inspiration of dedication, hard work, and pure genuisness....haha. You know what I mean... Anyways, congratulations, and I know you'll be able to patch me up whenever I'm broken. These sweet treats don't cure cancer, but Dr Le might some day! Congrats Cuz!

Eye See Jennifer's Graduation Cake!

My one and only favorite sister is graduating from the New England College of Optometry and so I decided to throw her a nice intimate surprise party to celebrate her last 4 years of hard work! She seriously is a genius and is super awesome in what she does, I can't wait till she starts supporting me and giving me family discounts on eyewear and exams/treatments =P.

I made her a rich chocolate cake with buttercream frosting on the bottom tier and rich chocolate and triple chocolate chip fudge frosting on the top tier. I made the mistake of the frosting the top layer with chocolate chips...cause then it was a little bumpy when I tried to cover it with fondant...but at least it'll taste yummy! All the decorations from the cap and tassle to the diploma and Coach glasses (she's one of style, so you gotta have the designer lens!) are made of fondant. The flowers and leaves are made of frosting that I just piped onand I accented the center of the little pink flowers with metallic gold pearls. I decided to make the drapes on the cake represent the hood on her graduation gown, since it is the significant physical difference between that and other graduation gown, and I made the tassle green to represent her school color. She likes pink so that's why I made the flowers pink as well. Also I must note that Khoa's masterpiece is the text on the cake board =).

Anywho, you don't need to be a pupil to see how wonderful of a human being she is both personally and professionally! If anyone needs an optometrist, my sis is the doc to see! Ok ok I admit my jokes are getting cornea these days...ahhh I'm making a spectacle of myself! I can't stop! Iris my case! Haha! Congratulations and eye love you sissy!