Oreo Mint Truffles

My sister gave me a great idea to add truffles to the mix of sweet for my bakery! Since I decided to make these for my friend's mom's birthday, I decided to make mint oreo truffles since I know how much my friend loves mint oreos! =) So this is the final product, I also made some in heart shape as well, it's fun to try different shapes to fit any occasion. One thing's for sure is that these can really satisfy anyone's sweet teeth cravings! Mint, oreos, and milk chocolate, I'd say that's truffle-ly sweet and delightful!

Masquerade Birthday Cake

This cake is a Mardi Gra/Masquerade inspired cake for my aunt's birthday! The cake is a mint chocolate chip cake (request by her son, my cousin) and is filled with raspberry mousse since raspberries are her favorite. The purple roses are made from basic buttercream and the mask is painted with black food coloring, and the orchids, crysanthemum, violets, and leaves are made out of gumpaste. The cake is covered in ivory fondant with black buttercream piping.

Chocolate Covered Strawberries

I used dark chocolate and white chocolate to cover these fresh juicy strawberries! Whether it's for romance, for satisfying your sweet tooth, or just for fun, you can't go wrong with these very berry sweets!

Kat's Birthday Cake

Kat's birthday was earlier this month but I did not have time to make her a cake, so I finally has a chance to do it! Her favorite flowers are bright happy Gerber daisies, so I made some daisies and did some piping work. The cake is a french vanilla with raspberry filling, covered in fondant with fondant flowers. This cake is a double layer 6 inch round cake. I did all the piping with piping gel, but I'm wondering if piping with butter cream would have been better? Well, trial and error, I guess it's also personal preference. I haven't decided which I prefer, so I'll keep experimenting!

Steve's Birthday Cake

Beer mug or frothy cafe drink? I was trying to go for a beer mug for my cousin's birthday cake, it's a really simple french vanilla with raspberry filling cake, covered with chocolate fondant and butter cream on top. This is a mini 3.5 in. round cake. It's only a 2 layer cake, although I made 3 layers, I thought 2 might have been enough, but with time, my tall mug became short, probably because the filling probably flattened with time. Anyways, every cake is a continuous learning process. Beer mug, frothy coffee, or hot cocoa, bottoms up!

Kristin's Birthday Cake

It's my good friend Kristin's Bday and what better gift than love and time. I made her 1/4 sheet red velvet cake, her favorite, and filled it with cream cheese frosting. Her favorite color is pink so I made this girly present cake for her. The cake is covered in chocolate fondant, the leaves are made out of chocolate fondant, and everything else is made of gumpaste. I also brushed some gold dust on the flowers and petals for some extra shimmer to it. There's nothing better than spending a lot of time on something to give to a friend, especially when it tastes good too =). Happy Birthday Kristin!

New Years 2010

Happy New Years!! What better way to start the new year than to ring it in with happy vibrant sunflower cupcakes with cute little lady bugs for detail! These are mint chocolate cupcakes with basic butter cream. I also experimented with some poured fondant on a few cupcakes (the last image). I used chocolate poured fondant for the top of the cupcake, and basic butter cream for the sunflowers, leaves, and vines.

All I did for the poured fondant was heat up some fondant in the microwave for a few seconds, added some water and mixed it to a runny texture, and dipped the cupcakes in then to get a nice smooth and even texture on top. It was a little tricky trying to get the right consistency but with practice it will become easier. Happy New Year everyone!

Spaghetti Cupcakes

For an Italian themed party, Chi Hai sent me a cool ref image and so I decided to make spaghetti and meatball cupcakes! The cupcakes are French Vanilla with buttercream, raspberry jam, Ferrero Rocher candy and white chocolate shavings. Buon appetito!

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.

Sesame Street Cupcakes

This was a big production for Aidan and Brooke's 1st Birthday Party. Jackie and I worked on concept and she did the fabulous piping. Mike whipped up the best Swiss Meringue Butter cream ever that we will probably use forever now while the Fondant Team: Khoa & Bao worked on eyes and other body parts respectively. Hahaha. It was a lot of fun and they turned out great. We didn't even have any left over and we made nearly 50 cupcakes!

Each character was a different flavor:

Elmo - Red Velvet
Cookie Monster - Cookies and Cream
Oscar the Grouch - Pistachio
Big Bird - Humming Bird

Care Bear Cake

I made this for my friend's 25th birthday! She loves care bears, especially grumpy bear! The flowers, gifts and grumpy bear is made of fondant, and the cake is covered in fondant, while the rest is butter cream. This is a red velvet with strawberry filling cake.

Wall-E Cake

My first character cake! Done with all piping, flavor is Marble Fudge Cake.

Optimus Prime Auto-Pat

Autobots, roll out the birthday cake! I made this cake for my friend's birthday and his favorite transformer character was none other than Optimus Prime! This is a 9"x13" (1/4 sheet) red velvet cake with cream cheese filling covered in butter cream frosting. The decorations were also piped with butter cream and the text was piping gel.

Baseball Birthday Cake

I made this cake for my boss's birthday. The bottom layer is a marble fudge cake with triple fudge chocolate chip icing, and the ball is classic yellow cake. The icing on the ball and the homeplate and green grass is regular buttercream.

Fishing Cake

I made this cake for Khoa's Dad's 60th Birthday! It was a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. He's always wanted to catch a blue marlin in real life, so I made his dream come true through sugar! The decorations on the cake (blue marlin, boat, fisherman, etc) are all made of fondant.

Wedding Chocolate & Pineapple Cake

For practice I made this 2 tier double layered wedding cake. The bottom layer is Chocolate fudge cake with butter cream filling and the top is pineapple cake with butter cream filling as well. The outside is buttercream piping for all the details and roses on top as well.

Bee Cake

Bee Cake I made with Yellow Classic Cake, butter cream and fondant bees. The bees are hanging off of thin garden wires while everything else is piped on with butter cream.

Aidan & Brooke's 4th month Cake

Red Velvet with buttercream and strawberry filling for Brooke and Aidan's 4th Month Birthday Celebration! I covered the cake with red butter cream and the flowers, railroad tracks, and toys are all out of fondant with gold dust.

Dress Cake

Chocolate Fudge Cake