Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland?

 An early September bridal shower affair

A whimisical theme

 Romantic colors

And a pamcakes fit for a queen

Congrats to Jenna & Andrew <3

Ode to the PAMCAKES!

A walk down memory lane of some of our favorites (ok my favorites:)...

And many more memories + CAKES to come! Stay tunned!

A Spring Fling!

SPRING IS HERE!!!! & to stay, I hope...

Let's kick off spring with a little tweet ~yes, pun is intended :)

Here comes...the love birds *tweet tweet*

Who said bridal showers has to be cucumber sandwiches and dry crackers?

How about a little sweetness in cake love ~

A simple delight: yellow cake with vanilla buttercream

coconut sprinkles + marshmellow fondant flowers in lavender & light fuchsia

Some would say a perfect combination for a romantic & elegant shower

I'd say its my cheerful welcome to Finally SPRING...

no frills, no frets...let's shoo winter 'n snow far far away!

For the Love of Anthropologie

For the love of Anthropologie...

Recently I received a request from a dear sister of the lucky bride-to-be for a bridal shower cake that is inspired by Anthropologie. I, myself, being a fan of the store was quite intrigued. However, I thought long & hard on how I was going to incorporate the feel and romance the second you enter ANY Anthropologie store into an edible cake. I was perplexed...

So immediately, I asked the usual questions: Is there a theme to the shower? Is there a color scheme? Thinking some of those answers will help me create a design. Usually, these designs will immediately pop into my head and I'll know exactly what I would make for the client. This time however... Things were a little different to say the least.

The theme is anthropologie, a simple yet romanic & whimiscal approach. The color was purple and orange. The shower was a intimate and small setting.

I was motivated and started my research for the perfect inspiration piece. I found this:

The shower host also wanted to incoporate a damask like design. So we decided on a small, simple, yet whimiscal cake with purple fondant, white stenciling, and orange accents.

This was the result:

Even the inside of this purple/orange cake was a nice golden color: A Mango+Passionfruit cake + buttercream goes right with the theme of the shower.

I wanted the stencil to have a romantic look with no sharp edges. So I waited for the sugar stencilig to dry then dusted the design all around with silver petal dusts. The butterlies were floating in mid-air and hovering over the cake like two lovers in spring time. It was truly a romantic result.

Everything at this shower, from the sign-in table...
To the settings...

Little romance in the details around the room...

To a dedicated anthro-inspired wine bar...
To finally, these wonderful little wine tags...
It was no wonder why we had a glowing and beautiful bride-to-be living this Anthropologie inspired pre-wedding glee!

cakePOP! :D

I'm super excited to write this post. Usually, I wait a week or two (sometimes months) to post up pictures, but these cakePOPs are...SOOOOO CUTE!!!!!

Ever since I saw the Bakerella blog on her cakebites & etc, I've been waiting for an occasion to make these cute little delectable creations!

So what do you need to start this fun little project to put the 'excitement' back into birthdays or as Emerald would say the "BAM!" back into desserts.

1. styrofoam 2. sprinkles 3. cute birthday accessories: tissue paper + paper gift bag + container 4. flower cutouts

5. candy melts 6. microwavable bowls 7. ribbons

8. ghirardelli chocolate

Then mix cake with your favorite buttercream and mold them into these little cupcake shapes. Follow the rest of the detailed instructions on Bakerella's site.

WALA! cakePOPs!!!!!

Packaged and complete with a golden 'homemade' seal to make the birthday boy feel extraordinary.

I also boxed some of them into a little chocolate truffle box as little preview tastings not for the birthday boy but the friend that asked me to make these for him. Such a sweet & thoughtful friend. :)

Then we packaged these puppies up...

These cakePOPs are ready to make a bold statement at this party.

Once these cake-popping goodness arrived...they were a KnocK OuT!

Just see for yourselves...

There were some sounds of YAYYYYY!

There definitely were some sounds of 'Hmmmmm'!

Yuppers! Bakerella was right...these little delights are cake-popping Yummm!

ALOHA My Love~

A COMPLETE spread of cake & cookies inspired by the bride & grooms custom made island turquoise & bright yellow invitations. I tied the colors & the theme of their wedding together with the use that beautiful crisp Tiffany blue on the cake & cookie with fondant and frosting along with delicate yellow Plumeria flowers.

I must have made, what it felt like, a gazillion bright yellow Plumerias. They adorned the top of the cake and all around the cake. Needless to say that took A LOT of time.

For this island-themed spread, I actually made a marshmallow fondant which you can see the difference from a regular sugar fondant from the natural gloss it exudes. It was a little harder to work with than I liked, but it tasted delightful!

In the end, I think we captured the romantic sophisticate yet cheerful Hawaiian feel of their wedding theme!

Very Berry d'Vine

Very Berry d'Vine~

The inspiration...

A loving tita (tagalog or filipino word for auntie) wanted to give the bride & groom a beautiful cake to match their wedding theme. The color pallet for this cake and elegant wedding was to be deep luscious purple with a light romantic beige. From a piece of paper that she gave me as inspiration to my sketch or design for this cake.

My sketch...



Left: My essential tools as I get set up.
Right: Making the fondant leaves...one by one...with powdered sugar all around. Powdered sugar is considered as the 'flour' for cake decorating.


Left: The top layer of chocolate cake covered in milk chocolate buttercream
Right: The bottom layer after it was covered with the beige fondant. Nice & smooth :)



The cake after it is constructed with the base, top layer, bottom layer, berries, deep purple ribbon, and leaves. The whimsical design was hand piped with lavender decorating gel.



And now for the finishing touches with fresh purple calla lilies & a bright purple sheer ribbon.



A closer look at the detailed embellishments...



The End...for a Very Berry d'Vine Cake