Fruit Bday Cake

Chocolate Bday Cake

Triple layers of chocolate cake with chocolate ganache.

Beach Theme Wedding Cake

The cake was for Amanda and Nick. Amanda is my husband's niece.
This was my first time to make a wedding cake. I have done so many time researching all about wedding cake. I think wedding cake is more complicated than birthday cake because the cake is being one of the big centerpiece of a wedding, people always enjoy looking at it, most important thing is that the bride and groom have to like it so they will remember about it for a long time. Also the cake has to have layers and fillings between layers and should be different flavor in each layers. Yes, very stressful for a beginner like me. It got more stressful since the wedding is out of town, about 5 hours driving, so my plan was I'd bake the cake at home and iced and decorated the cake there, so that means I had to bring all my baking equipment, my kitchen aid mixer ( Lord knows how heavy that thing is), my tool box, oh my.... everything..everything.
The closer it got, the more nervous I was, and I could not make a decision of what kind of cake and fillings I'd use, crazy isn't it? Until the day of making the cake, I was still not 100% sure!...
Long story short.... I made sponge cakes and the fillings were raspberry and blueberry.
I had to take 2 days off work to prepare all this.

Thank God, we had a small refrigerator in the motel we stayed so I could store my cakes in there. The next day, when its time to begin making the icing, oh darn!!!!! I left my turning table at home!!! the most important thing in cake decorating... and we stayed in a small island which doesnt have a craft store I could buy one. So that morning, my husband took me around the town and finally we found a lazy susan, not for decorating but for snack display, very pretty and the price was very pretty too, $37...????? instead of $5 at a craft store....oh well, my husband decided to buy it anyway coz he refused to spent anymore time. He wanted to go swimming at the beach.
So I just made my investment for that, and then we went to the beach... time went by and we only got another 2 hours for me to make the buttercream icing, decorating the cake, stacking the tiers, showered and got ready for the wedding,....omg.... crazyness!!!!
Nothing came out good when you do anything in a hurry. The buttercream tended to melt in this kind of wheather so I could not get the frosting as smooth as I wanted. I was very very dissapointed to myself... of not having enough time to do that. I wasn't happy about doing that in such a hurry. I said to myself, this is gonna be my first and last wedding cake to make in my life.



I assembled the cake in the reception room and the room was hot!, I know the A/C was working, but they decided to have the door open.... and whose stupid idea was that of putting the wedding cake table near by the kitchen and the exit door ????!!! ... gosh ..have you done any research about wedding cake as much as I have???? I dont think soooo...
Long story short.... you can see so many bumps on the cake because of melting buttercream.
Then I was relieved when the bride and the groom personally came to my table twice ! and thanked me for how marvelous and delicious the cake was. Phew...
and everybody really loved the cake, you should see people got in line to have a piece of my cake! and nothing left only the sugar sands...LOL...and I heard from so many people that the cake was the best cake ever..... huh? what? are you serious?
The compliments were continued everytime people saw me until the next day when we left the island, they remembered I was the one who made the cake, it was such a lovely feeling for me.


I thank You Lord, because I couldn't do this without Your help. Yes, I prayed a lot for this, I prayed that I could be a blessing for the bride and groom, and also to other people. So I'm giving back all the praises and compliments to my Lord, Jesus.

Dora Birthday Cake

Birthday cake for beautiful Debora.

My Spectacular Green Tea Cake

I'm so sorry for not updating my blog daily, but I will post some pictures occasionally to let you know that my blog hasn't died yet. Many thanks to all my loyal friends who still stopping by to my kitchen. I love you.......

Church Cake

Happy 12th Anniversary to IBC Church, Washington DC.

For me, making a 3-D cake is for advanced cake decorating. I have no skill how to make it, but my imagination went too high from my ability.

Only by God's grace to make it happened.

You notice so many unperfect work on the cake because it was not plenty of time, the decorating was done in the last minute, and that made me more nervous and started panicking.

I didn't have time to make the writing.

But this won't make me stop. Yes, I will try to make more of 3-D cakes....

Black Forest

Black Forest Cake

Cake number 5

Birthday Cake

I made a chocolate birthday cake for Pastor Raymond and brought it for the celebration to church yesterday. I didn't have any idea how to decorate it because I didn't want to put any flower on the cake. And then I couldn't make the frosting smooth, I was almost frustrated because the time was running out, I didn't even have a bite all day. Good thing I've prepared myself by buying some strawberries and black berries the day before and already have lots of chocolate in stock. So I used them to cover the mess. After finished, phew.... it's so pretty, I had to give myself a big compliment..LOL... Steve also liked it and I could tell that he's proud of his wife (it's me!). whaaaa......

Baby Girl Cake

My First Fondant Cake

Girl Baby Shower Cake

Baby girl cake for Christine's baby shower.

Birthday Cake

Birthday cake for Benny. Vanilla cake, lots of whipped cream and mandarin orange plus cherry.

Baby Boy Cake

I made this cake for Irma's baby shower last saturday. I had to take a day off to make this cake, I also made cupcakes and appetisers. I used chocolate cake and buttercream icing. I really had trouble making the frosting smooth, that's why I decided to cover it all with grass... hehehe always thinking!

I was so nervous about making the fence from the chocolate candy, since this was first time for me. Phew.. I did it! I was so happy that I had many compliments for this cake, and that meant a lot to me, I feel that what I made was appreciated and thank God, this is a blessing to me so I can bless others. Coming up..... cupcakes for Audrey bday this Sunday. I've been waiting to make cupcakes and now I am going to make them soooo pretty.

Chocolate Bday Cake

Flag Cake

We celebrated our independence day last friday at Richard's house. Steve and I made 150 chicken satay (sorry no picture) and the flag's cake. I made the cake with a vanilla sponge cake and and cool whip for the frosting. Steve and I also made some games for evrybody such as 4th of July trivia game, bubble gum contest, wistling after eating crackers contest and water game. I bought the prizes from dollar store. Oh my... everybody love the games so much and specially Steve did such a great job for leading the games and funmaker. I'm so proud of my husband *wink*wink... I had so much fun when he was around, that's why I didn't feel like taking pictures to put on my blog, sorry.

My first Edible Image Cake

I made this cake for one of my pastor birthday, Om Johnny. I thought it would be cool to have his old photos on the cake so thank God his daughter gave me a couple. So I took the photos a cake shop and asked them to print on an edible sheet for my cake, they charged me $10 for it.
I decided to make chocolate cake since most people love chocolate, and really expensive to buy real chocolate cake here.
I took it the the church and everybody was laughing to see his old photos on the cake, and when he walked in the room, he was so surprised and laughing so hard to see his old photograps.
I was so happy to make people laugh, it was just priceless to me.

Behind the scene:

I was browsing the get a really really good chocolate cake recipe and I chose to make sacher cake because of the testimonies I gathered around the bloggers. They said this cake is so rich in chocolate taste and easy to make. I loved the dark chocolaty color that I was looking for when I saw the photos on my friend's blogs. Most of them look so moist.

The recipe didn't tell how long the cake should be baked. So I baked it about 40-45 minutes. The top of the cake cracked all over and that didn't make me happy.
I cooled it down for 3 hours, wrapped it in plastic and put in refrigerator.
The next day, I cut the cake in half to make double layer. But the cake didn't cut so easily, little bit hard to cut and was not smooth at all. The taste was just okay, the texture was kinda dry to me eventhough I gave plenty of syrup/rhum to moist the cake. I didn't know what went wrong. The recipe said to bake the cake in 2 pans, but I baked in 1 pan, because my oven is small, I cannot put more than 1 pan at a time.
But...... I'll try again next time when I get over this sacher blue.

Baby Girl Cake

Double Chocolate Cake

Thanks to Ayin for the recipe and step-by-step of making this cake. I didn't have dark cherry in stock so I made this chocolate cake with chocolate ganache instead. I was inspired by Rita and took her ganache recipe. I couldn't make it as beautiful as yours.

So much much thank you for enchef who really taught me about applying the chocolate transfer. I need more practice as you can see, I made lots of mess and doesn't look smooth.

I took this cake to church for my friend, Yuyun's b-day. Everybody couldn't believe that I made the cake, I heard a wow..wow..wow....

So, I think I'm not that bad only need more patience in decorating, and energy! yea..where's that come from?

Thanks friends, you all inspired me.