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Valentine Bow Cake

This was a 6 in. red velvet cake with cream cheese buttercream. The client wanted a red bow on top of the cake for his fiance along with Valentine decorations.

Valentine Square cake

This was a cake that the client wanted to just eat and not cake for any of the decorating part. Therefore, I didnt cover the cake with fondant and tried to get a smooth buttercream look. It was difficult, but more practice will make perfect one day. This was a 8 in square red velvet cake with cream cheese buttercream.

Valentine Heart Cake

This was a 10in heart, red velvet cake with white chocolate buttercream. I used the swirl method with the fondant. I also tried the steaming method for my fondant bow.

Odom Laker Cake

My brother wanted a Laker Odom jersey for his 24th birthday that says MVP. This is a red velvet cake with cream cheese buttercream. This cake looks big in the picture, but it is only about 7 x 5 x 4. My brother said he was going to bring it to work, but was not going to share.

LV 2

Here was another request for my LV cake for a mother-in-law's birthday. This is a 6 in, red velvet cake with cream cheese. It is slightly different from the first one.

Elmo 1st Birthday Cake / Cupcakes

This was for my best friend's nephew's 1st birthday. It is red velvet cake/cupcakes with cream cheese buttercream. I made the Elmo a little on the chubby side, but it did match the celebrant. :) I also tried out my new cupcake stand.

Brown, pink, green birthday cake

This was an additional cake for my best friend's little cousin. This was a 4 alternating layers of chocolate cake, chocolate amaretto pound cake with chocolate amaretto buttercream. Im not too happy with this cake because it was thrown in the last minute. The bow didnt turn out too well either, but it was a good learning experience.

Adidas Cake

I had to feed 40 people at the party so I decided to add another cake. She loves adidas so I just put the Adidas symbol on a 8 in chocolate amaretto poundcake with chocolate amaretto buttercream. I was so tired after the end of this week. 6 cakes and 5 dz cupcakes in one week on top of my 2 jobs. Im proud of myself!

Purple Velvet Purple Purse

This was a suprise 60th birthday cake for my boss. She really loves the color purple, Coach purses, and cars (she just bought a new BMW). This was a 10 in long, 4 in high purple velvet cake with cream cheese frosting, purple buttercream, and chocolate amaretto buttercream. 5 layers!! It took a long 15 hours to make because of the amount of detail that went on this cake. Also the fact that I had to cookie cutter each "C" and glue it on.

Brown Swirl Birthday Cake

Just a very simple birthday cake for some people at KP BPK. This was a 8 in. round, chocolate amaretto poundcake with chocolate amaretto buttercream. I actually tried this swirl effect and it turned out nice.

LV cake

This was the most tedious cake I have ever made. This is an anniversary cake. I had to work with what I had at my house, so it is not the exact replica of LV. Im actually proud of this cake and I think it is the best one I have made so far. It is also my favorite recipe so far: chocolate amaretto pound cake with chocolate amaretto buttercream. Yummy!

Superman Key Cake

This cake was for an anniversary cake. All I knew was that her husband likes Superman and she wanted a heart shape cake. So, I altered it a little and came up with this cake and a saying.

This was a red velvet cake with cream cheese buttercream.

Purse Class

I took another class at Let Them Eat Cake today. This was the final product. I couldn't believe that it only took 2 quarter sheet cakes to produce this purse. Plus, it had wonderful fillings such as lemon curd, strawberry mouse, lemon buttercream. Yummy! The class was well worth it!

Brown and blue butterfly

This was a quick cake that I made for my work. I tried an expresso pound cake with Bailey's Irish Cream buttercream. It was a gourmet cake, I must say. You had to be a coffee lover to like the cake. I tried stenciling the royal icing on this one.

Final thoughts for the year

As this year ends, here are some of my final thoughts. I am blessed that I have a very supportive husband who has been patient with me while I spend countless hours doing this time consuming and expensive hobby. I am also blessed with my secure job as a physical therapist during this time of economic hardship. In less than half a year, I have learned a lot and have been humbled in this world of cake decorating. I plan to further take classes so I can learn to create more cakes and perfect my skills. I also want to further share great tasting cakes to those who hate them and hopefully change their opinions. Thank you for your time and have a great new year!

Farm animal themed baby shower cake / cupcakes

Yeah, I finally finished this year with an order for my husband's coworker's baby shower. It was farm animals. I decided to mold fondant into farm animals to match the cupcake picks that I found. I also accented the cake with light blue flowers and baby images. All these were then tied into the cupcakes. The cake was a 5 in. red velvet with cream cheese buttercream. The cupcakes were the same as the cake as well as chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream.

Sugar paste roses and orchids

This has been the busiest and craziest weekend ever because I actually have 6 orders of cakes or cupcakes to do. I pulled through and still managed to work a full day at Kaiser yesterday and take this wonderful class at Let Them Eat Cake in Costa Mesa today.

Learned alot from Margie. Boy, these flowers were tedious, but looked so pretty. No wonder we can charge an arm and a leg for these.

Snowflake cake

I wanted to try a winter themed cake for this holiday party cake order. This was a chocolate pound cake with chocolate buttercream. I discovered that I am not a big royal icing fan and putting the edible beads was not easy.

Gingerbread man cake

This was a birthday cake for a 8 yr old boy. He requested cinnamon flavored cake. So, I came up with a cinnamon chocolate cake with cinnamon buttercream. I thought of adding the santa hat to add to the festive holiday season. This was so much easier to carve, frost, and lay fondant over than the hand cake.