Teen Birthday Cake - Tiger Flower

This past weekend I had the pleasure of making a cake for a girl who loves tigers and the colour purple!  I was so excited to make this cake because it's a nice break from Boy cakes (which I often make).  This is the design I came up with which the birthday girl and her Mum agreed to.  Enjoy the pics!

Baby Shower Cake - Teddy on clouds

So this past weekend was a very busy cake-weekend for me.  I had 3 cakes to do and very little time (and so I had to sacrifice my sleep in order to make it happen).  One of the 3 cakes was a baby shower cake for my brother and his wife's second baby (boy).  I wanted to make something special for them, so here's what I came up with. Flavours are Red Velvet with Cream cheese (top tier) and Rich chocolate with Peanut buttercream (bottom tier).  The (fat) teddy was hand sculpted out of chocolate fondant, and everything else was also covered in vanilla/white chocolate fondant.  I also made the cake board just to add that extra special touch.  Hope you guys enjoy the pics!

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Butterfly Rosette Cake

Last weekend I had a very special cake to make for my dear sister who was celebrating her 31st birthday.  I remembered her mentioning how much she wanted a butterfly cake!  Just as well, I had been itching to do a butterfly cake, but I also wanted to try out I AM BAKERS rose cake for quite some time now.  I stumbled upon a very delicious Vanilla bean latte layer cake in Sweetapolita's blog and desperately wanted to try it!  Then I thought, why not combine all of this into one cake?  The great thing about making cakes for family is that you can pretty much choose the design yourself!  So here is the final outcome of my very own Butterfly Rosette cake.  I have to say thanks to those who inspired me to come up with this - I AM BAKER, Sweetapolita, and kathyx1 from CakeCentral.

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Rainbow Cake

On April 29 we held a special celebration for my twins' 'supposedly' 2nd birthday.  They were born almost 3 months premature due to a disease of the placenta called Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome (or TTTS).  Long story short, we were told by doctors and specialists that they had a very slim chance of surviving and that termination was one of the best options to consider given the circumstances.  It was such a battle to get them here, but through faith and prayers, we have two gorgeous identical boys - our miracle survivors Javier and Carlyle!  April 29 was their expected due date, and so my husband Lui and I, and of course our eldest son Javaughn, thought it would be such a great idea to hold a small celebration on this day each year to remind us of how blessed we are to have two more healthy miracle boys.

This is what inspired me to do a rainbow cake, because it really portrays our story - after every storm there is a always a rainbow.  I stumbled upon this cake on one of my favourite bloggers Sweetapolita, who stumbled upon it on Whisk Kid's blog.  It truly is a 'super epic rainbow cake' as the Whisk Kid calls it.  Hope you enjoy these pictures I took the day after the celebration.  Sorry for the small slice, but that's all I had left!  This gave me a chance to explore the endless photographic possibilities using my Canon EOS 1000D with a very humble EFS 18-55mm lens.  I really would love a macro lens right now (apparently a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 macro lens is a sweet investment)!!!  I hope my dear husband isn't reading this... hehehe.

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