Saturday, February 18, 2006

Pink Flowers Bed Cake


I made two cakes this month. one was pineapple cake for a office staff and the other one was for a Bible study group member who was also my good friend - Suan( the cake shown above). This cake was for my friend's birthday so I used red (resembles luck in Chinese) as the basic color. On the top of the cake I designed small pink flowers with leaves. Unfortunately, this cake was ruined while I was taking pictures of it. My youngest son tried to offer words of comfort by telling me, "Mom, people go to Bible study to worship God. They will not mind if the cake is smashed!" It was true. But later on I tried to fix the ruined area, so it was hard to tell where was the ruined area from the picture shown above.

Friday, February 17, 2006

Pineapple Cake For February Birthday Star



This cake was finished in a very short amount of time. Ryan's birthday was on Friday, but he had to leave the office earlier on that day. So we decided to celebrate his birthday on Thursday. Beth told me about making a cake on Monday. So on Wednesday I baked a cake. Then on Thurday morning I made butter cream for the decoration. I probably would make another cake for our church's small group , so I thought I would decorate Ryan's cake Thursday night (I forgot what Beth told me). On Thurday morning, Beth called and remind me, "Melinda, please don't forget we will celebrate Ryan's birthday today." Oh, My God, I was about to go to office but I hadn't decorated his cake. Thank God, I already finished his birthday card yesterday otherwise it was impossible to finish two things in very short time.

I ran to the kitchen, and took out everything I already prepared yesterday, but in my mind I had not prepared how I will decorate the cake. I prayed before starting to design it . I looked inside my pantry room to see what I could find to decorate it. Because the cake was designed for a male, I decided not to put flowers decorations on his cake. I had a can of pineapples along with pineapple paste, blue color icing to match the blue birthday card I made for him. After I prayed, many ideas kept coming out of my mind. and I took these ideas to design and finish my cake. Thank God for giving me creative ideas for this cake in very short time.

Sunday, February 05, 2006

Happy Birthday To Dora and Melissa B









In the month of January, Dora and Melissa's birthdays came up, so I took this great opportunity to specifically design a cake for them. I used light pink colored butter cream to make flowers and borders. I also used lemon greeen butter cream to make the leaves and inner border design. This cake was designed for two ladies' birthdays which is why I used these two colors for a softer feeling.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

A Cello Cake For My Son-Andrew











The beginning motivation to learn how to design cakes was to give a surprise for my son's (Andrew) 18 years old birthday. Now Cake Designing has became one of my favorite hobbies.

This is the cake I made for my son Andrew's 18 years old birthday.