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Sunday, January 22, 2017

3-Tiered Yellow 80th Birthday Cake

Three Tiered 80th Birthday Cake with yellow fondant roses

This cake is one of the best cakes I ever made so far. Hehehe, I am so proud! This was heartily baked and decorated for my loving aunt Mama Eda for her 80th birthday on the 20th of September. It was really my honor to make the cake. When my cousin contacted me to do this craft, I was so happy. For me this was just like more than a gift because making this huge cake made me realized that truly I can do cake decorations and experienced a new way of creative thinking. Well, of course I did some researched on how to stack the cakes, making flowers and the figurine.

The roses were made of mixed fondant and gumpaste. I made all of those ahead of time to make it hard. The figurine was made of just fondant. I'm having a hard time making that figurine; it took me a while to figure it out how to make a granny looks. The lovely granny figurine that holds flowers setting on a lovely fondant chair surrounded with yellow flowers added to the great looks of my cake which made me very proud. The butter cream icing grass made the cake stand out.

The flavors of the cake were mocha and buko pandan as my cousin Criselda requested. I never had a taste on it but I heard comments from my cousins and some other guests. At the party, one of the guests who seated beside me said to the woman beside him (Ithought is his wife), he doesn't like chocolate cake, so he pushes the cake away from him. While I was listening at their conversation, the woman told the guy, just taste it! So the man tasted the cake a little bit and his reaction made me so happy and content because he liked it then he asked for more cake LOLz...

Mama Eda was very happy when I presented the cake for her and so I am very happy too.

Friday, January 20, 2017

My friendship cake

bhelle 11:11 pm 0 Comments

This cake was made on the day when my friends and I had gatherings. It was also the day when my friend Rick and his girlfriend announced that they are going to get married this coming November 8 of this year.

This is also the first time that they taste my newly found way of making icing and the filling I put in the cake. I was so happy with the comments I received from my friends.

LOL... I named this cake as a friendship cake... even though, this was done in a hurry but I baked and decorated it with all my heart.

Thursday, January 19, 2017

AristoCat Birthday Cake

bhelle 6:34 pm 0 Comments

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Aristocat (Cute Cat) Birthday Cake for my friend Sarah's one and only daughter Amira on her 23rd birthday last January 23, 2014.

One of the best cake I'ved ever made. LOL'z, Well I can say it is! My Friend Sarah asks me if I can bake and decorate a cake with cat on it because she wants to surprise her daughter. I was hesitant at first because I didn't have a clue how to make a cat.

As a new to my craft, I did not make a promise to her since I know myself it would be difficult to do. If I would make it this will be my first because I never done this before. Yet, I told my friend yes I will try to make it for her.

To make a fondant cat is not easy. I did tried so many times with no success so I need a help from Mr Google. I made several research online and in YouTube on how to make a fondant cat. I am very much happy that I found this tutorial and I was able to follow the steps. Of course, the first time I did was not really nice looking, so I also made several attempts until the picture above was the result.

My friend Sarah had called the next day asking not to continue the making of the cat because she feels it very difficult for me. However, everything is already made but I never said anything to her that it was done. I just told her that it was okay.

The day when she picks up the cake she was like an awed... and really amazed how the cake turns out. She thanks me for so many times and paid more than the amount I asked for.

This is the link I used for making my pinky kitty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbCaI5ToGX0

💝😉Thanks Sarah for giving me this opportunity.

My Little Pony Castle Cake

bhelle 6:26 pm 0 Comments

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"My Little Pony Castle Cake"
Angelynna 5th Birthday Celebration (Dec. 30, 2014)

It was lovingly baked and decorated for my one and only daughter Angelynna on her 5th Birthday.

My Little Pony Castle Cake was one of my daughter's dream to have on her 5th birthday. She requested this cake three months before the celebration. When I searched online and viewed different styles of Castle cake. I said to myself O gush! how could I do that? that's so difficult to do, I really thought that it is difficult to do, so I made an option to her to buy from the store but she refused, she insisted that I know how to decorate it and she believed that I could do it.

I told my daughter, it was difficult to make but I will try because I want her to be happy. She told me that she will be going to invite her friends in school and so, she wants to show to them her castle cake. So then, I tried my very best and I am glad and satisfied that this was the result of that efforts. She was so proud and pleased! I decorated the cake to the last minute in order not to spoil the surprise. When she woke up that morning, she couldn't believed what she saw on the living room, the cake that she really wanted! "My Little Pony Castle Cake". She was ecstatic and cried of happiness. The best feeling when the mother fulfilled her daughter's wish on her birthday is the "hug and thank you".

The cones (the top of the castle) were not too dry but good enough to stand out this were also because of the pieces of card stock which served as the support of the cones to prevent for collapse. At the very top of the cake castle was a tea candle to brighten up the top.

Puto Cheese

bhelle 6:23 pm 0 Comments

It is called "Rice Puto" these are mini rice cake in Filipino version. These are delicious mini rice cake from the Philippines sweet delicacy.

However, my children protested "NO!!!" well, I said you can call them whatever you want. LOLz.

The recipe that I followed is from the Goldilocks recipe that I found online since year 2006. But at this time I cannot find the recipe I was using. The recipe posted below... I found it in other site. http://www.filipino-food-recipes.com/puto.html

INGREDIENTS

§ 3 2/3 cups Rice Flour (or 1 pound bag)

§ 1 can Coconut Milk

§ 3 cups hot water

§ 4 teaspoons Double-Acting Baking Powder

§ 1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence(optional)

§ 1 1/2 cup Sugar

§ 1 stick butter, softened

PREPARATION TIME: 10 minutes plus 1 1/2 hour for letting the mix rise.

COOKING TIME: 35 minutes

1 Mix together the coconut milk and rice flour. Add the sugar and softened butter.

2 Heat up the water and add to the rice flour mixture. Strain and let it cool down thoroughly.

3 Add the baking powder and vanilla essence and set aside for an hour and a half.

4 Pour the mix on a lined muffin pan up to 2/3 full.

5 Steam for 25 - 30 minutes or until the top is firm and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

6 Let it cool down before taking out of the pan.
When I cook this yummy snacks I do not put cheese as per request of my kiddos, they love it without the cheese on top.

Source: Lutong Pinoy

Princess Birthday Cake

bhelle 6:19 pm 0 Comments

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For everything, there's always first time so here we go, my first ever baked and decorated birthday cake for my one and only daughter Angelynna

On December 30, 2014 was her 4th birthday. She requested just before her birthday to have a Princess Birthday cake. I told her that yes e have to buy her birthday cake on the store same as we usually did in her previous birthday and her brothers however, she wanted me to bake a cake for her, with of course decorations.

I was speechless because the fact that I have no idea in decorating cake and also not good in baking. I remember one time I baked a cake and it was a big failure because the result was like cement. huhuhu! Really a problem for me.

Well for my daughter I am going to try again, who knows maybe this is the time. I tried to bake two weeks before her birthday, my first attempts was a big failure. I followed the instructions but I really didn't know what happened why the result is a big fat "F". After five times of attempt, I am glad I did it. Wohooh! A big success really I was happy.

Then the decorations, well, I knew it was not perfect but my daughter was really happy.

Mocha Cake Goldilocks Style

bhelle 5:58 pm 0 Comments

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More practice! LOL

This cake was our thanksgiving cake special treat for the family. I made this cake about two years ago. It is a very late upload but that's okay right? Well, it is more of a tradition that every Canadian celebrate thanksgiving day but for me it is much more deeper thoughts that we do really need to celebrate thanksgiving not just the day calendar stated but because in our hearts we are blessed.

Every thanksgiving my family and I have dinner in honor with this feastivity. At this time, I made my first thanksgiving cake which my children and husband to enjoy.

My daughter asked me why the color is gray. I have to laugh out loud, really, she made me laughed. She was looking for the Mochalicious cake that I used where everybody loves to eat however at this time, I made mocha cake ala Goldiclocks. The color and the taste was not the same as what I always baked for her. The taste is good but my daughter didn't impressed at all She was looking for the other Mocha Cake she loves.

By the way, thank you to the owner of the blog where I copied the recipe... sorry I forgot the link... all the credits belong to her. I am willing to use the recipe again in some other time.

Mickey Mouse Birthday Cake

bhelle 4:42 pm 0 Comments

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Mickey Mouse birthday cake covered with Swiss butter cream icing for a baby boy.

This cake was ordered from my high school classmate at (PACC) Pearson Adult Career Center, Montreal for her 2 year old son. It was my first time making fondant Mickey Mouse so I think it is not really perfect. However, I tried my best making this one for the little boy who loves Mickey.

I had search several tutorials online for making Mickey Mouse fondant and I found so many of them including videos from YouTube.

This is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgcSNqsYYo8.

Credit belongs to the owner of the video. I really learned a lot from her tutorials, yet my creation is not perfect but at least I produce that looks like Mickey. It was a great experienced making fondant Mickey and of course the whole process of making this successful decoration.

By the way, the cake was a Vanilla cake filled with Pastry Cream and covered with Buttercream Icing. All the recipes I found it from Wilton website. If anyone is interested, you can google it.

So much for that, I am very thankful that my friend really likes the outcome.

Hoping for next time project with you, Tasha... thanks for your trust!

Chrysanthemum flower cake design

bhelle 4:31 pm 2 Comments

"Chrysanthemum flower cake design"

This cake was requested by my daughter. She wants me to bake her favorite Mocha cake with the chrysanthemum flower on top. This was 6 inches by 3 inches. This design was part of my practice in decorating cake by myself. It was a little bit tricky in holding the icing bag and in applying the pressure on it. However, if we have patience and determined to pursue nothing is really impossible. Just trust in yourself that you could do it and you will see the result and the progress of your efforts to finish your project.

Decorating cake before was just a dream and I thought, it will remained as part of my fantasy. Yes! I am a dreamer. I dreamed to bake and decorate cake particularly icing flowers and this was it! This was one of my cute and simple flower design.

Thanks to my daughter who believes that I have the ability to learn new things. My daughter is one of my biggest fan who always trust and think that everything in this world is always possible.

So far, it was another best practice. My daughter was really ecstatic with the outcome. She told me that it was like a real flower. I really love how she reacted, LOL!

Mother's Day Cake

bhelle 4:42 am 0 Comments

This cake is lovingly decorated by meeh! The very first mother's day cake special cake I made.

This is the third times my husband and I bake a cake from scratch. We tried to practice more in baking and decorating if we have extra time. I searched a lot of cake recipes online and I got the recipe from cake Boss website. The result is not that great because it was a little bit hard. I do not know where I made mistakes but it was still good to it. Really need more practice!

This was also our first time using a 9' x 3' baking pan. LOL, supposedly will cook in 25 to 30 minutes but because we put the batter almost to the top, it cook longer than expected. Almost burn! Well, at least we try.

The Butter cream icing is flavored with Baileys Irish cream whisky. I am using the Wilton Buttercream Icing but I substituted the vanilla flavor into Baileys Irish Cream Whisky. It was not bad after all, the whisky flavor was not that strong as I thought. If I ever I will make next time I will make it more to enhance the whisky flavor.

My daughter Angelynna has a very nice smile with the cake she thought for her.

My daughter was very excited for this cake because she thought that it was for her. Angelynna likes the pink roses. Furthermore, the roses I used for decoration were made of Royal Icing from Wilton recipe. Some of the roses, the dark pink (three dark pink roses) were Buttercream icing.

Golf Theme 80th Birthday Cake

bhelle 4:35 am 17 Comments

Golf Theme 80th birthday cake. One of my best design!

Well not really my original design. My friend who had ordered this cake was actually who gave me this design therefore I was using the original as my reference. I add a little bit of details like the golf bag and the lettering on it and I also alter some. The design is not complicated as I thought it was.

Thanks to the original designer, I don't know who but I am very thankful for the inspiration for making my cake creation possible.

For the old man, it was a fondant. It was not easy creating fondant old man. I attempted several times with no success but I never gave up until I created the one standing on the picture. I was so happy with the result and content and I was hoping that my customer feels the same way as I feel and of course the celebrant.

By the way, this was a surprised cake for my friend's father in law. The cake is a Mocha which was also a request from my friend's husband.

To my friend Jean, thank you so much for giving me such a wonderful experience by making this awesome golf theme cake design.

Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful day.

Aquarium Birthday Cake

bhelle 4:27 am 0 Comments

Aquarium Birthday Cake

This cake was heartily created for my friend's (Jovelyn) baby "Jean-Louis" who was celebrated his first birthday on September 12, 2014. I was the one who offer to make this cake as my family's gift to him.

Making fondant sea creatures was really fun even though, it took me a lot of time of creating it. Some of those figures I have had a hard time of making it, therefore I searched also online and studied carefully how to create. Although, it didn't look really the same yet I am happy with the outcome.

My friend requested fishes, octopus, and sea turtle. I also added some sea creatures and scuba diver as part of the cake decorations. To make the cake more alive, I decided to put an aquarium with three real guppies fishes on it. On top of it, was a giant octopus where one of his tail held the number 1, that represents how old the baby was.

Making this cake made my family and I so happy as part of this very important occasion. By the way, the bottom cake was Mocha cake filled with custard cream and the top was a rainbow cake filled with custard cream also. The cake was covered with Swiss butter cream icing while the decorations were made of fondant.

Although, it took me a lot of time to complete and finish the whole cake but it was really worth it, when I saw the finished product and have a nice feedback from the people I didn't even know, it was like I won a lotto. Charot!!!

So much for that, my friend gave me $100 towards it. I insisted that it was my gift but they also insisted to take the money. Well, what can I say? Thank you so much!

Finding Nemo Birthday Cake

bhelle 3:51 am 0 Comments

Finding Nemo Birthday Cake

This Finding Nemo under water theme birthday cake was baked and decorated by myself. I had found online a Finding Nemo cake as my guide and or reference several years ago that looks similar as this one but I know that was baked and decorated by professional and mine were no match! However, I couldn't find that picture so, I cannot post the link here yet I still give her a credit as the original designer for this cake.

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Truly, I never thought I could make this amazingly beautiful cake. Well, in my own eyes yes it is! The theme was suggested by my eldest son who knew he had this theme when he celebrated his first birthday too. When you look at the design it looks like very detailed and complicated, hmmm, maybe not! ! For me as a new cake decorator, I felt difficult at first, I attempted several times with no success but I continued until I finished this project for my youngest son's first birthday.

Friends were asking how I did the arch? The arch was made of rice crispy. This was made ahead of time because it took time to get hard. I made the arch about 1 week in advance. Some details on the arch I made two days before the party like mushroom or something. Several attempt were made before I satisfied with the result. Although, it was not perfect yet I was absolutely satisfied and proud.

Fishes like Doris and Marlin were made by my friend (Gerasil) who is also good in baking and decorating cake. All other fishes, Nemo, the turtle, etc were created by myself. They're made ahead of time too, like two days or so.

The cake on the left side is Vanilla cake and on the right is Strawberry cake both were frosted with buttercream icing.

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Lego Movie Birthday Cake

bhelle 5:47 pm 0 Comments

Lego Movie Birthday Cake

This was my first time making big and tiered cake. This was my son "DJ" requested for his birthday. I am not an expert to make this kind of cake but I managed to make it in short period of time. My effort was really worthy because he was so happy and felt very special on his birthday.

Although, the cake was not perfectly decorated, my son DJ was very proud that for the first time, it was me who baked and decorated the cake for him like what I did for his sister's birthday. Making this cake will acquire a lot of efforts to do like making Lego pieces and the characters. I never did this before so I asked my friend DJ's (my son) godmother Gerasil to make it for me. Well, I tried to make one but it became a laughing figure. I laughed so loudly after I finished it then I showed to my son and he cracked up.

Hahaha... Someday, I will try to make figures like almost perfect.

This is vanilla cake filled with buttercream icing. Unfortunately the buttercream icing was not enough and so it covered it thinly. We even can see the actual cake inside. The cake was dry a little bit which made me upset but to my son it was a perfect cake.

Happy 8th birthday once again DJ. I wish for many more years to come in your life, good health and be a good boy.

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Birthday and Baptism Frozen Cake

bhelle 4:28 am 0 Comments

Birthday and Baptism Frozen Cake

As a beginner, making 3D figures of Queen Elsa and Princess Anna is not easy to do but I really tried my best since I promised ate Yolanda to make a sugar figure and also I want to let myself experience the beauty of making these figures. LOL'z, applying the make up is really not my crafts. Well, at least they're look like a girls.

Olaf is my favorite figure I made for this cake. He is very easy to make. Olaf should be at the top of the cake, however Queen Elsa is bigger so I have no choice to change their position.

Since it is Erica's baptism too, I add the rosary beads and cross in the middle to complete the theme and tell to the visitors and guests that she celebrated two different events in one.

Thanks to Ate Yolanda for trusting me to make this wonderful cake theme design. It is really my pleasure to do this sweets arts.

Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful day

Flower Birthday Cake

bhelle 4:19 am 0 Comments

Happy Birthday to My dearest Friend Sarah

Sarah is one of friend here in Montreal, I know her when I went back to high school at PACC. She is a very nice, kind and caring woman who sometimes taking care of my children when they their home and I cannot stay with them. To make my story short, when we moved to our new apartment, we hardly talked to each other because of the works she have and I am also busy with my studies.

Three days before her birthday, I decided to make a surprise birthday party for her. It was not really big celebration but I prepared some foods aside from the cake I bake and decorated. April 28 2014, Sunday I know that she it was her day-off so I called her at around 11:00 a.m. I asked if she has something to do that day. She said "No". I invited her to come to our apartment because I told her that my children already missed her and I want her also to meet my new born baby. What she doesn't know that I made special for her to celebrate her birthday.

When she came I told her to go straight to the kitchen, she sat down. She didn't surprise that there was foods on the table because I always cook foods for my family. Then, I told her that we made something special because it was her birthday. We begun to eat and chat, we laughed and so on. Then, I said, closed your eyes while I got up to get the cake I prepared for her. When, we started to sing a birthday song, she opened her eyes and saw the cake I made for her. She was teary eyed and said "Thank you very much, but you shouldn't do this, you should not spent to buy cake for me." I told her that I did not buy the cake I bake and decorated it by myself.

Her reaction was priceless. "Weehhhh" she said. "Now this time you lied, I do not believe you because I know you for two years and I did not see you bake and decorate cake." These were the words she said. I simply smiled and told her that everything we learn if we are eager and patience to learn it. I, myself did not expect to learn in decorating cake but I did it for the sake of my daughter who believe that people can do things in life. I need to learn to let them see and believe that there is nothing impossible.

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Sunday, January 22, 2017

3-Tiered Yellow 80th Birthday Cake

Friday, January 20, 2017

My friendship cake

Thursday, January 19, 2017

AristoCat Birthday Cake

My Little Pony Castle Cake

Puto Cheese

Princess Birthday Cake

Mocha Cake Goldilocks Style

Mickey Mouse Birthday Cake

Chrysanthemum flower cake design

Mother's Day Cake

Golf Theme 80th Birthday Cake

Aquarium Birthday Cake

Finding Nemo Birthday Cake

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Lego Movie Birthday Cake

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Birthday and Baptism Frozen Cake

Flower Birthday Cake

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