Introducing Rainbow cupcakes!

I’ve gotten a bunch of questions about how I made the rainbow cake. Sorry guys, but it’s my little secret! Thanks for all of the support though! The rainbow cake ended up being a HUGE hit!

I invited my family over for dinner this weekend for a surprise birthday dinner for my cousin, Jasmine. Jasmine has helped me with my cakes before and always has nothing but good things to say about my cakes. I figured it would be nice for her to have her own cake and not just a slice of someone else’s.

She LOVED the rainbow cake that I made last weekend so I thought it would be nice to make her one for her birthday. I think they turned out pretty cute!

Here they are!

The cupcakes were white almond cake with a french vanilla buttercream frosting. The party hats and flowers were made of fondant.

A picture of them on my cute little cupcake tree:


And a view of the inside!


Happy Birthday Jasmine!

Neon rainbow cake

Recently, my best friend asked me to make a birthday cake for her daughter's surprise party. Of course I accepted. I've said it before, and I will say it again, I love making kids cakes!

She sent me a picture of the party set that she purchased and asked if I could match the cake to it. Here is what she sent me:

I was pretty excited to get started. We threw some design ideas around for quite some time before finally deciding on what it would look like and what flavors it would be. Her daughter isn't the biggest fan of cake (crazy huh?) so I decided it might be nice to make a rainbow cake. I thought it would be really cool and was anxious to try it out. She agreed. We ended up deciding on a white almond rainbow cake with strawberry mousse filling and fondant decorations.

Here was the final result:

A side view of the cake:

And the rainbow surprise inside! Those of you who know my personally can guess how excited I was about this!

A picture of the whole cake:

What do you guys think? I had a ton of fun making it!

Happy Birthday Jely!

I guess rules really are meant to be broken....

I have a rule that I don't make the same exact cake twice. There are too many styles and techniques out there that I need and want to explore!

I ended up breaking my own rule a few weeks ago. My cousin and I were talking about the cake that I was going to make for her wedding and she really loved the previous wedding cake that I made. How could I say no? It's a bit different than the last one.... it has an extra tier, different color roses, a different topper, and just a bigger cake overall.

Half of this cake was chocolate cake filled with a chocolate mousse. The other half was a french vanilla cake with a strawberry mousse filling. What do you guys think?

Here's a closer view of the top tier with the cake topper.

Congratulations Carlos and Kristina on your marriage! I love you guys and wish you the best!

Michigan State

My aunt and her family traveled all the way from Michigan to spend New Years Eve with us. We all love when when we get to see her, my uncle, and my cousins.

My aunt thought it would be nice for me to make a Michigan State University cake. My cousin currently attends there and my uncle is a big fan ;-). It ended up being really fun to make.

Anyway, here is the cake! Chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling, iced with vanilla buttercream and decorated with fondant accents. My aunt LOVES chocolate.

Spanish cake

I was asked if I could make a birthday cake with a Spanish message rather than the usual English "Happy Birthday." I sure can!

This cake was a red velvet cake filled with a whipped cream cheese mousse. I also got the opportunity to practice my ribbon roses made with fondant.

What do you all think?

Merry Christmas!

The weeks leading up to Christmas have always been my favorite time of year. I love to get my tree up, shop for gifts, and bake goodies for my friends and family.

Every year, we alternate who throws our big family party. This year it was at my cousin's house and my contribution was cake, of course! I figured it would be fun to make a christmas theme cake so I began experimenting with a few ideas. Ultimately, I decided to make a frosty the snowman cake since he's my mom's favorite.

I decide on a chocolate cake with a peanut butter mousse filling. The cake is iced in buttercream with fondant accents. Everything on it is completely edible!

Here's Frosty!

Yumminess from my oven!

My husband is borderline obsessed with banana bread so when we got married, I was on a quest for the perfect banana bread recipe. Over the years I tried multiple recipes but none of them were winners.

I am happy to announce that 6 1/2 years into our marriage, I've found it. A banana bread that rendered him speechless.....or maybe he was speechless because he was busy eating. At any rate, once he spoke again, I caught the words "amazing" and "best banana bread ever." Ha! He sure knows what to say when taste testing one of my recipes!



Care to see the finished product?