Cars 2 Cake for Lucas

If you ever remember last year I made a cake for my beloved nephew for his first birthday Cars cake for Marco and how I miserably failed to make the cake topper. That time I tried to make a giant Lightning McQueen and the details are just overwhelming so I decided to go with plastic version of that red car.

So this project is about redemption and how I was faced with my nemesis those talking cars from Disney's Cars franchise. Lucas's mum contacted me and asked me to do a copy of another caker's work with 2 cars figurine on top. Still recovering from the failure I made, I braved myself to accept the challenge. Since it required 2 figurines on the cake so it's not too hard to do and I managed to do the cars figurine (yay me).

Along with the figurines I did the cities plaque as per Luca's mum photo example, and I did Cars 2 logo as well. With a little bit patient and aiming on achievable goal I managed to pull trough this cake.

I also did some stars to burst out from the cake with Italian flag colors. At the end it was quite a well presented cake and I was quite happy with the end result.


I also did racing flag pattern on the cake board, shouldn't have done the whole thing as most of my hard work was covered by the cake.

Here are some of the pictures of the cake.

I hope you enjoy this entry as this is my first entry on 2014 (gasp!) been lazy as this is October and I have at least a dozen project to blog.

Here goes my new year resolution, maybe I need to renew it for 2015 :)

Isadora's First Birthday Cake

Isadora's mum contacted me to do a cake for her first birthday. She wanted me to do similar cake with the one I did for Ella but different (?) hahahahaha. After we discuss the idea she wanted me to do Isadora figurine on top of her cake.

She sent me a picture of Isadora with her birthday dress, a beautiful white dress and she asked me to make the figurine hold Isadora's favorite plush toy a cute bunny and she will be holding a baloon with number '1' on it.

because it's sort of bunny theme she asked me to do carrots to go around the top tier. Along with the cake Isadora's mum asked me to do some cupcakes too.

It turned out that Isadora's dad is a photographer and has his own studio Vivera and he sent me these pictures from the party. It looked like very fun party, and look at the details.

Such a fun cake to make and making me so happy that the display it on a beautiful dessert table. Thanks for checking my blog, I will update you with more projects.

Fat Bunny Cake

I was contacted by a friend all the way from Indonesia to do a cake for her niece, I found it so sweet. The theme was bunny, a fat one. She sent the picture of the invite and it has this picture of a very cute and fat bunny. So I drew my inspiration from there and add number '1' as requested as it was Madeleine's first birthday.

I'm quite happy on how the cake turned out. Thanks for checking my blog...

Dinosaur Party for Alana

My Baby was turning 3 and to repeat the success of Red Ridding Hood party I planned the party ahead against my wife's dismay. She always opted to have private celebration. But in bakerzdad's world na ah....my little girl is getting the greatest party ever (in my own term of course).

After a little convincing and the fact that little Alana was starting to sing 'Happy Birthday' by her own at the end my beautiful wife obliged to have a party for Alana.

For the theme we decided to go with Dinosaur as Alana in the stage where she's 'Roarrrring' all the time and she loved the dinosaur play set we got her for Christmas. At first we were thinking something more girly but it's just not her.

For the cake I made 3 dinosaurs to symbolized Alana turning 3 and everything looks nice in a set of 3. 1 dinosaur is sitting on the birthday cake and 2 accompanied sitting on small dummy cakes.

I designed the invites and backdrop to reflect dinosaur theme and I chose to go with yellow and green with a hint of pink to retaliate with girly dinosaur theme.

For the dessert table I made macaroons, pudding, cakepops and chocolate bars accompanied with apple juices and sugar cookies.

I found a pack of foam dinosaur cut-out in KMart and decided to use it on the cookies a quick and lazy fix for the cookies.

Noodle boxes serving as take away containers for dessert table. it looks beautiful, but since I serve lunch for my guests it took some encouraging for them to take same lollies home.

I had my mum made dinosaur rag dolls for the little guests to take home, this is definitely labor of love as she's coming to Melbourne from Indonesia for a holiday and she's been on this project for 2 months. Love how everyone appreciate her effort and these dinosaurs were adopted by the little guests and the they get to name them.

Proud Opa and Oma who made the dinosaur rag dolls and bring it all the way from Indonesia.

When I said I want to have the greatest party for Alana I mean it as I prepared some entertainment for the little guests. I made dinosaur eggs with mixture of coffee, sands, flour and baking soda. I placed plastic dinosaurs inside the egg for the little ones to hatch. I got the eggs scattered around the playgorund and have them on scavenge mission to find the eggs.

And inside the eggs are small plastic toys for them to keep.

The finale of the party is PINATA, never done this one before but it seems like a great idea. I found many people on the internet suggested to do trap door pinata which is easier and not introducing too much violent to the little ones. But I couldn't find one in dinosaur shape, so I have to go with traditional bashing the pinata until it's cut open.

After a few turn of the little ones bashing the pinata without success I took matter in my own hand and bashed the pinata to dead. I literally wreck the broom stick I used to bash the pinata, that to show how resilient the pinata was.

Thanks for visiting my blog, I will update you with my next project.

Cars Cake for Marco

This is my beloved nephew first birthday cake. My brother is a huge fan of F1 racing and I think he's trying to get little Marco into racing too.

They choosed Cars 2 from Disney's animation as the birthday theme. It put me to a new challenge as I never done Cars before and it's proven to be quite a challenge as I miserably failed.

I tried to do the figurines with fondant and half way I decided that it was too hard for me (sigh). So I admit defeat and flew to K-Mart 6 in the morning to get the actual toys for the cake. This is probably the first time I failed doing a figurine and with time pressing I decided to do the shortcut (very disappointed with myself).

Recovering from the defeat I managed to do some cupcake toppers with cars-inspired topper. I think it turned out quite decent.

At the end at least the cake looks great and my SIL didn't really mind with the real toys. Little Marco get to play with it at the end.

The cake and cupcakes

My borther and SIL prepared a beautiful dessert table for little Marco and I think they've done a great job.

Thanks for visiting my blog, I will update you with my next project.

Ella First Birthday Cake

Ella's mum contacted me to do Ella's first birthday cake. She sent me an image with precious moment figurine on top and asked me to recreate the same cake. The only thing is to make the figurine more like Ella (Asian looking, she's Korean BTW).

Not sure about the design, I tried to pitch in a new design but she insisted to have the same design as the picture she supplied. So I tried my best to mimic the design and give it my personal touch.

Quite happy with how the cake turned out. Thanks for checking in.

Power Rangers Cake

This cake is for little Evan whose turned four and he asked for Power Rangers cake. His favorite is ranger red so he took the stage with the other rangers around the cake.

I remember growing up watching Power Rangers and back down they're so plain. Now the have this Samurai Power Ranger making it another challenge to do the cake.

Thanks for checking my blog, I will update you with my next project.

Hello Kitty Cake

Hi everyone,

OK so I'm catching up with the cakes I've done for the last 6 months hoping that all can be done by end of the year.

This Hello Kitty cake is for beautiful Karin's 5th birthday. I did Karin's 4th birthday cake (Rapunzel Cake) and this year her mum asked me to do Hello Kitty.

Been wanting to do Hello Kitty cake for ages and now I have the chance. The challenge is to make Hello Kitty proportional because she has extremely large head compare to the body.

I just wish I did the head a tad bigger and it will be perfect. I did mini ribbon roses and scattered it around the cake.

View from the top

Karin's parents set up a beautiful dessert table with unique approach. Instead of lollies and chocolate the served 'Bika Ambon' and 'Kue Lapis Legit' (Indonesian delicacy) the adults were more thrilled by it rather than the kids.

Thanks for checking, I'm still got a lot to blog. See you at the next entry.