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...

Romantic Wedding Cake

I've been stalking Rob Ben Israel lately, looking at his YouTube videos, his website, NYC girls' blog and fascinated by his creations. So when a couple asked me to do their wedding cake and the asked for suggestion I pitched this idea inspired by Ron Ben Israel style.

The cake is 4 tier cake with dummy tier served as flower arrangement holder. I've been taking flower making classes in Craftsy and learned how to make sugar flowers from Jacquelin Buttler. I used technique she tought on her sugar flowers class to do the filler flowers.

Flowers I used on this cake dominantly are roses with small filler flowers and hydrangeas. As requested by the bride, roses colors were soft pink, ivory, and hot pink with green from leaves and hydrangeas as accent.

Making the cake is not a challenge, the challenge was time. I'm still working full time as sales reps and it required me to travel interstate. The week this cake was due I was out of town the whole week back on Friday and cake needs to be delivered on Sunday. So I had to do the flowers ahead of time, I made all the flowers a week before, otherwise hey won't set and unusable.

The other challenge was to make the couple's initial with romantic type, I didn't have the patient to hand cut them so I think think and think. At last I came out with the idea to hand drawn (or written) them directly on the plaque. It turned our pretty good and I love the technique.

Other challenge was transporting this cake, I think this one is the heaviest and tallest by far. Since the second bottom tier was dummy cake, this cake is sort of top heavy so carrying it took extra caution. This cake was so tall I can see the top of the bouquet when I looked at my rear view mirror in my SUV.

Thank God the venue had a food trolley which I can borrow to transport the cake. I think this cake turned out well and the bride send me a message thanking me for making the cake. I was grateful I got the change to do this beautiful cake inspired by Ron Ben Israel and hoping that  got to do more cakes like this in the future.

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Peter Rabbit Cake

A friend of mine contacted me to do a cake for her niece's first birthday. The theme was Peter Rabbit and I jumped with joy, Peter Rabbit is such popular cake theme yet nobody ever asked me to do any cake with this theme.

Upon negotiating design etc, Chloe's mum work colleague made her the cake topper. I found it really sweet and she's done a great job. She made the peter rabbit figurine completed with vegetable patch etc.

If you look closely on the picture you will see that Peter Rabbit is sitting on a circle, that's the part supplied by Chloe's mum. I made the white picket fences around the supplied topper.

Since the topper was supplied I completed with this Mr. Frog I-dont-kow-what-his-name-is and this lovely Miss Duck I-also-don't-know-her-name.

This project is really fun to make, and I quite like the way everything just works with the supplied topper.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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