Here are a rainbow birthday cake and cupcakes that I made for my daughter’s end-of-school picnic.
Rainbow polka dot, ruffle and banner are really everyone’s favorite irregardless the age, but putting them in this same posting is really because they remind me of children and rainbow is just like children; they are God’s promise of blessings…
Have a blissful Summer, everyone!
Here are two beauties in their own ‘worlds’: Hawaiian-themed cake for a bridal shower and country-themed cake for a beautiful country-style wedding. But both were here in eastern part of Washington state.
and look how beautiful the wedding decor and the lanterns. Such beautiful variations of sizes and colors gradation.
I never believe in addiction. Period. Except for cooking, baking, music, arts, crafts and books. Now, another one: making cupquet aka cupcakes bouquet. I just can’t help it, keep wanting to make some more and more (and always in the look for any excuse to make ones).
Many ways and tricks I do to improve on how to make them more ‘presentable’, yet deliver-able. Those who do a lot of cupquet know so well, that the trouble with cupquet goes beyond the “cupcakes delivery/transportation”. It goes mostly to the problem of how cupcakes often arranged to “hang” like real flowers, which often causes one of the troubles of falling apart. Or, to the fact that the cupcakes often don’t stay put when inserted on sticks.
After learning from so many sites/blogs that teach many awesome tricks, I also come up with an idea by hot-gluing the paper-snack cups into lollipop sticks and then put glue dot inside of them, to keep the cupcakes sticking in, so it will stay secure there.
The dots and the lavenders in this bouquet are made of gum paste on wire as additional decorations to the bouquet. And as you see, they’re doing pretty good since I put them before the cupcakes were added and frosted.
I just think this is also another great present to make for any mothers in your life (your mom, sister, cousin, sis-in-law) in this coming Mother’s Day this weekend.
This is the birthday cake for Christopher I made last Saturday for his birthday party. He love sea mammals and one of them is octopus. He could mimic the tentacles movement (and catch his sister with them), he would use my blanket as ocean where we’d use any single darn things that he can imagine as octopus (or squid, some other time) to terrorize the ocean creatures and sailors:).
Thanks to my hubby who helped me with this project and thanks to many-many inspirational images online that gave us the thought and ideas on working on this cake. 
Yes, even though it is not Fall I still would love to talk about this topic. Perhaps because it is Spring, that is why I want to talk about it. Spring is the time when you get those plants ready in your backyard and making them healthy before they give you such great produce to make these sorts of preserves. Then comes Summertime when you start with strawberries, blackberries and other sorts of berries to preserve.
This Spring I also decided to make our own extracts, starting with lavender and lemon, as well as lavender syrup (which is how I balance my baking flavoring systems). It is so exciting in every single process including the bottling and putting the stickers on!! Oh, not to mention the photo-session itself!:)…
There are some other preserves that I also MUST make my own, such as pineapple (since we have to add spices on it). Last Fall I made our own pumpkin butter and we’ll see this year if our squash turn out a lot, we’ll do a lot of various types of squash butter, squash preserves and so on.
Here are the Spring inspired cake flavors: Lemon, Green Tea, Lavender and Champagne. Gosh, they are so yummy that I kept eating the left-overs. Especially the Lavender and the Champagne. Which really made me excited since I made my own extract for the cakes.
Also another idea on cupcakes: if you are ‘done’ with cupcakes bouquet but you only have a few cupcakes to display, bundling them with ribbon and decorate them with chocolate candy formed into leaves and curls is another good and quick idea.
A lot of the chat generated by this blog has to do with my overriding premise that you shouldn't strive for perfection on your wedding day. After all (and answer truthfully) has anything actually been perfect, ever? Thoughts may turn to people who look like Jennifer Lawrence or Ryan Gosling or other such media icons, but I have a feeling they would be the first ones to laugh in your face if you suggested they had achieved anything close to perfection.
