tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45814653152075386252024-03-17T23:05:43.559-07:00i heart baking!i heart baking!michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.comBlogger382125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-68632145826451269132021-10-22T12:20:00.003-07:002021-10-22T12:31:59.720-07:00vegan boba milk tea cake, a collaboration with twrl milk teaWow, has it really been a year and a half since my last post? I could blame it on the global pandemic I guess, but really even despite that craziness, life has just gotten so busy! Anyway, it's time for me to get back to posting, I have so much content! And I'm so excited to share my latest project and collaboration with Twrl milk tea! Twrl is 100% women-founded and a minority-owned beveragemichelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-67388629721251331702020-03-08T22:00:00.002-07:002020-03-08T22:00:07.707-07:00coffee chiffon cake with dark chocolate sail sculpture
I love to make birthday cakes for my friends, and at one point last year I became obsessed with making chocolate sculptures to decorate my birthday cakes with! I had seen it all over Instagram and fell in love with the way they added such artistry to cakes, in such a free-form and abstract way.
The first of many chocolate sculpture cakes that I ended up making throughout the year, michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-64733065084600532242020-03-01T22:00:00.002-08:002020-03-01T22:00:12.581-08:00hand painted heart and diamond ring bridal party cookies
Sometime last summer, my friend Monica asked me to make bachelorette party cookies to go inside of goody bags that she was putting together. She was the Matron of Honor for her little cousin, and they were going to be travelling to Cabo for the party. She wanted a pink and gold theme, and wanted to customize the cookies with the names of each of the ladies. We ended up deciding on heart michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-78315742719656848072020-02-23T22:00:00.000-08:002020-02-23T22:00:04.045-08:00minecraft wolf birthday cake with handmade fondant topper
So my previous post was about the Minecraft pickaxe birthday cake that I made for my son's 11th birthday. And here's the cake that I made for his 12th birthday (which was 6 months ago 😂)! He wanted a Minecraft cake again, this time a Minecraft wolf birthday cake! I took the same approach to making the fondant topper - using a small square cutter to cut out various colors of michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-15288392749295140362019-10-02T22:00:00.000-07:002019-10-02T22:00:02.768-07:00minecraft diamond pickaxe birthday cake
Oh man. I'm so behind. I made this cake a year ago, for my oldest son Matthew's 11th birthday. And here we are, one year later, and he just turned 12!
He had requested another minecraft cake. But this time he wanted a giant Minecraft diamond pickaxe topper. I guess they use them to mine diamonds in the game? Anyway he showed me a picture of what he wanted, so I made it for him, out of michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-43970145387646343032019-05-19T22:00:00.012-07:002019-05-19T22:00:02.084-07:00marble glazed donuts
My mom loves donuts, as do I, and I have many memories of us happily eating donuts together! From when I was in high school and we would (quite often!) get donuts from Happy Donuts down the street; fast forward to the time we took a trip to Boston with my daughter and the three of us had donuts for breakfast almost every day that we were there. (The three of us later took a trip to New michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-84473371733556303252019-05-03T22:00:00.000-07:002019-05-03T22:00:03.377-07:00star wars birthday cake with handmade fondant luke and leia cake toppers
Usually it takes me a half year (sometimes a year!) to blog about something that I've baked, but this time I wanted to get this out in time for May the Fourth (be with you)! Anyway, I'm so honored to be able to say that I've made Marni's birthday cake for her every year since she was born, including her the cake for her mama's baby shower! This year for her 6th birthday, she was going michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-74807297458098246712019-04-07T22:00:00.000-07:002019-04-07T22:00:07.172-07:00hello kitty floral wreath crown cake
It's my birthday month! Hooray!
One of my favorite things about my birthday month is all the coupons that I get from all of my favorite stores! And of course, celebrating with my friends and family! But also one of my favorite things is that I get to make myself a cake, and I try to think of a different Hello Kitty design every year. Last year when it was time to make my birthday cake, I michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-33241392368517353162019-03-24T22:00:00.001-07:002019-03-24T22:00:08.099-07:00easter egg birds nest cupcakes
Easter is coming up soon, so I thought I'd share these easter egg cupcakes that I made last year! I've always loved those Cadbury chocolate mini eggs, so I knew I wanted to use them to decorate the cupcakes, and I decided to make them extra chocolatey desserts by making them chocolate cupcakes with chocolate cream cheese frosting!
For the cupcake batter, I used my favorite chocolate cake michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-22789293838440814082019-03-10T22:00:00.001-07:002019-03-10T22:00:11.869-07:00frozen elsa cake with white chocolate drizzle and fondant snowflake cutouts
My best friend Sue's daughter, Leia, turned four last May, and at the time she was super into Frozen, so she asked me to make her an Elsa cake! Just like the year before, Leia requested a chocolate cake, except this time we decided that I'd make it extra chocolatey and fill it with chocolate mousse (instead of the fresh strawberries and whipped cream filling that I did for her Curious michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-73460670767807872662019-03-04T22:00:00.000-08:002019-03-04T22:00:02.265-08:00lego batman birthday cake with handmade fondant batman and chocolate lego pieces
I've been making birthday cakes for Doan's son ever since his first birthday, and his fourth birthday was no exception! This year the theme was Lego Batman, so we decided that I'd make a Lego Batman fondant topper, and since I already had a Lego chocolate mold, I decided to make colorful edible Legos to decorate with as well!
First I made the fondant topper in advance, in order to give itmichelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-52490693483371848952019-02-24T22:00:00.002-08:002019-02-24T22:00:04.085-08:00unicorn cupcakes
Sometime last year, my friend Monica asked me to make unicorn cupcakes for her goddaughter. She wanted pastel swirl frosting, topped with little fondant unicorn horn toppers. We decided that I'd make chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, and I bought gold cupcake liners to match the gold unicorn horns!
About a week in advance, I started making the fondant toppers, in order to michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-26591792632216580142019-02-17T22:00:00.000-08:002019-02-17T22:00:04.634-08:00boss baby first birthday cake
Along with "Inside Out" smash cake that I made for my friend Stephanie, I also made this "Boss Baby" smash cake for her son Jayden! Since her son totally looks like Boss Baby, she wanted to use a Funko Pop Boss Baby doll as the cake topper!
For Jayden's cake, we decided on vanilla cake simply filled with whipped cream, since he was just turning one and she wanted something semi-plain for him. michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-62988417014265803632019-02-10T22:00:00.002-08:002019-02-10T22:00:01.722-08:00inside out cake
Some time ago, I made a "Tangled" Rapunzel cake for my friend Monica, and we used a Funko Pop Rapunzel doll as the cake topper. A few months later, my friend Stephanie asked me to make her daughter an "Inside Out" birthday smash cake, using a Funko Pop doll as well! Her daughter Riley's favorite character from the movie was "Disgust", so we chose that as the cake topper!
Since Disgust's michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-78635698664245842852019-02-03T22:00:00.001-08:002019-02-03T22:00:06.816-08:00succulent floral wreath cake
In continuing my obsession with making wreath cakes, I made a succulent version for my best friend Sue's birthday last March. And because when we were in high school, our favorite cake was always a mocha cake that my mom used to get for me, I decided to make her another coffee chiffon cake!
I started by baking my coffee chiffon in four 6-inch cake pans, and once they were cooled I michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-22636921535228395622019-01-23T22:00:00.000-08:002019-01-25T15:28:41.529-08:00animal kingdom birthday cake
My good friend Helen has an adorable daughter named Marni, who I've been making birthday cakes for since she was born! Since her birthday party is coming up this weeked, I thought I'd better get around to posting her birthday cake from last January! (So sorry for the delay, where does the time go?!)
The theme for her birthday party last year was "Animal Kingdom", and it was a five-way michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-57603800039898065852018-10-28T22:00:00.001-07:002018-10-28T22:00:07.154-07:00purple and white floral wreath cake
Every year for my Mom's birthday, I make her some sort of coffee-flavored cake. It started out with tiramisu cakes, mocha cake, and lately it's been coffee chiffon cakes. For her most recent birthday, I made coffee chiffon cake again, but this time covered with Swiss meringue buttercream and topped with purple buttercream flowers! (I've been super into make wreath cakes lately, and this was michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-9863222912384939982018-10-21T22:00:00.000-07:002018-10-21T22:00:01.435-07:00baseball cupcakes
My oldest son Matthew started Little League baseball earlier this year, and it was so much fun! He had a great time making new friends and being part of a team, and we had a great time going to all his games and eating concession stand food! (My new favorite guilty pleasure is chili cheese fries - so good!)
Part of the Little League experience was interacting with the other parents, michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-14681927170593089652018-09-02T22:00:00.001-07:002018-09-02T22:00:00.938-07:00pink and white floral wreath cake
It's been a while since my last post! Things have been super busy with work, and then summer with the kids at home, and then vacation, and then after vacation watching the kids while I worked from home until school started ... and now the kids are back in school! It's an exciting year because my oldest started middle school! And my youngest started Kindergarten! Time sure does fly by fast!
michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-88765278802743844932018-06-24T22:00:00.000-07:002018-06-24T22:00:11.688-07:00pink sprinkles birthday cake with gold birthday topper
My friend Hsing has a daughter named Avery, who just had a birthday this past February! And I was beyond flattered when she asked me to make her a birthday cake! She sent me a picture of a adorable pink cake, with rainbow sprinkles and a gold birthday cake topper, so I set out to make exactly that!
I started with my favorite chocolate cake recipe (which you can find in my book, The Hello michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-88876927308264093502018-05-20T22:00:00.003-07:002018-05-20T22:00:01.004-07:00red white and blue flag cake for fourth of july
Last year for the Fourth of July, my husbands parents were visiting from Hawaii, and his dad's cousin Holly invited us over for a Fourth of July party! His mom was going to make a curried rice salad, and I said I would make a cake. I pictured a red, white, and blue cake on the inside as well as the outside!
For the cake, I baked up my favorite vanilla cake (recipe in my book, The michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-86965629651796564992018-05-13T22:00:00.000-07:002019-03-27T11:59:15.808-07:00rainbow unicorn sugar cookies with royal icing
To go along with the rainbow unicorn cake that I made for my daughter's 8th birthday, I also made these rainbow unicorn cookies as party favors, and also to pass out to her classmates on the actual day of her birthday.
For the cookies, I used my favorite sugar cookie dough (recipe in my book!), rolled it out to about 1/8 inch thick, and used these adorable unicorn cookie cutters from Cookie michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-36061154989042841032018-05-06T22:00:00.002-07:002018-05-06T22:00:04.652-07:00rainbow unicorn cake with fondant unicorn horn
Last year for my daughter's birthday, she requested a unicorn cake. (She always requests unicorns!) So I had made her this one, with a buttercream rosette mane and a handmade fondant golden unicorn horn.
Well, this year she asked for the same thing! But pink. And with a rainbow mane. So I obliged!
As usual, she wanted a vanilla cake with strawberries and whipped cream, so I michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-43500804217461523152018-04-22T22:00:00.002-07:002018-04-22T22:00:25.853-07:00yin and yang kung fu cupcakes
My two older kids are learning Kung-Fu, and last summer (or was it the summer before that? I'm really behind!) for the annual picnic I signed up to make cupcakes. When it came time to actually make the cupcakes, I had no idea what to do! Piped Kung-Fu frosting figures on the cupcakes? Chinese characters? And then when I looked at their Kung-Fu uniform, it came to me. Yin and Yang cupcakes. (michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581465315207538625.post-2936775917482181922018-04-15T22:00:00.002-07:002019-01-23T16:02:08.927-08:00minecraft cookies
To go along with the Minecraft cake that I made for Matthew's 10th birthday, I also made these Minecraft cookies to include with the party favors, as well as to pass out to his class the day of his birthday at school.
For the cookies, I made my favorite sugar cookie recipe (from my book, The Hello Kitty Baking Book!), chilled it, and rolled it out to 1/8 inch thick. Then I used a set of michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12044027235915286096noreply@blogger.com0