Cupcake Cake and, yes, Cupcakes

This was an 8xx8x4 chocolate cake with buttercream frosting topped with marshmallow fondant.  The cupcakes were all vanilla with buttercream.  the Cake topper is a big cookie in the shape of a cupcake and every cupcake was topped with a vanilla cookie sprinkled with sugar crystals. 

Gift Box Shower Cake

I so enjoyed making these goodies.  The theme was pearls and gift boxes in brown and pink.  Super girly!  The flavor of this cake was my  moist Leelee's Vanilla Specialty cake, covered in dulce de leche and then covered in fondant.  Every element of this cake is edible.  The bottom part is an 8x3.5 round cake, and the top is an 8x2 cake  that I placed on top of fondant pieces resembling tissue paper with some uneven dowel rods to make the top tilt ever so slightly.  The pearls are made of 

fondant and brushed with edible pearl dust.  

I also made coconut cupcakes that I dusted with iridescent pink edible glitter (you can't really see in the picture) that made them shimmer and topped with candy pearls. I made cookies in the shape of bibs, rattles, onesies, and pacifiers.  Red velvet cakepops were a must, these were covered in milk chocolate covered in edible tiny pearls, and last, but not at all least I made marshmallows covered in tinted white chocolate and tiny pearls. 

The mommy to be was really happy with the goodies!

Simple cake for a Pastor

I made this cake for one of our pastors.  It's not fancy at all, it was just made to thank him for being our campus pastor because he was fully stepping into another pastoral role kind of complicated for me to explain  correctly here, lol! Anyway, it was just to be seen and shared with all the volunteers that make church at a movie theatre happen every single Sunday.  Trust me, not an easy task, but what a blessing it is.

Mother's Day Cupcakes

OK, I have never made so many cupcakes at the once.  I must say that it was actually quite easy and relaxing, yes, relaxing.  I had pre made the little in advance.  These were ordered from my church for Mother's Day, of course we have over 800 people that actually go on Sunday, but because other sweets were being served as well, I made 250 for my campus, West Kendall, and 150 for the Coral Gables campus. The flavors were red velvet with creamcheese frosting, lemon, vanilla, chocolate and yellow.

Bumble Bee Cake and cupcakes

I have made this cake before, but I made it again and it is slightly different from the first one I made for a shower. The client saw it and fell in love with this Bee Cake. The flavor of the cake is Leelee's vanilla specialty cake with dulce de leche filling.  Frosted completely with vanilla been buttercream and then covered with fondant.  the bumble bees and flowers are me out of gumpaste.  The client was super pleased when she picked it up.

Lego Cake

Very simple Lego cake.  I wish I would have had time to do more, but really I didn't so I baked a 10 x10 cake half vanilla half chocolate with buttercream filling and cut in half and then one of the halves in two. iced them and covered them in fondant. The client was ok with something simple and was happy with it.  where I put the Lego pieces the client was placing a Lego police truck.  I made those extra pieces for a cake for the child that cannot eat anything that contains eggs. I think that all in all it looks cute and clean.  

Special Delivery Baby Shower Cake

When this client approached me to make her baby shower cake I immediately got excited.  I totally enjoy making sweets for her special events because she has the most exquisite taste and knows exactly what she wants. I've had the privilege of making several things for her, Little Monster dessert table elements for her son's first birthday, her son's second birthday, Monkey Cake and Goodies, and now this super exciting theme, Special Delivery.

The bottom cake was vanilla bean with chocolate cream filling and the top cake was dark chocolate fudge cake with vanilla buttercream frosting.  Both cakes were covered in buttercream, then covered in MMF (marshmallow fondant) that was tinted to resemble packing paper.  The words "Fragile" and "Delivery" were done with a stencil and food coloring and the rest I wrote with my own handwriting. The cookies are butter sugar cookies decorated with vanilla flavored MMF and decorated with rubber stamps that were dabbed in food coloring (not an easy task) and the border of each cookie was hand painted using a brush with blue and red food coloring.

I was so happy to read what the client texted me:

"Thank you so much Leelee! Everything is beautiful like always and better than I expected!..."

Whimsical Princess Castle

This cake was for a recurring client of mine.  She wanted something special for her little princess' birthday.  She sent me a picture of a cake and asked me if I could make it for her.  I think I came really close to what she wanted.  She was very pleased when she picked it up.  the flavor was almond vanilla.

Toy Story Jesse

A small cake inspired by the Jesse character from Toy Story.  Cake is marble with vanilla bean buttercream frosting.  All elements are edible. I also made butter cookies in the shape of the hat and stars.

Thank you for looking!

Colorful Fish Cookies

For a little girl's birthday celebrated at the Miami Seaquarium.  Vanilla butter cookies.

Monkey Cake and Goodies

Well, before I start telling you about the cake stuff, I just  wanted to share that I had a really hard week. There were things that simply pulled me in every direction.  It truly was an emotionally exhausting week for me.  The stress wasn't about cakes and cookies, but everything else; work, time, emotions, people, sleeplessness, and health.  The only thing I could do which should have been the first was crying out to God to help me with the madness and mayhem, and He did. All this to say that the only thing besides depending on God to grant me peace and serenity was actually looking forward to baking and decorating for this client.  Decorating the banana cookies and the monkey cookie faces were truly therapeutic, but even more so was making the monkey pops. It may not seem so, but each and every single pop had several steps and components that kept my mind occupied for several hours.  Oh how I love to do this!  I thank God for this creative outlet that not only blesses me in many ways, but it also blesses the lives of others.

Ok, now to what this blog is truly about, edible art!  To me it is such a delight to work for clients that know what they want.  Last year I had the pleasure of making this client son's Little Monster 1st birthday cake and goodies. Now he was turning two and although she was doing something small in comparison to the previous year, she still wanted nice looking elements and a specific cake design to make her little boy's day special, and I was happy to oblige. She sent me pictures of what she wanted and a cake that if I'm not mistaken is a  Martha Stewart design that I replicated. The cake was Chocolate with banana cream filling, frosted in milk chocolate buttercream. Cookies were vanilla flavor.  The cake pops were brownie with chocolate fudge cream and covered in milk chocolate.

How she set up the table.  Love the simplicity and colors!

Happy chocolate and banana cream Monkey cake

Vanilla flavor banana sugar cookies

Adorable monkey sugar cookies that were given as party favors

Brownie Monkey cake pops

Thank you for looking!!!!

Easter Cake

I can actually say that I am blessed beyond measure because God has placed me and my family in a church that really gets it!  On a monthly basis we have a meeting which is called "staff worship" and that is what it is,  all of the CF staff from all 6 campuses coming together to worship our Lord and to be reminded of who we serve, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It's about understanding that we all have a mission which is to reach the lost no matter where they are. It's not about council meetings and hours and hours trying to reinvent the wheel. It's as simple as doing what the gospel tells us to do and do it with a sense of urgency.  It's about reaching our community not as Christ Fellowship, the church, but as the body, as Christians being obedient of the Great Commission which is to go outside of our walls and boldly preach the gospel to everyone everywhere.
I made this cake for today meeting.  It was a sheet cake measuring 18x24 and could feed 100 people.  The flavor was vanilla with vanilla bean buttercream.

Festive Birthday Cake

I made this cake for my church, Christ Fellowship - West Kendall Campus.  We also made a whole lot of cake pops to celebrate CFWK 4th year of existence at that campus!   The topper of the cake is Christ Fellowship's Logo.  I absolutely love my church for many reasons, one of the many reasons is that it is a church that is volunteer driven and it's all about reaching the community's spiritual need by meeting it's physical and emotional need without a lot of frills, just hardcore serving. In the time that I have been attending I have seen how God has blessed this church in a powerful way.   I am so thankful to God for placing our family at CF at the moment that He did.

Bird Silhouette Baby Shower cake

This shower cake was inspired by the  invitation.  The colors were light pink, fuchsia and lime green.  I also make cupcakes to go with the theme. Flavor of cake and half of the cupcakes was pina colada and the other half of cupcakes was almond.

Winnie the Pooh Cake

I absolutely love Winnie the Pooh! I think he is the most adorable teddy bear ever, so sweet and innocent. O was asked by this client to make a Pooh shower cake, so I colored fondant in the golden yellow and looked at an old Winnie the Pooh coloring book to give me an idea on how he should look, especially his face.  I truly was happy with the way he turned out.  He is all edible as well as his honey pot.  The tree is a tube covered in fondant that I painted with brown food coloring diluted with vodka to give that uneven bark finish.  The sunflowers (my all time favorite flower) were made out of gumpaste.  I really love how this cake turned out. It is again, Leelee's vanilla specialty cake with dulce de leche filling. Thanks for looking.

Hello Kity Face Cake

I made this very simple cake for our nieces 3rd Birthday.  She loves Hello Kitty.  The flavor was Leelee's Vanilla specialty cake with dulce de leche filling. Gigi loved her cake

Barbie Sihouette Oreos and Cupcakes

A client called me to see if I could make Oreo cookies covered in chocolate for her daughter's birthday.  She also asked if I could do cupcakes to match her theme.  I didn't make the cake for this event.  I loved how girly the cupcakes turned out.  I cut each silhouette out of gumpaste with an exacto knife.  What a task that was.

Owl Birthday Cake

I just absolutely loved working on this "oh so girly" owl cake and cupcakes.  I was contacted by a client that I had made a cake for a couple of months back. She sent me a picture of the plate and asked me to make a cake and cupcakes for her daughter;s party.  I think the cake owl came out almost identical as the picture. I like sculpting cakes more than anything, so every chance I get to something like this I take it.  I made the owls for the cupcakes out of gumpaste.  The day I made these it was like therapy for me because I was so darn stressed that it really calmed me down. lol!  The flavor of the cake is Leelee's Vanilla specialty cake with dulce de leche filling. Thanks for looking.