Tom and Jerry Cake 6/4/10

Tom and Jerry was one of my all time fave cartoon show growing up. So I was really excited when my best friend asked me to make the cake for her daughter. At first I was like, heck no! Are you crazy? I've never made anything so complicated ever. She then kept bothering me about it and kept telling me that I can do it. So I said, what the heck! I will try it just for fun.

The idea first came when we were checking out birthday cakes and I asked her what Brizzy wanted for her birthday cake. Then she said Tom and Jerry. So I googled Tom and Jerry and the picture below was the original cake we saw. It was from the book "Cartoon Cakes By; Debbie Brown"
The cake I made was a sponge cake 'coz it holds better when molding. Tom's head is cake and so is the mallet. Jerry is made of fondant and everything else. This was a time consuming cake but it's worth it at the end. Brizzy loved her cake and that made me happy.

The head is all cake and covered with MMF (Marhsmallow fondant)

The mallet is also cake and covered with fondant.

I know, I know! Jerry doesn't even look like him but that was the best I could do.

The birthday girl is a bit shy and I actually had to force her to get a picture with the cake, LOL! Sorry Brizzy :-)

Happy Birthday!

I'm a Barbie Girl 6/1/10

Little girls love dolls, specially Barbie Dolls. I for one, when I was a kid, was never into playing dolls. I was more like a tree climbing, crazy running, chasing kids, playing in the mud, cooking in clay pots, jumping the chinese garter, patentero, dr. wakwak & hide and seek kind of girl. I'm pretty sure I did more but I can't seem to remember what those games were called.

Anyway I got excited when my cousin asked me to make her a cake for her daughter's birthday. She loves pinks and purple and all girlie stuff. I couldn't wait to make the cake. This would be my very first time making this kind of cake.

There is a cake under that doll, LOL! It's vanilla cake with buttercream and covered in MMF.

The belt is just a regular ribbon.

The back supposed to be a wavy look of white fondant, but I ran out of the white MMF and there was a large gap in back showing the cake. So I covered it with the flowers I made. Good thing I had enough and covered the whole back with it.

It actually looked pretty good, and it looked like it belongs there.

The birthday girl lover her cake and she didn't want to slice into it. Good thing they had cupcakes or there would have been no dessert for anyone, LOL!

Everybody was Kung Fu fighting - Kung Fu panda Cake 5/25/10

Kung Fu panda was the choice of cake for my little one for his birthday. So Kung Fu panda it is :-)

The cake is chocolate with choco mocha frosting. The rods in the back are pretzel rods and I just dipped them in green chocolate wafers. I just used a toy figure from Burger king and some colored buttercream.

Everyone loved it and was so soft and moist.

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Spongebob Squarepants!

A friend asked me to make this cake for her 2 kids for their birthday. The only problem is I haven't really made a spongebob cake that actually looked good, LOL! This would be the second time making this cake. The first one was not too good, no arms or legs and I just covered it with fondant and painted the color on top.

Hubby helped me with the lower part of spongebob. This took me a while to make but It turned out awesome.

Happy Birthday to Gian and Gabe :-)


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P-p-p-poker cake, P-p-p-poker cake 5/7/10

This cake was a request cake from a friend. She wanted to surprise her husband and I was happy that he liked it :-) I guess he plays poker with his friends and so comes the poker cake.
I've never made one before so this was my very first poker cake.



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