Birthday Cakes

Little Kenji's first birthday with Winnie the Pooh themed.

He is turning 2 soon, but this year I'm not going to make the cake. 

This was before I even started learning about cakes in school! 

Drunken bumble bee

 Pooh, Tigger, and Piglet

 My birthday cake!

No, it's just an origami cake.

 Figurine, made with modeling chocolate, for my real birthday. Seungri from Big Bang!

 Ah!! Daesungie-oppa!!! My sister was playing with it and accidentally broke the head off.

 And replaced him next to G-Dragon-oppa like that...

 Cake for one of my mom's co-worker. Spiderman and the web was made with royal icing.

Another cake of my mom's co-worker.

Plated Dessert

Plated dessert final on Bavarois with orange and chocolate sauce garnished with orange tuiles, pulled sugar, and chocolate decor.

Chef was not so happy about this one. I just went a little over board with the music theme... Ok maybe a lot. Food needs to talk for itself. Less is more. I need to go simple.

  Bunny Mochi with Red Bean Sauce and Iced Green Tea Latte

Mochi filled with candied rice krispies.

This was the final for my special needs class. The candied rice krispies made it crunchy, which was a little creepy.

Green Tea Longan Danish

Green Tea Longan Danish for my creative viennoiserie assignment in breakfast pastry class. It was filled with a green tea pastry cream and Longan filling and glazed with a longan glaze.

Macarons filled with Raspberry White Chocolate Ganache

Had just learnt to make macarons the day before and make it twice that day. Then the next day pop practicum on macarons and eclairs. 12 each in 2 1/2 hours. 

Final Practicum. I had 3 days to make 12 each of macarons, eclairs, bouchee, merginue tartlets, and sablee cookies. I had some much time so why spend the extra time on garnishing. I didn't think it was a big deal since they gave us so much time, but Chef was so excited when she saw it. Then I noticed everyone just went with dusting with the raspberry powder. I love macarons. They are fun to garnish, but there needs to be a better way to making them...

Mother's Day

Late Mother's day post. It's a chocolate cake with creme anglaise buttercream covered with fondant. Since we wanted everyone to take part in the making of this cake, we used stencils to make the decoration pieces. To the four mothers in my family! Linda, Laura, Lisa, and Jenny!

Orange Chiffon

Orange chiffon with a French buttercream filling and covered with orange flat icing.

Fondant Cake and Bad Luck

Round cake covered with white fondant. Did not finish at school, so had to take it home as homework.

The luck I have. I made it to school on an one hour bus ride to school, but didn't make the two minute walk to class. Fail.

Happy Anniversary cake

Happy anniversary cake coated with an Italian buttercream and decorated with roses a

Side with swiss dots and pearl border

Best Wishes cake

Best wishes cake decorated with roses and pansies. Sides with a basket weave and pearl border.

Piping Flowers

White roses, pansies, and daisies.

White roses made with a #104 tip.

Purple pansies made with a #101 tip.

White daisies made with a #104 tip.

First Days of Cake Decorating

8 in. round cake coated with simple buttercream, decorated with a shell border and swags. 

8 in. round cake coated with simple buttercream, decorated with a pearl border and swags.

I need a lot more practice on the swags. They were not tight enough and uneven.