Aleina Sofia Turns One

Dora Themed Chocolate Cupcakes

Its my first time to make 2D toppers out of fondant. Using a regular knife, I cut out dora's hair and face. For Dora's skin I combined three colors to make a tan colored fondant. The difficult part I guess was painting the brows and the lashes. I had no fine tip brush so I just made use of a regular tip brush. The Dora topper took me like an hour to make and another half an hour spent on kneading the fondant alone. The number "1" topper was the easiest to make since I had a cookie cutter. I also made a spiraled embossed fondant as a base.

The birthday celebrant with her proud parents.

Oreo Goodness and the Girl in Pink

Sharing my own version of oreo cupcakes.

My first try in fondant molding. I had difficulty in adding the face details. Lesson learn: make sure not to stain your hands with food coloring. I accidentally stained the left cheek of the girl ^-^

A Baby Shower Party

Happy to share pics of the baby shower party of a close friend that I helped organized.

I commissioned a novice artist to make a caricature of the new parents with the barkada. We only met once and then communicated the details via email. I was a bit disappointed with the output because not of the details I wanted were followed. But then, I should have talked to him face-to-face. Anyway, what's important is that my friends and specially the couple really love the outcome.

For the party decor, my good friend, Ron made cut-outs of baby onesies using colored papers and strung with a regular yarn I had sitting at home.

I made a diaper cake for the first time in an hour with the help of instructional videos. For the finishing touch, I used a pink nursing bib to cover the whole cake and pink ribbons to add the "cuteness" factor hehehe.

For the food, we ordered everything from Ambers Restaurant. As for the dessert, I set-up a chocolate fountain with fruit and non-fruit dips. Finally, I made chocolate and vanilla cupcakes with pink and white frosting.