Jaxton's 100th Day Circus Cake

We've had so much fun designing and making Jaxton's Circus theme birthday cake this past weekend.

We've done many different circus theme cakes before.

We decided to bring the circus cake design up a few notches by adding a few fabulous touches. Personalized birthday banner which I LUVED doing with matching circus poles cascading down the cake. Don't you just love the fondant 2 tone swirl  on the poles are so smooth. 

Its always the little details that get me really excited:)  Don't get me wrong, Baby Jaxton is pretty cute but I mean that lil personalized banner is just DELICIOUS....literally its edible too......Eeeeek can't stand it  even Jaxton's lil ducky  got so excited he couldn't sit up.

Jaxton's birthday banner with the tri color border.

 We even made Jaxton's matching 100 day candle.

 

Mr. Lion

 

Tah-Dah

 

The birthday party was celebrated at the beautiful Ritz Carlton and every guest received an Elephant and Lion Lollipop cookie. 

Gotta See this cake in 3D Enjoy the video. If you wanna know what I used to make the banner I share it on the video too:)

Will You Marry Me?

We've had the joy of being apart of many engagements. I often get asked what my most memorable cakes are and I think it is when we are asked to do Engagement cakes. It is such an honor and so much fun to be apart of the surprise. It's like the highlight of our week, everyone is talking about it and we all get excited when the future fiance picks up the cake or we make a special delivery. 

Our first engagement cake for 2013 really started off our year with a bang.

The special boyfriend designed a set of very sentimental cupcakes. Every detail had a special meaning to him and his princess bride. 

 When he came to pick up his cupcakes he even took a picture of us giving him his precious surprise.

 

Whatever happened after that I'm sure was magical because our new Deelite couple emailed us this beautiful photo collage. LUV!!! How thoughtful is this photo collage.

And a sweet message from the couple:

"Thanks for making such nice cupcakes for my proposal.

On that night, everything was perfect and she was very surprised to have a such memorable cupcakes.

Anyway thanks for helping me to make these cupcake for her...." JT

 

 How could Princess Bride not say....

  Congratulations to our New Deelite Prince & Princess Bride. We wish you a beautiful season of engagement and an even more magical Wedding:!!!

Wishing you all a Deeliteful Holiday Season!

Hi hi Everyone:)

Its been almost a month since my last post and I apologize.  December has  zipped by so quickly with so many events and celebrations.

Lets pick up from the fabulous International Baking Expo. The entire event was a HUGE hit. Our booth and workshops received an overwhelming response and we could not believe the excitment we received. 

David &Edward (UK), Edward Frys (US), Mercedes Strawchsky (US) and I had an amazing time working together as well. 

All of our cakes and classes were the highlight of the event and it was an honor for us to showcase our cakes of art:)

It took 3-4 months of prep for us to prepare for the Expo. As it was the first ever cake Expo in Hong Kong,  we wanted it to be a really special one. Not only did we have to plan for our own booth, cakes, products, etc. We also proposed an out of the box  idea to the Expo organizers. We wanted to offer workshops taught by guest artists and I. The idea was well received and we did months and months of planning.

The week before the Expo was the craziest as everyone was arriving at the same time:  (David, Edward Frys, Mercedes, Jeff Muphy from Wilton, Kevin O'Reiley from Satin Ice & Mark from Kimmie Candy.) All of the guest cake artists including myself were working around the clock to get our cakes done, our class ingredients and tools prepared. Oh and we were all working in our cake studio so it was really really one big party:) Annnnnnd I had to make sure everything for my special dessert table was ready too.

Here I am applying some final details to 1 out of my 12 cake creations.

 David's Santa quickly drying with the fans

 Happy Feet:)

 Night before the Expo opening we all stayed up really late preparing our booth.

 unpacking boxes and cakes

 Stuff just kept arriving  and it seemed like an endless supply of boxes

 By the time I got to my dessert table, at around 10pm I was like there is no way I'll be able to set everything up by the next morning 9 am. My backdrop accidently got left  behind:( and we had to wait for them to put it up in the morning before I could start displaying. I felt like we were on an episode of project runway.

MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!!!

Here I am the the opening day of Expo at 8am ready to unpack and get cracking on our cake displays.

 

One Big box at a time and one touch up at a time we managed to get it all done in 1 hour 1/2

 Here David and I are SOOOOOOOOOOO happy to see everything looking BEAUTIFUL

 

Mercedes, Kevin and I ready to rock and roll:)

Luv all the product displays

As soon as the doors opened we had crowds of people Ooooing and Ahhhing with their cameras:)

 I was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy to see it all come together.

And our Rainbow dessert table was a HUGE HIT!!!

We had demos throughout the Expo. Check out David and Edward in action. 

All of our Workshops were full. We were so sorry to have to turn down many interested people.   

Here I am teaching my Mini Handbag Class

 Edward and I taking a breaky

 The enquiries for Wilton Classes also received overwhelming raves. All of our instructors were busy meeting up with interested students. I was so proud of our Wilton instructors and the cakes they made for the show. They were beautiful:)

  Jeff Murphy (Wilton) & Sharon our Chinese Wilton Instructor

 Jeff Murphy (Wilton) & Winnie

 By Day 2 we got smart and had to ask the Expo to give us red ropes to prevent any dramatic cake accidents from the crowns.

 

3 Days went by so quickly but it was an eternity of many experiences and many stories to share:)

I miss "the Gang":) It was wonderful spending early December with the Deelite Crew, Edward Frys, Mercedes & David. I couldn't have asked for a better Christmas present. 

A Merry Be-lated Christmas to all of you. And a Happy New Year!

I can't wait to see what 2013 has in store for all of us. 

Count down to the International Bake Expo

Do you ever wish you could be an Octopus??? I wish I could  be a pretty pink Octopus with 8 arms to do more cakes:)

I can't believe the Expo is 3 days away and we have been very busy designing and finishing up the details of all of our display cakes.

All of our guest artists are arriving and they too will be completing their beautiful works of art too. Edward Frys has just arrived last night

  David MacCarfrae is arriving today. Be will be making a lifesize giant Santa cake.

 and Mercedes Strachwsky arriving on Tuesday. Our decorating studio will be a big decorating party.

I also had the joy of doing 2  press productions this week. One with TVB which will be televised next week

 

and another with Tsing Tao newspaper which will be out Monday (tomorrow)

 And if you have been commuting through the MTR, I'm sure you have seen our Deelited faces on the Bake Expo posters. Hope we've put a smile on your faces during your commute:)

Our Workshops at the Expo have received an amazing response. I am really looking forward to meeting all of my students. 

 And if I were a pretty pink Octopus I would have been able to finish 8 of these mini bags:)