Skylander and a USC Short Film

A little less than a week and a half ago I was asked to make cupcakes for two different occasions...

1) Skylander themed cupcakes for a birthday. When I first got the email about making Skylander cupcakes, I could honestly say that I had never heard of it or had known that it was a popular game. I now know a liiiiittle bit about Skylander, but that's basically me saying I know what their symbols look like.. A big fear of mine was that I might have ruined/messed up the symbols but Jamie (the woman who ordered them), emailed me a couple of days after thanking me and saying that all the boys at the birthday party were able to recognize the symbols. Phew! 

My take on "Skylander" cupcakes! I tried as best as I could do remake the symbols onto fondant!

Thanks again for the email, Jamie! It was really thoughtful of you to take out your time to let me know that the cupcakes went over well! :)

2) Cupcakes for a USC short film called, "The Party Dress"
I was emailed the same week to make cupcakes for a USC short film called, "The Party Dress." I still don't know much about it, so I can't say much. However, I was told to make cupcakes that said "Party Dress" and to have three cupcakes with dresses so here's my take on them!

AHHHHHHHH

It's been a year since I started cake/cupcake decorating! :D Time flies! For those who are curious, this was the first cake I decorated with fondant... I don't normally document myself making the cakes/cupcakes I make but I did this just in case the cake didn't work at all. Hahaha. Basically this is the cake that started it all! I don't know if I'd be baking as much as I do today if I had never made this cake, and I'd have to thank my friend Tiffany for that! Speaking of her, I recently made her another cake (for her 18th birthday) ! That will be posted shortly, as well as late St. Patricks Day cupcakes ;)

Oh My..

I'm terrible. I have yet again forgotten to post, posts that should have been posted awhile ago.. (...wait, did that even make sense? hahaha) Anyways,  what I forgot to post awhile ago was that I made an Angry Birds cake for my little cousin for his birthday ( February 29/Leap Day ;) )! Another than that cake, I also made my friend Tori, and rainbowed layered cake with some musical cut outs. It's been a tradition of mine to always have some sort of rainbowed layers in whatever I make her. It's only been the second year since I've done it, but then again, I also haven't been baking (..intensely?) for that long. In fact, it'll be exactly a year since I started decorating/baking/using fondant intensely on March 24th!! That's so soon! Ah, crazy!!!!

Angry Birds Cake.

 My cousin, Brandon with his cake.

 The cupcakes I made for Tori last year

The cake I made for her this year. 

Not the best cake I made but I tried! 

Em Bish

Little fun fact that I failed to mention for awhile is that I'm finally taking classes for baking! I actually started the class in January.. Overall it's a really fun class! The class is every Tuesday and Thursday from 2-7 pm. It sucks that it's quite a drive for me, but I guess you just gotta do what you gotta do! Lately though, it has been somewhat overwhelming depending on what I have to do during the week. For example, this week was my friend, Emily Bishop's birthday. Her birthday happened to fall on a Wednesday which meant that if I wanted to bake something for her, that I would have to bake on Tuesday night which also meant I wouldn't have the whole day to whip something up. I knew that I would bake for her no matter what.

Emily and I first met each other in 8th grade. We had both P.E and science together. Those were good times. Those were also the days that none of us could drive and would have to walk everywhere or rely on parents to drive us to places. Which brings me to why I thought of making the cake that I made for her. The cake I made her was supposed to replicate a bag of popcorn (like the ones you see in movie theaters). I decided to make this because she absolutely LOVES popcorn. I don't think there's ever been a time that I've been to her house where she didn't have popcorn stocked in her pantry. Now that I think of it, she's also typically always ate or popped popcorn whenever we were at her house!