Happy Birthday Mia!

Here are some cake pops I made this weekend for a little girl named Mia. She was turning 8 years old and wanted some "Tiffany blue" and white cake pops. Here's how they turned out...! (I also made a few mini cupcakes and other cake pops for some friends I was seeing this weekend) 

I found a way to use some of my new "Tiffany blue" stands.. hehe
In the picture..
Top tier: Mini vanilla bean cupcakes topped with purple fondant flowers
Bottom tier: white and "tiffany blue" flat bottomed cake pops with shimmering silver sanding sugar

Mini vanilla bean cupcakes topped with purple and white fondant flowers

White and "tiffany blue" flat bottomed cake pops with shimmering silver sanding sugar

"Tiffany blue" flat bottomed cake pops
Left: covered in sanding sugar
Right: topped with white nonpareils

Pastel green cake pops topped with white nonpareils

I Promise, I'm Still Here!!

Wow, I haven't updated this blog in forever! I should warn you all that this post will be super long aka I'll be posting at least over 30 pictures (yikes!).. Hopefully this post will recap everything I've done since my last post for those of you who do not follow me on my other social media accounts! Otherwise, if you have been following me on Instagram or Facebook..thank you! I will be reposting my pictures so no need to read this post! :) As for everyone else..here we go...........!

I'll start with the most recent things I've done and go down from there...

Today:

Okay, this isn't one of my "Kreations," buuuuut aren't they adorable?! I'm dying for someone to throw a "Tiffany's" theme party! You'll see later in this post that I now have quite a collection of stands... oops.. but hey! These, along with my other stands are available for rent if you need something to spice up your desserts for whatever occasion you may be throwing! :) Email me at KaressKreations@yahoo.com for more info.

Saturday, August 31:

A woman named Jennifer contacted me a little while ago for some cupcakes and cake pops for her daughter's 1st birthday and here they are altogether! P.S. see that silver 3 tiered stand? It's one of the stands in my collection...heh ;)

Cupcakes adorned with fondant pink crowns, white sugar pearls, and pink nonpareils! 

Pink flat bottomed cake pops with white and pink nonpareils!

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Sunday, August 25:

One of my friends and dear neighbor's birthday was on August 26th. However, I knew that I would be busy that day, given that it would be my first day back in school. Since I wouldn't be able to take her out, I decided that I'd make her a fruit tart (she had been telling me that she had been craving for one) a day early. I'm actually quite proud of myself for how it came out! This tart is definitely a lot prettier than the one I made back in 2012 for Mother's Day... P.S this silver stand that the tart is sitting on is another stand I recently got hehe. I also have another exactly like it but bigger. You could stack both on each other and put cupcakes all over them! 

Friday, August 23

These are what I'd like to call "Sparkly blue cake pops!" My cousin's girlfriend wanted to give some treats to some of her co-workers so I made a few cake pops for her to take to them. I also made cupcakes, but failed to take any pictures of them :|

 Thursday, August 22

This is a cake I made for my Grandma's birthday! I really wanted to make a tiered cake that wasn't covered in fondant so I thought it'd be nice to make her one for her birthday. I also knew that she liked the color purple so I incorporated some purple flowers I had. Overall she liked it! The idea of me going into culinary arts hasn't always been the greatest to her so I'm hoping that it's getting a bit better now that she's seen that I could make a cake like this for her...? She supposedly wants me to help her with a charity event sometime in September. As of now, I barely know any details so I guess we'll all just have to wait and see what happens! P.S here is yet ANOTHER stand that I recently got! I'm telling you.. I have gotten SO many stands over the last two months.. it's pretty ridiculous..but I love them! Do you see my struggle!?

Wednesday, August 21

For some odd reason, I was REALLY craving for those "Lofthouse" cookies that you find in grocery stores. I had always seen recipes for them but had never tried. Now that I have baked for awhile, I thought, "why not try now?!" I ended up baking two batches. They were actually pretty good (considering I didn't listen to the ingredients and directions in the recipes I found)! Want these cookies for a dessert table or special occasion? Contact me for the minimums and pricing! 

Saturday, August 17

This has nothing to do with me and my baking, but since I am beginning to meet some of you, I thought I'd post this picture. Some of you have seen my NTV feature and/or any personal pictures of myself on this blog and probably can tell that my hair has DRASTICALLY changed...  Basically, I've been wanting to donate my hair since I was in 2nd grade. Although, I was never willing to let go of having long hair. In July, I began to realize that I really needed to just gain some courage and to donate my hair. I won't lie, I looked around for the charity that asked for the least amount of hair. I found a place that was willing to take 8 inches. Any who, when I got my hair cut the hairdresser actually ended up cutting a lot more than I bargained for... Instead of cutting 8 inches, she cut 16.5 inches.... It is now September and my hair is basically at the same length. I'm slowly adjusting to this hair length.. :|
Oh, and if you haven't seen her in any of my previous posts, that dog in the picture is, Oreo.. aka the love of my life! She is 17 years old (human years) meaning that she's quite old in dog years.. We've both grown up a lot together and as I've gotten older, I've tried to let her experience and travel to various places. I realized I had never taken her hiking! I knew at this age, it miiiiight have not been the best idea but I just wanted her to see what it'd be like. I also wanted to take her to see my sister's place in LA. Not sure how much she loves LA anymore after this trip.. My sister lives decently enough that we could walk to the hiking trail so that's what we did! On the way there, Oreo was already dying, but we were sooo close to getting there! I was willing to do whatever it would take to get her to go on the hike - even if it meant that I would have to carry her for over 5 miles (which is what ended up happening hahah)! So hopefully this explains why she looks the way she looks in those pictures... I guess she could also look, "happy" to some, but really she was just dying of thirst (for some reason she refused to drink the bottled water we brought.. she's a very sassy girl!) and heat. I can't blame her! 

 Monday, August 12

 These were made mainly because I was bored and I'm always looking for a way to "perfect" cake pops. Some people have told me that my cake pops are pretty smooth and look fine, although, what some people don't know is that I actually am not one of those people who add shortening to "thin" out of candy coatings. In fact, you will not be able to find any tubs/blocks/etc of shortening in my house! My mom would kill me even if I bought the littlest amount! I strictly do my best to try and buy higher quality products so that you get a smoother and shortening free cake pop!

Saturday, August 10

A classmate from high school asked me to make cupcakes for her cousin's wedding after trying one of mine from the Dance Show I did back in June. 

Hasn't it been awhile since I last talked about any of my stands?! :P As you can probably tell, this is another stand I just purchased! I like that you could either display cupcakes or just a smaller cake on the very top

Saturday, August 3

I made this cake for my sister due to the fact that she LOVES watermelons! She always makes sure to steal any watermelons we have whenever she come home from LA! 

Wednesday, July 31

Sooo national cheesecake day was on July 30th but I failed to complete this until VERY EARLY July 31st. Sad.. :( but still tasted good!!

Friday, July 26

Cupcakes I made for a girl who wanted to surprise her mom. 

Saturday, July 20

A purple ombre ruffled cake I made for Dorian, my sister's friend!

Seashell and pearl cupcakes I made for a little girl's birthday!

Sunday, July 14

Cupcakes I made for my friend, Tiffany. She and her family wanted to bring some cupcakes in honor of her grandma's birthday. Tiffany had told me that her mom loved my flower cupcake designs but also wanted some cupcakes with minimal fondant which is why I made the cupcakes below. 

The design for this also came about due to the fact that Tiffany's grandma loves all things under water related.

Wednesday, July 10

Lisa, who had previously ordered cupcakes and cake pops for her daughter's graduation party emailed me about making beach themed cupcakes. I originally thought that the reason that she would want these kind of cupcakes was maybe they were throwing a bonfire for her birthday? Or maybe she just simply loves the beach! I later found out that the reason why Lisa wanted me to make beach themed cupcakes was because her daughter and a few friends had gone to a hotel near the beach to stay for the night. It also turns out that these cupcakes were a surprise and Rachel (Lisa's daughter) had no idea that she would be getting these! 

Rachel with her cupcake! 

I always love hearing feedback like this. Makes my day! :)

Sunday, July 7

Cream puffs are something I just always seem to crave if I'm craving for a specific dessert. Don't know why, but I love em!

MMMMM CREAM....CREAM PUFFS 

Saturday, July 6

Cake pops for a bridal shower! 

Thursday, July 4

Now and then people always want some old fashioned buttercream roses. However, I would not say that those are one of my specialties.. I mean these look alright but I think there is always room for improvement. Also, it's a good thing that these cupcakes were strictly made for just my family (I like to experiment different techniques and recipes with them.. :P)! If I were to have messed up, I wouldn't even have to worry one single bit!

Ya! Red, white, and blue!

Saturday, June 29

A girl in my neighborhood was having a little get together with some friends for her birthday. She really loved the idea of having "Tiffany blue" colored cake pops and cupcakes (see below) so these are what I made!

Too bad I didn't have those stands that I just got today, huh? :(

Wednesday, June 26

My younger cousin has been baking for fun for quite some time now. She doesn't go to the extent that I go to (she bakes from box vs. me baking from scratch) but wanted to come over to learn whatever she could from me (I'm no expert! In fact, I am currently in school to learn more about the art!) We made: cake pops, macarons, and cakes. The cakes she ended up decorating them all, but I did not take any pictures of it...

Macarons!

AND THAT'S IT!!!! I applaud anyone who has just gone through and read this entire post! Hopefully I won't have to make another post this long but I cannot make any promises. To stay updated I would advise that you check out my Instagram and/or Facebook! Please email me at KaressKreations@yahoo.com if you would like to rent out any of my stands. There are tons more that I have that were not mentioned in this particular post, so email me for more details. Talk to you all soon!

Graduation Party, Garden Tea Party, Family Visiting, and Updates

Warning: This post will be a pretty lengthy post. There's been a few orders I've had since my last post. I've also got some new pictures and videos of things I have done in the past.

Last Friday, June 21:

I was contacted by a woman to make cake pops and mini cupcakes for her daughter's graduation party. She had found me after purchasing a few cake pops and cupcakes from the dance show I did last month. Here's what I made for the party!

SMU (Southern Methodist University) mini cupcakes. Congratulations Rachel!

Graduation cap and diploma cake pops

Northwood high school graduation cap and diploma cake pops

This past Monday, June 24:

I was contacted by another woman to make desserts for a green and white themed garden tea party. Interestingly enough, this woman had found me after winning a gift certificate for cupcakes from a fashion show I did last month as well. Initially, she called me wanting cupcakes, but later added a cake and scones as well. Below are the desserts I completed for her...

White and green flower cupcakes for the garden tea party.

A buttercream green and white cake for the garden tea party. This is probably my best buttercream covered cakes I've done so far (I don't make too many - I typically make more fondant covered cakes).

Vanilla scones (she requested they be circled).

June 16-June 24 (I didn't know where I should place this):

My older cousin named, John came to visit California from Kentucky with one of his daughters, Kairi. This was the first time that anyone in my family (most of us live in California) had seen Kairi. During his trip, he took his daughter to my house to go swimming. I thought it could be fun for her to decorate some cupcakes after a day of swimming. This is how it went...

Hopefully my cousin and his family will find a way to move out to California so I can have more cupcake decorating parties with Kairi and her little sister, Lily!

Now for the updates...

I recently got emailed some pictures of the dessert table I did for Jennifer a couple of weeks ago. My oh my, are these pictures beautiful!! They were taken by two photographers she had at the party. Okay, I should just stop talking and just post these pictures! (You guys will die at how beautiful they are... especially compared to the ones I took with my phone hahah)

*Daytime pictures were taken by Khoi Nguyen from 2K Vision. Nighttime pictures were taken by Kimberly Pham.

This was awhile ago but for anyone who wanted to see my NTV feature but could not view it from Facebook, the YouTube video can be seen below: (sorry in advance for my awkwardness on camera..)