To Em's Surprise!

When I checked on my calendar, I have a reminder there that it's Ate (big sister) Em's Birthday. That was days before May 1. I already told myself that I will make her a birthday cake. Ate Em is my manicurista. A manicurista in Filipino is someone who does your nails. All the nail cleaning, putting on colors on your nails to make it beautiful to look at. That stuff. If you have a trusted manicurista, you don't have to go to beauty parlors anymore. You just ask them to come to your house and do your nails.

So anyway, I wanted to make a cake that looks like a nail polish. Unfortunately, it didn't look like one. They can never guess what the cake was when I asked them what it looked like. I should have made the top round cake bigger. She loved chocolate so the cake was Chocolate Devil's Food Cake with minty buttercream filling & dark chocolate buttercream frosting. It was just a simple cake.

On her birthday, I greet her through text and asked her to come by my house to do my nails at 4pm. So she did. I gave her the cake & the surprise look on her face was enough to make me happy. She was brought to tears just for a few seconds before she came to her senses and wiped her tears away. I was so happy. I didn't think I could make someone that happy ever again in my whole life.

Thank God for everything! =)

First Wedding Cake

Last week, I had my first try on a wedding cake. The experience was very frustrating, tiring, & pressuring moment of my life that it brought me to tears, but it turned out great in the end.

Actually, it was my 2nd try to make rolled fondant from scratch. I had to make a 4-tier wedding cake + 2 more small cakes to put the stairs on for support. I didn't sleep at all until the next day for the wedding day. It's a good thing that the reception was near because it was easy for me to deliver the wedding cake. My partner was very patient when I had bad moments while making the cake. We had about 4, 5 or 6 cakes that weren't good enough so we gave it to our neighbors, who in turn, loved the free stuff. He-he! I had some help from my partner's younger brother & wife. (Thanks a lot!)

The cake wasn't at all perfect but I gotta admit, it was beautiful! There were bumps on the cake but probably because I had too much icing on the cake before I put on the fondant, or the fondant was not too thick when I put it on the cake, or maybe both. Whatevz. (Yeah, I'll be more careful next time!) After a few hours, the bumps weren't so noticeable anymore. There were little tearing on the fondant, too. It's a good thing that butterflies were the accents of the cake so it was easy to cover them with it. I didn't get to see how the cake was "sabotaged" because I slept for the rest of the day after we assembled the cake, but everyone kept on telling me that there were a lot of them who took second helpings, even bigger portions of the cake.

More cake details here.

Who Am I by Casting Crowns

I was supposed to blog something about the cake I made, but I bumped into one of my friend's blogs and found her post about the song.

I clicked on the link, and I listened to the song which touched me very much and made me teary-eyed again. I still remember my personal experience with God's love and I believe this song fully explains how grateful I am to Jesus up until today.

Just click on this link here site. To downloand, click here.

Check on the video below!