The Caking Girl

Making GARFIELD & FRIENDS CUPCAKES!

2012-02-24T22:10:00.000-08:00

Hey guys!

Here's my second TIME LAPSE cake video!

I recorded myself making GARFIELD AND FRIENDS cupcakes! I had a lot of fun doing this, I had originally wanted to make this a tutorial video so you'll see me showing the cupcake right at the lens are several occasions.

The Garfield and Friends cupcake was a lot of fun to make, he was one of my favourite comics as a kid, so glad someone ordered them!

I am getting a little better at video editing, please watch and gimme feedback if you have any, greatly appreciate it!

- joey

Fondant Decorating: FRUIT NINJA CUPCAKES!

2012-01-31T16:09:00.000-08:00

Hey guys!This is my very first time lapse cake video!It wasn't easy working with the editing program,but I'll definitely take the time to teach myself and make more videos! :)This cupcake theme is based on the game FRUIT NINJA for ipads and smart phones!

That's all for now :)

-Joey

Fondant Decorating: Winnie The Pooh Cake, again!

2012-01-30T16:25:00.001-08:00

A custom fondant Winnie The Pooh birthday cake for a special girl's first birthday!

My friend who wanted this cake for her baby girl turning one have seen other Winnie The Pooh cakes

I've made before. She asked for a design that is different, something I haven't done before...

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

I love it when I they give me the free reign for the design!

She was very happy with the cake :)

-Joey

TheCakingGirl on Youtube!

2012-01-19T19:37:00.000-08:00

Hey guys!

Long story short, just wanna say "HELLO" from my youtube account :)

-Joey

Fondant Decorating: The Manitobah Mukluks Storyboot Cake!

2011-12-16T17:20:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone!

I made a Manitobah Mukluks cake for their POW WOW event last month.
Fittingly held at The Bata Show Museum, the event showcased their new Fall and Winter line. There was food, an awesome DJ, live performances, drinks, photobooth..
and of course.. CAKE!

The event was hosted by Waneek Horn-Miller, a Canadian Olympian.
It was also her birthday so they wanted to surprise her with a Manitobah
Mukluks Storyboot cake.

Here are some photos from the event:

Host of the event, Olympian Waneek Horn-Miller

Some of the Mukluks

music by A Tribe Called Red

the POW WOW was held at The Bata Shoe Museum

my date and I :)

Waneek Horn-Miller and I!

They requested for a Limited Edition

Annie McKay Mukluks storyboot cake.

My cake :)

Side by side

The Storyboots! and the Storyboots cake!

Here's a video, more pictures and the making of the cake:

I got to the party a bit late and they had already cut the cake.
I was really hoping to be there to take pictures of her cutting it.
She went back for a second piece of cake and I asked her if she liked it,
she said it was awesome and how much she loved it,
and I told her I'm glad you do cause I MADE IT! ,
All her friends gave me a high 5 and she gave me a huge hug.
Nothing's more rewarding than seeing ppl's reaction when they see my cakes .

The best part of the day...

I had to take my mom to the doctor's that day scheduled at 3:30pm. The cake had to be
delivered to downtown by 2:30pm so I just had my mom come with me instead of driving
back and forth. I moved out a few years ago, she knew I started making cakes, but had no
idea what I really do with these cakes I made. She had only seen maybe.. five of my cakes at most. This was her first time seeing one of my large size custom cakes, and delivering a cake with me. She came into the museum and asked me why did the museum ask me to make them a cake lol. She saw the event and museum ppl's reactions. I think my mom realized my passion for making custom cakes and told me some very encouraging words after.

My mom was very proud of me .

Fondant Decorating: Cute Sheep Cupcakes!

2011-12-07T22:41:00.001-08:00

Hey guys, I recently made these cute sheep cupcake designs for someone's birthday!

These were the only tools I used for these fondant cupcakes. I did switch from the big fondant roller to a smaller one mid way though :D

If you're covering half of the cupcake with fondant, a quick way is to cut the circles in half so each circle covers 2 cupcakes. It also saves you a lot of fondant when you roll out the big green piece to cut circles out of. Sometimes I need 10 circles and the sheet I rolled out only

fits 9, it's a waste of time to knead the fondant and roll it out again just for an extra circle.

I cut out all the shapes free hand. The exacto knife is a must in any fondant decorating. For squares and cirlces, always use a cookie cutter, but everything else try to do it by freehand, it's what makes your cake design unique and different from everyone else's.

All 12 cupcakes are covered with the base fondant, ready to decorate.

I haven't found a good set of triangle cutters so I cut my own triangles. You can use an exacto knife, but I like to let the strip of fondant dry for a bit, and I cut it with scissors like it's a piece of paper. It's just a lot faster that way for me.

I used a clay extruder to pipe out the 'string' for the happy birthday flag.

The cupcakes are almost done, just need to draw the rest in with the black edible marker!

That's all for now, will update again soon :)

-Joey

Fondant Decorating: My First Cupcakes!

2011-12-03T18:29:00.001-08:00

Hey everyone!

So it's actually been two years since I've made my very first fondant cake. I didn't really expect to enjoy baking and cake decorating so much, and making so many cakes after the first one. But I enjoyed it so much, it just kept going and it all snowballed from there. I want to share with you all my previous cakes and cupcakes I've made. So here is the first set of cupcake photos from my first year of baking.

- Joey

Fondant Decorating: SUSHI CUPCAKES!

2011-12-03T18:27:00.001-08:00

Someone had asked me to make birthday cupcakes for a good friend of his, and the design was

completely up to me. So I asked for some suggestions, what does she like? He said she's Japanese

so do something cute and Japanese related. He suggested anime cartoon but then I thought

sushi cupcakes would be even cuter!

He was really happy when he came by to pick up the cupcakes!

She said she took a million pictures before eating them haha.

Exactly what I do, take a million pictures before I give them away!

I've seen many versions of Sushi Cupcakes online, this is my own version :)

-Joey

Fondant Cake Decorating: Mahjong Cakes!

2011-12-03T18:00:00.001-08:00

I made a set of Mahjong tile cakes for my friend.

The most challenging part was cutting and making sure all the cakes were the same size. I was at the cake store recently and saw the rectangular cake dividers and didn't buy it, yep I was kicking myself for that! Took me about two hours to cut all 14 cakes and ice them. I had to make sure they were all the same size and all the angles were perpendicular. If any one of them were slanted, it would be obvious.

I made vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream. A good way to see if your cakes are the same size is to use the negative space left from the cake board. I made sure the silver border was roughly half an inch on all four sides. The 14 cakes were not the same height so I used buttercream to add a bit of height to some of them to make them all the same.

To make sure the angles are all perpendicular, I had to freeze the cake after each buttercream coating, this took most of the two hours.

I rolled out the white fondant and covered each tile. When you're working with a square/rectangular cake, always smooth out the corners first.

Trim away the excess fondant and smooth it with the fondant smoother. When you work with square/rectangular cakes, it's easier to smooth the cake with two smoothers.

I made some green fondant with Leaf Green edible colouring, rolled it out (thinner than the white fondant) and cut it with the ribbon cutter.

I attached it to the cake with water. You can see there isn't much of the silver cake board border left. Be very careful when you place the cakes together in the box after, I had two of them touching and I had to redo the green layer.

All 14 are covered with fondant and ready to be painted!

You only get one shot at this, so don't make a mistake lol. I'm Chinese but I never had to write Chinese characters.. so this was super difficult! I've had to paint Chinese characters for other cakes before,. This is what I do...I paint the character with a thin line and then go back and thicken the line where it needs to be thickened as if you're the character was painted with a brush.. think of the character as a picture, and try to center it by looking at the negative spaces.

I used the thinnest paint brush I have. I don't use cake painting brushes, the quality isn't there. I get brushes from Curry's Art store, they have wide selection of style and sizes.

Okay so I did the easiest character first to warm up lol. It's probably best to do the hardest one now and get that over with lol. This is the 'love' character. Thank goodness I didnt make a mistake. (I should've made an extra cake incase I did though!)

Here's all of them together :) So instead of the usual tiles for the 'pair of eyes', my friend wanted to use the character 'love'. So sweet!

That's my blackberry on the table to show the size of the cakes. My friend thought they would each be the size of the actual tile lol, I made them way too big haha.

Fondant Cake Decorating: Anniversary Cake!

2011-12-03T17:57:00.001-08:00

Hey everyone! This is my first time editing my cake photos and a video clip together, took me a while and it's definitely not something I'm familiar with. Hope you guys like the video and the cake!

Let me know what I can do to improve my videos :D

-Joey

Winnie the Pooh Cakes!

2011-12-03T17:39:00.001-08:00

Winnie-the-Pooh is one of the most popular cake theme requests I get.

Here are some of my past Winnie-The-Pooh themed cakes!

All these Winnie-The-Pooh cakes were designed by me :) They gave me the freedom

to do anything I wanted.

This was had a request for "Batman hugging Winnie-The-Pooh", it sounded tricky,

I really didn't know how to mesh the two together, I made Batman more cute looking

and the two looked like they belong together now hehe.

This cake was originally a basketball, but with some sort of mix up with dates, they then

asked me if I can change the basketball into a Winnie-The-Pooh themed cake. After some

carving here and there, I turned the basketball into a pot of 'hunny'.

This one was ordered from a guy for his girlfriend. He wanted something with purple,

some flowers, and Winnie-The-Pooh. So I decided to make him inside a jar

of honey, with red flowers on the bottom. I like adding bumble bees on twisted wires.

This was for a 100th day birthday for a baby boy. He was born in the year of the tiger, so I had

Tigger on the top center and a little larger than the other two edible figurines. The cake had to feed 80+ people so I made a 3 tier cake. I wanted to build a scenery out of the 3 tiers, 1: sky, 2: the forest and 3: the ground.

This was for a baby girl's 1st birthday party. I decided to make a giant 1 (I'm not a fan of the number candles). I rarely use black letterings for kids' cakes but I thought with the strong pink, green, red and yellow, the black popped out really well. It also ties in with the black from the bubble bee and Pooh's facial features drawn by a black edible marker.

This is one of my favourite cakes I have made. The mommy ordered this for her son's 1st birthday. She asked me to do any design I want, as long as it's colourful and vibrant. I decided to create a honey comb with bees all over (the bees on wires really added to the cake!). I also added most of the Winnie-The-Pooh cast.

That's all, I hope you guys like my Winnie The Pooh cake designs! :)

-Joey

A&C's Wedding Cupcake Favors!

2011-12-03T16:53:00.001-08:00

I had recently made custom cupcakes as wedding favours for A and C.

The design was inspired by their purple, white and orange colour theme and white flower

decors they had for the wedding.

These were some of the flower decors at their wedding.

These white flowers are made out of fondant. I used flower cutters of different

sizes and shapes and layered them together.

Some orange flowers.

Some cupcakes had purple hearts with a floral design.

A&C's wedding favours!

"I DO" cupcake.

It was also my first time providing clear gift boxes with the cupcakes.

I'm not even exaggerating, it took 2 hours to fold the boxes, 3 hours to measure/cut/tie the ribbons,

3 hours to put the cupcakes in and ice them, 1 hour to close the boxes and place the tag and ribbon on top.

I underestimated the time and labour for these boxes!

(Thank goodness I had help lol!)

and this is what 300 of them looks like!

(Sorry for the low quality, took it with my phone!)

All boxes folded!

Delivering them to the venue was a mission! This was only half the boxes,

there was also a flight of stairs we had to carry them up before strolling it through the mall

and into the elevator.

Finally got there! And I have to say.. it was one of the most beautiful wedding venues

I've ever seen! Their decors, flowers.. everything was incredible! Very happy my cupcakes

got to be a part of it!

-Joey

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake!

2011-12-03T13:35:00.001-08:00

Hey everyone,

Here's my first attempt at posting a video of my cake on YouTube :D

This cake was based on THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR story book by Eric Carle.

This was one of my favourite childhood books, I also love Brown Bear, Brown Bear. I have both books at home :)

YES, everything is edible!

-Joey