Vanilla cream with fresh berries

Before I take my short vacation I'll show you my cups with delicious vanilla cream gently covered with ground dark chocolate or with sliced almonds. The first I decorated with spring daisies and the second ones with fresh raspberries and blackberries. It's easy to make, to decorate and to eat :) Bon appétit!

It's time for vacation :)

Dear friends and cake lovers,

CakeSophia will be closed from July 6th 2013 till July 16th 2013. 

I wish you great summer with more sunny days and a lot of smiles! See you soon :)

Lion cake

The lion cake is for the 3th birthday of a cute boy from the daycare of my daughters. His name is Konstantin but  all his friends from the daycare called him "Tino". He adores all jungle animals, dinosaurs and mainly lions. That animal was his desire for his birthday cake. That's why I decided to prepare a cake full of palms, lianas, big green leaves, all kind of animals - monkeys, parrots, elephants and of course a majestic lion on the top. The kids adored the cake and I think Tino was extremely happy with his lion too :)

I adore the cake also. Like all kids' cakes I made it with a lot of love and enthusiasm. I know how happy can be a kid when he sees his favorite character on his birthday cake. That's why I have stimulus to make more decorations and to bring more smiles on children faces. The sparkles in their eyes are the biggest prize for me.

 And now it's time to show you Konstantin's cake.

Cheesecake for a very special friend

Today my friend Vania has a birthday and I surprised her early in the morning with....a  cheesecake (and something else,of course). She doesn't like any buttercream or fondant cakes and desserts, anything with chocolate... The only one dessert that she may eat is a tiny piece of cheesecake. It was difficult to me to resist not making a cake for her. Anyway, it's a birthday. The two words "cake" and "birthday" always go together in my mind. That's why I decided to surprise her with traditional cheesecake. Here you can see what I prepared for her yesterday.

I used this recipe. It's very well explained, with details and photos. I hope that it's really delicious as it looks on the photos.

Happy birthday, dear Vania! I wish you all the best!

Cinderella cake

Today's cake is for the 4th birthday of Annabelle. I noticed during my practice as a cake decorator that girls at the age between 2 and 4 simply adore that kind of cakes - Barby doll or Princess. My first princess cake I made for my daughter exactly for her 4th birthday.

The cake for Annabelle is red velvet with the traditional cheese cream filling, first covered with red velvet buttercream and then with baby blue fondant.

Congratulations and happy birthday,Annabelle! Be happy and healthy young lady!

Cake Rebecca

As I promised you, today I'll present  you one of my favorite cakes.In my last post I introduced you with the cake for her father. Today I'll show you another cake in yellow and purple but this time it's for a baby shower. The baby girl Rebecca will be born approximately in 10 days. And here it is: 

I made this cake extremely quickly. I am keen on making cakes for babies and children. There are always involved a lot of love and care. And here is the moment to wish smooth arrival of a happy and healthy baby!

My basketball cake

Today's cake is for the 35th birthday of a man who I don't know personally but I know that he is a big Lakers fan. I think that is enough to explain why his cake looks like that...

Now I'll share with you some "secrets". First, that was my first cake in the shape of a ball and being honest with you it was a big challenge. There were some friends who tried to calm me down with the words "Don't worry, if you made a rectangular or square cake, it's much easier. You will see!" And I saw :) - it wasn't so difficult but it wasn't so easy too. Probably a crucial role in that day played the humidity in the air. Everything was melting very quickly, even in my hands. 

Anyway, some words about the layers. I baked them in a ball shaped pan and that definitely helped me a lot. But only in the beginning :). Half of the ball was a purple cake and the other half-yellow. I thought it would be a nice surprise if even the cake layers correspond to the Lakers colors. Each half I separated in two and after that I stuck them with chocolate frosting in a zebra pattern (yellow-purple-yellow-purple). I covered the ball with butter cream and everything looked perfect till the moment when I had to cover the cake with the fondant...And the fondant started tearing apart! For a sec. I lost control. There was only one thought  in my mind -  I spoiled the whole cake and the birthday party. Isn't it terrible?!!!! I removed the fondant and I started from the beginning. The second time it was better but not perfect for me. The fondant easily stuck to my fingers and I had to work extremely quickly. I don't want to justify myself but that was the main reason why I couldn't make a perfect round shape...

And because I knew that the person is a big Lakers fan I printed the name of the team on an edible sheet and decorated the cake. I put also one small sticker on the scarf around the ball and the cake was ready for the big day. It was an important day because at the same day there were two parties - a birthday and a baby shower. The man with basketball cake is the father of a baby girl Rebecca who is expecting to be born in 10 days. There was another cake for the baby shower that I'll show you in my next post. Be patient :)