Happy birthday, Sophia - part two

As I promised you couple of days ago the story with Sophia's birthday will continue. My daughter is very lucky in the way that we celebrate her birthday 2-3 times. Once at home, second time - at the day care and the third time - with friends at our closest park. For each celebration I prepare different cake. The first two you saw in one of my previous posts. Today I'll present you the last one for this year :) Probably it sounds very funny or weird for most of you. For me it's not so fanny. I am simply exhausted :) But pleasantly, of course. We, parents, do unbelievable things for our children....My daughter's biggest desire for a cake this year was Rapunzel. If you have a girl, you probably know what I am talking about. If you are only with boy(s), I'll explain you shortly - a beautiful girl with very, very long hair that lives in a very tall tower. For more details you can watch the movie. It's really interesting even for us, the adults. Only this short description is enough to explain  why I made this cake:

This is my river made of blue colored butter cream. I don't know exactly why but this was the most desirable part of the cake for the kids. Everybody wanted from "the water" and "the stones". While my husband was cutting the cake pieces our youngest daughter was standing next to the cake, on the other side, and undisturbed by anybody carefully picked up and ate all the flowers and stones :)

The first cake is made out of 2 vanilla sponge layers and the space between them was filled with 2 layers of  mini eclairs. The gaps between the eclairs were filled with vanilla cream. For the people who don't like vanilla was the second cake, the smaller one. It was made out of 4 red velvet cake layers with cream that I created by myself. And here it's the "secret recipe" - sour cream, cheese butter cream and fresh blueberries. It think it was a nice combination - light and juicy.

And now the tower....

It's made out of Oreo cookies stuck together with blue butter cream (the same one that I used for the river). The house where Rapunzel was kept is made out of rice crispy and chocolate frosting. Everything is covered with fondant. And somewhere it should be Rapunzel's friend - the little lizard or iguana (I missed that part form the movie, I'm sorry).

It was a hard work but worthy. My daughter was happy! That was the most important and that was her desire for the 5th birthday...The most difficult part was how to transport the cake from our fridge to the park. But, of course, and this time my husband helped me and we brought the cake unbreakable to the party. Finally I would like to thank everybody who shared with us this special for my daughter day!

Cake for Lora

Last week I made a small cake for a friend. The lady decided to surprise her family because on that day their youngest daughter made 8th months. Time really flies. I remember like it was yesterday when I heard the news that Lora (the name of the 8th months old daughter) came to this world. And now we are so close to her first birthday...

The mother suggested immediately something with flowers and butterflies. The baby will just enjoy the cake design and the colors. The decorations are for the other kids. The cake will be for the parents and in that way everybody will be happy :)

The cake consists of four thin layers - 2 chocolate and 2 vanilla stuck together with light filling made out of mascarpone, sour cream and wild berries.

I wish you, Lora, to be always healthy and happy! Here you can see the cake for her birth. I made it with a lot of love and for extremely short time :)

Flower cake

Today's cake is one of my favorite. I like flowers as much as the girl with the cake. Her name is Nia and she celebrated her 10th birthday. The mother who ordered the cake shared with me that her daughter likes very much  flowers, butterflies and everything connected with nature. This was the only requirement for the cake. Immediately in my mind came so many ideas that I didn't know which one to choose - trees, birds, nests, flowers....Finally I decided to be something more stylish although this cake was for a kid's birthday. And because it's for a child I made the cake very bright and colorful. I hope that Nia liked her cake and that she had memorable birthday.

Happy birthday, Nia!!!

Happy birthday,Sonya!

Besides Sophia's birthday today there is another friend with a birthday. Our little friend Sonya is celebrating her second birthday. She is Nadia's daughter. A week ago I mentioned you about my friend but then there was another occasion - her son's birthday. I made a cake for Maxim and today it's Sonya's turn.  What a party month for our friends!

Dear Sonya, happy birthday! Be happy and healthy girl! I hope she had an amazing birthday party at the daycare this afternoon. Her mother surprised her with a thematic cake based on her favorite movie Rio.

The vanilla cake is filled with my favorite cream - mascarpone with strawberries and blueberries. I covered it  with bubble gum flavored butter cream which you can feel it immediately when you open the box. Such a challenge for the kids :)

Let's stop talking about the cake....It's party time!!!!

Dear Sophia, happy birthday!

Today is the fifth birthday of my daughter Sophia. We love you so much! And we wish you always all the best! I am so excited with the birthday not only because Sophia is my daughter but because I know how impatient was my girl. She waited for this day for so long time. Everyday she pointed on the calender the date for her birthday and the date when she will start school. By the way, Sophia eager to go to school. I cross my fingers that this desire won't continue only the first school week :)

Besides all the emotions around her birthday I had to make several cakes for my clients. I'll post the cakes in the next couple of days. And because today it's my daughter's day  I'll start first with her cake (or cakes). Today I present you the first two cakes that I made for Sophia. The first one is for the party at the daycare. The cake is an abundance of fruit - a little bit of strawberries and freshly picked blueberries. I can even proudly announce that all the blueberries that today you will see on my cakes are personally picked by all our family members.  This afternoon we went to blueberry farm in Montérégie where we experienced for the first time to pick our own blueberries. It's useless to mention kids' emotions. It was such a fun! I highly recommend this outdoor activity to all of you. And here is the cake:

Here it's the time to apologize  for the pictures - made in the evening, no daytime light... and you can see the result. But how can I expect to make a good picture at daytime light with a cake made at 10:00PM...

Anyway, the cake is vanilla sponge cake filled with homemade vanilla cream. As a border I used butter cream colored in pink with bubble gum flavor. Around the cake you can see finely ground tea cookies stuck to the cake with very light whipping cream.

The second cake is for ourselves :) How can we miss a birthday without a cake?!?!That's why immediately I made the same one as this for the daycare with some changed decorations on the top. Just for fun (for myself). I made another flower cake, of course, with blueberries. Each petal is formed with yellow colored butter cream. And because my daughter is a huge Rapunzel's fan I bought for her this tiny figure. I am sure she will be very happy when she will see it. Around the cake I used for decoration edible sheet with flowers bought from Michaels store.

Next cake for Sophia (yes, there will be another one too - for her party guests) I will show you later, when I make it. There are only ideas in my head...

to be continued....

Merida - #3

Proudly I can make a statement - my cake Merida is the most desired one by the kids. Although I try not to repeat my cake creations because all of them are personal and unique,  till this moment I have had 2 other orders where the kids wanted to have the same cake. And although I used the same picture from the movie "Brave", I changed every time some tiny details of the decorations. From one side I would like to make something at least a little bit different and on the other side I try not to go far away from the first image because exactly this first cake picture impressed the kid and that's the reason why he/she picked that specific cake. Here you can see my Merida # 2 and today it's turn for Merida #3.

A week ago Mariya, a mother of a 5 years old girl Kristine, sent me an e-mail to order a cake for the birthday of her daughter. Probably it's useless to mention Kristine's desire....but just in case if somebody skipped the first paragraph - Kristine's desire was  Merida. Hopefully I found the same picture. Mariya told me that her daughter likes pink and that it will be nice if there are more pink flowers around the cake.

It's useless to mention the excitement that I feel when I have to make a cake for a child. I am very impatient at the end to see his/her reaction, the satisfaction or the disappointment. I am so glad that till this moment I haven't seen any disappointment in any kids' eyes. But every time I am very thrilled looking at their eyes to see if they will reward me with a smile or not.

Unfortunately, this time I hadn't chance to meet Kristine...I hope some other day.

Happy birthday, Kristine! I hope you had an amazing and memorable birthday spent together with your friends!

Transformers

Today I'll present you one of my last cakes. As you can understand from the topic it's a thematic cake - Transformers. I made it for Maxim's 5th birthday. He is the son of one of my close friends. A long time ago Nadia (my friend) mentioned me to start practicing for Transformers. I accepted this suggestion as a joke. Anyway there were a lot of months till the birthday...Even when she called me a week ago for the cake I was wondering what will be Max's desire this year. Here you can see his birthday cake from the last year. Honestly, I was surprised to hear again "Transformers" but in a second another thought passed through my mind - My son is interested in NinjaGo (LEGO) for more than an year and a half and he is more and more obsessed with these toys with every single day. That's why immediately I accepted Max's desire very seriously. 

My friend ordered the cake for the daycare. She picked up the picture, chose the cake layers and the fillings...and now it was my turn to create a cake that will make Max happy. And this is not so easy...I mean to make a child happy. Based on my experience with my son, I know that sometimes it's so difficult to satisfy children's expectations. We are trying and trying, giving everything of ourselves and finally nothing. They want more and more. But on the other side the kids are very honest and if they don't like anything, there is no way to hide it. And of course, when they are happy, the sparkles in their eyes are all that we need.

That's why I was very nervous and impatient to hear what was Max's reaction. Hopefully the boy was extremely happy with his Transformers cake.

And some words for the cake - French vanilla layers filled with chocolate and vanilla cream. Everything covered with  fluffy buttercream. I hope you will like it too...