Guitar Cake!

This beautiful cake was was for a beautiful little girl Kira! Inside is a rainbow cake

--which I'm sure was a funny surprise for the birthday girl

Cake Balls!

I finally took the leap into the world of cake balls--and it's awesome! Years ago, I thought of doing cake truffles, and then when I Googled it, I realized that someone had already figured this out and done so much with it! Check out Bakerella's Website for lots and lots of awesome ideas!

These were my first ones---notice how they are ashy? I didn't melt my chocolate properly--now I make sure to put a tiny bit of vege shortening in it, and they stay nice and shiny :)

Inside was red velvet--perfect for pre-valentines day festivities!

These were for V-day celebrating, inside was a yummy mix of vanilla cake, homemade buttercream, and tons of multicolored jimmies :)

As you can imagine--the one's on the left are what are inside the final product on the right. Fun for March, right? The cake is French Vanilla--but I added some 'leaf green' color to make 'em interesting hehe

So I took a break....

Here are my latest creations:

 

I made these face cupcakes when I had some chocolate cake left over. I think they're cute!

  These ghost cupcakes were for school...  The ones on the right have glowy eyes because of their lollipop heads ;) 

These Thanksgiving cupcakes were lots of fun to make, and taste much better than turkey!

More to come soon.....

Topsy Turvy Cake

This topsy turvy cake was so much fun to make!
The top and bottom are chocolate with fudge frosting, and the middle is vanilla choco-chip :)
Didn't make it to the destination, but deee-licious! Enjoy!

Birthday Cake

A birthday cake I decorated :D. The End.

UM-esque cake

This beautiful cake was so much fun to make. The top is a chocolate fudge cake with raspberry mousse. The bottom is a confetti cake with yummy buttercream.

Happy Birthday Alex! :D

Here's a semi-surprise birthday cake for Alex R. His beautifully sneaky wife Sherry got this chocolate cake with raspberries, orange liqueur, and chocolate mousse just for him! :D

Happy Birthday Mariel

This psychedelic funfetti cake was for Mariel Gunnarson's birthday. YAY!

Flower bouquet Cake

This is a cake I made in my class. So pretttttty :D
The flowers are supposed to be mums, sweet pea, violets, daffodils,
sunflowers and apple blossoms.

Valentines Day Cupcakes

Valentines cupcakes for my brother's school. They were the yummiest strawberry white chocolate cupcakes i've ever had!

Rose and Carnation Cakes

"Carnations"

"Rose"

Clown Cake

I made this in my cake class.
I was going for the---"Hmm, I have orange goop on my face...
Oh wait, I'm made of orange goop. How interesting"--look.

Baklava

My first attempt at Baklava! It was sooo sweeet but I guess that's why its so good!
It was full of pistachios, almonds, walnuts, and lots and lots of ghee :D

Gulab Jamun

I was really in the mood for indian sweets this time around! So these are delicious gulab jamun. They are basically fried dough balls soaked in a sweet rose syrup. sooo yummy :D

Chef's Hat Cake

My 1st attempt at a chef's hat...
This cake was for the cousin of my dear friend Ekta.
It is a totally vegetarian chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream. :D

Happy 9th Birthday Harshika!

This vanilla cake with lavender icing was for my sister's 9th birthday last week! It is stuffed with hazelnut chocolate cream and the chocolate chips and candies give this cake a nice crunch on the outside! The decorations were all done by Harshika :)

Happy Birthday Susan

This cake was made for Susan Amat. She is the head of the Launchpad at the University of Miami and is one of the most amazing women I have ever met! This is a very large version of my chocolate ganache and whipped cream icing chocolate cake!

The Launch Pad

2 Cakes I made for a BBQ put on by the Launch Pad at the
University of Miami!
They help new entrepreneurs like me get started!

Dolphins Cake

This is a 5 layer rich chewy brownie cake filled with smooth whipped cream and crunchy chocolate chips all covered in chocolate buttercream and ganache :).
My first cake for my new neighbors!

Violin Cake

This cake was a belated birthday gift for my beautiful friend Norma! It is a lemon cake filled with lemon cream cheese frosting and covered in homemade (1st time!) marshmallow fondant. Everything is edible except for the strings and the white foam holding up the strings.
I love love love this cake (and the girl it went to)!

Tara's Cake

This delicious cake was made by my friend Tara who is amazing! She put her own special twist on my chocolate cake recipe and it turned out sooo beautiful!

Amazing Amaretto!

These are brand new amaretto creations that were requested a long, long time ago, so I finally made an attempt. I made my tried and true cream cake and soaked it in amaretto syrup filled with an amaretto cream and covered in a whipped chocolate amaretto frosting and topped with some freshly toasted almonds! I'm definitely going to double the amount of amaretto next time but it was still delicious.

I made lots of cupcakes too which are the same idea except the cake was sweeter with apples in it it and then I soaked the tops with the amaretto syrup and topped them using the choco-amaretto frosting!

Ionic Ivory Guava

This Guava cream cake was my first attempt to use guava marmalade instead of guava paste...it was pretty soupy but after I froze it it was great as a filling.

I also brushed it all over the cake to soak in :)

I used a different proportion of butter and cream cheese for the frosting so it held up awesome for the decorations.

I like the look of the curlies on top and on the bottom perimeter of the cake and thus ionic ivory was born :)

Amy's Ladies Night

This is a rich chocolate cake filled with whipped cream and dark chocolate curls topped with a pink buttercream and chocolate amaretto ganache.

Blue Velvet Beach Part Deux!

So I had a lot of extra cake stuff after Carla's birthday so I made another beach cake cause those teddy people are just so darn cute! And look at that bonfire!! :D New additions include many stylish bathing suits and a scuba club ;).

Blue Velvet

This beach cake was for Carla's birthday yesterday! It is a blue velvet cake with cream cheese icing. I decorated little bears as the beach goers and fishies with some icing. The "island" is made of crushed up cookies and on the sides you can see glimpses of the fruit leather "seaweed". The candles between the 3 bears were gonna be a bonfire...but it was too windy!

P.S. Each little bear is unique- see if you can find scuba bear, bikini bear, and "Oh no! I can't swim" bear. :)

Updates!

Thanks to everyone for your support so far for Aparna's Cakes! I have been crazy busy for the last few weeks with school starting, but for all you wondering, they'll be something wonderful posted by the end of the week!

Thanks again,
Aparna

Cobbler Cakes!

These are very very belated birthday cakes for a very good friend :)
If you like cobbler you would love these!

The moist creamy cake is topped with fresh blackberries mixed with sugar and spice!

The spicy brown sugar infused fresh strawberries give this cake a warm sweet flavor :)

Golf Cake!

My first Golf Cake! It is a chocolate cake with whipped filling and strawberries in the center. The outside is all buttercream except for the apricot jelly lake and the brown sugar sand traps. I used a grass tip to make the rough parts of the golf course.

Cupcakes!!

I don't usually make cupcakes, but these were perfect for the PRIME presentations and for taking into the office!

Creamy italian chocolate cake topped with a rich dark chocolate mousse buttercream and drizzled with ganache!

These are soooo good guava cream cheese cupcakes! The creamy vanilla cake is stuffed with a whipped guava cream cheese filling and the cream cheese icing on top is drizzled with guava jam :)

Guava Cream Cheese

June 2008-This is my Dr. Seuss Guava Cake for my beautiful roommate Aidin-it is a new creation! A cream cake with whipped guava cream cheese fillings (the peach layers). The center is guava and cream cheese and the outside is a creamy cream cheese frosting!

Thank you cake!

Chocolate and cream thank you cake for Susan and Andrea-there are fresh strawberries inside too!

Prime Cake!

For my wonderful friends in Prime-you guys are awesome :)
Chocolate with buttercream icing

Chocolate strawberry

Chocolate and Vanilla Cake filled with whipped icing and covered with decadent chocolate ganache topped with double-dipped strawberries for Sara

Tara -dark chocolate cream

Yummy chocolate cake filled with dark chocolate cream and ganache and whipped cream!
I made this with Tara in July 2008