here comes the cake

Justin and Aths Wedding

2010-03-08T20:11:00.001-08:00

Ongtioco - Collantes Nuptial
June 28, 2009
Grand Palazzo Royale
Angeles City

4-tier moist chocolate cake (flower cascade)
with 18 satellite cakes

photo credits : Avel Digital Photography

Pooh and friends

2009-03-09T01:41:00.000-07:00

Pooh and friends' cake
CHRIS AVIESON
December 21, 2008

fondant cake collection

2009-03-09T00:58:00.000-07:00

These are some of the cakes I made last year (2008)

polka dot

multi

yellow maren

monochromatic squares

Jaypee & Aiza's cake
November 2008

white wedding cake

2009-03-09T00:41:00.000-07:00

White fondant cake for Aileen's wedding
February 14, 2009
Don Pedro's Garden
(Wycoco Compound)
Cabiao, Nueva Ecija

Gift boxes cake

2009-03-09T00:37:00.000-07:00

This "gift boxes" wedding cake is especially made for my client Alfie and Aileen
March 1, 2009
Amber Kingdom
Mexico,Pampanga

Tinkerbell

2009-03-09T00:34:00.000-07:00

Tinkerbell cake
This is the cake I made for my niece Althea on her 9th month.
February 3, 2009

Batman and Robin cake

2009-03-09T00:31:00.000-07:00

Sean's cake
Batman and Robin
February 2009

Dora Cake

2009-03-08T23:57:00.000-07:00

Jan Rose's cake
Dora (solo)

January 2009

spiderman cake

2009-03-08T23:51:00.000-07:00

James Daren
January 2009

Sesame Street cake

2009-03-08T23:37:00.000-07:00

Elias Jeronimo cake
Novermber 2008

Carrot-Walnut Cake

2009-02-22T04:21:00.000-08:00

aside from moist chocolate cake, carrot walnut cake is also what i make as base cake for fondant cake. and this is one of the many variations...

Ingredients:

1 cup (225 grams) butter
1/2 cup salad oil
2-1/2 cups (500grams) sugar
4 eggs, separated
5 tbsp. hot water
2-1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1-1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. ground nutmeg
1 tsp. ground cinammon
1 tsp. all spice
2 cups grated raw carrots
1 cup chopped walnuts, almonds or cashew nuts

How to make Carrot Cake

* Preheat oven to 350deg F. Cream butter with oil and 2 cups of the sugar until blended. Add egg yolks one at a time, beating well after each addition.
* Beat in hot water. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon and allspice, beat into egg mixture. Stir carrots and walnuts.
* Beat egg whites until frothy, then gradually add the remaining 1/2 cup sugar in four additions, beating until stiff peaks form. fold into batter.
* Pour into a greased and lightly floured 9-inch tube pan. Bake 60 -70 minutes or until cake tester or toothpick inserted in center of the cake comes out clean.
* Before removing cake from pan, pour half of the soaking syrup on cake, distributing evenly. Let cake cool completely. Turn out on serving platter and brush remaining syrup on cake.
Let strand in refrigerator one day before serving.

Soaking Syrup
1/4 cup water
3/4 cup (150grams) sugar
1/4 cup rum
1/4 cup butter

* In a saucepan, combine water and sugar and simmer until sugar dissolves. Add rum and bring to a slow boil. Remove from fire, stir in butter until melted.

source: http://www.filipinovegetarianrecipe.com/desserts/carrot_cake.php

My sister's wedding

2009-02-01T07:43:00.003-08:00

Darwin and Espie
January 16, 2009
Iglesia Ni Cristo House of Worship
Bago Bantay, QC

Reception
Shangri-la West Finest Cuisine
West Avenue, QC

January 16, 2009 is my sister's wedding day.
Of course, I am the one who made their cake.
Four-tier chocolate fudge fondant cake
with 15 satellites for principal sponsors,
and 150 cupcakes served as giveaways.

photo credits : Avel Digital Photography

Spongebob sheet cake

2009-02-01T07:31:00.000-08:00

Vincent's 1st birthday cake

February 1, 2009

(I think Spongebob is in. Recent orders are mostly spongebob theme)

Looney Tunes cake

2009-02-01T07:27:00.000-08:00

Jor El's 2nd birthday Cake

February 1, 2009

Spongebob 3-layer cake

2009-02-01T07:21:00.000-08:00

John Benedict Lapuz's 1st birthday and baptismal cake

Pooh and Friends Cake

2009-02-01T06:39:00.000-08:00

Spongebob

2008-11-30T05:34:00.000-08:00

Samples of Spongebob cake, under the sea

Spongebob, solo

Spongebob with Patrick

Disney Princess Cakes

2008-11-30T05:16:00.000-08:00

These are samples of my cake with Disney princesses theme

Disney Princesses small

Ariel, under the sea

Cupcake Tower for Weddings

2008-11-30T03:04:00.000-08:00

This is the cupcake tower I made for Don Navarro and Aileen Mesa's wedding on August 8, 2008.
Cupcakes: Chocolate fudge cupcake with fondant icing. Decor: fondant roses.
Cutting Cake: 6x4 inches round chocolate fudge cake with fondant icing and gumpaste flowers.

Cupcakes

2008-11-27T17:59:00.000-08:00

These are some of the cupcakes I made from various clients, usually for kiddie birthdays.

SnowWhite and the 7 Dwarfs

2008-11-27T17:42:00.000-08:00

This is the cake I made for Karylle Chloe L. Marcelo on her 7th birthday.
She had a big SnowWhite cake and 7 satellite cakes, with a dwarf topper each.
It was a chocolate fudge cake with marshmallow icing.

My Mega Big, Super Chewy Chocolate Chip and Nut Cookies

2008-04-23T07:21:00.000-07:00

Mica and Jordan, and me, too, love chewy cookies. I love to share the recipe of this cookies to all of you, guys, but my copy is being misplaced by my cutie Mica. So sorry that I can't remember the exact measurement for each ingredient. Basically, it has butter, sugar, flour, cashew nuts, chocolate chips and vanilla. I just can't recall the measurements, dear. :(

the cookie batter

roasted cashews for toppings

getting ready to bake

hmmm... cookies

leaning tower of cookies

Kinasal Na Manok

2008-03-01T20:02:00.000-08:00

Kinasal Na Manok

at the center stage

Aldine and Erelyn

February 24, 2008

I wrote a related post here.

Cashew Brownies Recipe

2008-03-01T19:17:00.000-08:00

I sell brownies. But I don't mind sharing one of my tried and tested recipe. Even my secret. Do not over bake. That's one of my secret. hehe.

CASHEW BROWNIES

1 c Baker's Best margarine, melted
1/3 c cocoa
1 ¾ c sugar
3 large eggs
1/3 c evap milk
1 T glucose
½ t vanillin
¼ t baking powder
1 ¼ c APF

for topping: 1/4 to 1/2 cup toased cashew nuts, coarsely chopped

Pre-heat oven at 325 Farenheit.

Grease and line one 8x8x2 square baking pan.

Mix all ingredients, putting flour last. Put in the pan and sprinkle the cashew toppings.

Bake for 30 to 40 mins. do not overbake.

Cool in the pan before cutting into bars.

Super Chocolatey Brownies

2008-02-26T21:35:00.000-08:00

My brownies are made of finest ingredients and made-to-order only. Bulk orders come during the ber-months since this is one of the common gifts during Christmas season yet always appreciated.

These three variants are my bestsellers. They can be fudgy or cakey, depending on the customer preference. I also make walnut brownies and cream cheese brownies but for special order only and charged at slightly higher price.

rocky road

cashew

caramel

Lara Joyce 2nd Birthday

2008-02-16T04:41:00.000-08:00

Lara Joyce is my youngest cousin. But this little girl is more fondly called "Tiyang Lara". She just turned 2 last December but she already has 3 pamangkins courtesy of her fellow cousins.

Lara Joyce with her 3 pamangkins (L-R) Aeszen, James, Tyang Lara and my Jamaica

This is the cake i made for her when she celebrated her 2nd birthday. Her mama Emma, my aunt requested for an orange chiffon cake and so, I obediently did. :)

Moist Chocolate Cake

2008-02-15T08:05:00.000-08:00

This is my chocolate cake recipe. I promised to Carolyn that I will post this recipe so that everyone can also try this.

Black Princess

(Natilla-Filled Chocolate Cake)

Cake:

2/3 cup cocoa powder

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 3/4 cups sugar

1 1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon fine salt

2/3 cup butter

1 cup water

3 large eggs

1/2 teaspoon vanilla powder

Natilla:

1/2 cup condensed milk

1 cup milk

1 egg yolk

1 tablespoon cornstarch

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 tablespoon butter

Chocolate Icing:

1/2 cup cocoa powder

1 teaspoon coffee

2 cups evap milk

1 cup condensed milk

1/4 cup all-purpose flour

2 teaspoon baking soda

1 tablespoon butter

Procedure:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degree F.

2. Grease and line two 9-inch round pans.

3. Sift first 6 ingredients together. Set aside.

4. Cream butter until fluffy. Add sifted ingredients alternately with water and mix until smooth. add eggs, one a time and vanilla. mix until well-blended.

5. Pour into prepared pans. bake for 40 minutes or until ineserted toothpick comes out clean. Let cool.

6. Combine all ingredients for natilla except butter in a double-boiler and cook until thick. Remove from fire. Stir in butter.

7. In a heavy bottom saucepan, mix together all ingredients for chocolate icing except baking soda and butter. Cook until thick; stir in baking soda and butter.

8. To assemble: Spread the natilla between the layers of cake. Ice decoratively with chocolate icing.

Source: Maya Cakes and Pastries book

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2008-02-11T18:46:00.000-08:00

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Cake Decorating Class I

2008-02-10T07:14:00.000-08:00

April 2006 when I enrolled at Heny Sison Culinary School for it short course in Basic Cakes and Icing. It was my preparation for baking Mica's 1st bday cake. I intended to enrol in the series of Cake Decorating Clases but schedule made me postpone my class reservation again and again. Finally, I made it on September 2007.

Cake Decorating Class I taught us the uses of basic decorating tips and made a character cake as a final project. I chose Sesame Street's Big Bird because this is the character my daughter Mica really loves.

I first wanted to decorate Strawberry Shortcake, which by the way, Chef Heny Sison told us that it was her very first character baking pan, quite an antique, we joked. She said she should put that in her memorabilia after using it since she was in her teens(?). Anyway, her Strawberry Shortcake pan doesn't really looked like an antique, hehe. It was in excellent condition, and the cake baked in that pan looked really good, too.

My classmate Tess was the one who decorated Strawberry shortcake but since I also love this character, I borrowed it from her for a souvenir pic.

Our class picture... :)

Mica's 1st Birthday Cake

2008-02-01T04:51:00.000-08:00

I enrolled at Heny Sison Culinary School in April 2006 for Basic Cakes and Icing class. I was determined to bake Mica's birthday cake for her first bithday in August of the same year so months before August, I really made time to enrol. And the following weeks after I attened to that short class, cups and cups of flour, sugar and butter were the witnessess to my effort to perfect my cake.

August came and I able to make two birthday cake, both Pooh and Friends theme. I made a single layer round cake for intimate family dinner on the exact date of her birthday.

Mica's lemon chiffon cake. Not really an impressive cake to see but it's yummy, I'm sure.

Jordan, me and Mica

This is Mica's Pooh and Friends birthday cake during her Piglet party. I made two thick layers of mocha chiffon cake and spent long hours of decorating it.It was not the perfect cake, I admit. The marshmallow icing was not iced smoothly but my ever-loving husband praised it to the hig heavens! hehe!

the cake is leaning! wonky...

I also made mini cakes and cupcakes

david russel baptismal cake

2008-01-30T02:10:00.000-08:00

For my godson DAVID RUSSEL MEJIA RUEDA, I made a carrot-walnut fondant cake and lots of cupcakes in butter and chocolate flavors. I also made him lots of chocolate lollipops for his christening party to the delight of his guests, kids and kids-at-heart alike.

Florence wedding cake

2008-01-30T01:59:00.000-08:00

This is the cake I made for my friends Edgar and Florence wedding last October 21, 2007.
Three-layer chocolate fondant cake, the top layer is six inch-round by 4 inch-high, the second layer is 10x4 and the bottom layer which is the only layer edible is size 14 x4.

My First Fondant Cake

2008-01-29T06:18:00.000-08:00

This is the cake my friend Dindin and I made for my brother's wedding in December 2006.

I baked the banana-chocolate chip cake and Dindin helped me covered it with rolled fondant.

Hah, if not for Dindin's help, I would never make this cake a success. She's the first one who personally and painstakingly taught me about fondant. Until now, whenever I need help, Dindin is just a text away.

My sister in-law liked this cake. Ah, thanks! I know this is so simple but I couldn't risk making a more elaborate cake.

My Sister's Birthday Cake

2008-01-26T20:50:00.000-08:00

This is a banana-chocolate fondant cake I made for my sister Espie when she celebrated her birthday last October.

I wish to give her a gold bracelet as a gift but I think, making a cute cake for her is sweeter, plus definitely cheaper, hehe.

I believed she appreciates her cake a lot because she didn't take a bite on this but packed it nicely and brought to her officemates in Laguna, which is about four to four and a half hours drive from here in Nueva Ecija.

And I was told that her cake after receiving admiration from fellows vanished in a snap. To my understanding, it meant they enjoyed my cake and found it yummy. Mmmm...

Pablita Cakes, finally!

2008-01-26T09:50:00.000-08:00

This is a long time dream to have a cake business.

Though not the conglomerate type, actually, a little cake shop in a little town, I believe Pablita Cakes is going to be a stable home business.

It's been over a year since I accepted made-to-order cakes for all occasion. And I didn't have a name for my home business. First, I called it All About Cakes, then I changed it to Sugar Passion, then Cakes by Jamaica, then Cake Ni Mica, which is similar to Cakes by Jamaica.

Finally, after much deliberation from family members, we concluded in having it called Pablita Cakes.

It's like a tandem of a grandpa and a very cute lil girl, hehe. I got the name from my daughter's second name, a female variation of my father's name Pablito.