A birthday cake…

I’ve been baking my own birthday cakes for a while now. I didn’t think I had time this year but happy I managed to squeeze a simple sponge cake with mango filling. The sponge cake was smaller than I wanted so I cheated by making more frosting!(￢‿￢ )

I was having a hard time to find fresh fruits, so I was forced to get some tart mangoes (best I could find even though they were kinda pricey). Again, I cheated by adding more sugar (than I normally do) to balance out the tartness.

Hope everyone had a s-boo-tacular Halloween!

A number cake…

Mr. Piggy turned 50 today. I baked him a number cake this weekend to celebrate with his family. The boys are busy this week (today, Dai Bee is in San Mateo with a volleyball tournament while Ah Lo has basketball during dinner time). So we decided to celebrate with Mr. Piggy this past weekend.

Happy birthday to my one and only – Mr. Piggy.

A birthday cake…

Today my sisters (who known Mr. Piggy for over 30 years) came to celebrate his big 5-0 with us. I baked him a 4-tiered cake (same cake for his number cake, but different design). I think he certainly met his quote for cakes this year!

Work has been busy so I didn’t do anything fancy for dinner. Just mac-and-cheese for the kids, spaghetti for the adults! Simplicity is always nice.

A birthday cake…

Baked and decorated a birthday cake for my lil’ one. He requested a chocolate cake with mocha frosting. I topped the cake with some a few pieces of Toffettes (from See’s Candies).

Happy Birthday to the guy who’s a charmer, the same guy who keeps me on my toes and gets my heart rate up all the same. Keep the kid inside of you and always stay happy.

A Halloween cake…

Spent the morning decorating my cake! We are going to my sister’s tonight, just the same usual suspects. Unlike previous years, we won’t have a party, no trick-or-treating, we would gather for dinner.

After some fun decorating the cake, here’s the final product!

A pound cake…

My first attempt to make pound cake. I made half a loaf just because I wasn’t too confident in getting this right, especially our oven is acting up. Well it ended up a little bit on the dry side (thanks to the oven..ugh).

I drew the jack-o-lantern face with some melted chocolate just for fun!

A girl with two birthday cakes…

Baked a cake for my niece today who’s turning double digits tomorrow! She requested for a chocolate cake with mocha frosting. I initially just made one decorated with buttercream (cat holding a balloon).

Then my sister emailed me with a pic of how my niece wanted the cake to look like (similar the one below). Since I wasn’t too happy with how the buttercream looked, I decided to bake another 3-tiered cake just like so:

I wrote the words too big and realized I didn’t have enough room to write her name. So very last minute, I used chocolate to write letters of her name and placed them on the side of the cake!

A birthday in quarantine…

So this is our third birthday in quarantine, which means it’s my third cake – didn’t get a chance to take a picture inside of cake, but it was a marble cake. Didn’t plan on adding fruits to it but so happened to have them, so why not? It’s healthier this way, right?

Mr. Piggy, the birthday boy wanted some pork chops for dinner and so pork chops are what we are having.

Happy birthday to the silliest guy to have a dad and to the most thoughtful guy to have as a husband. Enjoy the day. Sorry that you couldn’t have the day off.

A special day…

Today is a special day. One kiss in the morning to wish a happy birthday. Doesn’t want a cake. Don’t do anything special, no gifts needed. Whatever I wanted to do is fine with him, even a cake in a box is perfectly good for him. Well, honey, it’s fine with you, not for me.

So somewhere in the conversation, someone suggested a coffee cake would be nice. First thing he saw this was “why do you always have a math equation on the cake every year?”

Also suggested my the birthday boy’s dad, baked BBQ pork chops for dinner.

A bundt cake…

I guess when life throws lemons at you, you bake a lemon poppyseed bundt cake.