Birthday Cupcakes

Six years old girl's birthday cupcakes to take to school on her birthday!

At the beginning, the girl's mother and I planned for buttercream decorated cupcakes, but then they received a notice from school that the sweets they give out to the classmates are preferred not to have too much cream on them, and the drinks should be healthy things like water or fruit juice.

Therefore, I baked cupcakes in two flavors, and decorated them with little icing and sprinkles of colored sugar instead of buttercream.

Since I still wanted them to look cute and girlish, but not too much, I went to different stores and finally found pink cupcake liners with white dots!

For the vanilla cupcakes, I added some lemon zests from the lemons picked from my friend's lemon tree to add flavor.

Colored the icing into a very pale blue to make a contrast with the other color.

The chocolate cupcakes are brownie type. No cocoa powder added, only the real chocolates, so they are very moist and full in flavor.

Topped with white icing with colored sugar sprinkles.

The girl's mother said these cupcakes were popular, and some of the mothers who tasted them enjoyed the flavor, too!

Another happy moment for me.

As a birthday gift from AKO, I made an iced sugar cookie with the girl's name on. It turned out into a very cute looking one with my signature royal icing flowers! This is one of my favorated docorated cookies among the ones I've decorated.

Happy Birthday H!!!!

Rectangle Cheesecake

I was invited to a birthday party, so asked the birthday person what she would like for her birthday cake since I've decided to bake one as her birthday gift.

Right away, my friend said "cheesecake"!!! She wanted a simple, no flavor added baked cheesecake. In order to add a giftlike looking to the cake, I made some gum paste flowers and leaves in addition to the usual chocolate plate.

Also, instead of making a usual round cake, I used the rectangle tart mold so it will be easier to serve the guests at the party.

Here is how it looks in whole.

The image of my friend's color is spring green, so I made the cake board with the pretty colored papers, and the flowers were made with the matching colors.

Instead of baking the cake over the common graham cracker base, I used some tart dough. This actually tasted pretty good, and my friend and the other guests really enjoyed it. When I served the cake, I plated it with some raspberry cream and people liked it as well.

However, I found out that the gumpaste flower does melt a little from the moisture of the cake, so I should try other methods in the future.

It always makes me happy to see other people smile when they put my pastries into their mouth and taste them. This turned out to be my happy day, too! Happy Birthday Friend!!!