Favorite Things

This is perhaps one of the most intricate cakes that I have ever made. Total logged time for making this cake was 30 hours!  All in all, I was pleased with the effect and most glad on how it turned out. At first, I was pretty perplexed on how to go about the "sack" and was nervous about carving it. I also had to test the sack texture by trying to mark on some extra rolled fondant. Painting the sack was the only option to achieve the brown, worn look.

Without having to really say anything, this cake speaks volumes about the couple. Both are lawyers who doted on their dog (labrador at the bottom). Coffee is a significant part of the bride's life while the groom loves his roosters (top layer - rooster's house at the back of the couple with small sugar rooster beside the bride).  

cake height was 4 feet 

 sack texture 

view from the front 

law books 

Officially Sultry, Sexy, Red

Sultry, Sexy, Red

red velvet cupcakes with The Cupcake Theory's signature cream cheese frosting

I finally have an official photo of The Cupcake Theory's best selling red velvet cupcakes (named Sultry, Sexy, Red by yours truly. Ha! ). I've been meaning to take updated photos of my cupcakes since I've been using photos that my customers' gave me. Those were perfectly fine and taken by people who were practically born with their cameras but the cupcakes' looks were outdated. It's been more than two years since I started selling cupcakes and during the first 6 months, it was a constant trial and error when it came to the piping. I finally found "the one" and decided to stick with it and use it as my signature look (for more than a year now). Many thanks to family and friends who willingly and tirelessly put up with all my cupcake fickleness! I'm still editing photos for the other cupcake flavors and cannot wait to post them!

Hello, Gwinnie!

My uber fabulous, extremely generous and unbelievably thoughtful London based-friend, Ragen, got me a personally signed Gwyneth Paltrow book for my birthday. Rage, you're the sweetest!

Gwyneth and my friend Ragen - small talk. Haha. :)

Signing the book! Thanks, Ragen!

Why, hello there!

This girl can sing, dance, act and cook. Is there something that she can't do?

I'm a fan!

**Thanks to Ragen Aviso-Stevart for the photos**

Scuba Cake

For a scuba enthusiast. :)

Busy Mothers' Day

After driving back and forth delivering more than 600 cupcakes today, Julianna and I were able celebrate a bit of what's left of Mothers' Day. It was already 3pm when we were finally done with the deliveries and we certainly did not want to go the mall at that hour. The Pacquiao / Mosley fight just ended (Congratulations, Manny!) and that means a considerable surge of shoppers. I’m not a huge fan of boxing but in my country, a Manny Pacquiao fight means people stopping dead in their tracks and putting everything on hold – or at least until the fight is over. We started driving around at 8am to drop off orders and it was total bliss. We had the roads and streets all to ourselves. I only saw a couple of jeepneys. In the Philippines, jeepneys are your New York yellow cabs, but only cheaper.

At 3pm, we dropped off the last cupcake box and Julianna suggested that we go check new books at National Bookstore before going to church. I’m an NBS baby myself so I was more than willing to spend time there. Julianna and I went to Cebu’s first NBS branch, the one on Mango Avenue. I went to St. Theresa’s College since Preschool and this particular NBS branch is practically a stone’s throw away. I love NBS. The smell and everything about these stores bring all sorts of childhood memories.

I ended up buying a tiny cutter, a pair of scissors, some glue for Julianna and a couple of notebooks. Mine is the one on the left. Obviously, the design caught my eye! I wasn't able to convince (or bully! hehe ) Julianna into buying the other cupcake covered notebook. While this one has pink stripes, the other had brown and pink polka dots. When Julianna said she wanted this Hello Kitty spring notebook, I decided to pick this over the other because of the cupcake color. It's more catchy and brighter.

On a separate note, an article came out last Thursday in Sunstar Daily Cebu featuring The Cupcake Theory (for a Mother's Day tribute). Thank you very much to Logane Echavez and Sunstar. :)