Christmas 2013

Santa & Reindeer cookies!
Santa cookie was inspired by Pottery Barn Kids Christmas decorative shams.
Have a Happy Holidays!

Featured in Better Homes and Gardens Halloween magazine

My safari themed cookies are featured in Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest, Halloween tricks & treats 2013.
It was a special project with Better Homes and Gardens and graphic designer, Carrie Naumann 2 years ago, and finally they are published this year! Yay!
Thank you so much, Ann and Carrie!

Featured in "realweddings" Magazine

My cookies are featured in realweddings magazine Spring/Summer 2013.
Christina Symons who is an editor/photographer at realweddings magazine did an amazing photo shoot!
Thank you so much again, Christina!

Easter Cookies

Easter bunny & egg cookies with touch of gold.
Happy Easter! :D

Spring Wedding Cake with Yellow Sugar Ranunculues

Spring wedding cake with yellow sugar ranunculuses, hydrangeas and filler flowers.

Spring Wedding Favors & Sharp Edge Cakes

Spring wedding favor cookies, LOVE Birds, Pink Peony and Daisy cookies.
They are available at my Etsy shop.

8" chocolate Ganache cake and 6" Swiss meringue buttercream cake are ready for Fondant!

I love sharp edge cakes, people call "Aussie style cake". It takes little longer than regular cakes, but it's totally worth it! :D

Yellow Sugar Flowers - Ranunculus & Peony

Spring is just around the corner!
I made yellow ranunculuses and an open peony. Large yellow stamens were all out, so I used black stamens, but I guess it still looks fine :)

Have a wonderful day!

Sugar Flower Garden Rose

Gumpaste garden rose with touch of pink, Jacqueline Butler style



 

Sugar Flower English Cabbage Rose & All Purpose Buds

 Sugar Flower English Cabbage Rose

All purpose buds

I love the look of my sugar English cabbage rose!
I've been trying to make this flower last couple of weeks, but failed so many times. I researched tutorials and YouTube videos, but I still couldn't find any clue how to even start. So, I just started making the smallest rose petals and tried to put them together like a real English cabbage rose. And finally I did it! I think I still have to work on the large petals to look more natural, but I'm so happy that I found a way to make this flower. :D

Hot Pink Sugar Ranunculus

Hot pink sugar ranunculus

I made this sugar ranunculus couple days ago, and played around with hydrangeas, filler flowers and buds to make a bouquet.
I know it's not a perfect bouquet, but I think they are beautiful enough! :)

Large Sugar Garden Rose Cake

a large sugar garden rose cake.

I finally made my first 2 tier-cake today! yay!
Even though my kitchen is such a mess, I really enjoyed it from baking cakes to decorating with sugar garden roses.

Happy New Year!!

Christmas Macarons

I made pastel red and green french macarons for Christmas gifts.
My macarons are not perfect shape yet, but its taste is very chewy and creamy like Laduree's! (believe or not ^^)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Sugarpaste Rose

 

Large Gumpaste Rose

I remember someone said that the gumpaste rose would be one of the simplest flowers to learn, but one of the most difficult to master.
I think this is true. My very first sugar flower was a rose and it wasn't that hard to learn it, but as I want to make more beautiful roses, it was a bit of challenge to me. I collected real rose photos from google search, and even bought a rose to figure it out how many petals I needed. Finally, I finished my large sugar rose, and I think it's beautiful!

Canada's Coolest Cupcake 2012

Photography by Ian Kim

I was very lucky to participate in Canada's coolest cupcake project last month and I still cannot believe my cupcake is one of the coolest cupcakes in Canada! Thank you so much again for giving me this unforgettable opportunity, Jen!!

To see the coolest cupcakes, please visit weddingbells.ca.
 

Featured in weddingbells Magazine Spring & Summer 2013

My wedding cookies were featured in weddingbells magazine spring & summer 2013 (page 118 and 336)!
I'm so thrilled and excited!

Thank you so much again for giving me this awesome opportunity, Roseanne!

Nutcracker Cookies - Holiday Cookies - Christmas Cookies

Christmas nutcracker cookies!

I always wanted to make nutcracker cookies and finally I designed my own version of nutcracker cookies, aren't they cute? :D

Also I would like to share my favorite royal icing recipes.  

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

 

Royal icing for Piping or Outline

2 cups(1 pound) confectioners' sugar
4 tsp meringue powder
about 3 TBSP warm water
1 TBSP lemon Juice or 1/2 - 1 tsp any extract(vanilla,almond...)


Royal icing for flooding

(Make about 12 3inch cookies)

2 cups(1 pound) confectioners' sugar
4 tsp meringue powder
about 6 TBSP warm water
1 TBSP lemon Juice or 1/2 - 1 tsp any extract(vanilla,almond...)

1. Combine all ingredients in the bowl of your electric mixer.

2. Beat on high for 5 minutes if you're using an electric stand mixer or for 10 minutes if you're
using an electric hand mixer. (If your mixer has multiple attachments, use the PADDLE)

3. When you reach the desired consistency, it's important that you immediately cover the mixture of store it in airtight containers.

** You can always add more confectioner's sugar or water if your icing is too runny or stiff.

Recipes are from "Cookie Craft", Valerie Peterson and Janice Fryer.

Handcrafted Sugar Flower Cake

 Moist yellow cake layered with sweet and fluffy vanilla buttercream and covered in white fondant

Finished decorating with handcrafted sugar flowers; open peonies, hydrangeas, filler flowers, flower buds and leaves.
What a lovely cake!! :D

Inspired by Petalsweet Cakes, Jacqueline Butler.