tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82682502012-01-23T03:26:55.961-08:00"If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. " ... "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ... "God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean." ... ...Albert Einstein...Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312246187872300741noreply@blogger.comBlogger321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-85824949781781293882011-02-28T00:34:00.000-08:002011-02-28T09:41:26.685-08:00

Happy Birthday Keith!! :)For my hub's birthday, I decided to do Firefly cupcakes because.. Firefly is awesome and so is he. :)So the sandy environment that they tread upon is made of crushed graham crackers & vanilla frosting. And then Serenity is amongst edible star glitter & chocolate frosting hovering above them. :)Yay! :) There they are.. Jayne, Mal & Zoe upfront w/ their pistols. Inara,

Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312246187872300741noreply@blogger.com56tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-77507094802872581042010-10-22T00:52:00.000-07:002010-10-22T14:34:13.749-07:00

So Johannes & Heather's Housewarming Shennanigans are going down this Friday so I made some house cupcakes! LOL! :D Just whipped up some chocolate cupcakes topped w/ ganache and then some vanilla frosting... And then made my little cupcake village... haha :) It was just little Tiny Bits gum, Toblerone (some with snow on top for their Canadian-ness), marshmallows and chocolate and fruit roll up

Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312246187872300741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-13473138807061417452010-10-03T20:36:00.000-07:002010-10-03T21:20:26.106-07:00

Sooo.. It's Victoria's Going Away party from working at Disney so I made her a lil sweet treat. :) I didn't get very much time to work on anything so I just threw some things together.. =/A little Triple Chocolate Fudge Cake w/ some Whipped Cream frosting and a thin layer of ganache in between.. Bright, Sparkly pink since she's fun and sassy! :) Then, since her party was Mexican themed, I made

Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312246187872300741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-9370399741080788362010-09-17T22:28:00.001-07:002010-09-17T22:55:53.932-07:00

Soo!! It's definitely been a while since I've posted last since we've been busy with our baby girl and I really haven't done much baking lately! I've just been whipping up batches of oatmeal-raisin cookies and that's about it! =P So I figured I'll just post about a couple things that were made right before I popped out a baby. haha :D *lemon & red velvet cake* I finally got to try making cake

Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312246187872300741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-62101870673822258702009-11-08T22:20:00.000-08:002009-11-09T16:49:38.776-08:00

Happy Birthday Scott!! :)So... Scott requested beer cupcakes for his birthday a while ago... which I had great plans for! And then... *sigh* well these didn't turn out like I had hoped they would have... oh well! =PSo.. I pretty much made a beer cup casings out of chocolate (which took quite a while...) and in the middle of that are two stacked pineapple cupcakes...Then for the foam, I used

Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312246187872300741noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-7382868012183079662009-09-24T10:54:00.000-07:002009-09-24T15:17:29.637-07:00

Yay! Sooo.. Happy Birthday Jeff! "Hi. I'm Jeff Carnes. I make pizzas!"Anyways, Jeff makes pizzas and so we figured a pizza cake! Ha! =) But this isn't just cake.. there's ice cream! Yayyyyy :) So pretty much here's the dealio...It was one cake round on the bottom (French Vanilla), a layer of ganache, and then another cake round on top, except i just emptied out the whole middle - just to leave a

Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312246187872300741noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-14352326741365146802009-07-17T01:08:00.000-07:002009-07-17T15:49:01.165-07:00

Happy Birthday Johannes!!! =) Here are some Carrot Cake Cupcakes w/ Maple Cream Cheese Frosting... get it? Maple?! ... ... ... okay... hahah :)with Canadian Flags and a Canadian Beaver and "eh?"'s-galore - hahah :) All made outta chocolate.. It was quick but man, peeling them off of the wax paper... talk about the Red Edges of the flag being SUPER sensitive! I think4 broke so it was a good thing

Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312246187872300741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-18031405796516535642009-07-17T00:06:00.000-07:002009-07-17T01:07:42.042-07:00

Sooo, one of Keith's co-workers was leaving for New York... so I made some sky scraper cupcakes for him!Made some sky scrapers out of chocolate w/ chocolate cupcakes & vanilla frosting..And then the lettering is just chewy gobstoppers ... which I heard unfortunately were not so chewy after being in the fridge for some time.. =P And the letters were white chocolate...Quick and easy! :) Good

Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312246187872300741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-8902866469088948592009-05-10T20:47:00.000-07:002011-02-28T00:34:05.645-08:00

Hoot. :) hehehehe :)Anyways, here are some owl cupcakes for Jason's b-day...Dunno why the owls.. just because they look cool. And Jason is cool too. haha :)Easy and fun... Although the Oreos were a pain sometimes =P Even after trying to help soften out the filling with a lil microwave-action =PHere is the owl fam with the baby owls too.. haw haw ;)*you can find out how to make these on "Hello,

Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312246187872300741noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-4621887314370695432009-03-09T02:20:00.000-07:002009-03-18T15:27:16.863-07:00

Sooo.. Keith wanted me to make him some Nabaztag Cupcakes for his birthday.. I'm a lil late since I've been soooo busy with work but! I finally did got a few hours... so here they are! Huge army of them... Here's a few of them...Anyways.. they're pretty much just yellow cupcakes with lil mini twinkies.. I tried to use the chocolate ones, but it showed thru the fondant =P and then those ears

Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312246187872300741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-72988327538789178272009-01-26T09:26:00.000-08:002009-01-26T09:32:32.809-08:00

Hurray for Sophie getting married! :)So this past weekend we threw Sophie a Bridal Shower... pretty fun!!! :)We did the normal Toilet Paper Bride, What's in your Purse Game, How well do you know your S.O., and the Clothespin Game! We also did a round of Pass the Presents... and we printed out all the pictures during the shower and made her an awesome scrapbook!!Here are the bridal shower cookie

Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312246187872300741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-48982838975365861152009-01-04T12:58:00.000-08:002009-01-04T13:10:26.110-08:00

Hurray for Christmas!!!Sooo this was quite a busy Christmas! Very fun tho and filled with lots of lovin'! hahaha =)Here are some sugar cookies I made for Keith's grandparents, aunt, uncle & cousins... :)It was really cool cuz along with some other cookies (peanut butter blossoms & iced lemon shortbread), we got to give another two ducks & chicken through World Vision as part of their gift! =) It

Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312246187872300741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-10056986460494541032008-12-17T12:52:00.000-08:002008-12-17T13:05:37.787-08:00

Okay - seriously. One of the most awesomest gifts EVER! I seriously was so excited for like 3 hours, around 4 pm, I felt like I needed a serious nap!So yesterday at our Holiday Team Potluck, my awesome team & bible study & a couple other friends at work... surprised me with a cake for my birthday and a gift! It was the sweetest thing ever!!! Total surprise since they had already taken me out the

Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312246187872300741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-85977812421895198892008-11-26T22:04:00.000-08:002008-11-26T22:37:38.947-08:00

Soooo... :) Land of the Lost.. yeah... I had definitely never heard of that before this cake. hahah :) So Ray requested this cake for his friend's birthday and it was definitely a chance for me to do the whole volcano thing... which I've been itching to do.. Which, I have to say, I was bummed I didn't have the time to make actually move, bubble or have smoke come out.. but next time!Anyways! So

Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312246187872300741noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-68447445674195960262008-11-26T21:55:00.000-08:002008-11-26T22:04:37.693-08:00

Sooooo - these cakes are kinda from a while ago, I just didn't have time to post... sooo.. here ya go! :)Here is my mom's cake that I made for her birthday last year... it's just a from scratch carrot cake with cream cheese icing! Ummm... Basketweave and white chocolate lollipop flowers :) Chocolate is so easy to work with! :) So many different molds.. I should probably use them more often :)

Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312246187872300741noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-56615773920169447412008-11-10T14:57:00.000-08:002008-11-10T21:38:56.747-08:00

Sooo... Scott had requested burrito cupcakes... and I thought it was definitely a different request... so here they are! hahah :) I don't think the burritos turned out as well as the tacos... but oh well!! :) They were a lot o' fun to make.. and Keith got to help out this time... =P haha :)It's a yellow boxed-mix cake and canned frosting =P (again... I know... Shame on me for not baking from

Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312246187872300741noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-28181842774724190622008-09-23T02:41:00.000-07:002008-09-23T02:59:52.114-07:00

SOooooo!! I made some cupcakes that look like sushi for Jeff's Birthday... man... stayed up SOoooo late.. *yawn* Anyways... not too bad.. made them in like 5 hours or so... I cheated tho - used mix cakes & pre-made frosting... but man... i had to cut up so much different candies... but definitely fun...Pretty much vanilla and lemon cupcakes and vanilla frosting... then black/green fondant for

Vivianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312246187872300741noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-927967790456449432008-09-04T19:15:00.001-07:002008-09-04T19:32:45.007-07:00

Here's my first Groom's Cake! Wooooot :) It was for Erhan & Shrin's wedding! It was kind of a rush since I wasn't completely sure I would be making this cake until 2 days before the wedding. haha :) But here it is... It's a triathlon cake since Erhan does tons of them... haha :) We usually see him running either during lunch or after work... in the rain.. in the sun... crazy guy. Anyways... so

viviannoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-79454236695193216562008-05-20T16:15:00.000-07:002008-05-20T23:52:32.912-07:00

Soooo - here's the cake for my bro's 17th birthday. He plays CS like days at a time... which really isn't that great... but he's pretty good at it. haha :) I enjoy to play sometimes... but I tend to rush instead of strategically play... haha :) But it was easy for me to make the cake since I actually knew what was going on... haha ;) So, this is the map: Dust, and Bomb Site B, and 4

viviannoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-12108628406854467962008-04-30T20:49:00.000-07:002008-04-30T21:31:19.440-07:00

Hurray for Vegas! We went for our second year anniversary - We got to stay at the Luxor - which was alright. It was just a couple hotels from the Monorail which made it a lil inconvenient - BUT it was better than walking everywhere :) Hurray for Monorail!Sooo... we went to the Star Trek Bar and did the Backstage Tour which was AWESOME. And we went on both rides. At the bar - I had my fav - Deanna

viviannoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-53603232713600219892008-02-28T23:10:00.000-08:002008-02-29T09:48:15.628-08:00

Sooooo - this one took me a while! It had so many lil pieces I had to like create! =P But it was really fun! Compared to the dragon cake - this one was WAY more intricate - like I actually had to draw this one out before I started making it because the web has all these pictures of r2d2 - but like almost all at the same angle. From the front! haha ;) Plus this one had different colors - where

viviannoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-60455158507667350162007-10-31T22:30:00.000-07:002007-10-31T22:50:55.294-07:00

So this was pretty fun... here are a few of the cupcakes Keith and I made for the Halloween party at my work! I did a few.. but then Keith did most of them. It was super fun! =) Getting lotsa different kinds of candy was fun - but man!! i couldn't find any candy corn! Everyone already went through all the stores and swiped them all! Sheesh! we were totally candy-corn-less.Anyways, so we just used

viviannoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-1329213324021728462007-10-17T19:25:00.000-07:002007-10-17T19:40:30.677-07:00

So one of my really good friends is leaving today to go to the other branch of our company up North. The booger. Definitely a very sad day. =( Anyways, he loves dragons - and asked me to make him a dragon cake before he left. So here it is.The head, horns, neck and part of the tail are home-made rice krispies treats, and and then molded by hand. And then covered in buttercream and then Green

viviannoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-85604409767264159642007-09-19T22:47:00.000-07:002007-09-19T22:55:51.463-07:00

hehe - so I made a cake for Keith's grandparents since their birthdays were close. I made some figures of them out of fondant and stuck them on a cake in a garden of love. hahahah =) Cheesy. Anyways, it's also a yellow cake with whipped cream and strawberries and the outside is buttercream dream. I'm still looking for a better buttercream recipe but still haven't found it! Ack! Oh well...I made a

viviannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-92112670944364331992007-08-18T14:57:00.000-07:002007-08-19T01:26:51.707-07:00

Okay - so shame on me for not posting in forever and not putting up my cakes as i go along... So, here are the ones i have worked on lately:Yellow Cake covered in Whipped Cream & filled with strawberries & stabilized whipped cream:Here is the cake I made for my mom for Mother's Day - which turned out to be a much denser chocolate cake than expected because there was pudding in the recipe. But it

viviannoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-1168884325186913402007-01-15T10:01:00.000-08:002007-01-15T10:06:45.906-08:00

haha :) Here's Keith's wintery cake i made for his work.It was the first time for using crimpers which was kinda fun! :)And I made a lil snow-keith, snow-vivian, and sno-dallas. hahahh :) Wooot :)Fun fun fun! :) can't wait to make more!! WoohoooO! :)

viviannoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-1165112032365834622006-12-02T18:08:00.000-08:002006-12-02T18:13:52.406-08:00

So this was my last cake of the Wilton Series! The wedding cake! It turned out alright.The pattern was a lil hard to do at first since I was trying to trace it on - in the end I just ended up eye-balling it and making various flower patterns. :) The ribbon is a real ribbon and Uh - yah.Anyways, so yah, I made those fondant roses on top sprinkled in with some blue flowers - just cuz i love blue!

viviannoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-1164277171800205482006-11-23T02:12:00.000-08:002006-11-23T02:19:31.803-08:00

So this is my newest cake with fondant (which tastes gross unless you make it from scratch with marshmallows). This one wasn't that tough to do - except for the quilting effect cuz I had NO CLUE how to do it. The ribbon and the blue was pretty easy except some cracking at the corners. =/But yah, it took me the longest time, debating whether or not to do the quilting effect

viviannoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-1162612144088665992006-11-03T19:33:00.000-08:002006-11-03T19:49:04.103-08:00

So this is my fourth cake with a basket weave around the sides! I think it turned out alright. Made all the flowers before hand - royal icing. These were kind of all my bad stuff though - I picked out all the warped flowers and warped ladybugs and stuff since this was my practice cake. hehe :)but yah - you can see pansies, roses, rosebuds, violets, apple blossoms, daisies, daffodills, rosettes

viviannoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-1160545372532619082006-10-10T22:19:00.000-07:002006-10-10T22:42:52.543-07:00

Meh - This one was just a practice one since the one I actually made in class, I had to hand off to a friend that drove us to the airport right after my cake class - I couldnt' get any good pictures of that one, so I just made a new cake (kinda crazy looking) to practice my technique. Also, I kinda made this one in a hurry since it was like 11:30 pm. and I wanted to get it decorated by 12.I tried

viviannoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-1158940724317340532006-09-22T08:52:00.000-07:002006-09-22T09:17:05.936-07:00

So I made cake number two. And it was supposed to have these cutesy lil clowns on them.. which turn out to be really easy to make!! But like Keith needed a cake for his work since a co-worker was leaving. So he told me to make the cake as a goodbye cake. Dagnabit. =P No clowns on this one.. hehe =) I should've just made one like climbing up the back of the cake. hahahaha :)Anyways, here's the

viviannoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268250.post-1158337591898070762006-09-15T09:14:00.000-07:002006-09-15T09:30:34.720-07:00

Yay! I made my first cake after taking my first cake lesson! I think it looks alright.. it's a rainbow cake if you can't tell. =) Yay! it was sosososso fun!! I can't wait till we make more!sorry about the coloring - it's a lil dark... I took them in the morning when it was a little overcast. But yah - we had to make the cake, level the cake, ice the cake (which could be a lil tricky, I think I

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