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#BirthdayCakes! Yum! And so pretty! #HappyBirthday!!
Oh, hey, did you know that if you freeze your birthday candles, they'll burn slower, enough time to blow out your Birthday Candles, and not get wax on your cake! Yahoo! Good Tip, right? I just heard it on #TheDoctors - a good little show! : )
One of my all-time favorite Birthday Cakes, a Princess Cake, from
Gelson's Market 13455 Maxella Ave, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
And if you just want to pop in on your way to the beach, you can just get a slice - so delightful, and soo pretty!
Okay, so this is really funny - I just went into my picture files, right, to find my pictures of my gorgeous Birthday Cake, so I could show you how to make it, yourself, if you were so inclined...
How cute is that, right?? I love it!
You know, I didn't know they had all these new ways to make beautiful little flowers - and some really big flowers, too - even MORE important, to me - and maybe you, too! lol! You could totally make your own very fancy cakes!
Hello, New Business Idea! : )
Oh, this cake is gorgeous, and would be so easy to make, too - basic rosettes, different shades of pinks, or whatever your favorite flower color is, then pipe the green stems, then the green leaves!
I LOVE it! Beautiful!
I wanted to show you how to deconstruct the Rose Bouquet Cake, show you how to make the Rose Bouquet Cake out of a flower pot, a round styrofoam ball, toothpicks, and 15 tiny cupcakes with a LOT of icing in the shape of a rose... and when I was looking for my Birthday Cake pics, all these other pictures came up, and I thought, well, I'll quickly show you these lovely pics of another one of my favourite Birthday Cakes, the Princess Cake from Gelson's in Marina del Rey, California - it was such a beautiful cake, and soo delicious (well, first slice, then we put it in the freezer, don't know if anyone ever did have any more cake - hahaha! But it was an incredible cake, for sures!).
Anyway, I go to choose which pictures to put on my blog, first, for the best way to show you how to make the Rose Bouquet Cake, right? And all these pictures come up, sooo, long story short, here they are, a big mishmash! I ALWAYS pretend to eat the whole cake by myself, pretend to take a big bite out of the whole cake - is endlessly funny to me! hahaha! I wonder where that green dress is (it's not a real green dress, that's cruel...for all the Bare Naked Ladies fans out there! hahaha! BNL, if their name is all cleaned up! lol!)
So, scroll down, you'll find more cakes as you go! lol!
Okay, so here's my first Rose Bouquet Cake - omg, it was soo crazy delicious. We get these lovely cakes at the Cupcake Shop in the Uptowne Plaza in Victoria, BC, it's right beside the Walmart bit, across from the waterfall... and Cara, my gorgeous, wonderful, fantastico daughter, always orders these lovely cakes for my Birthday - how sweet is that?? (Thank you, Sweetheart!!), and I think she orders them a day or so in advance, since they put extra icing in between the cupcakes, to fill the whole thing in, make it look perfect, and is all very exciting when you pull a cupcake out, and get the 'extra' icing - is like a little dream come true - a dream for extra icing! hahahaha! Makes me laugh! lol!
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Yahoo, here's my Birthday Cake from this year - I'm 51 - wow, where did the time go?? lol!
If you happen to be all fresh and young, right now, lucky you, but no worries about getting 'older' - is fun, you'll love it, and don't fall for any crap that you have to look or dress or feel a certain way specifically because of your age - no need to cut your hair when you're 30, or when you have your first child, or turn 40, or 50, or any specific age... even if your mother or your friends or your co-workers or the media, insists on it - no, let them have their favorite haircuts, and you get to have your very own style, whatever that is - long, short, you get to choose what you look like, all by yourself! #YouBeYouBoo! lol!
This was endlessly funny to me - here's the original name on the cake - nailed it! My name is AILSA, not ILSA, but I do have a cousin called Ilsa, ironically enough! lol! We laughed so hard when we saw this, then the girl at the Cupcake shop was so sweet, she immediately went and made a new 'name tag' for mah' Birfday Cake! lol!
It's gorgeous, though, right? Omg, it was craaazy-gorgeous, but here's another really funny thing - they didn't have a box for it, so we had to carry it home, just like that, holding onto the pot, so-to-speak...buh'dum'bum! So I was carrying it up to my place, I kept saying, man, if I ever get married, again (and I hope I do, one day, if the guy is really great! hahaha!), I'm gonna carry a cake like this as my bouquet, it was so crazy-gorgeous, and smelled so good, then you could just eat it, afterwards - now, that would get me right through the ceremony, right? An incentive of delicious cupcakes after the nuptials? Nuptials... sounds like something scrumptious, right?? Like the Flower Bouquet?? hahaha!
Oh, here we go - these are the pictures I was trying to find for you! lol! So, for this gorgeous little Cupcake Bouquet, you will need to either go to the bakery and buy one (haha!), or, get a nice little clay pot - or anything that the round styrofoam ball will sit in, nicely...and place 15 toothpicks around the styrofoam ball.
See how the toothpicks are spaced apart? The goal is to cover the whole area, of course, with little cupcakes, and they are the tiny cupcakes - you can buy these at any grocery store, too, then fill in the open areas with extra icing, or maybe some little leaves? Use your imagination, you'll come up with something really pretty!
When you're eating this amazing little cake, each person just pulls out one cupcake at a time - is sooo cute, you'll love it!
I save the base for the next time we might like to make another Cupcake Bouquet Cake - good idea, right? I just love it!
This Cupcake Bouquet Cake would be great for Easter, too, or for weddings... I'd rather have something like this, for a centerpiece - wouldn't your guests be sooo excited to get extra cupcakes?? haha! And you can use any flower theme... you could have so much fun designing something new! : )
Kick up the flavor with Jello Crystals?! Worth a try! : )
Oh, and you know what I was thinking? (No, me no gonna make you guess! lol!) Anyhooo, I was thinking about the sprinkles on these phenomenally delicious little cupcakes - and they are soooo little, very tiny, and oh-so-good...but I really think it's the sprinkles that make the icing so incredible, and the other night, when I was making our fave little Jelly Squares, I had just poured the
Jello Crystals into the 2 cup measuring cup, right?
To make the Jelly Squares? And it occurred to me, I bet this is what they sprinkle on their icing, to make it really pop! Sooo, maybe we should all try this?
So, if you have Lemon Icing, try sprinkling a little bit of Lemon Jello Crystals on the icing - it's worth a try, right? Can't hurt, that's for sure, and it might be the trick to making them truly amazing! I gotta try that!
See how it works? Each little rose is a mini-cupcake, careful put on a toothpick, to hold it in place - is sooo sweet! Literally - is so nice and sweet! lol!
Super-cute, right? You can make this Cupcake-Bouquet with any cupcakes - I like the mini-cupcakes, but you could easily use regular sized cupcakes, too - do whatever makes you happy, right? lol!
Oh, and here's something funny - I said to Cara, my gorgeous daughter, right after we brought my birthday cake home, this year, you know what, I think I have a picture frame just like this cake! So here it is - that's me on the beach in Marina del Rey, waiting to go into the Cheesecake Factory - I think this was a Mother's Day - who knows? The Cheesecake Factory in Marina del Rey, California, is one of my favourite places to go - is always great, and so pretty, there!
This picture frame matches mah' birthday cake! lol!
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And, clearly, I love Flowers! lol!
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