Wedding Cake 101 : How to make a wedding cake

Wow! This is my first post for the year 2010. So how did your 2009 year end? Mine was a mixture of exhaustion, fulfillment, blessings, and joy=)

Since my 2009 was so blessed by God with parties and events, I'd like to start my blog for this year by sharing how I made my first wedding cake and cupcakes for a client turned good friend named Melissa. Before I discuss the details of her wedding cake, let me tell you that this lady was the one who inspired and encouraged me to include pastries on my existing chocolate fountain business.

She first contacted me around Feb 09 to inquire about the chocolate fountain since she wanted to have this on her dream wedding in December 2009 at Pangasinan. But she also asked me if i could provide her cupcakes because she couldn't find a cupcake tower supplier in that area. Since I
mentioned that I have been baking for my family since I was a kid, she persuaded me to try out baking again so I could bake for her on her wedding. I was hesitant at first because I've never baked cakes with icing before!hahaha. To cut the story short, I gave it a shot. I bought some baking materials, bought a gas range, and started to bake since then.

Am so glad she trusted my skills and was able to encourage me to do what I have loved and enjoyed doing since my childhood days.=)

Here goes the cake story..

I made her 200pcs cupcakes in 6 yummy flavors!
Banana Cupcakes with Chocolate Cream Icing, Peanut Butter Cupcakes with Chocolate Cream Icing, Pink Velvet Cupcake with Chocolate Cream Icing, Choco Orange Cupcake with Pink Vanilla Cream Icing, Carrot Walnut Cupcake with Pink Vanilla Cream Icing, and Chocolate Almond Cupcake with Strawberry Cream Icing


Also made her one 6x5 round mini cake for the cake cutting ceremony. The mini cake had
two flavors. The top layer is a black and white cake and the bottom layer is a white chocolate cake=)

Here's my step by step procedure on how this wedding cake turned into a princess=)

1. I baked two batches of cake in a 6inch baking pan. Trimmed the cake and put them together using a whipped cream frosting. Then, I started adding the white buttercream dream icing from the top to the sides, leaving some area un-iced for the chocolate icing cover

2. Using a steel cake spatula, I flatted the icing. For best result, submerge the spatula on very hot water every time you flatten the icing. After I made the white icing look clean, I added the chocolate icing on the area of the cake where I left blank.

3. Since my cake have already been fully iced, I started the decorating part by carefully putting on the edible pink metallic candy beads. My tiny mistake, I should have added beads on top before I place the edible candy flowers..

4. Finally, add the edible candy flowers on top and on the sides=)


Here are some pictures I took on the venue..

Cupcake Tower #1 with the Mini Wedding Cake

Cupcake Tower #2

Before I forget, also want to thank Ms. Tish of WMN for featuring our business story on their web magazine's December issue. Read the article from this link.

Happy New Year!

Gourmet Mini Donuts in the House=)

I received this additional order for 50pcs of our Gourmet Mini Donuts and a box of Assorted Gourmet Mini Donuts from my weekend client, Ms. Jeny, last Saturday. So happy everyone raved and enjoyed this extra treat my client got for her guests.

Her selection included Oreo Crumble, Milk Cinnamon Treat, Hundred Island, Dark Sweet Temptation, and the Blue and Green version (to match her son's christening event motif) of Fire in a Whole.


If you're getting our Chocolate Fountain service, you only need to pay for the cost of the gourmet mini donuts at 9php each (that's 10% discount for this extra order. Regular price is at 10 pesos each). Setup and delivery is already free of charge.=)

Thank You note for my client's Butterfly Themed wedding on December

I'm so proud of this finished project I made for my grandest wedding event this coming December. One of my soon-to-be wed client will be getting about 250-300 assorted cupcakes as favors for her coming wedding end of this year.

Through the help of Adobe Photoshop CS, I was able to come up with this lovely themed thank you note which I plan to put on each of her cupcake favor box.

So happy our clients loved it!

*I added our watermaked signature here just for security purposes.

It's not a Cake! It's just a heart shaped cake looking choco!

I received this order from a client and said she wanted a heart shaped cake looking chocolate. She just saw one of my advertisements and asked me if I could do this for her mom's birthday. I was of course ecstatic about the concept because it was my biggest molded chocolate order so far and a marvelous idea to add to my list of products.

Here are some shots of what I made yesterday.

Order number one for her mom's birthday.. what a sweet daughter..

Side view look at the chocolate. That's mint white milk chocolate at the middle layer

Order number two..

Elegantly packed and ready to go!

It's basically composed of bittersweet and semisweet chocolates with mint white milk chocolate at middle layer. Although I could simply use melted white chocolate for the message and decorations, I decided to use vanilla butter cream icing instead so as to make it look more like a cake.=)

I am so happy about the outcome. I do think that this will also be a nice and unique wedding favor. I'm again making one tomorrow night for another client! =)

Our April Events

Not enough time to blog right now so i will just be posting all our April events (after holy week and our long vacation break) in one shot.=)


April 18 at Prestige Tower Roof Deck


-This is an 18th birthday in red and gold theme. They got the Gold package with Milk Chocolate fondue. Their dippings included Vanilla Wafer, Breadstick, Marshmallows, Mini Cup Cakes, Apple, and Melon



April 19 at Shakey's Magallanes

- Here's another Shakey's event from another branch this time.=) It's a 7th birthday in Speed Racer theme. They got our Gold package with Bittersweet (my favorite) chocolate. Their dippings included Chocolate Wafer Stick, Vanilla Wafer, Marshmallows, Mini Cup Cakes (Ube and Cheese flavor), Banana, and Melon. They also got sprinklers in blue and brown and mini candy coated choco drops as add-ons.



April 24 at One San Miguel Bldg.

- This is our first wedding event for April. Their theme was orange and yellow/gold. They got our Gold Package with Milk Chocolate fondue. Their dippings included Choco Wafer Stick, Marshmallows, Churros, Melon, Banana, and Apple. They also got sprinklers in white, yellow, and orange to match their motif.


April 25 at Tom's World Robinson's Galleria

- Our first Sesame St. themed birthday party! A second birthday party for a baby boy. They got our Silver Package with Milk Chocolate fondue. Their dippings included Choco Wafer Stick, Bread Stick, Marshmallows, Banana, and Apple and with Blue, Green, Red, and Yellow mixed colors of Sprinkles and Honey Coated Crispies (comes free with the new package). They by the way brought their own Melon dipping.



April 25 at Shakey's El Pueblo

- This is our third event at this branch (reason why some prospective clients are already asking if we're tied up with them..ahem.hehe. ) They got our Platinum package for their two son's 2nd and 3rd birthdays in blue and green motif. They chose Milk Chocolate fondue on one chocolate fountain and Premium Chocolate fondue on the other chocolate fountain. Their dippings included Marshmallows, Chocolate Wafer Stick, Vanilla Wafer, Graham Crackers, Churros, Mini Donuts, Banana, Apple, Pineapple, and Strawberries. They also got rainbow colored sprinkles, honey coated crispies, and mini candy coated choco drops in green and blue to match their event's motif.



April 26 at Central Bicutan, Taguig City

- This is for a baby girl's first birthday in Hawaiian Luau theme. They got our Silver Package with Darksweet chocolate fondue. Marshmallows, Choco Wafer Stick, Breadstick, Watermelon, and Melon. They also got themed sprinklers and mini candy coated chocolate drops in green, red, yellow, and orange colors.



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My Cupcakes, mini cupcakes, and mini cakes!

My Chocolate Heaven is now introducing cakes on its line of products! Especially baked by me of course=)

Just a small background on this hobby.. My passion for pastries and desserts actually started a long time ago. I start baking when I was on my third grade. My mom used to work for an international christian company (Campus Crusade for Christ in Baguio City). Composed of mostly American bosses (some or one Indian I think), receiving baked goodies on holidays like Easter, Thanksgiving, Halloween, and specially Christmas has already become a tradition for their employees. And since they always have a year to end garage sale, selling baking equipments and recipes are always a part of it. When my mom decided to buy some baking equipments and recipe books, I and my dad started to try out baking and from then on, my mom always complained about my baking schedule because i do it almost every weekend as a snack for the family. Trying all the yummy goodies like cakes, brownies, and cookies.. she definitely had to set a budget for me! Lol.

Since then, our birthday cakes were homemade by me.=) But that stopped when I married. My mom doesn't want to give up here baking stuff yet daw. hehehe.. Oh well, I was also focus on my family and my profession. And I still do baking occasionally naman so that didn't bother me at all.. Not until I started my chocolate dessert business and some clients are already asking if I could also do cakes for them. And so I though, why not go back to the hobby that I and my family enjoyed;) It also by the way won my hubby's and his family's heart and stomach anyways! lol

So there you go.. Now I'm back to my 1st loved hobby! And to showcase my baked goodies, I baked some cupcakes in three different flavors (chocolate mint, vanilla chocolate chip, and strawberries and cream) and a two-tiered mini cake(in moist chocolate chiffon) as a gift for my elder brother, his wife, and their soon to be baby during the baby shower I hosted last April 11.

Here are some pictures of what I made.












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Butterfly Themed Wedding event at The Greenery, Baliuag Bulacan

Our client here requested for a customized diamond package with extra swiss cheese fondue for 250 guests. This so far is our grandest wedding event early this year!

Their non-fruit dippings for the chocolate fondues were chocolate and pandan wafer sticks, vanilla wafer, bread sticks, marshmallows, chocolate chip cookies, and churros. Their fruit dippings were banana, apple ,strawberries, and blueberries. Add-on dippings were pairs of themed sprinklers, roasted ground cashew nuts, slivered almonds, mini candy coated chocolate drops, and honey coated crispies. For the swiss (cheese) fondue, they chose Nachos and French Bread for their dippings. They also got sauted ground beef and sliced button mushrooms for the add-ons.












More pictures from our website's chocolate fountain gallery!=)

Late post events for March 13-14-15

I'm just gonna make this quick. Was not able to do a post about these events last week due to another soon to be lunched product which i am currently still researching and perfecting. Anywayz, here are the details of the events we had the week before..

March 13. It's a simple corporate get together party for some of Pointwest Technologies' IT professionals. This was held at UP Ayala Techno Hub. I loved the location of their building! It's too green.. bermuda grasses and trees can seen everywhere. How I wish our company's office was also located along this place. The package they had by the way was a customized silver package. My contact, Ms. Carla, said they wanted strawberry and churros dippings. So to cut cost, they removed 2 regular dippings and added 2 special dippings instead.





March 14. On Saturday, we had a wedding event at UP Diliman Balay Kalinaw Hall. Their theme was Orange. What I liked about this setup is that their caterer provided us 2 of their table centerpieces (which I presumed was supposed to be for the principal sponsor's table. Don't know why they decided to put those lovely vases on our setup though.). Our client here got our gold package. It is also a bit customized package since they had 3 regular fruit and 2 regular non-fruit instead of our usual 3 regular non-fruit and 2 regular fruit dippings.




March 15. This is probably one of the biggest 1st birthday party we've catered to so far. It was held in Shakey's MCU branch (Monumento, QC). They had over a hundred guests! They also got a pop-corn cart from another supplier but still our chocolate fountain was a hit! This is a platinum package setup in Barney's theme. It consists of two chocolate fountain with darksweet and milk chocolate as their chocolate fondues.



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Winnie the Pooh themed 1st Birthday party at Shakey's El Pueblo

Since this is our second time to cater to an event at Shakey's El Pueblo some clients are already asking if we are tied up with this Shakeys branch=) But nope! It's just a coincidence.. Even the balloon decorator (care of my co-n@wie, sis jackie;) ) we had on our first event was coincidentally the same balloon decorator for this event! (we will actually be having another client at this venue next month and most probably with the same balloon decorator! Totally ironic!lol )


This client got our gold package in yellow, pink, and orange to match their Winnie the Pooth themed 1st birthday. Their non-fruit dippings included bread stick, french bread, marshmallows, and churros. Their fruit dippings were pineapple and melon (i guess mommy joyce chose those fruits to match the event's theme). They also got themed sprinkles (in mixed pink, yellow, and orange color) and honey coated crispies!


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