Red Velvet Cake is my specialty birthday cake. I have made it for several people at school. This particular one was for my amazing piano teacher and Ear Training professor, Dr. Benton.
Hannah and I threw a Surprise party for our friend Christine's 21st Birthday. Her favorite color is green, and she loves little tree frogs, so I made a Green Velvet Cake with green icing shaped like a tree frog and covered with fondant. This is the result.
Lisa was having a movie-themed birthday party, and asked me to make the cake. She didn't care what it looked like. Once I'm given an idea I can go with it, but I have a hard time coming up with awesome ideas. So Hannah, Madeline, and I brainstormed and came up with this popcorn-box cake decorated with theatre candy. The stripes are twizzlers, and there is real popcorn on top.
I wanted to practice the decorations for Melissa and Jean-Luc's Wedding Cake, and Molly's birthday coincided with a High School Fellowship, so I made a cake for her using the decorations Melissa had picked out for her Wedding Cake!
JP's awesome girlfriend Hannah organized a super fun game-themed surprise party for his 21st birthday. I made a royal flush birthday cake to go along with the theme.
Hannah's favorite Starbucks drink was a Cinnamon Dolce Latte, so what better birthday cake to make than a Starbucks cake? I bought Cinnamon Dolce syrup, and made a coffee-flavored cake with Cinnamon Dolce icing. The logo is made with white and dark chocolate.
This is where I get to look back over my day and remember all the little things that brought me joy through out it. If you focus on the good things that you have been blessed with, and not the bad things (because there will always be bad things!), then your life will be much happier, and the lives of those around you will consequently be happier as well.
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Lamentations 3:21-26, "But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of Yahweh never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. 'Yahweh is my portion,' says my soul, 'therefore I will hope in Him.' Yahweh is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of Yahweh."