Thinking of Wonderland

After doing the post about Natalie's Alice in Wonderland inspired party, I thought about a dinner party that I threw last year for a friends birthday! It was mad hatter themed as well and let's just say I went a little mad with the decorations. I used a bed spread that I had that was orange and white to make the table come to life, then used mix matched bottles for flower arrangements, tea cups for soy sauce for my infamous cream cheese wontons, and some yummy Izze sodas with tags tied on them that read "Drink Me." In the invitation I encouraged everyone to wear something whimsical and floral to go with getting lost in Wonderland and all of my lovely friends really came through...

Natalie in Wonderland

"Curiouser, Curiouser"

the finished product

the precious tea cup from Anthropologie

wouldn't be complete without "eat me"

and the miniature tea cups holding real flowers 

the birthday girl Natalie, and spider man or I mean Anthony

lovely drawings by Lin, and Candy Bandit set up

"Oh Alice"

Recently, Summer's adorable cousin Natalie boo turned 3 years old. And she decided to celebrate with an Alice in Wonderland party, so Summer and I decided to make a Mad Hatter themed cake to celebrate her very Merry Unbirthday! I came up with the idea to make a three tiered cake with a tea cup on the top with flowers spilling out of it and spilling down the side of the cake! This was one of the most difficult and adorable cakes that we have made. To secure the cakes we put posts through the middle of them! It was so much fun to mix the colors and find the perfect ones to compliment each other. Me, Summer, and the birthday girl were all ecstatic with the outcome! 

Happy Birthday Seamus

two of my favorite things, elephants and fresh flowers

Recently, it was another one of my favorite little boys birthday. Seamus turned 2! So we celebrated with his classmates with some sprinkle overload cupcakes! They were simple funfetti cupcakes with some cream cheese frosting which were drenched in sprinkles. The mini cupcakes I rimmed with bright sprinkles, and each of Seamus' classmates were lucky to have two each! And the big one of course was for Senor Seamus!

Horticulture Event

inspiration:

the real ones, silk floss tree

gardenia thunbergia

 escholia californica

Last Year, one of my family friends Cary Sharp wanted me to make some cupcakes for his Horticulture Event at the Wild Animal Park. They were celebrating employee appreciation and what says appreciation more than cupcakes? So we decided on thirty cupcakes, the first flavor (Cary's favorite) vanilla cupcakes with chocolate frosting, red velvet with cream cheese frosting, and a spice cupcake with cinnamon cream cheese frosting, which I topped with a baked pumpkin seed dipped in chocolate. Which was so yummy and salty, surprisingly I'm a salty person over sweet! In order to make sure and impress the horticulturists, Cary gave me the name of three flowers that he wanted me to make out of fondant. The first was escholia californica, gardenia thunbergia, and silk floss tree. If those scientific names aren't intimidating enough, these fake fondant flowers were going to be in front of a bunch of flower and plant experts so I wanted to do my best. After perfecting the flowers I wanted to stick with the earthy feel and got a basket and then hot glued real moss in the perfect places to make it appear that it was growing out of the basket. I was really ecstatic with the outcome and even the horticulturist were impressed with how much the fondant flowers looked like the real deal! 

Catching Up

finished product

Akayah 

Max

Enzo, birthday boy

Seamus

Happy Birthday

Seamus tried every flavor

love you so much Enzo

So AS You Wish Cakes has been creating for about a year now, but it isn't until now that we are actually getting things together. I wanted to share some of the other creations that we have created and this is something that I am extremely proud of. My "boyfriend" and next door neighbor Enzo turned 3, last August and for his birthday he requested 60 Sesame Street cupcakes. He is my love so I couldn't say no. It was so time consuming and challenging but SO FUN! The cupcakes turned out so cute, we made Elmo, Cookie Monster (my personal favorite), and the Grouch. I searched the internet for inspiration but couldn't find anything that was up to my standards, so here's what we came up with!