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| A Maritoni White Velvet cake: 2014 mini cakes have shiny patches; 14 is a 'batik' inspired. |
Decades passed without baking. I was hooked up in my career, not only in the mere world of teaching, but in all other extra curricular activities, to name campus journalism, badminton, girl scouting, folk dancing, arts and crafts (drawing, painting and cut outs in papers and styrofoam as learning devices and decorations), crocheting, sewing and designing curtains and other stuff.
In 2007 teaching brought me to Thailand and no trace of baking was noted in my palms.
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| When the birthday girl got her car. |
There wasn't a single space at the back of my head to re-register baking until I met Grace and Conor Murphy who love themed cakes on their birthdays. So in October 2013, I found myself in sculpted car cake as my loving hubby gave me a silver Ford Focus as his birthday present to me. However, my car cake turned out to be a racing car!
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| Grace and Eoin cutting the Halloween butter vanilla cake |
Trick-or-Treat came and the Halloween fondant cakes magnetised me to highlight the event in Barryland as Grace and Conor with Eoin and Alex would be scaring Barryland with their fabulous costumes.
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| The proud Grace and Conor with the fire engine cake, a collaborative work. |
As newly re-born individual in cakes, the adventure has just begun for me and our grandchildren, Grace and Conor as they become my guest cake decorators on our cake bonding moments, it's a fun time learning, in fact. In our fire engine cake, their creativity has been nourished whilst they made the cake toppers.
Every priceless moment has been coupled with fondant cakes and sculpted cakes. The themed cake is always linked to a person's interest or work.
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| A cake to welcome Baby Manuel |
My children know that I can bake and I love baking, but I couldn't remember that I baked them any birthday cakes.
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| A Maritoni red velvet deluxe laptop cake for our dear IT man, Reimark |
A heaven cake was made to remember my late dad and my uncle on 12th December. It took me awhile to figure out how to decorate the cake. I browsed in the Internet any photo of a heaven cake, but there wasn't one that matched my wild imagination. Making the clouds and with the help of my pastry brush, the cake turned out to be simple, yet fabulous. Cutting the stars was a lot easier and I gave the credit to Ivy Hutt in England for the sets of fondant cutters packed with love to Barryland.
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| A Maritoni white velvet cake |
My dad was one of the pioneering jeepney drivers in Cotabato City, Philippines. So in honour of him, my hubby and I sculpted a jeepney cake on his first death anniversary, 22nd December, as our way of joining the rest of our family back home. My dad was once delivering soft drinks in retail shops in the city in late 70s and early 80s.
The jeepney cake has become the driving force for me to engage into the cake's world.
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| A Philippine jeepney cake |
We hadn't finished the cake in a week's time as there was a couple of cakes in the house in the previous days. On the seventh day, Linda with Grace and Conor called in. Linda took a slice of the cake and to her surprise, the cake was as moist and tasty as it was on the day it was baked. There and then, she encouraged me more and more to go into the cake business. Thanks to my dad in heaven!
It's Christmas time! It's a record breaking for me as I hadn't spent a single moment preparing for the family's Christmas dinner. All I did was baking and decorating cakes.
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| A Maritoni Melange Velvet cake |
In the last quarter of 2013, I had tried recipes that seem to be pleasing to me. I bumped to a red velvet cake in the Internet, but because I am used to customise whatever I do, (be it in lesson planning, cooking, gardening, baking and etc) the laptop cake and the heaven cake, were distinctively tasteful. Hence, I came up with the Maritoni White Velvet, Maritoni Velvet Delight, and Maritoni Melange Velvet cakes. They're extra moist cakes that melts in the mouth!
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| A Maritoni Velvet Delight Cake |
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| A Maritoni Velvet Delight |
The most exciting one I did was our New Year family cake. I was suppose to make the Murphys' house with their front drive and garden. However, I ran out of time due to the making of Santa Tony and Marie the Elf as unfortunately I didn't get any tylose powder that time. As quick as the wink of an eye, my flexibility had to work; hence built our house. The snowmen family were the Murphys and of course Grace and Conor picked the colours of the hats and scarfs.
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| A Maritoni Melange Velvet |
Truly there's more fun in Maritoni cakes!
They're baked with love, cakes with love and cakes that you will surely love.
A special credit is given to our son, Reimark for initiating Maritoni cakes blog. It's a website reviving me not only in cakes, but in writing, too.
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