Happy Birthday to a Wonderful 6 year old!

On June 8th 2003, we were blessed with the arrival of our first daughter, Asha. On the last day of school in June, we celebrated her birthday with her classmates and two of her buddies, Elijah and Hugh. Happy 6th Birthday, to 3 great kids :)!

I love you, Asha Maliha...may your life be filled with as much joy and happiness as you bring to your family!

With an under the sea theme, we accomplished the goal of being able to use pinks and purples, as well as greens and blues...making the birthday girl AND birthday boys happy!

Jefferson's Rotunda - SURPRISE!

In early April I received an email from a lady who wanted to surprise her daughter and son-in-law with a cake in the shape of the Rotunda. The bride and groom both went to UVA, as did many of the attendees of the wedding. I worked with the always fabulous Jessica Sheffield of The Event Company to make sure the bride and groom would have no idea about the cake. The lovely pictures are courtesy of Rob Garland from Rob Garland Photographers. Thanks for the pictures, Rob and Meg!

Back to blogging...

...After we had our third child last October and enjoying a few months with him, I kicked back into high gear with the 2009 wedding season in April. It has been pretty much non-stop since then and I have not had much time to blog.

The season began with an adorable couple, Elizabeth and Scott. They are such a fun-loving and carefree couple, so I knew we were going to have fun with their wedding. Elizabeth wanted to do away with the ordinary and chose cupcakes to treat her guests. We created 200 cupcakes in 3 different flavors...chocolate cake with white buttercream frosting and sprinkled with chocolate shavings, almond sour cream cake with light pink buttercream frosting and slivered almonds, and lemon cupcakes with raspberry frosting, topped with a fresh raspberry on each. Elizabeth gathered dozens of vintage cupcake stands for display and the effect was brilliant (I will post pics from the photographer). Their guests were able to indulge in one, two, or all three of the flavors of cupcakes! To top it off, we created a GIANT cupcake for Elizabeth and Scott to cut.



Thank you Elizabeth and Scott!

A Cake for a Cause

Early last summer, I received an email from a sweet woman, Kim, who wanted Maliha Creations to donate a cake for a golf tournament to benefit Potentials Foundation, an organization dedicated to raising awareness and funds for primordial dwarfism (MOPD II) which is a very rare type of dwarfism. This type of dwarfism only affects approximately 200 in the world. When I saw a picture of Kim's son, I just had to come up with something special. This sweet little boy had the cutest face and the most beautiful eyes. His sister and brother created drawings that were going to be used for T-shirts for the event, so of course, I had to include them on the cake.

Only a golf bag to serve 200, would be fitting enough for a golf tournament.




Thank you, Kim, for choosing Maliha Creations to be a part of your special event. I hope events like this continue to raise money for the cause.

Playing Catch Up!

Phew...it has been a whirlwind of a winter for Maliha Creations. At the end of October our family grew to include a sweet little boy. With three kids underfoot, life has been crazy to say the least. I do look forward to getting back to baking for my wonderful customers in the next few months! In the meantime, I would like to post about a few of the cakes that I did before I went on maternity leave, but never had a chance to write about.

It's A Boy!

We were blessed with a baby boy, Ayaan, on October 29th, 2008. Ayaan and his big sisters are all doing well. Thank you for all the well wishes during this magical, yet exhausting time!

Maliha Creations will be on maternity leave until April 2009, but will be accepting orders for events after that time.

Also, I have not had a chance to update my blog with all the fun cakes I did before our son was born...I hope to get time to do so!

Thanks for your patience and understanding!

Fancy Nancy!

I have been waiting for months to get an order for a Fancy Nancy cake. So when I received a call to do a cake in this theme for a five year old's birthday party, I just had to do it! If you have a little girl and have not yet read this book, run, do not walk, to the nearest bookstore to pick it up. It is a hoot!

My inspiration for this cake came directly from the book...some quotes....
"A princess is supposed to keep her tiara on."
"My favorite color is fuschia. That's a fancy way of saying purple."

The tiara and bow are hand made out of gumpaste and dusted with luster dust to make them extra fancy!

Happy 5th Birthday, Austin! I hope your day was especially fancy!