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!

Tatiana and Justin are married!

When Jennifer Carroll brought Tatiana and Justin in for a tasting early this year, I just fell in love with them. They were both so excited about their wedding day, but also just seemed to be so content that they were spending the rest of their life together. After going through the many designs that they were drawn to and learning of their wedding colors of chocolate, lavender, sage green and ivory, we came up with a few designs. Tatiana AND Justin chose their favorite...I just love it when the groom-to-be has so much interest in the planning. In addition, I also wanted to add a few additional pics of this absolutely gorgeous wedding created by Jennifer Carroll. The breathtaking pictures are courtesy of Jen Fariello. Usually I have heard that the pictures do not do beautiful weddings such as this any justice, but Jen's pictures will change your mind!










Tatiana and Justin's wedding was featured on Style Me Pretty as well today. If you have not yet seen this blog, head over to find the word in inspiration for today's weddings! I am truly honored to be included with such a fine cast of wedding vendors!

C-ville Unions is Out and Maliha Creations is featured!

Pick up the latest copy of C-ville Unions this week and read about local vendors for your upcoming wedding! Featured are local jewelry makers, locally made favors, and local honeymoon spots right here in Virginia. In our family, we have tried to commit ourselves to buying more locally, by joining a CSA and patronizing local stores. What we have found is that in addition to feeling good about our purchases, we actually find some pretty wonderful and unique items.

Also, in this issue Maliha Creations was honored to be asked to provide three different cakes for three different types of weddings...casual, traditional and whimsical. I was up for the challenge and the three cakes are featured below...also here is a link to the article... http://cvilleweddings.com/misc/unions_content_cake.html







Thank you, C-ville Unions for featuring us!

Local Press

We get wonderful support from our local community and wanted to say thanks for recent press in The Hook Weddings edition. Thank you for recognizing our work!