Birthdays and more birthdays

There's a lot of birthdays that came and went.. and still coming... in Aug... lots of Aug babies ya...

Here's 2 birthday cupcakes and cake which I baked for 2 birthdays...

Here's the cupcakes for the lovely Eirene.. it's Chocolate cupcake top with 'not too sweet' buttercream - request from the customer incase the kids gets really hyper active due to the sugar rush! Hehe!!

I guess from the cupcakes.. Eirene must really like pink color... One thing I forgot to ask my customer.. how old is Eirene ? Talk abt me having a birdbrain huh....

Here's another chocolate cake which I baked for a good friend of mine.. Her birthday is today... SO Happy Birthday Gladys!! The design of this cake is inspired by the world famous cake decorator, Peggy Porshen... every part of the cake is edible including the flowers (made from icing!) except for the cake board of course!! hehe!

Weekend Goodies...

I had an order for his 3 years Anniversary with her girlfriend... and he said he wanted something small and 'different'... Hmmmm.. wondering what he meant by different... so I did this for him... Luckily he likes it!! It's a 6 inches chocolate cake with lots of choclate ganache all over...

Yeah... they are a VERY lovey dovey couple... hehehehe...

And on Sunday... I experimented with some choolates and here are the results..

Tira - Miss - U

This is a Tiramisu cake I made over the weekend... before that I was frantically looking for Kahlua.. a type of coffee liquor to give the Tiramisu the 'omph'!! It's a good thing I found it in the nick of time.. *yes!*
I forgot to take a picture before my customer picked it up.. luckily she's nice enough to send me a pic

I've been baking!!

Yeah... I know I know... it's been a while since I last posted my baking creations... However, that doesn't mean that I've not been baking... I have!!

And here's some to share...

Here's a very Unique cake that my cousin An has requested for her Husband's birthday... a Mango Butter cake.. and white chocolate ganache.. well.. I must admit that this is the FIRST time that I had such a request... and since her husband loves biking activities... here's the latest Mountain Bike for his keeping!!

This is a Strawberry cake ordered by one of my customer.. who said.. 'I suddenly have Strawberry cravings!! Can you bake me a cake filled with Strawberries and Whipped Cream..?' I told her sure.. no problem... considered it done!! Voila!!

And you know what.. she said she finished the cake ALL by herself in 2 days!!! Luckily it was a 6 inches cake.. and she's a real skinny.. :p

Banana Chocolate Chip topping with Cinammon Cream Cheese Frosting.... sounds like heaven right... ? It is!!!

More cakes to come ok... Just need to look for all the pictures I took... shucks!!!

An's Chocolate Cheese Cake

My cousin An is an absolute choc & cheese lover... so I combined both and baked a chocolate cheese cake for her for her birthday recently..

And this is her review.. *cut and paste* from her email to me...

"cake is deliciously chocolate heaven for choc lover, with the rich chocolate cheese texture, its to die for...if you are looking for firm cheesecake, this will be a little on the soft side, but nevertheless its a true satisifying ... lick lick.....now how am i going to keep my weight down??"

Oh! And she send this picture to me coz I totally forgotten abt snapping a photo of the cake befire I pass to her .
So creative of her to use tea light as candle... :) Somehow creates a different feel with the blue table cloth and the blue tea light. Nice!!

'Under the Sea' Weekend

Last Sunday, my Instructor and one of my fellow coursemate and I volunteered for a charity event organized by Malaysia Nature Society. In addition to that, we had great help from one of the MNS fellow member who's a cake enthusiast, Alison. The 4 of us conducted a simple Cupcake Decorating Class for kids with the 'Under the Sea' theme. It was great fun as the kids + their parents truly enjoyed themselves decorating their butter & chocolate cupcakes with blue buttercream icing and lots of fishes / seahorses, starfishes / beautiful seashells and crocodiles (uh ?? crocodiles ??).. hehehe! On top of that, we have lots of jimmies and sprinkles to 'enhance' the cuppies :D

Overall, it was great... if you think only girlies love this kind of session... think again!! We have lots of boys participating as well... and guess what, 2 boys actually snapped up the 1st & 2nd prize of the best cupcake decorated!! :D

We were all so amazed with the kids.. and of course the parents did enquire if we are conducting any classes of this sort... and that got us thinking... hmmmm... maybe we should!! Hehe!! Something to think about in details...

Anyway, I want to thank my instructor, Paige for making those great looking fishes.. seashells..starfishes and seahorses.. they lok so 'real' and I know she spend a lot of late nights doing them.. and Carolyn.. for baking 70 delicious butter & chocolate cupcakes .. they're all so lovely!! and Alison... for helping out with the buttercream and royal icing... Thanks so much Allison.. it's really great knowing you!

Here are some pictures to share...

This little girl... *can't remeber her name.. my bad* showing off her creations

Lovely little Joanne... totally 'into' decorating her cupcakes..
The winners of the best cupcake decoration
A group pictures with mummies & daddies
'Under the Sea' Cupcakes

Pingu & Friends

This 6 years old birthday boy totally into Pingu and his friends.. His dad said to me... he sleeps Pingu.. eats Pingu and breathes Pingu.. :D hehehehe.. Maybe I exagerated a bit la! But he loves Pingu.. So for his birthday cake... I make Pingu 2 tiered chocolate cake for him and best of all.. he can keep his Pingu & friends figurines after he blowed his candles!! Isn't that great!!?? Anyway, Happy Birthday Jordan. Even though you were borned on April Fool's Day.. but you are sure no fool!! :D