Cupcakes galore!

I love arranging and taking pictures of cupcakes like this. Makes it look like I baked and frosted a gazillion cupcakes! Actually I did make pretty many this past weekend up to yesterday. See them below.

Everyone needs to get a birthday cake

It feels good to be remembered and celebrated by family, friends or workmates. No big do required but hey, no one's gonna stop you if you want to plan one!





I rushed to bake this walnut brownie cake like 2 hours before the family met up for lunch. Packed some buttercream icing ready in a piping bag with the #2 writing tip and candles in my handbag. Quickly scribbled the wordings when cake was cool enough. The birthday girls didn't complain!

A sudden facination with sugarpaste

I bought a 1Kg tub of sugarpaste and put all my cookie cutters to good use! There's something very therapeutic in the kneading, the rolling, getting the colours well incorporated or doing that marble effect thingy. Not to mention how delicious your hands would smell afterwards. I don't wear gloves and don't really care the food colouring stains my hands, they wash out after a day.

I'm on a mission now to have sugarpaste alphabet in all colours possible. Why? I have no idea!?! But first, to find the easiest way to release the sugarpaste from the cutter without all those poke marks!

What a weekend!

What started out as only having an order for 4 dozen cupcakes this Raya weekend ended up with 12 dozen cupcakes and 7 cakes. I was perfectly happy doing them all until when I wasn't particularly satisfied with one of the orders so I re-did it and that kept me up until 4am that day.

A lot, lot...!

Never before have I been asked to 'put icing a lot lot!"(Don't you just love Malaysian-English? No need for many words but the point gets across!) Always a first for everything, they say and I gladly obliged!


And keeping to the topic of 'a lot', prices of many ingredients have gone up... yup, a lot! In the past 2 years I have been able to absorb the rising prices. Not anymore, I'm afraid. I'll be re-working my prices but I promise it won't be more than a 10% increase. Thank you for your continued support.

Something new, something old with a new twist

Happy Birthday Sue and Michelle. Sorry the pictures did not turn out clear... we have to fire the photographer! What turned out good though were these orange and raisin cupcakes!





I think these are quite apporpriate for our warm weather of late; vanilla butter cupcakes with buttercream frosting topped with fresh strawberries. Thanks Asyriana, you made a good choice!

Cupcake friends

When I turned 21, I threw a party... no one came. Thank God for family who were there to save the day! Maybe that's why until today I'm very reluctant to hold any more parties. I should have just made a few of these fellas and had my own fun!

Happy 5th birthday Andrew. Hope you like these as much as I enjoyed making them. A special birthday wish too goes out to RB in Virginia, USA.

More cupcakes for Evelyn and her boys

I was more than happy to make more, especially since Evelyn and family came all the way from Ozland to taste my bakes! She had earlier taken a sugee cake up to Penang to celebrate her aunt's 70th birthday(see previous post). I was particularly nervous about that but it survived the journey and still tasted good 4 days later! Thanks dear, hope you're having a good holiday here.







I also threw in some of these choc ones to get some feedback on a new recipe. We all felt the same... too dry. I suppose I'll stick with the Devil's Foodcake recipe.

On a budget

A certain organization celebrates their employee's birthdays with individual cakes. It can be a costly affair. Therefore, I have offered to provide an assortment of cakes within their limited budget. Here's the first cake and hopefully more orders to come! Happy birthday Baldish and thanks for introducing my cakes to Lowe.

Now to go through my recipe books for more....

Note: And a special thanks to Stephie Leigh on her idea for this method of colouring and piping the frosting.

A colourful day

*Cough, cough, cough...* Feeling a little under the weather on a warm, warm day, a trooper never gives in! How could I? I would have disappointed a lot of people in one day if I did. But look... see all the pretty colours I got to work with. It made up for the fact that I had to work until 2am... blah, the washing up can wait 'til morning!

Good to be home

Vacations are always nice but it's true, there's no place like home. I know some of my regulars tried to call and I apologize for causing any inconvenience.

I've almost forgotten how difficult it is to work with buttercream in this heat. Nevertheless, I don't think these turned out too bad. I hope Faridz's lucky girl pal feels the same.

Away

I'll be on vacation for 2 weeks from 19th August, back in business again after 3rd September.

I'll leave you with what would probably be the last cake I bake before I fly off this weekend... an almond chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream frosting.

A chocolatey weekend

I've attempted many chocolate cake recipes but this remains my favourite. I'll stop messing with all the other recipes and stick with this one. Use the freshest ingredients and good quality cocoa and chocolate and you'll have yourself a good cake.





And of course, cupcakes are always a must!

Happy Birthday Hazel

Happy Birthday to the infamous Ms F... my ex-AV colleague, my ex-boss and always a friend. She's one of a kind and thank God there's only one! She can be your bestest friend or your worstest enemy. I love her to death. To borrow a quote from Sue, "There's Friendster, there's Bookster... and there's Hazel!



To all at dinner last night, thanks for constantly being guinea pigs to my new and un-tried recipes. I promise, the next time you taste this Sugee cake, it'll be so good you'll swear it has ganja in it!

A Liverpool FC fan

Hmmmm... I wonder what gave it away? He went from Pooh Bear (last year) to Steven Gerrard. Dang... who wouldn't?!

The 'jersey' cake is the birthday boy's fave, vanilla butter and the 'football' cake below is eggless choc-orange marble, thought you might want to know. And as always, chocolate cupcakes are a must and I also let them try a new flavour... hazelnut butter. Don't you just love customers who are game to try anything?

Baby Shower cupcakes

I thoroughly enjoyed doing this batch. Made me feel all girlie and such. And look... pink baby booties! Aaaawww....!

My nephew's birthday

I have 4 nephews, whose ages range from 5 to 22. This one was for the youngest fellow. All his kindie mates had a piece. There was even some leftover to bring home!

For Farha's daughter

She wanted a Pooh Bear birthday cake. I wished I could have done it for her. I seriously need to get a printer so I can work with images.

Happy Birthday Maria C.

Sue D' ordered these cakes for her Mummy's birthday today. How nice, she gets 2 cakes!

I especially like to dedicate this to Maria in California who celebrates her birthday on the 6th, it's still yesterday in American. Happy Birthday Dizz! Hope the man made it a memorable one for you! *Kisses*

All time favourites

What else but the classic butter and chocolate cakes.