A mixed week

A couple of girly themed orders which are always fun to do















Sugee (semolina) cake for my friend Baldish. We even gave 2 slices to the table next to us at dinner as one of them too was celebrating her birthday that night.
Butterscotch cupcakes for some folks who will be spending a couple of months here. Hope you brought sunblock and umbrellas!
Some chocolate Elmo and Cookie Monster cupcakes for Cecilia.
A Mooncake and Chinese lantern theme to celebrate the Mid Autumn Festival

A short story

One day, Mei ordered this Chocolate fruit cake for Jimmy's belated birthday. Girl, next time tell me it's for someone's birthday so I can add a message and provide candles!

Jimmy in turn ordered these Chocolate cupcakes for Jennifer, a Mommy-to-be, who had just arrived from the US.


Jennifer dropped me a lovely note today ...

Hi Ivy,

I am the mommy-to-be who got the pretty cupcakes for my birthday!! They were delicious!!!!
My husband & I are thinking about ordering cupcakes from you after our baby is born, for the one month's celebration..
We will contact you when the time is right.

You are a genius!!

Jennifer C

THE END

Aaah, stories like that always makes my week!

Working with edible images

I had the opportunity to work with edible images recently. While they give a flawless finish, they are tricky little fellas to work with. Here's my advise: don't attempt working on them on very hot or humid days unless you are lucky enough to have an air conditioned environment and always print a few extras to cater for tearing or damage.

Sugee cupcakes for Roger & Puteri's wedding.












A mix of vanilla butter, chocolate, butterscotch and orange cupcakes for a boutique launch.

I made 200 cupcakes for my nephew's kindie Merdeka celebration. Got the idea from Anita, a very talented baker whom I met through Flickr.


100 mini vanilla butter and chocolate cupcakes for 10 year old Adeleina.


The following Vanilla butter and chocolate cupcakes were hand carried on a plane to Bali!


Simple Vanilla butter cupcakes with buttercream and a strawberry to garnish.

The football cake is Orange & Coconut while the cupcakes are Butterscotch.

Time for an update

It's been like what, 2 weeks since my last post? I've baked and baked and baked some more.



Since the trusty Fuji digital camera decided to take a long overdue break, I had to borrow another to record my works.


There are loads more not featured here but for now I'll shut up and let you enjoy the pics...



I wished I knew how to play around with the page layout. For a while now I have had to work the page from bottom up. Have to think in reverse.


OK, I did say I'll shut up....

Notice something not right with Elmo? No prize for guessing!

A week of mishaps

They say it happens in threes. I beg to differ... at last count it was 7. I'm not going into details lest I jinx myself further! Sabar, Ivy, sabar....

What you see below is less than half what I produced this week. The football jersey was the last picture I took before my camera went on the blink (that was mishap #3). Use my cell phone, did I hear someone say? Turn the phone to camera mode and it tells me "Busy, Try Again". Can someone explain that to me?!

So this will temporarily be my last post until I manage to beg, borrow or steal a digital camera.

Raunchy butterscotch cupcakes. Look closely and you might see some cellulite. Haha... I'm glad nothing or no one is perfect!

Chocolate cupcakes for a Liverpool FC fan.

Some chocolate Elmo and Cookie Monster cupcakes.

A week of many quotations and designs going to and fro... and only a few were realized *sigh* Nonetheless, it was a hectic week; the main concern was looking for a new and hardy cake mixer. Boy, are those things EXPENSIVE! I am now a proud owner of a Kenwood Patissier.

Yvonne said her daughter likes coconut, so a Coconut Orange cake it was. She also likes my Butterscotch cupcakes. I hope Mik likes the same!

This 'funny faces' design seems to be a favourite with the grown ups. I do enjoy making them. These were all Chocolate cupcakes.

Hazel is about the only one (thank God!) that will call in a panic and want cupcakes within the hour! Fortunately these Vanilla Butter (Hazel's most fave) cupcakes were eventually wanted for the next day. I still love that woman to death!


Sue wanted some Vanilla Butter cupcakes packed 8 pieces to a box.

A simple design with vanilla butter and chocolate cupcakes.

All vanilla butter cupcakes for 10 year old Jin Liang.


The #3 cake is chocolate frosted with chocolated ganache and topped with choc beans. It looks large but it's no bigger than 1Kg. Surrounded by vanilla butter and more chocolate cupcakes.

A new addition to my menu

Orange Coconut cake. A fan of coconut, George decided to give this cake a try. He requested for retro design.
Chocolate Almond cupcakes. Another friend's (and ex-boss) birthday. Sorry I couldn't come for the dinner. I'm sure my presence was felt through these cupcakes!

Chocolate Orange cupcakes. Tried a new recipe ... nice... think I'll add this to my menu. Thanks George, you're my partner in crime where citrus fruits are concerned!

Girlie pink

Coincidently, all orders for this week were requested in pink.

Vanilla butter cupcakes

Chocolate cupcakes

Butterscotch cupcakes topped with white chocolate ganache, decorated in buttercream.

A month of birthdays

July... an expensive month for me, filled with birthdays in the family and among friends! It starts with this one below, my nephew turns 6. He requested for strawberry cupcakes and I obliged. A small tweak in the recipe and yummilicious!


Butterscotch cupcakes topped with caramel icing, decorated with buttercream.