So much to do, so little time to blog!

And it's May already! I better update before Christmas comes around. Personally I can't wait for December! ;p

Happy 2011!

Have a great year ahead everyone!

Some stuff I made before the Christmas holidays.

Tis the season....

.... for things to breakdown. Another mixer and a kitchen scale gone to cake heaven *sigh*

On a happier note, here are some updates.

Sugar paste animal

I have not made any interesting designs for a while until Sylvia wanted 24 of the animal toppers. Luckily they held up considering the really wet weather we've been having lately.

(And yes, I know I need a new camera).

May Day!

Happy Labour's Day! And to those who worked today like me, what the heck... we have too many holidays anyways!

Buttery Butterscotch cupcakes

Chocolate cupakes

Vanilla butter and chocolate cupcakes with edible image

Buttery Butterscotch cupcakes

Red Velvet cupcakes

Yes,I have been lazy.

I have been neglecting my blog. I've not much to feature, nothing new that is. But a few interesting ones have come my way.... enjoy!

For a girlie girl.

Edible images.

For Valentine's Day

For Chinese New Year

For Mum

Still here

So what has the start of 2010 brought me? A new nephew and a lot of R & R, a compensation for working throughout Christmas and the new year. 'Rezeki jangan ditolak' they say because you'll never know when your next dollar will come.

My first wedding cupcake tower for the year. Daniel and Kaylie, a sweet couple, loved all the cupcake flavours they tasted and therefore went with vanilla butter, chocolate, butterscotch, double orange and I threw in an extra... red velvet.





Chocolate cake with buttercream and image done with piping jelly.














As they say in showbiz, "Break a leg!"








My customer wishing their bank a good year ahead !

Merry Christmas '09

Merry Christmas everyone and my best to you for 2010!

I for one, will be especially glad to leave 2009 behind. It has been a year of challenges and personal losses. Having said that, it has had its good moments too, one of which I should be announcing soon.

Meanwhile, have a happy and safe holiday!

If there's a will...

And there I was... stranded without a working oven and a cake mixer that decides every now and then to spin so fast that it spews its contents on my face and kitchen walls.... and all these orders to fill! What to do, what to do?? A frantic call to my brother and SIL and I get to borrow a table top microwave/convection oven and a hand held cake mixer.

Now, how do I bake 200 cupcakes in a borrowed oven that bakes only 1 dozen cupcakes at a time? Another frantic call.... to Mr Lim this time (he repaired both my TV's recently) and he comes the very next day as promised. It's the heating element, he says and goes in search of the part. After scouting the 4 corners of Klang Valley, he gets my oven working 2 days later, just 24 hours before the marathon baking.

The day before, I went to my fave cake supply shop and while lamenting my woes, I was offered to used their facilities there, I'd just have to bring my own ingredients. Karen, you're so sweet, maybe one day I will take you up on that offer!






The cake and cupcake display stand I made for this order.











I've been making Mikhail's cakes since he was a year old. I wonder what he will be fascinated with next year or what interesting cake idea his Mummy will have.







Sue and Sharil got engaged!










Just some of the 200 cupcakes ordered for the children in an orphanage.









Butter and chocolate marble cake with an edible frosting image.

Unreliable

The one word that upsets me... unreliable. It comes in many shapes and forms. In this case it's my Kenwood mixer. Just over a year old, it has broken down once and currently it's playing tricks on me again. Notice how the major faults happen after the warranty expires! Nothing's a keeper anymore.



A 10" 3kg semolina cake.












No, the keys to this beauty wasn't hidden in the cake!


A small indication that the birthday person is a golf fan.

Deja Vu

This design brings back memories of the very first module (sugar paste) I took of the 3 offered by PME. However, at that time we worked with dummy cakes. This one was a sugee (semolina) cake.


This was my gift to Michelle for her 40th birthday bash, vanilla butter and red velvet cupcakes.

I didn't go coz I couldn't find a cheongsam to fit me, since the party had a Shanghainese theme... seriously people, you don't want to see me in one!





Well, the truth being I worked throughout the night on another order for collection early the very next morning. Stressing at 4am on how to box the 2 rather tall cakes, I totally forgot to take pictures of them. Even the little bear-holding-a-blankie topper which I had made days earlier never made it to my album... how sad.





Orange and chocolate cupcakes for Sue's birthday.

Salam Aidilfitri

Selamat Hari Raya and happy holidays to all (and if this does not apply to you, just have a great weekend)! Eat, drink and be merry for the diet starts tomorrow! Thank goodness tomorrow never comes!

Having baked, mixed, stirred, coloured, kneaded, cut, frilled, fluted, swirled, leveled, tasted, washed and dried for the past 4 days with minimum sleep, I get to enjoy today with some lemang and rendang and give my hands some rest and TLC. Oh, and of course up-dating my blog!




Moist chocolate cake covered in luscious chocolate ganache. The sugar roses couldn't quite dry as it has been raining almost daily. Making them in this high humidity was an ordeal in itself!






Butterscotch cake. Iced with buttercream and topped with sugar roses.



The Sesame Street gang.








Using edible images.

S*U*C*C*E*S*S

I tried out 3 new recipes recently. Was quite satisfied with 2. Funny how success with little things like this can put a spring in your step for a couple of days! I did work on this Red Velvet for a while and finally getting it right with 2 thumbs up from friends!

Red Velvet with cream cheese frosting




Semolina(sugee) and coconut. Quite yums!
















Peanut butter cupcakes.
Not exactly happy with this recipe.







Golf themed cake.





Chocolate and strawberries.... gooood...!








A 'cowboy' cake.







Something in tropical colours.







Happy 52nd Malaysia. Sorry I added 2 extra stripes on you!

Carrot and walnut with cream cheese frosting.