All chocolate this week. Now I'm out of cocoa.

Rocky Road Chewy Chocolate Superheroes cookies
All drawn freehand with royal icing. Poor Spidey looks like he got hit by a train!


Chocolate cupcakes

Renovations

A week of small renovations and repairs to the house. It's funny how when you finally list the things to be repaired, replaced or removed it comes to a page long! Not to mention how when you find extra repairs, replaces and removals along the way... eg. the bathroom floor tiles just warped and cracked overnight!

I'm glad I got those extra shelves made in the kitchen. With the escalating prices of fuel recently, I'm sure to find the prices of ingredients raised accordingly. More reason to buy in bulk, I never did before as I didn't have the storage space.

Thanks Shon for the one and only order I had this week. A for those of you who might be coming again to collect your order, the house is no more white and brown but white and black.

I was looking forward to this week. A few interesting projects, as you can see below.

My first wedding cupcakes. Sugee (semolina) cake with buttercream and sugar paste decorations.


The Euro 2008 fever begins.... with a Chocolate cake!

This order came from Priscilla in the UK for her Mum's 60th birthday.

Busy week

Just when I thought it was going to be a quiet week, these happened....



This is what you get for tuning 55!

For someone leaving to work in The Netherlands. All the best!

Teacher's Day

Chocolate cupcakes for fave teachers.






Coconut orange cake in a soccer ball like shape.

Mother's Day

A couple of Mother's Day orders. All in Vanilla butter and chocolate.





A pretty young thing planned a glam bash for her friend's 21st birthday bash. She wanted me to follow some designs that Trish CupcakeMomma had done. Thanks Trish for the inspiration, I hope I did you justice. Oreo Cookie cupcakes with fondant stars.



Semolina (sugee) cake.... my fave, yums!


Went to visit a friend/ex-boss who broke her ankle *ouch* The Double Orange cupcakes reads "You're not in showbiz... Speedy recovery Hazel"







Pretty cupcakes for a another pretty young thing. Hana ordered these from Melbourne before coming home to collect them. She was sweet enough to SMS me after to say everyone loved them!


Coconut Orange cake. My last delivery to Lowe. I have been dumped for pre-mixes! *cries*

Just cupcakes

That's what this week has been about... nothing but cupcakes. I do enjoy making them, easier to decorate and one can get really creative with them. I'm waiting for the opportunity to individually decorate each cupcake in such a way that when you arrange them all together, it makes one complete picture... know what I mean?

More 'boobies' cupcakes... needless to say it was for a guy! A mix of Vanilla Butter and Butterscotch cupcakes.

Individually wrapped Oreo Cookie cupcakes with crushed cookie buttercream topped with a Hershey Kiss or an Oreo Wafer Roll. A nice thank you gesture... lucky people!















Chocolate cupcakes with buttercream for a Liverpool FC fan. The customer had to make the club logo 'flags' as I don't have a printer. *Hint, hint*

The lady likes pink

That was what I was told... that's all! So Aunty here decided to try something new and came up with these Strawberry cupcakes with strawberry flavoured buttercream. It's in my menu now, upon availability of the berries, of course.





Marmalade cake. I heard this cake had to sit in the fridge for 2 days as the birthday boy/man went AWOL.

For babes

I love colours and that's why I love making birthday cakes for babies and young kids. So far my designs have achieved my sole and rather wicked intentions... I want these kiddies to be terribly attracted with the myriad of colours and lunge for the cake! There is no written rule to how cake should be eaten, right??

There were 2 additional boxes of cupcakes on top of this main birthday cake. The combination of flavours were Vanilla butter, Chocoalte, Butter scotch and Mocha.












Babes of another kind. I was given the brief that the birthday person is a rather "cheeky fella". I just took it from there. I hope he enjoyed licking off all the cream cheese frosting from these Carrot cake cupcakes!

When it rains, it pours!

I'm talking about the recent spate of tropical thunderstorms in the afternoons. The recent big one took out my fuse box and my electric automated gates. I wasn't home when it happened, so imagine my frustration at having to manually open 2 heavy wooden gates in the pouring rain! Fans of a wet t-shirt contest would have had a ball!

I apologize to those whose orders I had to call back and turn down... I felt especially bad for one 7 year old kid. When I got my power supply back, the first thing I checked was my oven, then my fridge, then my computer! Only then did other parts of the house mattered.

The good thing about the rain is, it makes the nights bearable to sleep even without the fan rotating. With nothing to do in the dark, the mind wanders.... thinking about all the costly expenses for the month... car repairs and service nearly 1K... fuse box and gate, bill not in yet.... to see the Orthopedic surgeon next week, more $$ *sigh*

Those who have seen me would notice I've been wearing a knee brace... I have a feeling the doc won't have good news for me. They say trouble comes in threes... was that 3 already?

Anyways, this is what I achieved this week....