Lovely Auntie Wong’s Birthday Cake

One of our buddy’s mom, Auntie Wong, the lovely and sweet auntie flew to Melbourne to celebrate her birthday. We have the pleasure to celebrate this special day with her. Of course I have to make a nice cake for auntie as well.

After some discussion with Liza, we decided to have a small chocolate mud cake, with some simple flower decoration as auntie loves flowers.  Design inspired by Paige Fong

These are the roses made without modelling tools and cutters. First time trying, but quite happy with the result.

 

Inside the cake – layered mud cake with dark chocolate ganache. This is the first time I got the take the photos of the cake after cutting.

Happy birthday auntie! May you have a blessed year ahead. God bless and hope to catch up with you soon while you still in Melbourne!

New Attempt

I received an order from my lovely neighbour to do half a dozen of non diary cupcakes to celebrate some friends birthday. No specific design were requested except for the initial of the 3 birthday “babies”.

I came across a nice vintage style of scrapbook design while thinking about the design I want to do for these cupcakes. I thought I would try to apply the same concept for these cupcakes design and try out painting on the fondant.

This is the 1st design layout with the initial of the birthday “babies” on the 3 cupcakes.

I particularly like this design.

These are the cupcakes with the initial

I want to put the “Happy birthday” wording on the cupcakes as well. With the 1st design I can’t find of a way to squeeze the wordings in.

After some thought, this is the final design that I came out with.  I am very glad that they like the cupcakes.

I hope you like the design as well.

My daughter’s 1st birthday cake

Time flies, my daughter already turn one!!! I was very tight up with my office work this week that I didn’t really have much time to prepare her birthday cake. While trying to figure out what type of cake I can do within a day, I came across Delectable blog and saw this simple yet unique cake so I decided to make it for her first birthday cake.

This is dark chocolate mud cake sandwich with fresh cream and decorated with some flower. The girl’s figurine on top of the cake is from Precious moment (I love precious moments by the way, so happy to be able to make one for my daughter!!). It supposed to be my daughter with her sleep pal, Eeeyoer, but it didn’t turn out like her.

I used the rest of the mud cake batter to make some cupcakes that form her name.

                                      Close up view of the figurine. 

I made another 8 vanilla cupcakes and decorated with the hand made figurines of her favourite toys. I did it a night before the party so was quite rush, as a result they didn’t turn out well :(

These are her real favourite toys

And these are the figures on the cuppies.

The whole set of cake and cupcakes decorated on the glass cake stand. I called this theme as “Esrene and her favourite toy” Despite of the simplicity of the mud cake, I am quite happy with the result. Personally I love mud cake with fresh cream cause I am not the fan of fondant.

So this will be the new addition of my cake in the menu!!! 3 tiers mud cake with fresh cream!!!

Vegie Tales Birthday Cuppies

I have the honour to made Josiah’s 1st birthday cupcakes. Josiah is just a few weeks older than Esrene, my daughter. Still remember when Lena and I were pregnant at the same time and counting down our days for delivery. Now our babies already turn 1. Time really flies!!

Anyway, Lena wants Vegie Tales characters for the cupcakes. This is Josiah’s favourite show. Lena gave me a list of characters in Vegie Tales that Josiah are familiar with. So here comes the Vegie Tales for the birthday boy!

                         “ The pirates who do nothing” top cutting cake

                       the back of the cake with the pirate map

                     accompany by 6 more Vegie Tale characters

Those cupcakes with Vegie Tales characters are diary, egg, wheat, gluten free chocolate mud cupcakes especially for the birthday boy.

This is the look of the cupcakes arrangement.

Below are some of the amazingly nice photos taken by Keng (Lena’s husband). Thanks a lot Keng for such a nice photos, you are indeed very good with photography.

3 main characters of “The Pirates Who Do Nothing” on top of the top cutting cake.

                                            Blowing candle time!!

                                             Bob the tomato 

Introducing Vegie Tales!!!! If you have not watch this kids program before, try watch on in you tube, especially the “Belly Button Song”. 

How it started

Baking has always my hobby. I love baking for family and friends. Just love to see the smile in their face when eating my cakes. Cupcakes to me was just like muffin, cake in the cup basically until I come across a blog of my friend, Love-a-cupcake, who is now one of the famous cupcake bakers in Penang, Malaysia. I was so amazed by the beauty of the cupcakes she made. Wow, such a gorgeous cake! Make me feel like wanting to bake some and give to my family and friends. That’s why I started to try on baking cupcakes with decoration, and it is all mainly buttercream topping.
My first cupcakes was for Sue Anne’s birthday. There were mini chocolate mud cupcakes topped with buttercream, cheery & strawberry. Making buttercream was tough to me. It was even harder when come to pipping as I was totally new to it. Thanks to my lovely friends who were willing to try on my first attempted cupcakes. It was so a satisfaction to see my friends enjoyed eating my cupcakes.