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.

Simple & Sweet Birthday Cuppies

Carrie requested some buttercream swirl cupcakes for her daughter’s 2nd birthday. She wanted more ‘traditional’ cupcakes design like a swirl and flower. I rarely do this type of design, but I try my best. I hope you like it Carrie.

These are vanilla cupcakes with Italian Meringue buttercream swirl topped with hand made flowers.

This is what I called true friendship…

Get a last minute order from a sweet friend to a friend to express her cares and loves. She just wants to give a surprise to her best friend and to bring big smiles on her face. This creative “ladida” sent me some photos of her friends favourite boots and words to put on the cupcakes. I mixed up the date, so only have a half a day to bake and prepare for the figurines.

Here’s the final products, not the finest.

 

The boots, “heroine”’s favourite!   

Cala lilies are heroine’s favourite too!!!

Sorry “ladida”. I am glad you appreciate my work  and I am so happy to know that we managed to give a pleasant surprise to “HEROINE” :)

Flower lace series

I just fall in love with the fondant flower lace design after I did once for the 50th birthday cupcakes.

So here I go with the second try. These are the cupcakes I made for my neighbour, just to say hi to them since I am new to the neighbourhood.

They are marble cupcakes base, which is also my first attempt. I am pretty happy with the taste. This will be my flower lace series cupcakes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Hoop Star BUNNIES!!!

A lovely sister, Tammy wanted to order some birthday cupcakes for her youngest sister. She wanted bunnies themes on the cupcakes as her sister Michelle loves bunnies. I get the inspiration of bunnies cupcakes from Delectable, and came out with these birthday cupcakes set. The based on the cupcakes are covered with Italian Meringue Buttercream.
6 different bunnies figures
The greedy one…
 
The hungry one…

  The naughty one…

and they formed the birthday cupcakes

Happy birthday Michelle!! I hope you like the cupcakes.

House warming cuppies – order from my boss

My lovely boss called to order some cuppies for his friend’s house warming (by the way, I am accountant in profession). He wanted 5 vanilla cupcakes with lemon curd and 5 chocolate cupcakes. He left the design of the cupcakes for me. The first thing that came to my mind is “house” for housewarming. So I decided to make a house figure with the “sold” sign for one of the cupcakes design. Next is some keys figures – new house, new keys! Then I decided to do the water tank,flower pot and gifts figures which I learned from The Frosted Cake n’s Cookie. The rest of the cupcakes will be flowers and wordings.
This is how they looked like.

3 of the cupcakes were covered with white chocolate fondants, while the rest were covered with smooth and creamy buttercream which I learnt from Serious Cake.
Close look of the cupcakes


Thanks a lot for your support and business Ranjan. I am glad that you like the presentation of the cupcakes. I hope they taste good as well! 

First official order!

Since the last cupcakes I made, I haven’t been making cupcakes for very long, properly due to hectic schedule, then pregnancy after that the baby. After the bub, I have been hoping to work from home, however, due to my work nature, it is pretty hard. Hubby and some friends keep encouraging me to start up my cupcakes business as they think I will do well with it. However, looking at so many excellent cupcakes sellers out there, I just don’t think I am good enough to sell my cupcakes. Anyway, few months ago, Suzanne approached me, asking whether I am interested to do Amelie’s 1st birthday cake, she wanted to be my first customer for my future business. Without any hesitation, I said “Yes”! I was very excited to come out with nice beautiful cake for little cute Amelie!
Suz wanted vanilla cupcakes with lemon curd fillinh. She suggested to have Amelie’s figure and dog on the cake & cupcakes since Amelie loves dogs. The rest of the cuppies can be just simple flowers design. As usual, I did my research online and learned to do the dog figures from the net by Wayne and Aine. The rest of the flower cupcakes, I adopted some ideas from Kylie Lambert, my favourite cupcakes maker.
I started doing the little girl and dog’s figures one month earlier just in case I can’t get it done on time. But to my surprise I didn’t spend much time on them, maybe like 10-15 min per figure. I am pretty happy with them.

I did the flowers after that but they are just the simple flowers. Not much time spent on that. Next I did some bees and lady bugs to put on the mini cupcakes for the little kiddo and also some on the top cutting cake.
 
5 designs of cuppies look like these:

   

I think the most challenging part for me is to cover the top cutting cake with fondant. This is my first time covering cake with fondant! There’s possibility that I will tear the fondant, or fondant too thin or too thick. Thanks to the video guide from Planet Cake, I learned some of the technique from them. I covered my cake with a layer of chocolate ganache before hand (which was taught in Planet Cake book). It helps a lot to smoother the cake surface before covering. I really thank God that I am able to cover the cake without making a big mess out of it even though the fondant is a bit dry. I know I can’t do it alone without prayer. Here is the final product of the top cutting cake.
 
I am glad everything turn out well, and the Toh’s are very happy with the cakes. I also received a lot of positive feedback from the guests of the party about my cupcakes. It gives me more confidence to consider starting my cupcake business.
Thanks a lot Suz & Derrick for taking the risk and giving me this great opportunity to practice. And also thank you little cutie Amelie for enjoying my little cuppies!

P.S Thanks to Keng for his photography on the flower cuppies! Your photography skill make my cuppies look so yummy!

Flower Blooming Cuppies

Another friend’s birthday coming, which give me chance to practice on my cuppies again! I can’t recall where I saw the design of cuppies full with flowers, I thought they are very sweet. So I decided to try on the same design for my friend’s birthday cuppies. I got myself the blossom cutter but without any fondant shaping foam and tool to come out with these little flowers.
I am ok with the outcome but there’s still a lot of room for improvement. Hope you like it Angeline!