M.I.C.K.E.Y M.O.U.S.E!

Mickey mouse is my childhood program. It is quite excited and fun having the opportunity to do the Mickey Mouse theme cake! Zachary’s loving mummy approached me to design a nice Mickey mouse cake for her son’s 1st birthday. Obviously Mickey is this little boy’s favourite. After much discussion, this is what we came out with!

2 tiers Mickey Mouse theme birthday cake. Top tier with red velvet, bottom tier with chocolate butter cake.

The birthday boy with her favourite Mickey figurines. Mummy wanted to keep the figurines for memory.

Closer look of the figurines

And finally the cake with the mini cupcakes set!

Hope you like the Mickey cakey Zachary!

Baking Theme cake

Sorry for being silent for a while as I was very busy these few weeks.

This cake was made 3 weeks ago. Another great opportunity given by one of the close mate to make this special theme cake for her sister in law.

As the birthday girl loves baking, so after much discussion we decided to have the baking, with baking related stuffs as the cake toppers. The cake was red velvet cake covered with cream cheese, coated with white chocolate shave.

Some of the design was inspired by Creative Cakes by Julie

The swiss roll cake topper

Close up of the cake toppers

    

The cake in the transparent box

Peter Rabbit birthday cake

My friend requested a birthday cake for her daughter’s 1st birthday.

She wanted a Peter Rabbit figurine and a girl’s figurine on top of the cake. I tried to copy Evangeline’s hair style on the girl figurine.

 

6” red velvet cake sandwich with meringue buttercream and coated with chocolate ganache

   

She wants the words “Evangeline’s 1st” on the side of the cake. I decided to try out using fondant to write the words instead of emboss them. No piping involve, purely free hands. It took quite a while to do that but I am quite happy with the result.

Happy 1st birthday Evangeline!! May the Lord continue to bless you each day as you grow!

The Golden 50

This is my first order in 2010. I received an order from my company to make cupcakes for one of my directors’ 50th birthday. What an honour to be able to make his 50th birthday cupcakes. I made 90 cupcakes with 3 favours – Red velvet, vanilla with lemon curd and double chocolate.

double chocolate (dark chocolate with chocolate bites) fresh from the oven

I decided to use gold, brown and white as the theme colours. 50 is the GOLDEN YEAR, GOLD colour is a must! The frostings are chocolate ganache and Italian Swiss Meringue which match the theme colours.

  dou ble chocolate with dark chocolate ganache frosting decorated with “golden daisy”.

  Red velvet & Vanilla cupcakes with Italian Swiss Meringue frosting (I am not too happy with the design :( )

The “centre piece”. White chocolate fondant topping with fondant flower lace design (inspired by Bev from SugarBloom)

Happy birthday Norman!!! Hope you like the cupcakes.

Happy birthday Sue

Our best mate’s birthday coming up, we had an early celebration for her during the weekend. As usual, I will make some birthday cuppies, baked the cake a day before (rich and moist Red Velvet cupcakes) and though of taking my time to do the figures and deco. However thing did not turn out as I wish. I got a last minute project to do during the weekend, hence, I had to do the cupcake decoration and figures on the morning of the celebration and I only have 2 hours time to do all these!!!

Due to limited time, I came out very plain and rough deco. Sorry Sue!!! I know I could do much better for your birthday cuppies :(

3 of Sue’s favourite stuffs…….

Guitar Hero…ROCK ON!

  

Wii…(a bit out of shape :( )

 

Sue’s Dell XPS laptop (the laptop collapse and it is out of shape..sniff sniff)

Since I have no time to do Sue’s favourite SLR, so I decide to do a cute face of Sue with her SLR (inspired by Delectable). This is the most satisfying piece I have done.

Sue with her cute face cuppies. She tried to look like the face..hahaha

Ok, ready to eat her “face”!! Here it goes…..

Ounch!! It hurts!

Happy birthday Sue, may you have a blessed year ahead and a wonderful day!

Red Velvet Cupcakes

I always wanted to try out this California South red cake after reading about it few months back but never have the chance to do so. Finally I managed to give it a try today. I used the recipe from The Pioneer Women. It is quite a unique recipe having to mix the cocoa with red colouring. Well, this is what the name for – RED VELVET.

The look before baking – pretty “bloody”

Red velvet with cream cheese frosting

Very spongy and moist!!! I don’t really like the cream cheese frosting though, think is a bit too rich for me. But hubby think it tastes good with the cake. Now Red Velvet cupcake will be in my list of cupcake flavour!