Randomness...

hello...

So i've been kinda slack the last week and this one hehe.. I've been busy with stuff- other than cakes ;p

But i've still been taking orders and i've got a new item to add to the menu- Raspberry Coconut cake- my brothers in-laws are already fans *YaY* I think i need to add more fruity cakes to my menu.. but i'm not a big fan of them hehe.. i only bake cakes i know i'll eat- apart from fruit cake.. I make that because my nini and my aunts love it.. ♥ (everything else is 'manis' for them) hahaha

May is coming up.. and i've got my dad's big 60th b'day coming up. We had a conversation that sorta went like this:

Me: What kinda cake would you like this year Dad?

Dad: Why do you make those other cakes the way you make them?

Me: Huh?! Cos.. thats what they asked for.. ..

Dad: Yes, thats because you don't know them.. But you know me, So make a cake how you feel best represents me! How you feel about me.. (and then walks away)

Me: *Jaw DropS*

This is why i like to get as much details of how a client wants their cakes to turn out or descriptions of the person the cake is for..

My dad also went on about how a design must have meanings and themes..etc.. can't remember how it went exactly but i got the picture!! I'm feeling totally pressured now!

And my mom helps by going 'Why don't you do the IBB building (now BIBD) in Bandar, since it was one of your dad's first buildings?'- Mom i've never made a building out of a cake before!!!!!!

To top that off.. it's my youngest brother's birthday at the end of May.. and i asked him the same thing-'What cake would you like?' and he goes 'i want a cake with random things on it'--Ooookkaaayy...another descriptive person in my family!!

I swear my family members have to be the hardest clients to please-and they don't pay me!!! *hmmpf*

Except my mom.. she knows what she wants =) (she also reads my blog) kekeke

So wish me luck on those endeavors, we'll see how it turns out.. i am open to suggestions by the way =)

I was playing around with some extra icing and decided to try out a piped rose.. it's easy, everyone does them- yeaaa.. till u do it yourself.. took me a while to get a hang of them.. they turned out pretty.. so i randomly stuck them on a cake my ordered for her dinner party hehee..

I got a request to do a rocky road brownie for a birthday.. and the birthday girl's description was: she's a girly-girl who loves fairies, pink, butterflies, flowers- stuff like that..

Okayy... You'd think a brownie was a brownie right?? Wrong!!! hehehe not when i have anything to do with it!

I think this must be the prettiest brownie i've ever seen/made- i am so in love with the frog prince ;)

It was really fun making these figurines.. i call it the Fantasy Forest theme.. Happy Birthday Jojo =)

Oh yea and there were cupcakes too.. Mimo lemon cupcakes!

Ps: Yes Zat, ur cake will totally be awesome this year!! With LOTS of ganache ;p ♥

pushing boundaries..

Another busy week.. but i loved it :)

Okay so...i'm a bit of a dork cos i love making, baking and decorating cakes! Uhuh!

It's only taken how many years to realise this..

So this week..

Was my wonderful Mom's birthday..

Happy Birthday again Mom! xx

Earlier in the month, i showed her all these books to help her make a choice on what kind of cake she wanted, and this is what she chose.

It's a vase of flowers. And she loved it =)

People kept calling it 'a pot' of flowers haha which was fair enough.. The chocolate mud cake turned out well too cos it sorta looked like soil huhu..

It was really quite a tall cake.. about 9 layers of delicious chocolate mud cake.. was quite hard to cut too hahaha...

(i can laugh about it, i'm just the baker :p)

How coincidental is it that my brother's b'day and my brother in-law's b'day both fall on the 19th of April??... and they both have names starting with 'A'?? hmm...

Anyway my hubby requested this...interesting cake for his younger brother (for fun!)- and i was up for the challenge ;) The cake is white chocolate mud cake with white chocolate ganache.. The design is Debbie Brown's.

A Bodice Cake

Happy B'day Bg =)

After the big cakes were all done.. my cousin had an order in for around 200 cupcakes and tinies for my niece's b'day party.. Man.. she is the luckiest!! I had to wait till i got married, to have my name iced on cupcakes- as a give away gift! (I should put those pictures up one day.. i trained all my cousins-well the girls anyway to ice around 600 cupcakes for my nikah huhuhu....i had workshops and everything... i should of known from then i loved making cakes!)

Back to the image below.. these were put in lil'containers for individual gifts for the guests.

Happy 5th Birthday Nabilah =)

My brother isn't here for his b'day (he's over in Brisbane, studying hard.. ..) But i promised to email over the picture of his b'day cake that i made for him (even though he's not here).. My mom actually came up with this idea and said.. 'why don't you just photoshop his name on?' .. and so i did hehe.. (u gotta love Ps)

Happy B'day Rif.. love you lots!! Made this especially for you *winx*

ps: don't tell dad i did this ;p

If Zat was here she'd probably yell at me for using so many font colors.. (she does all the technical stuff for me like.. make the blog, design it, etc..) But she's not here..Oooh well!

Is it weird that i'm sleep deprived cos i think about cakes? How to cut them, bake them, decorate them, the colours... oh it goes on.. yea... it's sad i lose sleep on this.. but i really really love it!!

I was going through designs with my sis in law today and realised i really wish ppl would order more fun cakes for baby showers, kids b'days, baby arrivals, weddings and all sorts of fun occasions.. cos there are just so many many many designs i'm itching to try out!! hehe..

( i can wish :p)

I can't wait for June. . I'll be off continuing on the 2nd part of the course i attended last year in Oz *woohoo* Something i am looking forward to very much!

OKay i'm babbling now.. Good night!

1st week of April

I have seriously had the hardest time uploading pictures today :(

Anyway last week was very interesting. I tried out a couple new things, which was fun..

This post will be brief, i'll just elaborate on the images *lazy* huhu

This was for a cousin-in-law... who's ankle i Accidentally landed on during one of our family games.. who would of thought that.. .. .. hehe

~ 'Sorry' brownies covered in chocolate frostings with fondant letters, and Beautiful Bianca cupcakes (banana chocolate chip)

This is a carrot cake covered in multi-coloured cream cheese frosting with buttercream squiggle designs on top, made this especially for someone dear to me ;)

Left side: 2x rows of chocolate ♥-shaped cakes covered in chocolate frosting and a row of vanilla ♥-shaped cakes covered in vanilla frosting- this was for Fidz!

Happy Belated B'day sweetie!

Right side: ♥-shaped brownies covered in chocolate ganache covered with ♥ sprinkles. Sitting on an icing covered ♥-shaped board, i did for fun.. just because it looked prettier this way!

Hope Didi n Andi enjoyed them :)

Another cousin-in-law, Busera (who i didn't injure) had a brilliant idea for her son's 5th b'day. She got me to bake around 60 cupcakes to bring to her son's school. And she brought along lots n lots (i'm imagining there were lots, because i wasn't there but i told her to bring Lots) of different kinds of sprinkles and lollies for the kids to decorate at whim! I can imagine the chaos of creativity that went on that morning.. Hope they had heaps of fun! =D

Pink Desserts Day!! I attended the Pink event yesterday.. I dragged my hubby along because i hardly knew half the ppl there...He was not happy with the humidity yesterday!! hehehe

It was a great turn out tho! I was very impressed, not only were there tons of yummy desserts (some were even in pink) they also had their merchandise ready for sale. Items included aprons, t-shirts, polo shirts, reusable bags, towels and badges.

So what they're actually doing is compiling original recipes on desserts from anyone and turning it into a recipe book. All profits will go to the Breast Cancer Support group-hence the colour Pink!

i submitted my Beautiful Bianca recipe because it's a real favorite of ours at home. And hope who ever bakes them enjoys them as much as we do =)

But i swear mine was the simplest looking one yesterday, everybody had their desserts on pretty plates/stands or decorated really prettily... sigh.. mine looked like the above! Oh well.. you can't win them all ;p ( i hope Rano doesn't read my blog ;p)

Last but not least, Happy Birthday Ben!

His lovely sister ordered this brownie walnut cake smothered in dark chocolate ganache for him! Unfortunately her sister-in-law (ie: me =] ) has itchy hands and made ducks and sharks hahaha... i hope he doesnt mind!

Till the next update, which should be quite interesting because it's my mom's bday this week and she's already decided on her cake!! Take care everyone!

Number 1

Wow.. what a whirlwind the last two weeks have been.. the Good kinda whirlwind though =)

So i think i've gotten over my 'thing' with portugese egg tarts now. I had the renowned Lord Stow's egg tarts in Hong Kong.. and yea... was not all that- for me!

Then i moved on to Singapore where i had my daily dose of soy latte's and multi grain bagels with cream cheese *bliss* I really should learn how to make my own soy latte as milk is not that great for me =/ And then i went to Bangkok and had daily doses of fruits hehe ok so i didnt try all that many desserts as i said i would but i did.. they were just the usual chocolate cakes, cheesecakes.. nothing to WoW about... but i did buy lots of books... lots and lots =D so i'll be trying out some new decorating techniques (new to me ;p)

During my travels i bought this '1' tin.. Cos i knew i'd be making this special cake for lovely Sarah Imani's first birthday.. So please don't order for any other ages than 1, 11, 111 and maybe i could do a 10 but it'd be a round '0' haha... unless u tell me way in advance- then i'll try to order the numbered tin in ;)