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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

ROM Party Cupcakes




My good friend's cousin was having a ROM dinner party and she wanted to order 
80 cupcakes to surprise her.

Pink and Lilac icing with roses, message tags and letters.






When assembled, the message was 
BLISSFUL MARRIAGE 
JASON & AUDREY 
7 OCT 2012


Aren't they pretty? ^_^
I hope the newly-weds, family and friends enjoyed them!






Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Human Society of Singapore is 1


Human Society of Singapore turned 1 
and I have the honour of baking the cupcakes to celebrate their 1st birthday! ^_^


50 chocolate and vanilla cupcakes in green icing with message tags with 
"Thank You" and "Happy 1st Birthday HSS".


I usually bake the cakes the night before and decorate them before they are picked up.


On this particularly occasion, I caught a little bunny who sneaked out in the middle of the night, attracted by the delightful aroma of freshly baked cupcakes............  

See Baby D in action below:





In the middle of the night, guess who came to check out the yummy cupcakes?













Can I have some please?












One, two, three, four...... erm how many are there anyway?


50, my dear Baby D! ^_^



Oooohhhh yummy! He seemed to say....









Monday, January 14, 2013

Rosette Cake For My Good Friends


Rosette Cake

I saw picture of this cake several times on the internet. 
I was really attracted to it and decided that one day I will make it. 
It looked so pretty and I really loved it!


My sworn sister Su Lin and my very good friend Pui Yee always celebrated 
their birthdays together in Aug. 
I decided to make a rosette cake to surprise them. I brought it to the office in the morning, 
and later carried it to our dinner venue Cafe Iguana.


I made an 8" round cake and covered it in purple rosettes.


Top view of the pretty Rosette Cake. Do you like it? :D

Cupcakes For All The Teachers Of My Nephew And Niece





After the exams, my sister wanted me to bake some cupcakes for all the teachers who taught my nephew and niece who were graduating from Henry Park Primary School and Gracefield Kindergarten. 



The plan for to make 4-piece cupcake gift box for each teacher who taught them for 12 years and 4 years respectively.

I spent some time thinking about the designs for the 4 cupcakes. As there were male teachers, the colour theme should not be too sweet and pretty.



My sister's only request was that one of the cupcakes must have a big "J" and another must have a message tag that says "Thank You".


At the end, I settled for bright and vibrant colours. 

Cupcake 1 - a red J on yellow icing rosette as their names are Jonathan and Joanne. 
Cupcake 2 - a small blossom on orange icing rosette
Cupcake 3 - a big green star to represent the teacher and a little purple star the student, on
                      yellow icing rosette
Cupcake 4 - orange icing rosette with a blue Thank You tag



This is the end product! :) 


This is by far my biggest order, a total of 190 cupcakes, delivered separately in 2 batches.


Thank You, Jie! 
Appreciate your support and encouragement! ^_^

















Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Avengers Cupcakes for My Dear Iggy Boy

My 2nd son Ignatius is a big Avengers fan. We watched the movie at the theatre in May and we thoroughly enjoyed it!


Iggy is right next to me.
Ignatius (Iggy for short) was celebrating his milestone birthday this year. To us, turning 7 is significant as it will be our son's first year in a formal school so we wish have let him have a nice memory of it. Iggy didn't want the same thing as Aloysius' 7th birthday party a year before - we booked a function room and hired an event company to entertain the children, including siblings, nieces, friends and classmates.

Iggy's party was at KidsAmaze  @ Safra Jurong.


Iggy is an active boy who has many friends. He reminded me to make sure that his best friend Glendon from Marymount Kindergarten was invited. We invited his whole class (1 Gabriel) from St. Joseph's Institution Junior.





Iggy's favourite colour is green, just like mommy and younger brother Ascensius. I suggested having green letters to make up the birthday message on the cupcakes. His favourite hero from Avengers is Iron Man, hence the red icing. His second favourite is Hawkeye, so the second colour is blue.

I loved decorating cupcakes because I loved making my signature rose. It makes me really happy looking at the beautiful swirls.









For the cupcake toppers, I ordered Avengers mini pics on edible wafer. Each cupcake has a cupcake topper.  In all, I made 45 cupcakes. 







A bucketful of yummy butter cookies






Apart from cupcakes, I decided to make number 7 butter cookies with icing for Iggy to give away as party favours.


I felt like I was Christina and her bucketful of Number 7 Cookies (just like Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs)! 









4 butter cookies decorated with royal icing, packed in small ziplock bags to maintain freshness.  I was very delighted to know that the kids loved the cookies ^_^ 

I also learnt that it wasn't easy to draw long straight lines with royal icing! Hahahaha




Birthday boy Iggy (in orange) enjoying the cupcakes, with my nieces Janice and Jessica and his elder brother Aloysius ^_^ 










Izach's Lego Blocks


Izach is my second son Ignatius' classmate at St Joseph's Institution Junior. They are in Pri 1 this year. Izach's mom wanted to find a nice Lego Ninjago cake for Izach, so she was looking around for designs. 

One evening Dolly asked if I would like to make Izach's birthday. I was delighted to be asked ^_^






But I had been really busy from baking almost non-stop as Ignatius' and Dimitrius' (Baby D) birthday parties were celebrated just 2 weeks apart (18th Aug and 1st Sep). Izach's cake was required on 9th Sep. All the baking projects were vastly different, and I was glad to be able to gain more experience.




But I wasn't confident of making Lego characters from fondant. After some discussion, I almost wanted to throw in the towel.The only design I was confident of doing as jumbo Lego blocks. Dolly said it would be fine and the birthday boy could place his Ninjago characters all over the cake as he desired! Hahaha






The 2 Lego blocks may look simple but it's quite time consuming - 2 x 10" square cakes made up the 2 blocks and the knobs were each made from 3 layers of cake circles.



At the end of the day, everyone enjoyed the cake and that's all that matters! ^_^








Monday, November 5, 2012

Baby Dimitrius' First Birthday Party @ 1st Sep

Dimitrius Cathal 
Months before Baby Dimitrius' first birthday party, I thought long and hard if I wanted to take the risk to make my 4th son's birthday cake myself. It would be much easier to just find a bakery and order a nice big cake. I intended to go along with the Sesame Street theme, just like the first birthdays of the other 3 brothers. Quite unimaginative huh? Baby D didn't like watching TV, so I really didn't know if he likes Elmo ^_^


Mommy & Baby D

Baby D's cake would be my first fondant covered cake, apart for the one I made for the test at the end of my course where I had to bake a cake, cover it with fondant and decorate all over. 


I wanted very much to make Baby D's cake. I had grand plans - buy a number 1 cake pan and make all the decorations from scratch! Frankly, I didn't know how to make gumpaste figurines. 

2 kind friends helped in my quest - one helped to bring back my number one cake pan and another helped to bring back the Sesame Street candles and cupcake rings. Thanks Andrew and Kenny.



I searched for my old Sesame Street character figurines, which I had bought some years ago as cake toppers for Ascensius' first birthday cake. Decided to use them to decorate Baby D's cake, instead of trying to make my own figurines.



About 2 weeks before the party, I had an idea. I should try to make a marble number 1 cake, just to make it special, instead of just plain vanilla or chocolate. The test cake tasted nice but it didn't look very pretty, in fact it looked kind of unattractive and I was afraid that the dark swirls would show up clearly under the white fondant! Idea was aborted in a jiffy! 



The number one base cake is quite long and the shape is irregular. It would be my biggest challenge ever but I was up for it. All in all, it took me 4 nights to bake all the cakes and cupcakes and to complete the cake decorations. It was pretty hard work and I was glad to have the support of my hubby, whom even sat with me to roll out fondant and help me to cut the little stars! I think he has the potential to be a cake decorator! Hahahaha

At 12am the night before, I felt like I was racing against time. Progress was slow and I felt really tired! By 3am, I had to hit the sack and my back was breaking after sitting down for the last 5 hours. I was sure I would not be able to complete the cake and cupcakes, plus I would look like a big panda at the party! I felt sad.....


I prayed hard, I asked for help as I felt really stressed out. "Lord, please do not let my efforts go to waste, I have come so far! Please give me strength and peace to complete what I set out to do. In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Amen!" 

I went to bed, had a good rest and started working again at 9am. By the grace of God, I was truly amazed. The huge white fondant piece covered the number one base cake totally! ^_^ 
The rest of the cake and cupcakes decorations were completed before 1pm! As the party was at 6pm, I even had a chance for a nap! 

Colourful Baby D Cupcakes 
My parents, siblings and their kids and us, celebrating Baby D's birthday together