2010 Christmas bakes

Baked near christmas time ...........

Cup cake wrapper

First of all I must thank Anncoo for giving the idea of the cup cake wrapper. I have mark this link for quite sometime and was telling myself that I should try it out one day.....Well....the day has finally arrived....when YuWei, my baking pal I have met in Richard's Creaming class called upon me to help her bake some cuppies for her ROM. YW's suggested that she would like to have a garden theme cuppies, hence I decided to mould some bugs, bees and snails to go along with it.

During the prepration of the wrapper, I encounter a problem with the template file, perhaps its a different file extension, I was not able to retrieve it. Hence without much delay, I get one cupcake casing and start to diy the template....luckily still can make do =) Next was to source for a nice wrapper to go with the garden theme......heehee....guess what I bought this wrapper from oversea....not very far....Malaysia JB =) I chance upon this last piece wrapper when I was at the bookshop. And I think this is an ideal piece for a theme like this.

Lastly....everythings goes on smoothly and the cuppies were well received by YW's guest! Congrats to Junji and Yuwei on their BIG day!

Cuppies for my Niece ~~~Amelia

My sis requested to bake some cuppies for Amelia and her ah lao whose birthday are just few days apart. Amelia is born in the same year as Ashly and celebrating her 5th birthday! Amelia is born in the year of 鸡 and her daddy in the year of 猪. So sis requested cuppies of piggy and chicky! Last night she came over to help out too. This is what we have prepared for them. A total of 9 piggy and 9 chicky and a 6' berries cake.

Noticed the different on the above and lower pic? Yap....one with piggy and chicky on the cake itself. As they are mould using fondant I have asked my sis to place them only during serving time else worried that they will melt on the fresh cream.

XAY still owe u a princess cake =)

Ashly 5th birthday Cake

Time flies! It's my girl Ashly 5th Birthday! This year she request a mermaid/princess cake. I know she likes the character of Little Mermaid but there is no way I can do a similar one for her. I also don't have enough time to get for her any toppers (haha...tons of reasons). Hence I decided to google for mermaid cake image. In this era, Internet & googling really helps to solve many of my problems :)

Using what I have learnt from my baking lesson I used the same set up and just change the design and pipe a mermaid tail. I think I did badly on the scale part. I used the piping tip meant for piping petal and the cream is too soft to hold the shape. I make use of piping jelly to pipe the crab and tortoise. As for the fish I used melted chocolate to pipe the shape the fish. The chocolate are left over coating for my mini donuts which I have packed in a box of 2 to be given to the children at the end of the celebration. Just decorating the cake itself took me 3 1/2 hours.

I hope Ashly have a wonderful celebration in school and Mummy wish you 快高长大，身体健康！

* Not forgetting to thank my ah lao for getting the 旺旺小馒头at a very last minute request!

Hen Party for WeWe

Thanks S for giving me this opportunity to showcase my 'dirty work' again :). Hope her Sister 'WeWe' have a wonderful time!

Weekend bakes

Bake this cake for my cousin JC! Got to trouble him to come to my house and pick it up! I stick the almond flakes piece by piece. Though its time consuming but I love the result.

As this is only a 6' cake, I have the remaining cake batter bake into cuppies. I can't resist not to try on elmo after seeing one of the blogger Mrs Teng baked the sesame street theme cuppies for her twin girl. Her piping skill is jst great! Mine is no way to compare and I cheated using piping gel! So happen that I chance upon Mr Fadli Halim blog with elmo & spongebob cuppies and I book mark it and tell myself that I should try it one day! Too bad I can't read Malay else I would have gotten his book too. He is also good in fondant!

As for the sunflower oreo cuppies...guess what...I learnt it from youtube! There are lots of clips which I have yet to finish and try on.......so many things on the want to do list...never ending........

Playing with fondant

Hee....finally try out molding winnie the pooh. 60% resemblance? Also made a dozen of naughty cuppies for my colleague H to bring to Bali to celebrate her gf birthday! Sorry if its too gross. Got quite alot of ideas from flicker must thank the original creator :)

Facial Cupcakes

Since I have some sponge cake batter I baked them into cuppies and deco with fondant. Got to improve their hairstyles :)

Mickey Cookies

Finally put my mickey cutters into good use.

Teddy bug

First time piping a teddy using fresh cream. This cake is for crystal who is turning 5 this year. She was born in the same year as Ashly. I have also baked some cuppies and mould some bugs. Cos I think the teddy may not be enough. Heard from GG that the children love the cake that they asked for 2nd serving. Happy! mission accomplished! Happy Birthday to Crystal!

Bithday gift

Baked this batch of chocolate chip cuppies for L birthday. Hope she will like it.

Ashly School CNY Celebration

Ashly made a last minute request from me to bake her cuppies for her to bring to school for her CNY celebration. My fridge was left with only 1 miserable egg. No choice but to borrow 3 from my neighbour. I started baking it at 2130hrs and completed all by past midnight. She was happy to see them the next morning. However, she didn't get to eat while in school as the teacher have placed the cuppies to another corner which she did not manage to take any.

Odd one out and did not turn up to school. : )