Disney Strikes Again!

Little 6 year old Annabelle loves Minnie Mouse and this 2 kg family chocolate cake was given a simple, yet distinctively Minnie design. The bottom tier replicates Minnie's red with white polka dot dress (least that's how I remember Minnie... I hear that she now has a bigger wardrobe!). The top tier are the famous ears. I couldn't do a 3-D figure of Minnie (or Mickey, Donald, Goofy etc) due to my lack of sculpting skills and great fear of disfigurement. The next best thing was to do a cut-out. I sure hope the birthday girl liked the cake.

Afternoon Tea Party

A group of 10-year olds gathered for tea last weekend, hence the aptly-themed cupcakes. Covered in traditional red and white chequered tablecloth, miniature plates of strawberries, chocolate cherry cake, sandwiches, shortbread, hotdogs, chocolate chip cookies and the customary pot of tea (in this case, hot chocolate).

Super Seven - continued...

This is the 2nd installment of Super Seven - Cupcakes for her birthday sleepover. Each girl had a Chocolate-Strawberry Chocolate Chip cupcake with a "mini-me" of themselves in pyjamas.

Super Seven

What could be a better cake design than a Witches' Cauldron to get your classmates gleefully screaming! The Lemon Poppyseed Cake is covered as the cauldron and stewing a potion of eyeballs, snakes and spiders (seen trying to escape,) in blood.... Firewoods are chocolate wafers. Everything is edible except for the candles; yes, the ugly green witch, too...wart and all.

The second cake for the birthday girl who's turning seven today is a simple family-size Lemon Poppyseed Cake, too. Just a simple figure of her bowing, in her Taekwondo garb after breaking a few planks!

Favourite Things & Favourite People...

Here's another request for the Favourite Things Birthday Cupcakes. The birthday girl is an accomplished entrepeneur, designer and much-loved by her staffs. These cupcakes feature 12 of her favourite things (starting from top left,) books, coffee, MO Outlet-the division where these cupcakes were presented from, diamonds, cigars, dresses - this one's a replica of one of her own designs, handbags, hearts-lots of love, shoes, music, her Bali beach home and old movies. *phone* Friend just texted and said that she loves it very much and has decided to keep it intact till Friday to show her friends!

Since she was picking up the birthday cupcakes, she decided to have a set of cupcakes for her favourite people at work, too!

Farm & Barnyard Animals

Given a free hand in designing this set of cupcakes, it was nice to get back into my creative-idling mode after a month-long hiatus. Requirements were simple: Cupcakes for children between the ages of 3 to 8 years old. So, we had...

2 dogs,...
2 field mice,..

2 cows,...

2 horses,...

2 pink pigs,...

2 bunny rabbits,...

2 sheeps and...

a chicken coop, a red tractor, an orange tree, golden hay stacks and vegetables.

This theme will look great on a whole cake and perfect for young children's birthdays. Much more appropriate than TV characters don't you think?? ;-)

Hantaran Cupcakes

Gold Peonies against Red Brocade

Bunga Ros Merah against Songket Emas

These cupcakes were commissioned as part of the bride's return hantaran for the akad nikah (solemnisation ceremony of a Muslim marriage) last weekend. The colour scheme was red and gold to marry 2 cultures - the Chinese bride and her Malay bridegroom. With that in mind, the cupcakes were covered in (1) red to signify the Chinese wedding brocade and topped with gold-coloured peonies (flowers signifying abundance to the Chinese) and (2) gold with imprints of the songket (traditional Malay brocade for weddings) and topped with bright red bunga ros that are commonly seen during Malay weddings. Cake is Vanilla Butter.