A Jetsetter's 37th

My new favourite!! A vintage leather suitcase circa 1940s. It was requested to mark the 37th birthday of a jet-setter. This 3kg whopper (banana cake) was covered in chocolate fondant and I had much pleasure in replicating the Malaysian passport and Malaysia Airline's Golden Club boarding pass. Needless to say, I was a tad cross-eyed after that. When the suitcase was completed, I did the travel stickers-essential during those days of travelling. My favourite was the Paris sticker. Unfortunately, the close-up picture was shaky. Birthday boy's sis also requested for a replica of MAS's new A380. So, I did a miniature of that massive Airbus with MAS's new livery. I had a great experience on board SIA's A380 a couple of years back to Paris and I hope the birthday boy got a ticket on that inaugural flight to London in July!

RC Dude's 40th

Birthday dude Josh's girlfriend inquired if I could do a car cake. Well, I do have that very standard car pan if that's what she meant...and apparently, that was fine. THEN she sent me the pictures. "Oh, dear..." was all I could mutter to myself. It was an personalised RC car! RC-Remote Controlled. A very colourful one if I may add and it wasn't your standard beetle-looking car (as was my cake pan). I had pictures of all angles of that RC car's...shell. Yes, just the shell and I have no idea whatsoever, how the whole vehicle was suppose to look like. So, I Googled. It was a monster-truck-single-cab-4-WD-all-in-one kinda vehicle. Boy, have RC cars changed since my days.... Nonetheless, I was up for a challenge and dude's girlfriend was such a sweetie telling me not to stress too much about the car. Said she would have been very happy just to have this car cake look remotely like his and surprised him. Well, she doesn't know my middle name and I did the best I could. It was more tedious than I thought but I think it turned out okay....

Josh was obviously stoked when he received his girlfriend's surprise cake. He didn't have the heart to cut the car itself and served only the base cake to his mates! Awwwww!!! The picture above shows the cake and his real big brother. Now, if only Josh will commission me to do a birthday cake for his thoughtful girlfriend, I'd slip-in a (sugar) engagement ring ;-p

A Workaholic's Birthday

This 1.2kg Devil's Food Chocolate Cake speaks for itself doesn't it? This surprise birthday cake was for a 33-year old mum of two who's a workaholic and I thought, what could be more befitting a workaholic than a busy desk?! Having left the workforce 11 years ago, I was lost for a bit on what's on a desk these days...but went ahead making little files, folders AND a desk planner. The MOTH gently enlightened me that no one uses a desk planner anymore. Why of course!! They've got Blackberry now! Geez...but I kept it there anyway because it just.... fits. It belonged on a desk I used to work from.

Baby Shower

This Baby Shower cake was to coincide with the theme of having enough babies to make up a football team. I had intended to play along with a football theme but it was looking too much a bloke's birthday cake. It was after all, a baby shower for the mum-to-be and the tease was on mum (who's expecting her no.2 soon) to go forth and multiply! So, instead of a football I thought I'd do a bub's tushie. You know how babies sleep on their chest with their tush up? That's what I was aiming for.

It didn't turn out too bad, didn't it? I particularly love the feet...chubby enough to want to gnaw on it ;-) This Lemon Poppyseed Cake wasn't too big but the sugarpaste legs added some extra weight and it finished weighing 1.8kg. And no, I didn't forget the "2 down 9 to go" (11 in a team) theme. Made 9 baby faces and put them around the sides of the cake with the "next baby" in 2013 all the way to the last boy in 2021!! A baby a year??? I don't envy mum Julie.

Gong Xi Fa Cai

Just finished baking the last batch of Oriental Sugee Cakes for this year's Chinese New Year orders. Phiew! It's been a short and busy first month of the year. It seemed only a short time ago that we were busy with Christmas and now, the lunar new year celebration beckons. We're off to Penang for a week and I will be back in my kitchen even before I've had enough of pineapple tarts! Here's wishing you a happy and prosperous  year ahead with the Water Dragon *showering upon us!
* water signifies $$$$$$ ;-)

Superheros

I had to do a comic strip speech bubble for this cake! The cake was serving as a platform to feature this young superhero's favourites namely Superman, Spiderman, Batman and Ultraman. This small (slightly over 2kg) two-tiered Chocolate Fudge cake was simply decorated with a skyline of cutouts so that mum can place the 4 toy figurines on the cake itself. Emblems associated with each of those superheros were manually cut-out (eyes crossed by the time I finished them). Superman was supposed to stand near the speech bubble  to personally wish Shahjahan a very Happy Birthday! Still waiting for mum's pictures on the cake with the toys on the cake.

Superman 

 Spiderman

 Batman 

Ultraman

Angry Birds Ver.2

Apparently, this fowl-flinging game is one of the most popular game to date with over 300million downloads and gamers play something like 200million minutes a day! I have 2 versions of the game on my 'gadgets' and thankfully, both my children aren't hooked on them. Both the MOTH and I had to kinda learn the game from them and see for ourselves what the big deal was. Well, it's a straightforward game that challenges you with physics- something I have no clue of... and I guess, its appeal is in the satisfaction of killing something???? Anyway, this small Devil's Food Cake of 1.3kg was for a small child of 2....hmmmm