Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween to everyone!! I was asked to make some cupcakes design for Irene's (Gan) Halloween Party on Sat, abit excited though, cos this is the first time I preparing for Halloween, I got no idea what to design except pumpkins :P Well, with some brain storming from Ruffy and some pictures from Irene, I managed to redraw what Irene requested on a piece of paper. If I can draw it, I should be able to produce it though. Here's my draft to her

On Friday, I started baking these cupcakes, but they didn't go very well in my first batch, I underestimated the amt of batter in each cupcakes, hence, I only gets 3/4 cup of cake after baking and worst still, THAT WERE MY LAST FEW PIECES OF PAPER LINERS LEFT!!!! Gosh, and time was running out, these cupcakes were for that day's collection!!

I had to thank Ruffy, she is really a kind soul, she was asking me something while I told her that I need to rush off to buy the cups and she offered to give me a lift as she was just nearby my area. She really saves my day, else if I go by train, it will take me 2 hrs to and fro the place. With her help, I managed to come back home within an hr.

Now this was the 2nd batch and this time round, I'd put more batter into it in order to get a almost full cup of cake. These was my 1st batch of cupcakes to Irene:-

I'm quite happy with the end result, cos the witch and the cats came out very nicely and also those spiders and cobwebs. Overall, I quite like and happy with this batch of cupcakes.

I've made a 2nd batch of cupcakes for her again on that very nite, bcos her hb had dropped the box and the designs are all smashed. Everything was in a rush, hence I didn't take a photo of it. :(

Pizza Pizza

I've been asked to bake some pizza, so yesterday, I went out with Ruffy to do some grocery shopping to prepare for pizza making tml. I've spent quite abit on the pizza toppings though.

I'm actually quite happy, this was my pizza in baking:-

The dough was self-made. I searched for recipe in the web and start to make changes to it in order to accomodate my quantity and time making it. It took me half a day to prepare for the dough, while waiting for the dough to prove, I prepared my buttercream icing which is going to be used for Halloween Cupcakes tml for Irene.

After 1 whole day of work, here's my pizza....the dough was abit thick though, but the taste was good. My hubby and even my mum loves it. :)

Self feeding

Finally, at 10 mths, Reyna knows how to self feed. She finally learn how to put biscuit inside her mouth and chew. See, she's so cute and excited all abt it:-

Winnie the Pooh...Hahaha

Today, I'm not cooking, so since I'm so free, must as well try the pooh bear cake (see, I told u, I'm addicted to baking :P) Haha, the effect turn out to be very funny......

First, I decide what cake to use, so, I've decided sponge cake, bcos personally, I do not like butter cake so try it on sponge cake first..... heee, then I mixed and I whipped then I put it in the oven ("for Baby and me", hahaha). This was how it looked like after 25 mins of baking :)

Then, after the gals slept, I started to do my cream, haha, again, I hated buttercream, so I use freshcream here. :) After a very long struggle, this is how the "pooh bear" looked like:

Haha, funny or not? The leg so skinny and the face so funny....hahaha....can't stop laughing.... ok, compare it with the original photo of how it should look like:

Err, any resemblance? Ok lah, I kena sai abit lah, not bad leh....heee. There is some resemblance lah, don't say don't have lah....hahaha..... My pooh bear is the skinny version, hahaha, so skinny :P Shall practise more. :P

Next round, when I'm in better mood and have lots of excess buttercream, I shall bake again, this time, with buttercake..... haha, Sorry Reyna, I think ur bday cake got to order liao....hahaha...unless no theme :P or I will have to brush up on my drawing liao....haha, but I'm happy lah, so cute :P

Fondant Fondant

My sis is going to have an interview next week, she asked me to wish her luck, so now, since she "offered" to be my "guinea pit" heee, I wanted to do a fondant cake soooooo much but nobody willing to be my guinea pig, so that's it lah, she shall be the one. hee, take this opportunity to wish her good luck too mah :)

Hiaz, I was very busy with this cake, cos I bake and prepare at the same time, hence got no time to take photograph till the very final of it. So busy leh, got to bake the cake lah, melt the Marshmallows, mix the marshmallows and also to whip up the buttercream icing and the final decoration. Really so much things to do leh..... heng ah, still managed to take the final output photo:-

What's my next project after? Hmm, let me think.....yes, trial Reyna's bday cake, Pooh Bear Novelty Pan. :) I've borrowed the cake pan and need to return in 2 weeks time, so got to trial fast before my pan is due for return, so my next cake is pooh bear!!!! :)

Ok, till the next creation, GOOD LUCK, SIS! :)

Addicted

Oh no, I think I'm addicted to baking!!! One day no baking my day will be so bored!!!!

Hee hee, so I've created Oreo Cupcakes after the massive baking of Rachel's bday cake!!

Here it goes: -

The recipe is from the website, but it's too sweet for me liao. The top is the cream cheese filling, haha, as the word "filling" means fill inside the cake and how come it's on top here leh? Cos, I had too much fillings...hahaha and I don't feel like using icing since it's already so sweet, so, cream cheese filling will neutralize the sweetness.

Well, the above is the end products and how does it look like b4 entering oven?

Ok, the next I"m going to do n try out is fondant. Wait for my next post bah :)

Happy Birthday, Rachel!

Ta dah!!! Here is the finally look of the cake with the cupcakes surrounding it :P

Preparation of Rachel's 4th Birthday

This morning, I woke up very early feeling fresh (though I slept quite late last nite and didn't sleep well - cos I'm too excited!!) and in a high spirit! Well, it's time to prepare Rachel's birthday cakes and to test the capability of my new oven. :)

I started off doing the sponge cake for her big circle cake to put the Barney Topper on. This is quite normal as I've always been doing this for sale. Then I started to do the cupcakes. I tried doing 1 batch first, but can only yield 11 cups (I thought can yield more than 12 cups as the last time I did with the same recipe, I yield 12 cups). This is the baking of my 1st batch of cupcakes (nothing fantastic, cos only 11 cups which my old oven can handle):

So, as I needed at least 14 cupcakes, I just had to do another batch. But this time round, I did 2 batches at 1 shot! It was so shiok!! No more doing 1 batch by 1 batch and baking 1 batch by 1 batch. The feeling is just great, cos now u know that ur oven can handle the quantity, there was no stress! No stress of unsuccessful cupcakes! And this was taken before they proceed to bake:

And after 15 mins, this is how it looks:

So satisfying to see that my oven can accomodate a total of 30 cups at 1 go and 2 layers of sponge cake at 1 go. My dreams finally came true!

Well, after bake, decoration need to be done lah, without much saying. This is the decor for the whole cake:

I'm quite happy with it as the theme and colours were so nice and matched. Maybe becos I'm very happy today and my mood was very calmed when I decorate this cake, that's why the end result was good.

Then, I need to whip up the buttercream icing for the cupcakes. This is the most difficult part and the part which I hated most (bcos the icing sugar just fly everywhere), but thanks to Wilton Website and a blogger, I managed to find useful information about the buttercream and ideas on how to minimise the mess and made my day a better one. Now, I'm in love with buttercream and told my maid (who will be going back soon) that I will bake her a cake for her to bring home and decorate with buttercream.

For the cupcakes, I'd actually prepared before hand this barney figurine

but by the end of the day, most of them didn't "survive" except for 1, I also dunno the reason, ended up, the cupcakes only have 1 with the figurine (which my inital plans was the whole cake is surrounded by such cupcakes) :

These are the finally end products of the cupcakes:

These cupcakes will surround the whole cake, dunno how's the effect, anyway, tomorrow will be the day liao, we shall see.......................

NEW OVEN!!!

Finally, I've got my bigger oven!!!! Thanks to Natalie and of course, my dear hubby. *muach*

I've bought a 56 litre Electrolux oven. I can now start to plan for Reyna 1st Birthday, but Rachel's birthday will be here soon, so it's time to test and show the capability of the oven!!

Here's my new oven and new cabinet:

Haha, friends, I'm open to big orders now. :)

O2 Atom Life

Aiyo, my hubby just bought a new HP for me and so headache leh....... NOt used to it! It's a PDA phone and there's no keypad like normal HP...Now I'm wondering if I can use it while carrying Reyna. Can faint leh.....

Long time no see

Have been sometimes since I last blogged. Been busy busy preparing for Xmas promotion on my new webby and busy with Rachel's bday party.

She had requested me to do her cupcakes instead of 1 whole cake for her classmates and her theme, she wants it to be BARNEY!!! *faint*

Well, I've been cracking my head how to do nice and good barney cupcakes and guess what, see this:

These are the Barney figurines which I had prepared for the cupcakes myself. Haha, so funny, my hubby said they looked like lizards. :P Don't know why the picture is so blurr, hope you don't mind. :)

As for the Christmas, I've prepared the mini log cake to be sold. Take a look at my creation:

Keep a lookout at my new webby http://3rsvan.wordpress.com/ for the promotion for the logcake.

I've also just learn to create rose with buttercream. Take a look, this was made by me using freshcream instead:

Feel so proud of it. :P