Monday, November 26, 2007

Reyna's Cake

Headache, Headache...... what should I design for Reyna's birthday? The novelty pan of pooh is out, cos I don't think it can cater to 30 pax. So now, it's either "1" or just rectangular cake plus some cupcakes....... All this will be done by me!!! Nervous, cos first time doing such a big project.

Ideas, ideas, anyone? It's this coming sunday......hope I can do a good job man!!!.......

Oh yes, today, very suay day. I've got an cupcakes order to be collected this evening. It was ordered last week. You know what, of all preparation I've done, I actually forgotten about the Packaging!!!! I don't have a box to cater for 12 cupcakes!!! And this idiotic brain of mine only remembers it this morning!! *faint*

Well, no choice, after I've baked the cupcakes, settle down the gals breakfast, shower and lunch before I make my way to phoon Huat. Guess what, not suay enough, when I boarded the bus......Rain rain heavy rain started pouring!!!...well, that's not all, when I reached JE, the rain stopped, then I started buying.....buying buy buy, and ended up with 3 big bags of stuffs!! Then I'm so damned hungry, thought of quickly buy lunch and go home, when I wanted to buy mee soto for my maid after waiting for so long, I was actually being told that it's sold OUT!!!! After about 10 mins, then tell me that...gosh!! ok, then I went to buy her nasi lemak. Then I carried that 3 big bags, plus lunch and walked to the street to wait for a cab and THERE WAS NO CAB!!! So, I walked from phoon huat, to POSB bank, to CPF, to NTUC and finally the Taxi stand with 3 BIG HEAVY BAGS before I can get a cab!!!! Damned suay man!!

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Gingerbread Man Class

Today, I finally held my gingerbread class in Rush-me-not studio. It was enjoyable!! There were a total of 4 kids including Rachel, the rest are older than her and she's supposed to address me "teacher" rather than "mummy". I would say, she did a great job. She tried very hard to address me as "teacher"

Though the session was enjoyable, I'm tired. *hee* When I baked, usually, there's my maid who help me to do the washing, so the job seems to be easier, but today, I got to teach, bake, wash and answers all questions the gals have, it really tires me out.

There will be another 2 more sessions. Hope I can do better in the next 2 sessions.

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Big Day!!

Finally, and I'm glad that the wedding cake had delivered to the bride in the best conditions, except for some hippcups. The topper which u had seen on the previous page did not "attend" the wedding....hee, my super and shaky hand accidentally broke it while adjusting the topper, end up, I replaced it with 2 models (typically wedding couples). I've tried doing another similiar toppers the next before, but it didn't manage to dry on time! So, no choice, luckily got bought that topper stand-by. :P

Sorry, Weijing, I know u had later request for the 3rd tier, but hor, the top tier was going to be bigger than the 2nd-tier, that's y I didn't do it for you. Don't worry, I will do a better job for you when u are having full month celebration...hee, when huh? don't make me wait too long till I old liao cannot move hor. :)

Just for your info, even the fondant cover, I also handmade them myself and they are not bought from the store. So, I hope it's not too sweet and the taste is good.

Just a little update from the bride, she had cut the cake around 4+ pm and shared the cake among her friends and relatives. Comments was, VERY NICE AND TASTE NICE TOO!!!! So glad that her guests had enjoyed the cake.

I'm really very happy for the couple, Once again, HAPPY & BLISSFUL MARRIAGE TO T"HE BOTH OF YOU!!!

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Wedding Cake Finally

Ta da!!! Today is the day where the cake will be assemble. I was very excited this morning. Keep worrying about not able to do it well. Then, as I do, I started taking photos to mark every level of it. Here how it goes:
1) I started off with icing the cake, i.e put chocolate frosting in between the cakes. She wanted a chocolate cake, as I didn't do it for her, I take the trouble to do a small portion of chocolate frosting to put in between it, hee, no chocolate cake, but got chocolate cream lah.

2) Then I started to roll out the fondant. Wow, the fondant is a tedious job, i need to roll out a big n thick enough sheet to cover the cake top to bottom and it kept sticking on to the countertop, or otherwise, got hole on it...can faint leh, I do this for the whole morning, from 9am till 1pm then I managed to get 2 cakes covered with fondant.
3) After covering the cake with fondant, I started working on the lower tier (which is also the 1st tier), I tried many times to do the drape. A drape is a cloth-like deco at the side of the cake. I need to re-do it many many times before putting it on, cos our weather is so hot n humid that the fondant is so soft and not hard.
4) When the drape was done, I got headache, cos it's suppose to go with ribbons, but the fondant cannot harden to make the ribbons.... I've tried a few times and I need the ribbons to be of the same size, but I can't, cos the fondant is too soft liao!!! Ok, nvr mind, rest awhile, have my lunch first, after that, shower my Reyna and play with her for awhile and get back to my cake. I started off by trimming the cake base of the top tier to fit the cake exactly, no more no less and very, very slowly, stacked the cake on top of the lower tier and making sure it is centralised. Hand shaky man.
5) Ok, finally, I started decorating every thing...and here's the finished cake. Btw, I ended up using the real ribbons as ribbons rather than fondant ribbons. Easier and faster. :p
Last but not least, Weijing & Ridzuan, Have a Blissful Wedding. 祝你们白头谐老,永结同心,早生贵子, 恭喜,恭喜!

Monday, November 12, 2007

Wedding cake preparation

Ok, here's the cake I've baked beforehand and frozen:
This is only 1 layer, so, there will be 2 such cake and 2 small size of such cake. :)

Then I prepared the topper for the top tier. This is specially designed for my friend, all hand-made to her. Y and R are their initials (btw, the grids are also self-made/printed) :
Then after I've decided on the design and drawn it out, I started to prepare the royal icing so that I will have enough time for the plague to be harden. This is how it looked like after it had be piped with royal icing:


Now, I have a problem, as this royal icing is very fragile, I wondered if i can put the topper on top of the cake standing successfully. :P We shall wait and see......
Haha, in case this cannot stand nicely, I also had prepared to purchase those couples topper to replace this. :) On top of all this, I also had done some heart-shaped royal icing to be put on the cake if possible. Here they are:

Wedding Cake

Ok, my friend is getting married this Sat. I've offered her my blessing by baking her a wedding cake, 2-tier. First time doing it, so am getting real excited about it.

I've baked the cakes ready and stored in the freezer, so that I won't have to bake n deco at the same time within a day (I don't have much time for that :P) Sad thing was, my fren asked if I can make her chocolate cake, but due to some reason, the chocolate cake fails and now I got to present her with vanilla butter cake. Sorry friend. :P

Next, I'm going to get ready the centre piece, a heart-shaped sugar craft with hers and his initial on it. My plan for her cake is a 2-tier cake, covered with fondant (maybe white or light blue), topped with that heart-shaped sugarcraft with drape at the side of the cake. Haha, that was my planned. Now, I see what I can do, cos I'm scare I can't do the drape properly. We shall see how the final piece will look like. :)

To be continued..........

Walking, Walking....

Reyna is now learning how to walk on her own. She had been holding on to furnitures and walls and human legs for support. Yesterday, she managed to walk about 5-6 steps on her own without holding on to anything!! We were so surprised. Kids really develope in such a fast pace which we can't catch up with. Didn't manage to catch her on video, becos when we asked her to try again with video in hand, she will just let go, sit down and crawl over. *faint* So, can't catch her walking. Hope I will have a chance to do it soon. :P

Friday, November 9, 2007

Zoo Trip

Today, hubby took a day off (super long weekend), we brought the gals to a half day zoo trip. It was a very tired trip. No maid, 2 adults handle 3 kids and thanks to Chiou Yee and her hubby in helping us to take care of he gals. It was real tiring, but the gals enjoyed it.

Heng, we only have a half day trip and the gals got tired out. They came home tired and sleep for 3 hours and I'm feeling the heat. I'm still feeling hot inside and outside me..... Here are some picture which Rachel took in the zoo:


For your info, we waited for Chiou Yee from 8.30am to 9.30 am *faint*.... Anyway, we were very pleased that Rachel can take such nice photo. :P

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Tiramisu Logcake

Finally, my tiramisu logcake is ready!!


Baked Rice

In the mist of typing the previous post, my baked rice is in cooking :)

Hope it will turn out good.

Here's the picture in oven:

More Cakes

Ok, as promised, here the cakes I had done after the Halloween cupcakes:
These are ulgy. :P Cos I use it as a trial run for the faces below.
Oh, I love this Oreo Cheesecake. So yummy. :P
This is a last min order, hence not very nice too. The cake is buttercream icing.
This is the face cupcakes ordered by 1 customer. I'm very happy with the result.



Tuesday, November 6, 2007

"Graduation"!!

Finally, Renise is able to go to toilet already. She's toilet Trained!!! Yippee....... I can saved on the diapers fees.

Monday, November 5, 2007

Sadness Sadness go away

Haven't ben blogging for sometimes. Was really busy with orders and when I was about to start blogging a week ago, something bad happened.

I was being blogged!! Another blogger, who I assumed we were friends before, blogged about me! She wrote in her blog that I undercut "her friend" in business and I'm asking that friend of hers for advise on how to do cupcakes!! Oh my god, I was soooooo sad, I did not ask that friend of hers to how to do cupcakes and for your info, I'm the one started off with cakes business or rather bakery business and cakes and cupcakes are "family" and I'm being accused of doing cupcakes business where that friend of hers started off cupcakes business after me! I asked everyone for advised on how's my cake taste, and not specifically to that friend of hers only. In fact, I did not know that her friend was going to start the cupcakes business when her friend came "sneakily" asking me about cupcakes decoration, where to buy the decor and even asked me to leave my kids with my mum while I shopped with her for the decors (which I didn't lah) and just because she grumbled to her and she got pissed that her friend "kena" bullied.

Hiaz, just because when she first started her business which was contradict to mine, I didn't grumble (cos I feel I don't own the business and nobody can monopolize the trade) and I was being called the "business snatcher". (Hiaz, dunno who is the real snatcher)

Anyway, it's over and I will start to blog more of my creations!! Sorry to keep u waiting!! :)