Hearts and roses

A heart-shaped anniversary cake for a couple celebrating their 48th year together. The roses are gumpaste flowers.

Last minute cake

I have done wedding and anniversary cakes but this takes the cake. Why? This order came in at the 11th hour.

The bride's sister found out that there was going to be no cake for the reception. So came the order. I have not done a cake in such short notice but I felt a bride should have a cake for her wedding and also because the bride's sister is such a sweet lady.

The order came in just the day before the reception.

A simple cake, a simple design. The cake topper was provided by the bride's sister.

Just blast it

BlastMaster, the people who bring lovely fireworks for major functions, celebrated their 21st anniversary recently.

This was a last minute cake. A two tier. The top layer was a fruit cake and the bottom a vegetarian chocolate cake.

Happy 21st Anniversary, BlastMaster!

Here comes the bride and groom

Chitra and Vijay tied the knot a week ago. I was asked to make their wedding cake for the reception. It was a three tier rich sugee fruit cake.

Chitra wanted a pink theme for the cake to match her saree. I used pink ribbons and pink orchids for the cake deco. Didn't want a 'in your face' pink, so I used white as the base colour for the cake.

Chitra is a baker herself. She would have loved to have baked her own cake but as a bride she had other important things to do. :)

It's all about the heart

My colleague requested a 3kg heart cake for her sister inlaw's engagement. It's plain vanilla butter cake with butter icing and gumpaste flowers.

It was not meant to be

What a weekend! What an experience making this cake! This is a cake that was not meant to be.

All I can say is that it was one exhausting project and an experience I will never forget. The cake was a lemon butter cake with lemon curd filling.

Identical cakes?

These cakes were made for a client who's family members were celebrating their wedding anniversaries; parents' 30th and sister's 8th wedding aniversaries.


She wanted the cakes to have similar colours and design so that they would look good in photos.

If this cake looks similar to a cake I made sometime back... yes it does. The client wanted the same design and colours as the cake I made for her cousin. That cake was for a 7oth birthday.

Need a vacation

I have been feeling a bit under the weather lately. I think I need a vacation. No... I need a vacation. By the beach... doing absolutely nothing.

Hopefully, I can rest a bit next week when I take a break from work. My kids are bored... have to take them out some place for the holidays. I have planned some activities for them... Don't know where they get all that energy. It's like, where can I go next, what can I do next, next, next, next...

Right now I am thinking... it's ok, I don't need a vacation. Let me just have a day. A day to wake up when I wake up, have a nice breakfast, laze about and go back to bed... That will be the ultimate! At this point in time.

Let me stop myself before I go on and on.... here's the trifle that I made using the leftover cupcakes. Just two nights ago I told my husband that there is so much trifle in the fridge, maybe I should just distribute it. He told me not to cos he loves desserts and has to have some after dinner. I agreed.Yesterday, my kids did not go to my mom's place. And they managed to polish off most of the trifle, leaving only a few scoops for my husband. Leave a bunch of kids at home and what do they do? They finish up anything sugary. Sigh!!. How can I lock my fridge? Ideas, anyone?

Last week I made an orange cake. The customer was quite happy with his cake.. :) It was for his parents' 25th wedding anniversary.
Oh yes, this picture was taken of my new oven during one of the cupcake marathon sessions. The cupcakes are packaged in gold (below) and red boxes. It comes in three flavours; vanilla, gingerbread and chocolate, two cupcakes for each flavour. In total, there are six cupcakes in a box. It's a great gift for the festive season. Guaranteed yummy! Contact Cake Connection if you want to get your hands on these cupcakes!

Cakes, cakes and more cakes

Deepavali celebration is finally over. The week before was baking, baking and more baking. During this time, I should be busy doing murukku and cookies for Deepavali but here I was making cakes to fulfill the orders I received. Not that I am complaining.

I hardly make stuff for Deepavali. I usually pinch my supply from my mom or order them. This year, I actually made pineapple tarts and ghee biscuits ... only because my friend, Sakthi, wanted to learn and make them for Deepavali.

Other than that, I was baking for other people. I only wanted to make the rich sugee fruit cake for the home but never got to make it for Deepavali as I had the orders.

I have been wanting to make this cake for months now ... I wanted to soak it in brandy for a month in time for Deepavali. Yummy!!! Still not too late for that. Last night, prepared the fruits and soaked them in brandy. Tonite I will make the cake. :) Finally...

Here are the cakes that I made last week:

Sakthi's gals have been very enterprising. The got one of their classmates to order her birthday cake from them and made their classmates pay for some cup cakes. They promoted my cakes to their classmates. Thanks gals. Good job!
My friend, Hema, ordered some plain cup cakes for her family for Deepavali.Cake Connection had two birthday cake orders for me as well as a 'hantaran' cake. The flowers on the cakes are from Cake Connection except the flowers on the chocolate cake which I made.

The carnations on the 50th birthday cake is made out of royal icing and the roses on the hantaran cake is made out of sugar paste. You can get a beautiful variety of flowers from Cake Connection. They are so pretty that you will not have the heart to cut the cake.

The air brush technique

Last friday, I attended the Autumn Wedding Cake class by Calvin Ng at Cake Connection. As usual Calvin's class was lively and interesting. He is ever willing to share tips and advice even if it is not related to the class he is teaching.In this class, he was going to show off the air brush technique. Since this was an autumn themed cake, he needed leaves and flowers that reflected the season. First of all, he took green leaves and air brushed them with brown and orange colour to give them the autumn look. Then he grouped them together to make a spray of leaves.

He used Gerbera daisies. He air brushed the daises yellow. All flowers and leaves for the demo can be found at Cake Connection. Beautiful aren't they? They were then left to dry. The air brush technique is very interesting and very easy to do. You just need to get the hang of holding the gun and spray the colours on whatever you want. Cleaning the gun is easy after the usage of each colour.

I was very interested to get one myself, but then again, can I justify getting an air gun at this point in time. Maybe not now but it is something that I would consider getting in the future. Hmmm... an interesting, artistic gadget.


This was going to be a four tiered wedding cake. It was a dummy cake. Not the real thing but, nevertheless, it looked very real and pretty in the end. Calvin started off by rolling the

fondant to cover the dummies. The final tier was an odd-shaped dummy. He wanted to give t he cake a different look. Not the usual round tiered cake all the way.


After that, he arranged the leaves and the flowers. Once that was done, he wanted to decorate the borders of the cake with beads. He used a bead cutter to make the beads. This was news to me cos I always thought that the fondant was rolled into small balls to make the bead border.
And I always wondered how these beads were rolled into such perfection that all of them were of the same size. Silly me, now I know.

I always learn new stuff when I go for classes like these. New things like the bead cutter. I have seen it ICCA but never once bothered to find out how to use it. And guess what, today, I actually purchased it from ICCA, cos I need it to decorate a wedding cake soon. :) While I was there, I got the square imprint mat. Very satisfied with my buy. Oops, sorry for digressing a bit.
As I was saying, with the beads and the way the flowers were arranged, the cake looked ready for the season. Calvin brushed the beads with pearl dust to give it a more realistic look. Nice touch!

Three more days

Hmmm.... three more days. Three long days. Can't wait to attend the wedding cake class at Cake Connection this friday. Hopefully, everything goes well and I leave work in time for the class. Keeping my fingers and toes crossed.

On a different note, I would like to take this opportunity to say that I am ever so grateful to two people for encouraging me to set up this blog. Sakthi and Chitra.

Sakthi, thank you for being there when I am lost for words. Didn't forget youlah. My baking friend, Chitra, thank you for encouraging me to put my cake photos online. Thank you both for being there when I am at my wits end.

The connection

I love to go around checking out places selling cake decos as well as baking supplies. Recently, while surfing Yasmin's Baking Project (http://www.bakingproject.com/), she mentioned that she went to Cake Connection (http://www.cakeconection.com.my/) in Petaling Jaya.

Hmmm... I was very excited cos there aren't many places selling cake decos where I live. So excited, I just had to go check them out the next day. It was easy to find. They are in Jaya One. Met up with the two nice ladies, Nancy and Shyamala. Just loved the cosy setting of their shop.

They carry a variety of flower decos as well as a range of sprinkles. Loved their cosy kitchen where they conduct classes. It does not give you the classroom feel at all.

Bought some vanilla essense. Really loved these. It's made locally but very different from what I usually buy. Came back for more later.

I also attended a wedding cake class here. It was taught by Calvin Ng of Black Forest Tavern. I enjoyed the class very much and I have signed up for the next wedding cake class. Can't wait to learn more interesting techniques. Here's Calvin's masterpiece from the first class: