Kuali cupcakes

These cupcakes were made for Kuali.com's inhouse cupcake demonstration. The cupcakes were given as door gifts to participants. Something very simple.

The big 50

My uncle celebrated his 50th birthday on Saturday. He had 'two parties' that day.

The first party for family and relatives started at 3pm. Just the usual tea time treats and I made 80 cupcakes for this do. The cupcakes were vegetarian chocolate.

The second party, latter in the night, was mainly for close friends and colleagues. This is where the whiskey bottle cake was brought out. I used the Jack Daniels label for this cake. Orange cake with chocolate icing.

Simple cupcakes

Made these for my daughter's Tunas Puteri party at school.

Happy sweet 16

My cousin turned 16 recently and her mom wanted to surprise her with cupcakes. The theme for her party was BLING BLING. She loves T-shirts, jewelleries and handbags.

Part 2: Strawberry cupcakes

Long weekends are never enough. Sigh! Didn't do much.

The only baking I did was for the family. I still had two packets of dried strawberries. I made strawberry and plain vanilla cupcakes. This time I flavoured the Swiss Meringue buttercream with the dried strawberries.

Nice!

Wanna play pool, anyone?

I wish I could have covered these cupcakes with fondant as fondant would have given a more realistic-look to the pool balls.

But the client wanted butter icing as many of her guests are not very fond of fondant. Anyway, this is as real as it can get.

Strawberries and more

We celebrated my mom-in-law's birthday yesterday. If you are a member of my family, no prizes for guessing what cake we had for the do. She loves plain vanilla butter cakes and cheese cakes.

I made my family's all-time favourite, chilled lemon cheesecake. I am not going to post the picture of the cake because I have posted it many times.

But here is a picture of the strawberry cupcakes I made for the do. Actually, my youngest gal has been asking for strawberry cupcakes for some time now.

I must thank a baker friend of mine, Mathi, who bought me a few packets of dried strawberries from Cameron Highlands. The dried strawberries taste sweet and sour. All you need to do is puree them and add the puree into a basic cupcake recipe. The cupcakes were yummy!

Yummy Oreo cupcakes

I found the Oreo cream cheese cupcake recipe while searching for Oreo cupcakes recipe sometime back.

On Monday, I got the chance to try out the recipe. The cakes had to be baked and then chilled for four hours. It has the right sweetness... not too sweet. It was yummy!

My kids already want them made for their birthdays.

A HUGE cupcake

I was asked to make a BIG cupcake last week with a tooth cake topper. The colour theme was black, white and red.

This cake was ordered by a young man for his girlfriend who is studying dentistry in India. She had come home for the holidays and they were going to celebrate her birthday with this cake.

Here's the tooth before being placed on the cake.

A surprise from Australia

I would say these are double treats: Chocolate Oreo cupcakes with Swiss Meringue Butter Cream topped with Oreo cookies.

A birthday gift for a guy who loves Oreo cookies. These cuppies were requested by his friend who is studying in Australia.

A train and a vampire

Remember Thomas and friends? This is Thomas, the blue tank engine, who works at a big station on the Island of Sodor, shunting coaches to their proper places.

I have always wanted to make Thomas and finally get a chance to do so. :)



This cake was made for Ariq, a three-year-old, who celebrated his birthday on Saturday together with his sister Arissa.

Arissa, turned 11, is a Twilight fan. She loves Bella and Edward. This is a pull apart cake, made of 40 chocolate cupcakes.

Twilight is about a teenager named Bella Swan who moves to Forks, Washington and finds her life radically changed when she falls in love with a vampire named Edward Cullen.

Sleeping beauty in pink

This is a pull apart cake made of 24 cupcakes. Two flavours: chocolate and banana. The four-year-old birthday gal loves Princess Aurora and the colour pink.

According to her aunt, the little gal insisted only on eating sleeping beauty's dress because it was in her favourite colour. Yes, you guessed it right! Pink.

Welcome back, friend

I made some cup cakes for a friend who came back from Australia for holidays. Since I just finished the MU cake and had some leftover green icing, I decided to make some vacation themed cupcakes.


It was very late when I started decorating the cakes and I only got as far as a pair of flip flops when my body and mind started shutting down. So sprinkles came to my rescue and this is how they turned out.

Manchester United cupcakes

Here's an MU pull apart cake. This is a gift from a gal to her boyfriend who was celebrating his 25th birthday over the weekend.

Thank you for your guidance

Wishing all teachers a Happy Teacher's Day.

My eldest daughter's school celebrated Teacher's Day last week and my two youngest had their celebration today.

I could not bake any cakes for my eldest as she only told me the night before but made some cup cakes for the younger two as they gave me ample notice.

There were leftover cup cakes and icing, so filled and covered them:

Loads of fun

Last saturday, the Malaysian Cake Decorators' Club held its fourth meeting. One of its members, Margaret, hosted the meet.

As usual, there were lots of food. Margaret was a wonderful host. She made sure all of us were comfortable. Her jackfruit pudding was so yummy. So was the door gift. I am not sure what it's called but it was sure tasty.

It was good to see more new faces at the meet. The ladies exchanged views, news, ideas and most of all got to know each other.

I was invited to do a demo on how to do a pull apart cake and buttercream transfer. Thank you, Jo and MCDC for giving me the opportunity to do so.

It was a good get together. I am really looking forward to the next meet as it would also coincide with MCDC's first anniversary.

Happy Mother's Day

Wishing all mothers a HAPPY MOTHER's Day!

I know this post is a day late but, then again, every day is a mother's day. I received cards and loads of gifts from my kids. They may drive me up the wall at times but reading their cards makes me want to melt. Thank you, darlings.

This year, I made cup cakes for some wonderful mothers I know.




Over the weekend, I tried out a cherry cake recipe and this is how it turned out: