Peggy Porschen is in town

Peggy Porschen is an international cake designer, teacher and author who is well-known for her contemporary and modern designs. She already has two books to her name, Pretty Party Cakes and Romantic Cakes. Her latest book is Cake Chic.

I had the opportunity to meet Peggy yesterday evening at the International Centre of Cake Artistry (ICCA) and got her to autograph my copies of Cake Chic and Pretty Party Cakes.

I got a chance to chat with her before the event and she came across as a very friendly, approachable and down-to-earth person.

Also present were Peggy's husband (sorry, I forgot his name) and Rosalind Chan (founder of ICCA):

Peggy also conducted a demo on how to decorate petit fours; a small cake generally eaten at the end of a meal or served as part of dessert. I have never tried making these before but after this demo I will definitely try it as Peggy made it look so simple to do.

Everyone who attended the signing event left for home with a goodie bag:

Besides promoting her new book, Peggy will be conducting a three day hands on course starting today until Sept 5, 2009. The course is being conducted at ICCA in Kota Damansara .

This is Peggy's first trip to Asia. And I hope this will not be her last.

A simple birthday cake

A regular client of mine ordered this for her dad's 55th birthday celebration yesterday.

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.

I want cake!

My daughter's friend wanted a plain chocolate butter cake.

No frills ... no icing, no deco. My daughter called him after we delivered the cake and her friend said that he had finished eating half the cake and ten minutes later he called to say that his brother had finished the other half.

These boys are speedy gonzales! Thank you, boys.

The Flour Pot Cookie project

Since I took a break during the schools holidays, it was the best time to experiment some recipes. It was also a good time to rope the kids in to do some baking.

This time, we decided to bake and decorate cookies based on The Flour Pot Cookie book. The cookie recipe is quite straightforward. What makes a sugar cookie interesting is how you decorate it.

We got the dough done. The recipe requires the dough to be stored in the refrigerator for at least an hour before use as this will make it firm and not sticky. I just put in the fridge until I made the royal icing as my kids couldn't wait to cut out their cookies.

Since it was sticky, I just added flour to the dough in order to roll it out properly. Then it was my kids' turn to have a go with the cookie cutters.

We baked the coookies for about 15mins and here they are ready for decoration.

We decided to use only two colour: pink and white to decorate the cookies.

Once the royal icing dried rock hard, we put them in the jar. The cookies were yum and I thought we had so many cookies and it was going to last for some time. But boy was I wrong! They were all gone in two days. :)

It was a fun project that we all enjoyed tremendously!

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.

A rockin' star

The recipient of this cake is a young lady who is a big fan of Hannah Montana, the main character from the Hannah Montana TV series. It was for her 10th birthday celebration.