It's a hot pot

Over the weekend, I also had a request to make a steamboat cake. Since I had never made such a cake, I was up for the challenge.

Made two cakes; the bottom cake as the stove and the top cake as the steamboat. All went as planned and I finished decorating the cake around midnight on Sunday.

As some of you know, I hate taking pictures at night especially in my kitchen. But my gut feeling told me to take a snapshot of the cake before putting it into the box and I followed my instincts.

Ten minutes after putting it into the box, disaster struck! The top portion of the cake started cracking. I think the prawns and the fish balls were just too heavy for the cake.

Now for plan B ... The cake is not going to survive the night. Quickly using two spatulas, I scoped the top cake. Luckily, the bottom cake was not damaged. Here's the damaged cake:

In times of desperation, you will be surprised how ideas spring to mind. I did the second best and possible way to make the cake look like a steamboat and here is the result:

I told my friend what had happened and she was ok about. In fact, she and her colleagues loved the cake.

I was still upset, no doubt. But now on hindsight, I think plan B looked better than the original plan.

We are the Champions!

Last weekend was a busy one for me. My son took part in a two-day taekwondo tournament. He participated in two events; team and individual. He won gold for both events. Way to go, darling!

His coach asked me to bake a cake to celebrate the club's win on the second day. BTW, Jagoh is the name of the club. How apt a name for a club of champs!

The cake was gone in less than five minutes. Here you see the kids going for seconds:

Overall, Jagoh won second prize. They won a trophy and a cheque worth RM5,ooo. Congratulations. You are on the right track, Jagoh!

A simple cake

This is a vegetarian carrot cake for a friend who wanted to thank some of her friends for helping her out recently. The frosting is cream cheese.

Inspirasi TV3

This cake was made for TV3's 25th anniversary concert on Saturday. It was a chocolate cake.

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.

Keep it simple

This is a sugee cake for a guy who celebrated his 55th birthday recently.

I wanted to do something different but the request was to keep it simple as the birthday boy is a simple person. The feedback .... everyone loved the cake. :)

Flying high!

Today is my brother's birthday. I made an aeroplane cake for him as he loves planes and is in the aviation industry. The cake is a butter cake with chocolate filling.

He was very happy with the cake. Glad he liked it. :)

Since I decorated the cake last night, the wings were not completely dry. And they could not stand on their own. That's why I needed to put them on mini stilts (as seen below) for support.