Precious Moments for a precious baby girl

Mommies of little girls seem to have a knack for super-girly sweet looking cakes! A very sweet request for baby Giselle's full month celebration. I love the innocence and gentleness of these Precious Moments figurings and thus I wanted to keep the 2 tier cake as pure and simple as possible - decorated the cake with simple flower bulbs and dressed it up a little with a lovely white bow.

Made tiny alphabet blocks with "Giselle" spelt out. Simple but ever so lovely - you can just feel the love this mummy has for her daughter :) 

In addition, Giselle's mummy had also requested for 70 baby-theme cupcakes. Little booties, teddy-teddies, Little bopeeps, milky bottles, tiny dresses were just some of the sugarpaste toppings that adorned the little cupcakes. There were too many to squeeze into one shot so here's just a few for all of you to enjoy! It was displayed on a 6 tier white cupcake stand.

The figurings for these cupcakes took forever to complete, but I thoroughly enjoyed baking this order!

Made 3 flavours to please all the guests - ChocoBanana, Aroma Mocha and Vanilla Raisins. 

Welcome to our world sweetie baby Giselle!

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Safari Mania

Got a cute request this week from a 4 year old boy who loves animals. A Safari-theme cake was the call of the day..  a baby lion, cute baby zebra and an adorable giraffe sprawled next to a small waterhole. I simply love the colourfulness of this cake with it's lovely teal sky and perky coconut tress! I experimented with the baby lion's mane by combining layers of sugarpaste cut out in "frillies". The end result came out pretty decent!

It was a hit with the birthday boy Daniel as his 10 friends could not keep their eyes off the cake! :) Daniel's mum's request was very specific - "No sweet chocolate or any buttercream. This boy loves his cake plain and to taste like Polar Swiss Roll." Was indeed amused by this boy-that-does-not-like-chocolate ! So i made a very simple vanilla japanese sponge cake filled with very light fresh cream and a sprinkle of super fine sugar - just like Polar Swiss Roll ! :)

Happy 4th Birthday Daniel!

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Pink Polka Dots

I had a really lovely, sweet order over the weekend for a 1 year old girl. I love it when mummies request for the sweetest cakes for their little daughters! I saw some of the pictures taken at the party and just seeing the smiles on little Amanda's face and everyone else's around makes all the hard work well worth it!

This two tier cake took forever to bake and create. It was a relatively large cake with an 11 inch base and 6 inch top - filled with oozles of decadent rich chocolate banana cake!  The 6 little "Amanda" teddy bears took quite a while to mould as the bears had to dry up sufficiently before the actual day. 

Notice the pink polka dot cake base? I was absolutely delighted when i found this at the "Paper Market" in Raffles City, was indeed the inspiration of the whole theme! 

I made 20 cupcakes for the birthday party as well.. and you guessed it - more pink polka dots! Had a delightful time creating the garden theme in sweet pink. At the end of the day, I was beaming baker filled with super girly joy. :)

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Chanel oh Chanel ...

Loved this cake order. An interesting cake order for a frivolous, sassy friend who was leaving Singapore for work. Her passion is shopping, her favourite brand is Chanel so what better way than to celebrate her new adventure with a Chanel cake! Under the decadence is even more decadent dark chocolate fudge cake with fresh bananas.

I had a good time moulding the shoes and bag. Had to indulge in quite a bit of research as I have never owned a Chanel! The challenge was in creating the shiny "leathery" texture to the sugarpaste . Glad it turned out well received at the party!

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Durian - the king of fruits!

Had a cute request from a friend today. She wanted a cake for a friend who had just returned  from overseas and loved durians. Decided to put a little bit of creativity into it and made it look like a real durian...complete with durian stem!

My whole kitchen smelled of durian for 2 whole days, guess I'll need to find a better way to store the cake without making my eggs smell of durians too! The tricky part was having to grate the creamy durian from the fibre and boy did that make quite a mess in the kitchen! Anything for a good authentic durian cake i reckon!

White chocolate durian mousse cake with creamy durian filling

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Simply Mango

A simple Mango Mousse cake order for a friend's mum... decided to give a twist to the usual recipe and added white chocolate as well.

White chocolate Mange Mousse with fresh Haru Manis mangoes... Seems like it worked out well !

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King of Soccer

This weekend's order was for a friend's dad who loved both durians and soccer! So a perfect combination of yummy durian custard cake with a soccer theme! 

I forgot to take a picture of the moulded chocolate behind the goalie ... he's a Liverpool fan.. so it was a custom made shield complete w the torches at the sides! 

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Garden Silly

Really chirpy theme chosen for a doctor to thank his fellow colleagues in his hospital ward. I had quite a fun time creating the cute mushrooms, sweet butterflies and even the lovable ladybugs!

My favourite pieces were the little red mushrooms which reminded me of Super Mario Brothers! The magic mushroom that makes him grow :) I love this garden theme, think i shall try to expand to more little bugs next time ...

Under the sugary fondant lies yummilicious coffee pecan cupcakes with coffee cream, chocolate banana cupcakes and cinnamon apple cupcakes.

3 tantalising flavours - Choconana, Cinnamon Apple, Coffee Pecan

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Strawberry Shortcake Galore

Little Samantha's 5th birthday today! And as per her mummy's request, she wanted it all pink, red and pink, pink, pink Strawberry Shortcake. I thought they had disappeared during my teenage years, but apparently these small, little, strawberry cuties are back with a vengeance!

It seems that Strawberry's fashion style has changed since I last saw her - pink dyed hair, short pink skirt and cool pink croc-looking shoes. Updated with the times! But one thing is for sure, she's every little girl's best friend! :) Enjoy!

9" chocolate mud cake, topped with a 4" vanilla mud cake

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Flowers for the soul

Sugar coated flowers wrapped round a dark chocolate mud cake ...

Shades or purple and white flowers with muddy Hershey's chocolate!

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Busy as a Bee

Sometimes work just takes over our lives and we work and work ...

Time for some honey anyone?

Vanilla cake topped with hazelnut buttercream

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Monkey-ing around !

Today, work got a tad overwhelming and I decided to make a small cake for a colleague of mine - hoping to cheer her up! ... and i knew i just had to create this! 
Love the coconut trees against the sky blue fondant.. it sure did make her day. 

Little monkey on top a rich butter walnut cake 

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Animals inspiro

I've been dabbling around with a couple of animal theme ideas as I got a little NatGeo-inspired. The lion was a tad tricky as the thick dark mane got too heavy for the molded head. Shall try to do the big five animals in the safaris.. can't wait to have a safari theme order! 


Made these few over the weekend...

Safari inspired

Had my granny's birthday party over the weekend. And with every year, we have the usual fruity creamy sponge cake which she loves the most. Decided to whip up some rich chocolate cupcakes this year. Topped it with some animal-inspired animals. Surprisingly, the older folks loved it!  :)

Rich chocolate cupcake ... best for the soul :)

Oh yes, Happy Birthday Alvin! I'm glad everyone enjoyed the cake :)

Soft souffle cheesecake with mango puree

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Like a spanking new rolling pin

For all passionate bakers out there, you would probably agree with me -
Very often, we would look, we would feel, we would then imagine the cakes, pastries and cookies that can be created with every new baking toy we buy. Even a simple rolling pin - crispy woody touch that just makes me excited thinking of how well my next cookie dough will be flattened out on the table top.
Oh well, call me a baker geek or simply a baker-wannabe if you like - because the thought of baking my next creation never fails to get me all excited.
So here I am, a ba(n)ker in need of somewhere to share my passion. Like a spanking new rolling pin - all ready to roll out any dough - I'm not sure where this blog will lead to, but I hope to share my creations, my thoughts, my geeky-ness about anything and everything about baking. Enjoy!

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