Steamboat Cake

Li Quan, an old school mate of mine came to me 2 weeks back, asking for a special cake for her bf's birthday. She told me somethings about him, & told me that he really like to eat steamboat! That sparked off something, & i suggested that i can make the steamboat pot, with all the steamboat ingredients :P So take a look at the outcome.

LOL!!! Wat do u think?? looks pretty realistic rite?? :P I managed to con my frens by showing them this pic, they really thought they were real...

I am a steamboat lover too, that's y i have the different types of fishball images in my head, & made it much easier for me to do each piece of deco :) All the fishballs are hand-made. No moulds or what-so-ever.

The cake :) Steamboat has never tasted so sweet lol

It was a choc cake with choc frosting under the deco. Feedback was good, the bf loved the cake, & her family were amazed to see such a cake, & they didnt wanna wat it cos it was too realistic :) She also said that the cake was yummy, but the icing was a tad sweet. I'll reduce sugar from now on!

Groovy cupcakes

This was an order from Mun Yee from PetNYou. The cupcakes made their way to Mid Valley on the 5th of July to the Pet World Malaysia 2009 exibition :)

Agility & Obedience competition were on that day, & my instructor was participating in some of the events & i must say they both excel in agility, they won but im not sure wat placing cos i went home early, as i was not feeling too good :(

Fawn, the bday boy really like dogs & agility. So i combined both & made the cupcakes based on the 2 themes. She asked for a specific amount of cupcakes to be all in one box & that signified his age :)

The cupcakes were choc & butter flavour. 16 cupcakes were the main deco, the rest were simple designs. I made half with a bone & dog food, & the other half with grass, & some flowers with butterflies. The reason i did that was becos agility is a sport which is always done outdoors on a field hence the grass & butterflies :) I made groovy, his beloved K9 companion, & some doggie toys & food & bed!, & some agility equipments (tunnel, the weave poles, the jump & tyre).

The Groovy cupcakes all in one big big box, the box measured 17" by 14" :P Silly me, I was rushing to send the cupcakes, cos i only finished them at 5pm when i was suppose to send them to MidValley at 630pm so i didnt take any decent pics.. should have took pics without the empty cupcakes containers, i put them there to preven the cupcakes from sliding -_-

The four dogs i made was actually his JRT named Groovy. Which is why i named this set of cupcakes, Groovy cupcakes! :)

Other than that, since the cupcakes numbers were rather odd, she asked me to seperately make & keep 7 cupcakes for her to bring home & she didnt mind with any design. So i made these for her :)

cute eh??

You Will Never Walk Alone

My first ever football themed cake :P Was a liverpool cake, not Man Utd, a disappointment to many.. lol!!!

It was an order from my buddy Miss Selina Chew for her daddy dearest, who happens to be a huge liverpool fan. First it was suppose to be cupcakes, but she changed her mind, & wanted a cake. She is a very sweet daughter, cos she's not even in Msia cos she's studying abroad, but made sure her dad gets something special for his bday this year :)

It was a fruit cake heavily infused with rum, when i say heavy.. i meant it! :P Her dad took a bite & said he was dizzy after that.. lol!!!

One of the most challenging part in making the cake was the logo........ many ppl would either get something called an edible photo, where the logo would be printed on this piece of edible sheet, & paste it on the cake. Some will not even put the logo in, would just pipe the wording of the club on the cake.. I wanted it to look special & of course realistic, so i took a risk & tred hand painting it. Although it took me more than an hour to complete only the logo, i was happy with how it turned out. The phoenix/bird was the hardest to paint... i left that the last, cos i was worried that i may ruin the logo & i would have to start all over. thank goodness that didnt happened! :P

the edible logo

compare this to the real one below

The full view, it was the anfield stadium (liverpool's stadium) with a football (also took me one hour to complete.. -_-) & jersey. the cake board was dyed to be grass green with the grassy texture

Some other personal touches done to the cake was the number on the jersey, 58 was her dad's age, & jeffrey was his english name :)

She told me her dad was very excited & happy to receive the cake that he took many pics of it, mostly on the logo :P & the first thing he ate was his jersey! lol

Im happy to be able to make his bday this year a memorable one :)

Pilot in the Jacuzzi

This cake was made for Wyzek, my fellow bowling buddy & also team mate. I recently bought a book on decorative cakes, & the content of the book were mostly adult themes. He asked me when was i making one.. hahah & he got one for his bday 2 weeks after :P

This is a pic of the cake before all the necessary deco are put on it, rather plain & dull rite?

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The cake after all the deco have been put in place!
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The guy in the jacuzzi is him (a pilot, as he has his cap) with 2 chicks chilling with some booze & others things :) Added tiles & steps on the cake to make it look more realistic. Other than that, i added the towel, sandals, beer bottles, spilled beer & the cutest... a rubber duckie!!!!

Also added some effect to make it look "wet". As u can see, wyzek's & the 2 chicks r all wet.. the tiles as well! :P Really having a lot of fun there.. lol

We decided to cut the cake after bowling, in A&W of all places... it was the school holiday week on a fri nite, so it was packed!! Packed with families.......... -_- hahaha ppl were looking at us.. & at the obscene cake :P It was fun tho. Happy Birthday once again :D

Chocolate cake with a twist

Moist Choc Cake with Biscuit. I have 3 orders of these to bake this week, a very very moist choc cake with layers of biscuit in it. Hard to explain so better to show pics rite? :P

This cake can be just eaten plain for tea, or revamped into a gift for bdays, or christmas :)

Simple yet expressive & chocolatey at the same time!!

Cake with soft toys & couple toppers

A cake for evelyn's bf's bday :) Everything on the cake were hand made. It was a real challenge cos she wanted the soft toys to look like those she had, so i followed precisely which includes the garments on them. I think the soft toys were all given to her by her bf, so on his bday she requested that i had all of them made & to be put onto his bday cake. Other than the toys, she wanted a yellow pillow, a car, a house & the msg "I Love You" to be on the cake. Everything on the cake represented them. So sweet!

I managed all the figures, but had a hard time coming up with where & how to put the I Love You on the cake.. but at last, thought of a very cute idea :) Made a clothes string & the cloth on the string, & had the msg on the cloth, like they were drying the piece of cloth :) :) i loved that piece of deco the most!!

The soft toys made into bite sizes :P

The real deals. Look alike?? ;)

The cake

Pictures of the soft toys were taken from evelyn's facebook. Her bf loved the chocolate cake with choc buttercream frosting alot according to her :) thanx again for the order!

Hello Kitty

Thousand apologies... I have been neglecting this blog i know -_- I really had no time for myself, no time to bake & cannot find time to update this blog :( Here is a quick update, a cake i baked over the weekend :) As u can see it's for a hello kitty fanatic!!! lol

I surprised myself with the outcome as well :) Very pleased with how the cake turned out hehe i liked the hello kitty figure model as well! so cute.. but a bit chubby.

the bf commented & said that my hello kitty looked like a hello kitty after 10 yrs... after she gained weight.. ()_*&^%^&4789^%^ so lebih!!!

The bday girl loved the cake alot, & didn't want to cut it.. so she got another person to do it, cos cutting it seems like she's killing hello kitty :P lol

Anywayz, Happy Birthday Siow Wei once again :) Hope u had a great one.