A tribute to Pucci!

It was a challenge to make a pucci inspired cupcake piece for a glamorous birthday party. As opposed to individually decorated cupcakes which I initially had in mind, I was asked for it to be a one piece design. It turned out ok I guess.....hope it meets the criteria

Blue...

Banana Walnut cupcakes with cream cheese frosting can be made fun and colourful with a tinge of blue. I had made these cupcakes for someone's brother's birthday. He loved it!

Fresh Raspberry Yoghurt Muffins

I decided to try this new recipe from a cupcake book my sister bought for me from Melbourne. It is mentioned in the book that these muffins were especially designed for non-cake lovers. I like it for breakfast. A moist muffin with raspberry swirled in between topped with sliced almonds and a light dusting of icing sugar.

London Cheesecake

One of my friends has consistently ordered this cake for birthdays. This is a creamy smooth cheesecake. This time round, a special request was made for a cheesecake for a dog lover thus the paws.

Polka dots

Most people cannot resist the cute-ness of polka dots. I love them, whether they are pink and brown, blue and yellow, orange and fuschia hmmmm...... anyways, made this fun polka dot design for a kid's birthday. I hope he liked it:)

Sweet cupcakes

I had an order for some cupcakes for Hari Raya. Specifically for a little girl:) therefore, the icing colours are pretty pastels!

Lemon Cream Cheese cookies

Another favourite in my cookie list are the lemon cream cheese cookies. Subtly lemony,satisfying crunch from the almond nibs.

Cranberry Walnut Cookies ~ a Hit!

Since it was Hari Raya, had some requests from friends for cookies that are a little different from the usual delights. I found some recipes and the cookies came out really nice. These are crunchy cranberry walnut cookies, with the use of wholemeal flour, it comes out light and not to mention healthy.

Strawberry Dreams

I managed to get some lovely fresh strawberries the other day from the market. I could not resist them so as usual, I thought I'd buy them first and decide later what to do with them. Instead of using strawberries as a decorative piece, this time strawberries will be the essence of the dessert. These I called " strawberry dreams" a fresh strawberry mousse filled into buttery shortcrust pastry cups and topped with cream cheese for that cheesecake kinda feel.....loved the colours!

Baby Blue

My friend was organising a baby shower. She requested for a cake with turtles on it. This was an orange cake with cream cheese frosting. Chose blue as it was going to be a boy!

White Chocolate Cheese + stars?

I recently made a white chocolate cheesecake and I was requested to put some stars on it, was quite happy with how cheery it turned out!

CROCS....

hehehehhe I have always been fascinated with crocodiles.....the many hours I have spent sitting in front of the tv watching animal planet...... anyways, my sister got me these animal cookie cutters from Australia sometime last year and I had not gotten down to using them. I found this shortbread recipe and these turned out superb!

Rich buttery taste coupled with smooth chocolate mmmmm.........

Barney take 2

swirly border

I can totally see why kids are so attracted to this cute purple dinosaur, he is associated with beautiful things, smiles, rainbows, children...... anyways just made a barney cake for a 2 yr-old girl's birthday

Simple and Elegant

taken late night

the back

at the church

Finally I have got a new picture to post....... I made this simple yet elegant wedding cake for my friend's wedding on Saturday. The bride suggested having 3 tiers alternante square and round cakes. The base was a rich chocolate cake. It was really satisfying seeing the whole thing come together. Her theme colour was maroon and white. Lovely!

White Chocolate Cheese

I have these pictures in my older blog but I thought for ease of reference, it would be better to migrate all the pictures onto this one. Here is one that falls in the "favourites" list, not "jelak" and the strawberries are definitely irresistable!

New Posts on the way

I have not been baking anything "new" at the moment so have not been updating the blog too often. However, will be baking a wedding cake for this weekend so the pictures will be posted here next week definitely!

Dogs, butterflies and fashion

posh puppies

beautiful butterflies

cookies for a wedding

girlie dresses

posh shoes and handbag

Over the weekend, I had lotsa fun baking different shaped cookies. I made a basic sugar cookie dough and some chocolate cookie dough which were then shaped into different shapes. Thank God for cookies cutters!

Red and Yellow

A nice combination of yellow buttercream and strawberries.

Apologies for the dark photo, this was taken at night

Orange poppy seed cupcakes

A request from a good friend of mind. Usually I make a whole cake and it is called "Orange Blossom" but the small ones are real cute.

"Thank You" Cookies

In the box

I seem to have moved away from pink for awhile and started loving blue and yellow these few days. I was asked to make some thank you cookies..... these were yummy butter cookies with a lemony icing on top. The royal icing gave it a nice crunch!

Chic cupcakes!

The vanilla cupcakes I made for my friend as mentioned in the previous post.

Coffee Dreams

I was asked to bake some vanilla cupcakes for a friend and I decided to experiment with making some coffee ones. This turned out to be nice for a tea time treat. I call it "Coffee Dreams" becuase of the dreamy cloud of whipped white chocolate ganache topped on top of the coffee butter cupcake. The ganache turned out light and fluffy. The cupcake is topped with some cookie crumbs to add character to it. I like it!

Blueberry Muffins

My sis recently sent me a new blog filled with tempting recipes. The best way to find out whether the pictures posted on the blog are as good as it looks is to try out the recipes. I tried out the simplest of the lot, blueberry muffins. The taste was superb, only thing I need to make them a little higher. Drizzled some white chocolate on top. They were yummy....fresh blueberries bursting with flavour!

Apologies, picture a little dark.

Cupcakes for a Farewell

Some cupcakes I made for a colleague's farewell. All the best to her in Warwick!

Spidey!

A spiderman cake for a 5 year old girl:) I have made this before but was not able to take a picture of it. I prefer this version anyway....

A cake fit for a little Princess

I got cracking on this cake towards the end of last week. I finally came up with an idea of a tiara...... I am glad the little girl liked it:)

Celebration Cake!

I have been asked to make a celebration cake for a church cell group function and here it is !!!!

A Barney cake for 2 year-old Alicia. Hope she liked it!

Wedding ~ 30 June 2007

The finished wedding cake for the wedding last Saturday. And also some cupcakes which the couple ordered for dessert. A lot of fun but a lot of work as well:)