February and March Babies - Office Birthdays

A sky high hummingbird cake for birthday celebration at the office today. It has been awhile since I attended a class that taught amongst other recipes, the Hummingbird Cake. Not easy to find this cake but who knows, will it be the next Red Velvet? I did not have the urge to instantly try the recipe I learnt as I felt the colour of the cake did not turn out nice. So upon stumbling on another recipe for this cake, I made this for the celebration today.

Hummingbird cake is similar in taste and texture to the familiar carrot cake but the ingredients are different. There is banana, pineapple, coconut and cinnamon in this hearty cake. This may be a keeper but only when I feel like it.

Lemon cake with Fresh Blueberries

A light luscious lemon cake with fresh blueberries. The lemon cream is a new recipe, it is like clouds of tangy lemons on a cake. Lovely. Have uploaded a close of the the sprinkles and the cross section of the cake. If you are a lemon lover, this is for you!

Cupcakes to say "thank you"

We had been working really hard the past couple of weeks. The project was finally delivered end of last week. So some cupcakes to thank the team.

Nutella Cupcakes - it seems

Tried out nutella cupcakes. I used to have nutella long time ago when it was in those little plastic containers with a plastic spoon. A real treat. But now I noticed that these were reintroduced into the market but at a rather high price (or was I not aware at how much my parents paid for our indulgence many years back). Anyways this is a chocolate cupcake topped with nutella icing but I reckon the nutella does not come out too much in the cream, tasted more like just chocolate. But pretty anyway.

Strawberry Cream and Dark Chocolate

Sorry I have been so quiet these days but hopefully from today onwards, there'd be more frequest updates. Work had taken over my life for the past one month and now that things are settled, it's back to the kitchen for me. Here is one of the cakes I made for the office a couple of days back just for stress relieve. A layered dark chocolate cake with strawberry buttercream. It was very tasty, a new recipe I found. Many more layered cakes I hope, to come. It is always in phases, at one point I was into cookies, then agar-agar, then chiffon, then butter cakes, now layered cakes. The good recipes are kept and the not so good ones are swiftly dumped into the bin.

Farewell Breakfast for Fitch

Too many colleagues leaving the organisation. We had a breakfast farewell for one of our friends - Fitch who has since moved to greener pastures. Some pictures of the food I made..... sarnies, sausage rolls and blueberry almond muffins.

Tribute to Whitney

Shocked to hear about the death of Whitney Houston. Had her CD playing in my car.....great voice with a sad ending. Anyways, made a cake in tribute to her. A light pink vanilla cranberry cake covered in all american buttercream, sprinkled with confetti and stars! I love how this cake turned out.... the smell of butter was intoxicating.

MIA and the army cake

Yes yes it's been awhile and a number of friends had asked whatever happened to me? not blogging anymore? not baking anymore? still blogging and still baking just no time to do it. Have slowed down a little on the baking as my day job deadlines are closing in. Anyways, here is a picture of a camouflage I made out of buttercream and some paintball splatters for a kid's paintball party.

Party Favours

I was requested to make some personalised favours for a friend's birthday party at Raju's. Here they are.

Courtyard Wedding Cake

I had the priviledge of baking a cake for a wedding at the Courtyard Garden. I have not been there before but when I went to set up the cake, I was like "not bad this place". Hope the bride liked the cake, Congratulations Ann!

Fairies

I love love love this cake. Was such a joy to make for twin girls. I hope they like it. I took so many pictures of this cake. The fairies could still be improved but I love how whimsical this looks.

Lemon Lemon

i had extra lemons at home and decided to improvise on some recipes for a beautiful, beautiful lemon cake which I will call "Lemon Lemon". Moist buttery genoise layers with buttercream and fresh lemon curd. Divine especially if you are one who love lemons.

Bake Sale 2011

My office held a charity bake sale a couple of days ago. Yes, I have been busy and now after the event, am feeling the strain of the marathon baking session. Some pictures of the goodies I had on sale. Cakes were very well received.

Lemon Cranberry Bundt Cake

So I had extra lemons and extra cranberries the other day so I decided to go through the many baking books I have to find the perfect recipe for these 2 ingredients. I found this one and was delighted by how it turned out. The texture, beautiful!~ However I still need to work on this cake as the second time I made it turned into an overtly dense cake ( sigh and to think that the second time round I used actual vanilla).

The Box

This was a cake ordered by a friend for her other half's birthday. Will not go into the meaning of the cake but put it this way, the guests "got it". Had made corresponding "kotak" cookies to go with these and apparently the outshone the cake. Sorry did not have more photos of this endeavour as I left my camera in the office. So relied on 3rd party pictures. Thanks Jean!

Office Party

Anything to beat the stress in the office. Every now and then we have everyone bring food to the office, this time was for a celebration of promotions. I made some dessert, Orange poppy seed cake, cakey brownies ( these were excellent) and some cupcakes. Dessert were finished by the end of the work day. Such satisfaction

Pastels All Around

These were for 2 different orders but for the same person. A bunch of pastel hearts which the bride took all the way to Taiping to top vanilla swirl cupcakes. So pretty. The stars were made for a birthday cake for one of her bridesmaids. I think it looks attractive eventhough there isn't buttercream on it. Love

Raya 2011 - Loaves

Orange poppy seed loaves for Raya 2011. Let the baking begin!

Angry Birds - Round 2

Happy Birthday Ryan! I have been given the priviledge to bake his birthday cakes every year. This year's theme, Angry Birds! 2 cakes of course, one for school and one for tuition. Two of the same but not so same cakes, colours were slightly different.

Ring of Flowers

A really pretty cake of flowers and butterflies for a mother's birthday. It is always a nice feeling to be making sweet looking cakes.