Garden at No. 2

I have always loved a challenge. Give it to me and I'll dive into it head-on. So, when Farah, one of my many favorite customers called and asked me to do a number two cake for her son, I immediately said "Yes!". She left it all to me to come up with the design of the cake.

I grilled her on her son's favorite things, colors, habit and if he has any particular cartoon characters that he's fond off. Farah told me that her son absolutely loves playing ball, has no particular inclination towards any cartoon characters and loves all colors. Based on that piece of information, I started drawing up a sketch.

From the sketch, I came up with this...


Since Ibrahim LOVES balls, I surrounded the number two cake with miniature balls which I rolled from contrasting colors of fondant. I wanted to run away from the traditional notion of 'blue is for boy and pink is for girl' and went for green instead. I personally think green is a fresh color and it suits well with my theme.


With green as the cake backdrop, I started to work my way around the cake with a garden theme in mind. I used colorful oval dots representing flowers and had two very cute, adorable and colorful caterpillars to finish off the cake. That's it. I strongly believe that less is more, so I didn't want to crowd the cake with too many unnecessary things.


Alhamdulillah, Farah and her husband, Imran, loved the cake. Their son, Ibrahim, had a great time playing with the fondant balls (which were plentiful) and their guests polished up the cake till the very last crumb :)

Thank you very much Farah for giving me the opportunity to expand my creativity and test my decorating skill.

In Random Order

Dear all,

I'm terribly sorry for not updating this baking blog of mine. Too many things happen in such a short time plus I was away in Tokyo for 8 days. But, excuses schemexcuses la kan. Forgive me.

However, do feast your eyes on some of the cakes that I've done for the past 2.5 months. Enjoy!!...

An engagement cake ordered by Raff for her brother. Inside is a butter cake layered with blueberry filling. I was merely following orders on the color - a cream and gold theme. Alhamdulillah, it turned out well.



Double celebration cake custom-made for Yatie's children. Tina loves PowerPuff Girls while Syahmi is nuts about Spiderman but Mama only wants one cake hence the combined cartoon character on one cake. As long as the kids are happy, then I'm happy.







A half and a half - JJay couldn't make up her mind on which topping to choose because she equally loves both. So I suggested her to go for both hence the above.

My first attempt of using an edible icing image with Barbie. Beautiful kan?! Also ordered by JJay for her daughter.

1 kg Blueberry Cheesecake.

1 kg Strawberry Cheesecake.

Looks like Mickey is swimming in the sea. Oh well...

I'm rather proud of the outcome of this Minnie. Very cute and girly.

I seriously need to improve on drawing or at least get help in drawing Cinderella's face. Nampak cacat je. Luckily Nayli didn't scream her lungs out upon seeing her cake.

Nayli and Aish with their Robin (Teen Titans) and Cinderella cake. Can't wait!

A Green Engagement

A fondant engagement cake for Aida's sister. I was merely following orders for the theme of the engagement which was green.

At first I wanted to do a white base with green flowers but I couldn't find any green sugar flowers being sold at the bakery stores. So, I resorted in doing the reverse - green base with white sugar flowers. At least, the flowers stand out, don't they? I don't do my own sugar flowers due to the fact that I'm still incompetent and still a beginner in modeling sugar flowers. Plus, it's still more cost-effective to buy them rather than do them myself.


I still have a long way to go on decorating with fondant. I seriously need to attend classes. Aida, please accept my apologies for any shortcomings on the cake ya.