A Princess Castle

Right... I was dead wrong in thinking that the Barbie Doll cake that I did previously was challenging. Please let me correct myself. If Barbie was tough, this Princess Castle was even tougher!


Under all those pastel-colored buttercream lies six, yes SIX chocolate moist cakes that make up the castle and its four towers. I had to insert straws into the cakes in fear of them toppling over. Thank God the castle stayed intact until its cake cutting ceremony. This castle is the champion when it comes to weight. It weighed in at a hefty 4.5 kg.

The towers were topped with ice cream cones which I covered with buttercream and then sprinkled with pink-colored sugar. The front door is made of Meiji Chocolates which I still have in stock from my trip to Tokyo.

How long did it take for me to do this castle from scratch to finish?? TWO whole days!! Yes, that long. I did my research from cake magazines, cake books, googled my way into various cake websites for a week. The price?? Please email or call me for a design consult and I'll quote you a price based on the design, the cake itself and the man hours required to do this cake.

By the way, this cake was for Dania, my good friend, Along's daughter. She had a princess themed party complete with tiaras to match heheh.

Despite the long hours that I put in to finish up this cake, I felt truly gratified for being given the opportunity to stretch my limit and capability and I felt truly satisfied because the castle cake turned out better than I expected and was a hit with the birthday girl.

Hannah Montana

My customers never cease to amaze me with their creativity in coming up with ideas for their children's birthday cake.

I couldn't draw Hannah Montana's face seeing that it was a 3D but I drew the two best things that complement Hannah, her guitar and her microphone.


Thank you very much Regini for your ideas. I truly hope that your daughter, Reena liked her birthday cake.

When Optimus Prime, Mickey and Minnie Collide

This is the end product when I combined these characters together for a brother and sister's birthday cake.

I truly hope both of the kids like their cake.

ps: I seriously need to improve on my writing-on-the-cake technique. Now I've realized how senget it is. Sheshhhh

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!

Ultraman

For birthday boy, Harith, from mom, Ruby. His favorite cartoon immortalize on his birthday cake. Hope you liked the birthday cake, Harith for I sure enjoyed decorating it. Happy birthday!

Taz the Devil

Ordered by KS, a repeat customer for her son, Akmal's first birthday. It was either a frightening looking dinosaur or a devilish looking Taz, hence I opted for the latter.

Thanks for ordering ya! I hope the little man likes his cake.

Hey Jojo, What Do You Say?

Ordered by dearest friend and neighbor, MummyChomel for her daughter, Myra, who celebrated her 4th birthday at school. I had fun decorating this cake as I was humming away Jojo's song from start till finish. Now the song is stuck in me, doing a death loop even while I sleep.

Thanks for the order MC dear! I'm soooo glad that Myra and her friends loved the cake. Do come back for more ya!!

The Purple Cute Dinosaur

After a series of text messages going back and forth, the owner of the cake came to my house to pickup her cake. Lo and behold.... she turned out to be my junior from SSP. See, I told you that this cake business is turning out to be a segment of Jejak Kasih hihihi...

Thank you very much Syareena for the order. Hope your kids liked it and wasn't turned off by the not so purple dinosaur. I tried to get the right tint but on camera, it didn't turn out well enough. Oh well...

Spiderman

One of the good thing that crop up from my sojourn into this small business of mine is that I get to make lots of new friends. The other good thing is getting orders from old friends whom I have not seen for more than a decade. This order was one of them.

It's from Shima, a long-lost friend whom I had the opportunity to get to know during our sponsor's induction course. Out of the blue, she called and asked for a spiderman birthday cake for her son.

It was really good meeting you again Shima after all these years. I hope our short chat managed to lift a heavy burden off your chest.

Spongebob Squarepants

Huhu... Spongebob. A favorite of many, many kids and adults I know EXCEPT for mine. Yuppp... Zareef detests him. When I asked him why, he replied "I don't like him because I don't watch him on TV". Okayyy?? Valid ke reason tuh?? Confuse kejap.

Anyway, this was for Dina, Along's daughter who turned 3 yesterday. Underneath the sea, lied an American Chocolate Cake covered with dark chocolate ganache.


Despite being ill, Zareef helped me in decorating this cake (under my strict supervision though. Kalau bagi free reign, banyak la benda-benda yang nak di drizzle nya). He put on carefully the sugar flowers and him being the bossy guy, instructed me to "put gray spots instead of black" on Spongebob's face, "add the blue sea" because he lives under the sea, "make the seaweeds longer" so that the fishes can hide in there and so on. Fuhhh... letih Mommy macam ni. It's hard to stay angry when all he wants to do is help me albeit authoratively.

Cakes Galore

It has been a very, very long time since I last updated my cakes. Reason being, the whole family has been attacked by an unknown virus that was too strong for us to resist for the whole two months. We were ill for an average of 3 times each with temperature reaching the highs of 40. B ended our illness saga with being admitted into Sunway Medical for denggi.

Okay, enough about being ill. Lets get to cake business. Please feast your eyes on the cakes that I've done for the past months. There are too many stories to be told so I'll just cut to the chase and let you have a plethora feast of cakes...