Cupcakes for People Association's Branding Exercise

This was a cupcake order that came through a friend as well for PA. There was a five colour and five value theme for this, so I had to wreck my brains to get this going properly. Altogether there were 120 cupcakes.

Strawberry Cake

This was a cake order from one of my friends, who I must thank for her continued support. She wanted a strawberry cake and so since the Korean strawberries were in season, I used them to make this cake. Nearly all 300g of strawberries went into this cake. 

Cupcakes for Bangle Ceremony

This was a cupcake order for a bangle ceremony. I did some drop flowers with leaves on the cupcakes. The wordings were as requested by the bride-to-be. 

Soccer Cupcakes

I had an order for soccer cupcakes for a soccer crazy 13 year old boy. Chocolate and Oreo cupcakes with vanilla frosting tinted green for the grass effect. I used Wilton's 'grass' tip for this.

Heart Shaped Mousse Cake

This is a birthday cake I did for a friend for his significant other. :)

Chocolatey Cake and Mango B'day Cake

The start of January saw me make 2 birthday cakes. One for an 8 year old who has a penchant for the mango fruit and for a 48 yr old who loves chocolates. (Who doesn't?)

The mango cake is perhaps my first major attempt at doing extensive cake decorating. I wasn't quite pleased with the results for two reasons - one, the hot and humid temperature was wrecking havoc on the cream making it very hard to get the piping done and two, my skills sucks. So combine the two and despite trying for hours to put on a good cake, I was only 50% satisfied.

The 2nd cake, a chocolate ganache cake was something that I was much pleased with despite working with ganache for the first time. The instructions was to make it as chocolaty as possible. So , I baked two moist choc cakes, layered with chocolate cream and chilled it. After which, I poured a layer of good strong chocolate ganache and sprinkled flaked chocolate on top. I dripped some chocolate ganache on the side as well, to make it all that more irresistible!

Wedding Cupcakes

Mrs H ordered some cupcakes from me previously and this time she wanted to give them as wedding favours for her daughter's wedding. She ordered 600 cupcakes to be placed as a pair in 300 boxes. It was the biggest order ever and previously, I had only baked up to 300 cupcakes. It was very very tiring and only made possible because of my brother's and hubby's help. It took more than 24 hrs and I survived on about 2.5 hrs of sleep. Furthermore, the ribbon tying was also time consuming.

However, I am very pleased with the outcome and had a lot of fun doing it. I'm quite sure I am a sucker for such 'pain'!

I'm Commitment free... but...

I handed up my last assignment for the semester yesterday and I'm finally free! I've been wanting to do so many thing BUT, now that I am free..... I don't know what to do... I just feel so aimless! Hahahaha!

Since, hubby and I pigged out yesterday at NIE (you can't blame us... where else can you find $2 chicken rice and $2.80 chicken chop?) Add to that mum made some delicious food, so dinner was rice... So to balance it off... I was thinking of getting some canned soup and making some toasted bread to go with it for lunch... But at Shop 'n' Save... it hit me that this is crap that I'm gonna make for lunch... And so I decided to pick some nice green veggie and fishcake and made a simple noodle stir-fry... It was quite delicious with oyster, light and dark soya sauce...

Of cos' I was still itching to bake and I just could not find any inspiration.. Somehow I hit on a good recipe for Wacky Jaffa Cake... turned out that it was vegan which was even more fantastic... So, I decided to try it because the reviews were good... and I must say that it turned out really good... it is still a little sticky on the mouth (I don't know why but most vegan cakes tend to be like that) but it was really tasty.. unfortunately, I could not really taste the orange in it... maybe I overdid the cocoa powder but since I added some orange zest there were bursts of orange in the cake.. So it was quite tasty... Hubby and I polished off about a quarter pan.... Of course, it helped that I made a chocolate sauce to go with it... Actually, the intention was to make chocolate mousse... something I saw in Kitchen Chemistry but it didn't turn out right... So, it became a sauce instead but it was still really delicious!