Pooh & Friends on log for Jesse's 1st BD

Deep in the hundred acres wood where Christopher Robin plays....

Pelyn wanted a Pooh Theme for Jesse's 1st Birthday Bash...

Testing testing.... showing Pelyn & Keith how the cake is going to be like.... But think they had difficulties trying to visualise what I'm talking about :P

1st time using Decor-set for my cake ;-) Effect is so GOOD!! save lots of my time molding "cheong" Poohs & friends :P And eating big chunks of fondant is too "Yucky" for Pelyn's family (and me too :P) At least, Jesse can play with the Decor-set as toys after the Party :D

I did the cake like tat only.... Then Put the Decor-set on top and the cake is DONE!! easy 吧?!?!!

Photo courtesy of Pelyn.... really glad that everyone love the cakes ;-)

Pooh & Friends Cupcakes for Jesse's 1st BD

I broke my cupcake record.... I made 75 cupcakes for Jesse's 1st BD celebrations ;-) 1st time using Decor-Picks for my cuppies :D it really made cake-decor FAST, EASY and NICE ;-)

Confession : Actually I'm not confident molding the Pooh and Friends figurines out of fondant lah :P also, I dun have enuff time molding 75 figurines.... so I sorted to this method.... effect? I think I like... :D but I'm seriously very tired!! Started doing on Thursday. Completed on Saturday morning, 3am.... zzzzzz Glad that Pelyn & all like my cakes :D

Big "J" Cookies for Jesse's 1st Birthday

Pelyn's BB boy, Jesse is 1 ;-) Made 80 Big "J" cookies for friends as "Door-Gifts" ;-)

2 flavours ~Chocolate & Vanilla butter cookies~

Happy Big "J" Cookies :D

Nyx's 7th Birthday Cake (3) ~ Cup Cakes ~

CuppieCakes for Nyx's Classmates & Teachers @ School

I made 2 batches of cuppies...
Vanilla Cupcakes with Chocolate Crisco Cream
Chocolate Chip Cupcakes with Vanilla Crisco Cream

Toppers r all flavoured Candy Melts molded with Wilton candy making technique ;-)

Transparent Plastic tube containers I found @ Phoon Huat @ SGD0.30 each.
I stickied the sweet-coloured pokka dots ribbons around all the containers last weekend ;-)
Everyone @ Class 1B will bring one of these cuppies home.... No goody-bag :P

BTW: I hate those "goody-bags" my daughters brought home after their classmates' birthday celebrations :P i hate all those "junk-tidbits" packaged inside :P and my poor daughters never have the chance to eat them anyway, as all will be confiscated by ME and all will go inside the dustbin after a while :P This is a "BAD" mummy here :P

Cupcake

Nyx's 7th Birthday Cake (2) ~ ChessBoard Cake with Chocolate Chess Pieces ~

My Ah Lao posted this pix on his FB, quoting ~Chess is a piece of Cake~ :D

This is a cake combining my daughter's hobby & mine..... Nyx plays Chess in School... she is in the Junior Chess Club @ Northland Primary School.

Nyx wanted me to make her this Chessboard Cake (aka checkerboard cake) for her Birthday since few months ago... I wasn't sure if I'm able to do it... so I spent a few days browsing websites about this kind of cake. At first I tot it was easy... just need to buy candy mould can oredi... :D

Doing this cake take me many evenings to melt those chocolate... Its actually easier than molding fondant figurines.... but chocolate-melting is a messy task :P I dunno how much paper hand towel r wasted and every nite I have to bleach those kitchen hand towels as all r stained by my chocolate :D

I used chocolate compound for the "black" pieces as its much easier to melt & harden compared to high-cocoa content chocolate.... anyway, kids just love the "sweetness" not the % of cocoa content :P

Actually, I know nuts about chess game.... I dun even know how to display the chess pieces... so I got to get my daughter to be my adviser :P

These white pieces r melted with white chocolate compound.... very SWEET!!

I'm so satisfied with this cake.... everyone in school was like "WOW!! U MEAN THIS IS A CAKE & U MADE IT???" heheheee.... my lips swinging from left to right :D

Nyx's 7th Birthday Cake (1) ~Strawberry Charlotte~

How time flies.... My baby Nyx is 7!! It's my 2nd time baking her personalised BD cake! This is Cake No.1... for celebrations with cousins @ Ah-Ma's House. She wanted a Heart-Shape Cake with Finger Sponge fencing around the cake so I can tie a nice ribbon with "Happy Birthday" wordings around the cake, making it look like a present ;-) Inside the cake, of coz, its her favourite Vanilla sponge cake sandwiched with layers of strawberry slices with whipped cream....

Nice ribbon with "Happy Birthday" wordings and nice "7" candle I found in JB last week.

Mini Fondant wordings cut-outs using my new FMM cutters.

I bake this cake using the Heart-shape cake tin from LH aka Fatmum. She bought it for me from her Batam Holiday trip few months back... see, my Baking-pal so nice to me ;-)

Here's the last slice of the cake... and its Nyx's 2nd!! I'm surprised the whole cake was gone! This is the 1st time we finish up the whole cake so far wor ;-)

15 July 2009: Princess Rapunzel & Ben10 Cupcakes

Nyx's best friend in school, Ketian's Birthday is just 2 days from hers... just like any 6yrs old girls... they r all crazy over Disney Princesses fairy tales and they want to own whatever princess they come across...

I was having breakfast with Ketian's mummy last week and she wonder where to get a Birthday cake for Ketian with Princess Rapunzel?? As this was quite a old release from Disney Barbie collection, its rather mission impossible :-( Then I play hero again lor :P I volunteer to make birthday cake for Ketian, using icing image... but I will do only on cupcakes as to my experience, the icing images on cakes cannot be cut, so, the tiny piece of icing on cupcake go straight into the mouth :D

That evening, i spent almost 3hrs surfing the net, searching for Rapunzel images to be crop out so I can submit my order to B-I-Y.com for printing.... they need 3 days advance order for the images and so suay, the person was on leave... so I can only collect my icing on Saturday, 11Jul.

Then i copied and crop these pictures as my icing images.

14 July 2009: I started baking the cupcakes and mixed color to the butter cream as Sally (Ketian's mummy) ordered KFC meals for the class Lunch... and I need to deliver the cakes by 11.30am on 15 July.

Cupcakes hot from the oven

Colorful butter cream icing

There they go inside the pipping bags

Fondant fun... Pretty flowers & leaves...

(1st time trying out my plunger tools bought from JB) :D

I creamed all the cupcakes before I go to bed... then before I sleep, hubby asked me what decoration I'm doing for the Ben 10? I told him I'm pipping a ring of green and yellow stars around the icing images. He said boys dun like stars! Then he showed me a picture of the Ben10 watch he downloaded from web.. he said I should pipe a ring of Black icing instead =x

Then I get off the bed, took out my fondant tools and made these "watch rings"!! Have green and yellow light some more :)) haha! Not bad leh! Then I go back to sleep.... around 1am!

and Princess Rapunzel goes on the cupcakes

I think I got addicted to fondant... they created much better effects compared to butter cream

And there they go inside the boxes...

And they r delivered to the Birthday girl in school.... Sister Keyu & Ketian... Mummy Sally busy distributing KFC Kiddy Chicky meals to the children...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ketian.... ;-)

Lovely "6" candle from Daiso :D

13 July 2009: Nyx's 6th Birthday

My Nyx is 6 today!

After Nyx ate those cupcakes+figurines I made in my Fondant making class, she placed order for birthday cake.

She wanted sport cars for the boys with their names on the cars; ballet shoes, princess crowns and magic wands for the girls... of coz I agreed!

My Princess Nyx is 6!

MeiMei Tessa on her left, best friend Ketian on her right

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY" Candles from BKK ~ only 40 Baht!

But they were melting away when lighted.. so we blew them off :(

Feel So Proud! I made these Cupcake!

Sport Cars on grass, with the Boys' Initials

The Drivers wear shades leh ;D

Ballet Shoes, Princess Crowns & Magic Wands for the Girls

I think the kids love these cupcakes i made :D I think everyone finished their cupcake before I left school... I brought Tessa home and Nyx stayed back as she had class to attend.

When I picked Nyx about an hour later, her teacher, Mrs Siva thank me (again) for the cakes! And she told me one of the boys actually kept the fondant car in his school bag! (Nyx will find out who is that boy tomorrow!)