30July09: Cookie Decoration Class @ Mong's place

I attended this Cookie Decoration Class today @ Mong's place... See these cookies I decorated? So pretty right? ...My preparation work for next week's project... Nyx ordered a batch of cookies for National Day celebration at her school next Friday...

Princess Cupcakes

I printed some extra icing images for my girls....
Pretty princess on cupcakes....

Cinderella for Nyx & Snow White for Tessa

Nyx brought these for breakfast on 16Jul, Thursday

Dessert for Tessa :D

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!)

13 July 2009: The Making of My Daughter's Birthday Cake

I started planning last Friday, 10July... I had stopped doing planning of my work ever since I stopped working 4yrs ago... See, I so serious! I write down the details on notepad wor :D

I started off mixing coloring to the white fondant... then i wrap them in cling wrap to prevent them from drying out...

See those little white balls? they r soon to be those ballet shoes :-)

Here comes the yellow sport cars...

black balls r the wheels

white balls r the drivers

flower cookie cutters does the shades :D

15 cars done-ded

Princess Crowns & Magic Wand in progress....

Figurines all Done :D

13 July 2009 9:00am

I started baking cupcakes... ya ya ya... I'm LAZY! I used pre-mixed cupcake mix from JB! since they r in the drawer for some time, I better use them b4 they expired!

This pack makes 33 cupcakes wor! Cheap cheap hor? :D

Cupcakes hot from the oven

My piping tips :D

Sport cars done, spot light fixed, initials embossed.

Ballet Shoes, Crowns and magic wands all done

....and There they go inside the boxes...

And they r delivered to our dear Princess Nyx..

Special credit goes to my Shifu, Mong (http://www.mongstirs.com/) for teaching me how to make those pretty figurines.... this happy mood wouldn't be possible if I didn't attend her workshop :-) ... and also THANKS to my dear baking pal Lifeng for recommending Mong's workshop to me.

11 June 2009: Quiche ~ My Hawaiian Version :P

Modified from Richard 老师's recipe, I use Honey baked Ham, Pineapple, Edem+Cheddar Cheese for my quiche... as I felt that Edem is on the saltish side, I mixed 50% Cheddar, 50% Edem... Plus the sweetness from canned pineapple cubes balanced out the overall taste. Very Hawaiian lor.... Tessa says its Pizza :D

I baked for almost 45mins instead of the recommeded 25-30mins as I dun seem to get the "browning" on top initially...

Then I've got some left-over pastry... so wasted lor... so I made them into these mini cheese tarts.. its the same ingredients used for my quiche, minus the ham and pineapple as there is limited "tart space" :D The result is not bad! Nyx and Tessa say nice and wanted more wor!

I think this looked very much like Portuguese Egg Tart... Of coz I know Portuguese Egg Tart uses Puff Pastry... mmm..I will try tat next time :D ~ Puff + UHT Whipping Cream+ Egg ~

My 1st Cake Order :D

Joanne, my batch girl called me last week... Its her daughter, Emily's birthday and she wanted cupcakes... Joanne saw my 1st fondant attempt pictures on my FB and asked if I can help her make some cupcakes for Emily... As her order was only 20 cupcakes and 1 strawberry cake, I agreed! This is my 1st order for cakes :D

At first I was worried as I dun have most of the fondant gadgets... so I told Joanne I can only make her some very simple figurines... mostly cut-out using my cookie cutters. She is so nice to accommodate :-)

03 June 09: I'm getting started... moulding these bags and crowns took this new bird almost 4hrs :P Hubby was home... amazed by me playing with plasticine the whole afternoon :D

I bake a sponge cake, cut into 3 layers & sandwiched them with strawberries and cream... stored in fridge to set overnite and do the final decoration tomorrow.


04 June 09 morning, I started baking the cupcakes... Joanne wanted 20... I made some extra... 4 more for my future experiments...

After the cupcakes r done, I mix the butter cream, using my Fondant Shifu's (Mong) recipe:

• 250g Unsalted Butter
• 250g Crisco White Shortening
• 2 tbsp Meringue Powder
• 500g Icing Sugar (Mong's recipe was 900g!)

Then Butter cream r being colored, creamed on cupcakes - 4 White, 4 Pink, 4 Blue & 4 Yellow
And Its Decoration Time... The Fondant figurines I prepared the day before is now swee-swee displayed on the cupcakes! Some silver balls, colorful heats and flowers adds more swee-ness to the cupcakes :D


The handbags r standing nicely with the support of a toothpick pocked thru the cupcakes & fondant bags :D

Then finally I decorate the Strawberry cake, tie ribbon around the Finger Sponge and brush the strawberries with apricot gel.... Dun believe the whole process took me another 4hrs wor :P



Joanne picked up the cakes @ my place around 3.45pm... Hope Emily will love them :-)

25 May 09: My 1st Fondant attempt

Lifeng forwarded me this site@ http://www.mongstirs.com/ and everything there seems so interesting lor.... so I signed up for a Fondant modeling workshop. Too bad, Lifeng's colleague already took leave for tat day so she is not able to join this workshop :(

The class is fun... only 4 person in a class. Fees is only @ $100 including tools, a packet of wilton fondant & 6 pre-prepared cupcakes.

We learnt 6 pretty looking figurines: crown, baby booties, bee, car, handbag & elmo... fun fun fun :D

1st we start off making a crown... but I was too engrossed and forgot to take picture... then we make the baby booties....

• Roll out 2 white balls of the same size
• Use a dog-bone tool to dig a hole in each ball
• Pipe ribbon on the booties using tip no.3
• Decorate with golden ball-ball

Here's the "Chanel" handbag :D

• Roll out Fondant to about 1/2cm thick
• Press quited plastic moulding sheet on the rolled-out fondant using rolling pin
• Cut out 2 "rectangles" - 1 for front of bag, 1 for back.
• Roll out another fondant sheet of about 2mm thick (for the bag flap)
• Roll out a tiny stripe for the handle
• "Glue" all bits and pieces together using water :D
• Decorate with golden ball-ball
  
  

Buzz buzz Beezzz....

• Roll out 1 yellow ball - to shape of a giant tick-tac
• 1 long black stripe for the body stripe
• 1 short black strip for the sting
• 1 "m" shape white fondant
• roll the black strip on the yellow oval-ball, using water to stick
• white "m" shape fondant for the wings
• use edible marker to dot the eyes
• use any rounded cutter to shape the bee's smiling mouth
• dig a hole at the back of the bee and place in the sting
  
  

Sport Car

• roll out 1 blue fondant ball, shape into a oval shape
• 1 smaller tube-shape as spoiler
• 4 black balls as wheels
• 1 white ball as the driver

Mong recommend the "Shinny brand" stamping set... can use to stamp any alphabets on fondant :) but please.... its meant for fondant work only... do not use as its original purpose :D

Elmo

• 1 round red ball as head
• 1 oval ball as body
• 2 tubes for hands
• 2 tubes for legs
• 2 white balls as eyes
• 2 black balls as eye-balls
• 1 orange ball as nose