layered cake and new cupcake flavours

chocolate sundae cupcake with raspberry icing

strawberry sweetheart cupcake with choc icing

almond sugee cupcake with lilac rose icing

More closed-up shots and details of the new cupcake flavours I did for Emma's party.

And a the chocolate and strawberry layered cake. The greatest compliment came from the hubs who said the cross-section view of the cake looked like those American wedding cakes!

happy birthday emma

Dear little Emma finally got to celebrate her 1st birthday today after the family, herself including, got hit by the pox. It was a purple and pink piglet theme party. And thanks to her lovely parents, my pals H & J, and their faith in me, I finally got to do my first cake and candy bar! After a breakbreaking Saturday of baking and decorating, I completed 72pcs of cupcakes in 3 flavours (choc-berry sweetheart, berry sundae and rose sugee) and a 3-layered choc and strawberry cake with choc frosting for this birthday girl to cut. I had heap-loads of fun conceptualising and doing the decor part of the cakes the most!

 

With help from the hubs, we managed to set up Emma's cake and candy bar. It was simply gratifying just to see the smiles and reactions from the adults. But even more so when I saw the looks on the kids faces the minute J said grab a bag and fill it with the sweets you like and the kids went wild! Ok enough said. Here's some shots from the day.

 

Happy Birthday Emma!

there's nothing better than...

... a good piece of steak! Don't you agree? Here's what we had tonight, char-grilled steak with greek salad. Steak is seasoned simply with salt and pepper, then grilled to your preferred donenes. I prefer medium while the hubs like his medium-well. Greek salad is lettuce with olive oil, feta cheese, olives and splash of lemon juice. Yums!!

Medium done, nice and red :)

fluffy dreamy pancakes

I've always wanted to try my hands at making pancakes. So last Sunday when I asked the hubs what he wanted for brunch, he suggested pancakes! So here you go! Pancakes made from scratch and I have to say it is soooo easy that I'll never pick up a premix again! Here's the 3-steps recipe that you can try at home to jazz up your Sunday brunch at home. I made blueberry with orange zest pancakes. You can throw in any kind of fruits you have in your fridge to go with your pancakes.

Ingredients
375ml buttermilk
1 1/2 cups self-raising flour
2 tbsp castor sugar
1 egg beaten
1 tbsp melted butter

Let's cook!
1. Sift flour into bowl, add sugar.
2. Pour some of the buttermilk in and whisk till smooth. Add in rest of buttermilk while continously whisking into a smooth batter. Add in egg and butter and whisk till blended well.
3. Add in blueberries and orange zest and mix well.
4. Heat pan with some butter pour enough batter and cook till bubble appear before flipping over.
5. Stack pancakes topped with a generous knob of butter and drizzle of maple syrup and tuck in!

We found this really cute little bottle of Japanese maple syrup which taste authentic enough just a tad runny. But the cutest thing is the lid! There is 2 openings, 1 for small drizzle and the other for more flow! Trust the Japanese to come up with such things!!

more colours to come

I'm excitedly anticipating the arrival of these little babies!! I'm crazy about polka dots. It's unexplainable! But they just dress up my cupcakes in the way that brings a smile to my face haha! So anyway was a bit frustrated with the limited colours available (only orange and pink) at my usual supplies store and decided to search the world wide web for more options. And thanks to Ally (who's really good at surfing the web I must say), I found these babies in so many colours! My favourite is the blue, thus I order more blue haha! So friends who are having baby boys, you know who to order your 1st month cupcakes from yeah **big wink**!

awwesomepossum is listed!

Yes I am listed! No not on the NY stock exchange haha! But here: http://www.dinnertool.com/page/friends. It's a cool website called Dinner Tool, where you can find lots of recipes as well as a tool to help you plan your weekly meals. Go check it out http://www.dinnertool.com/ :)

pretty little cupcakes

Tell me, who out there does not go "oh so nice" when you see a pretty cupcake?! It may be the sweetest small cake you've ever eaten but the cute little thing never fails to attract us all isn't it? Cupcakes were one of the first things I tried when I started baking a year ago. I think I can finally say I have improved the looks of my cuppies by leaps and bounds haha! Here's 2 batches I made for a friend, V's sister's wedding this weekend. 

Jafffa cupcake

Mocha cupcake

In case anyone's keen to order these little beauties, they are $1.80/pce. They are about 4.5cm. Min. Qty of 20pcs per flavour, a week in advance if possible. 

 Cupcake Flavours as follows:
- chocolate 
- vanilla 
- banana 
- lemon
- coffee 
- choco-nana (chocolate banana) 
- jaffa (chocolate orange) 
- strawberry swirl  
- blueberry swirl 
- sugee

Frosting flavours:
- chocolate
- vanilla
- peanut butter
- coffee
- almond
- rose

- frosting can be done in various colours in vanilla flavour