Car Cookies & Cupcakes for Nick's 2nd Bday

I got an email from Phoenix the other day, wanting to know if I can do some car theme cookies & cupcakes for Nicklaus, her son's 2nd birthday. Phoenix showed me a reference for the car toppers, they were made of fondant, and I think I could do those.
However, it was the cookies I was worry about, as I don't have car cookies cutter, and having asked around, the shape I could get was only the truck shape.

At the end, I didn't get to do the fondant car toppers as I need to get out of town a couple of days before Nick's birthday party, but the cookies were well done, thanks to Nico's t'shirt where I got the car pattern from. Having the handmade pattern cut out on cardboard, I knife traced through the dough for the specific car shape.

I am loving the beetle cars, they come in bright colours and Phoenix told me the cookies were a hit!



Several days later Phoenix text message me, for another batch of the same car cookies, some on sticks, and some cupcakes for Nick to share at school.

The cuppies were individually packed in clear plastic packaging, topper with whipped cream and matching car toppers made of coloured chocolates.

ps. I'll upload teh cuppies photos once transferred from the cam.

Liverpool Cake for Attia

Attia's second order was a birthday cake with Liverpool Soccer Club theme.
The picture submitted as a reference had a smaller logo with a boy figurine wearing Liverpool's uniform standing next to it. Unsure of my capability of making a good human figurine, I proposed a much bigger logo with actual details to cover the cake with.
Attia was such a nice client and she agreed to my idea proposal.

So I got my husband to clear up and flip the logo, then printed it on 1:1 scale so I can copy trace it with chocolate. I used red & turqoise colour & yellow & white chocolate.

Working with chocolate is not as easy as it is with royal icing, as chocolate's consistency is very much depends on it's temperature. You make the choc too hot, it goes too runny, and when it get down to room temperature, it stuck on the tip of the piping bag.
I did 4 attempts on drawing the logo, and the 4th one is the best one of lot.


The cake the covered with white fondant, then I put a turqoise band around the bottom, and put the chocolate logo on top of ot.

I sure hope that Attia and her family like the look of the cake and loving its taste!

Christmas Cupcakes

Assorted X'mas cuppies to merry up your holiday!

My favourite holy leaves & berries...


What's Christmas without the X'mas tree...




Also with candy cane, x'mas stocking, and x'mas wreath toppers...
Some springkled with red green white colours of X'mas,...


And come in various boxes of 4's, 6's, and 8's ...


Thanks to all my family, friends and a very special Sister & Btro in law, for all the support you all gave me throughout the year!! I love my RED Kitchen Aid!!

Christmas Cookies

Some Xmas themed cookies to share with her colleagues and relatives, Grace ordered several dozen of them.
All individually wrap in clear plastic boxes, assorted shapes in vanilla butter and chocolate flavor, and finished with gold ribbon for extra special feel.

Baby Shower Cupcake for Astrid

My first baby shower cuppies project came from Astrid. She is expecting a baby girl and going to hold a baby shower to celebrate with her girlfriends.

We decided to have pink - white colour theme, and I added peach colour to accentuate some parts of the bottles, baby booties, and pacifiers toppers, all made of fondant.
The cuppies were also covered in fondant with pink sugar crystals on the edges.


They come in single plastic cases and tied with pink organza ribbon.
To come with the cupcakes, Astrid also had some lolly cookies on the same colour theme.

Overall I think they look pretty and cute, despite the poor pictures I took with my shaky hands :((




Hope all are well, Astrid, and I am sure the baby will be as pretty as her mummy!

Apple Cake for Karen 2nd Bday

Rika, my cousin told me that she wants me to make her daughter Karen a cake for her 2nd bday last December 16th.
After some discussion we decided that a cake in a shape of a red apple would be the nicest choice. Apple is one of Karen most favourite things besides Mickey Mouse and horse.


Can not forgive myself for not having a better picture of the cake, I'll be looking forward to get more - beter pictures from Rika :)
The cake itself is 3 layered chocolate sponge with blueberry filling to give it a nice twang.
Carved and covered with fondant, it was 20cm in diameter.

I think Karen was quite excited to see her Apple Cake, as she kept poking on it, and after the candle blowing, she took Nico's finger and got him to poke the cake, too!

Lucy's Chocolate Cake with Ganache & Fruits

Just in the mood for some sweet treats, Lucy called and placed an order for some premium chocolate cuppies. A second later she made a change of plan, and wanted a a bigger cake instead of many cuppies.

This would actually my first commercial cake, so I told Lucy I will only do the big cake if she wouldn't mind the flaws. She said imperfections are OK, she's more after the taste rather than the look :D This gave me an easy to go ahead with the project.

20 cm in diameter, the 3 layerred premium choc cake with chocolate ganache filling in betweens, covered again in ganache and decorated with fruits to balance the sweetness.




The chocolate crown was added for a special touch...
At the end, I was quite pleased with how things worked out.


Yummy!

The news spreaded at Phoenix's office, that her bday cuppies were so nice, and unluckily some of her colleagues didn't get to try any as they were out. Miss Sisca called a couple of days later and ordered some for an event she was having at her house.

Some vanilla and some chocolate cakes, topped again with whipped cream, but this time I put some fresh mandarines, dragon fruits, and green calmeria grapes on top. The colour combinations were so nice, and gladly I got a text message from Miss Sisca, telling me that she thinks the cuppies were very nice, too!
Thank you!

Phoenix's Bday Cupcakes

Phoenix is a friend of my ex neighbour Lucy and tried my cookies at Lucy's housewarming. Being informed that I also bake cupcakes, she wanted some to share at her office on her birthday.

A couple of boxes with handcrafted chocolate and strawberry toppers on chocolate, my homemade strawberry, and blueberry flavor whipped cream.

Turned out that blueberry is Phoenix's fave!
Happy Birthday, girl!

Bella's Birthday Cupcakes

A combination between fruit & chocolate topper for Bella's birthday, a rush order from Bella's Mum.
All individually packed in clear plastic cases, tied with pink satin ribbon and a complimentary small hang tag.

Wedding Gift Cupcake

These cupcakes were wedding gift to the groom from his cousin, Grace.
Grace told me to make both the cake & decoration chocolatey, as the groom loooves chocolate.



Therefore the butterflies & flowers are all made of chocolate: dark, white, and peppermint green. The cakes themselves are of course the famous premium chocolate, covered with vanilla & chocolate whipped cream.

Arum's Animal Cuppies

These cuppies comes in single cases, were made for Arum's 8th birthday on November 11th.
Yun, Arum's mum is an office colleague of Mercy, so she had tried one of the choc premium cuppie when Mercy brought some to her office.

The brief given to me was for the cuppies to have animal figurines on them, lined with colurful 100&1000's t bring up the party mood. So I made some dogs, salmon and blue fish, pandas, butterflies, bees & ladybugs, and some pink bunnies!



Pastel pink base for the girls, baby blue ones for boys.


I do agree that the 100&1000's makes the cuppies looked very festive and merry!
Luckily I still have a bag of these colourfull springkles I got from Australia, as these ones have some green bits, while local ones doesn't.


Hey hey, animal parade!

Roses Anniversary Cake

Our anniversary cake.



With some laces on the side...



Especially loves the roses myself.
5 of them to symbolized those wonderful years we had been through.


YEEAY! *grin*

Papa's Bday Cake

A surprise birthday cake for Papa on Oct 3rd, 2008.

Vanilla sponge cake with cheese whipped cream filling, and whipped cream cover.
It would be prettier had I had some strawberries, but the market nearby ran out of them, so kiwi & mandarin will have to do.


The writing was white chocolate piped on dark chocolate plate, no room for error but I could do better with bigger plate :)

Pocoyo & Little Einsteins Cuppies for Borra

These premium chocolate cuppies were ordered by Borra, a neighbour of ours who wanted to gift some sweets for her little friends on Lebaran. Deva, her son is a big fan of Pocoyo & Little Einsteins, so Borra requested these characters edible images to be put on the cuppies.

A pack of 4 cuppies each, and a mix of Pocoyo & Little Einsteins in each, tied with light green ribbon for a bit of Lebaran feel.


Borra told me Deva was a very happy boy, savouring his cuppies for breakfast on the next morning :)

Strawberry Pavlova for Tante Anne

Pavlova.
This Australian sweet is something I keep as a treasure in my mind. Only a fade memory for almost 20 years but now I had the gut to actually try to make one.
(I baked some small ones for the bazaar though, and that's how Tante Anne got to know that I can make Pavlova, and hence the big one here.)

A base of meringue cake made of egg whites and superfine sugar you have to meticulously mix and bake for over than one hour, then covered with a generous dollop of cold cream freshly whipped, then topped with sliced fresh fruits - you can use anything - kiwi, banana, mandarin, cherry, and in this case I use the pretty army of fresh strawberries.

Nothing beats the soft milky cold whipped cream and the juiciness of fresh fruits to balance the sweetness of the crispy soft melts in your mouth meringue.


The genius creator of Pavlova.
Looove Pavlove. I mean Pavlova.
Heaven #2.

Lebaran Cuppies for Amie & Heri

These premium chocolate cuppies are the last orders before the fasting month ends.
Heri is a friend back from highschool age, ordered these and some vanilla ones for the last day of fast break at his office. Then Amie ordered some boxes of these as gifts to bring to her families on Lebaran Day.

As both ordered the same kind of cuppies, I made assorted kinds of topping, basically are flavoured whipped creams and different kinds of fruits as a fresh touch to the taste buds.

A home made strawberry jam was mixed with the whipped cream to create a lovely pink - strawberry topping, decorated with pretty red berries.
Some freshly sliced green kiwi fruit to bring out the colour of the light purple blueberry cream.

The rest I decorated with dark chocolate mixed with whipped cram also known as ganache, decorated with canned mandarin oranges, and some of chocolate balls and hand made white chocolate ribbon.

Lebaran Cookies for Ibu Piping

I met Ibu Piping during the Rasuna Bazaar last month, she came with her kids and bought some cookies. Ibu Piping made some inquiries about the cookies back then and a few weeks before Lebaran she called me, wanting some lolly cookies for her children and friends.

Relating to this festive Muslim event, she asked whether the cookies can come in boy and girl shape, wearing muslim outfit. What a fun challenge!


The original girl shaped cookie cutter come in pony tailed hair and shorter dress showing her legs, so at the end I used the same cookie cutter for boy & girl. I added a 'peci' cap and checker
ed sarung for the boys, then drawed a head scarf and tunic longdress for the girls.


Came in three complimentary pots, each hold 15 stick of cookies, and the rest of the cookies came in cardboard box for Ibu Piping to add to the empty pots later. I was so happy to see that Ibu Piping was so excited when she saw the cookies, exactly met her expectation, she told me.

Hope the cookies hold up well to travel to her children's house safely for Hari Raya Lebaran celebration!

Sagu Keju

Turned out quite nicely, it's my 1st time Sagu Keju.
I used Parmesan Cheese instead of Edam, my uncle and aunty likes it, and Papa Cia finished the whole box of it :)
I think I might do the next batch with Cheddar.

Jumbo Goody Bag Cuppies

These bunch of cuppies was another long travelled ones.
Individually packed in clear mica plastic, pink ribbon for the girls and green for the boys. In 4 cardboard boxes, I sent them from Jakarta to Bandung to meet their owner, Kathleen the birthday girl.

Khung Ming is another long lost friend, and I was quite surprised to get his mail commenting on my Doraemon cuppies. He showed my blog to Yuli, his wife who then decided to ordered some for their daughter's birthday goody bag at school.

The special request was for the cakes to be bigger than usual cupcakes, so I had to hunt for a special cups - so lucky I found these alum foil cups that could hold 3 times as much volume as normal cuppies. As the cups are also stronger than paper cups, I was more confident that these jumbo cuppies could travel safely to Bandung.


Kathleen is a big fan of Barbie and Disney Princesses, so the edible of them was a must. The girls' cuppies were dressed in pink poured fondant and star trimmits and crystal sugar.


And some army of boy's fave Ben10 in green.


Yuli called me once she got her hands on the cuppies, Cititrans had taken a good care of the 4 boxes, all arrived in perfect condition so Yuli was happy, I was relieved, and I heard that her daughter was also very excited with her Barbies and Princesses!