Durian Cake

Durian is in the season now! My friend asked me for a durian cake, so I gave her a durian cake :

 

This cake was covered heavily with lots and lots of durians! The spike were piped using Royal Icing and was put back into the oven to bake to create the browning effect. I’ve tasted it, it’s nice and personally I found that even though it’s cover with royal icing, it wasn’t that sweet after all and the “shell” was crunchy too.

Cake Decoration Competition @ Radin Mas CC

I just came back from a Cake Decoration Competition held by Radin Mas Community Centre for their Community Day. I joined with my partner, Connie. We just thought of having fun decorating the cake and having the exposure of competition of it. But a surprise came to us when we got the 1st prize.  Here’s our presentation:

 The side of the cake, we created some hills, clouds and birds. Can you see what they are having for their pinic? Sandwich, burger, hotdog bun and 2 cups of water. There’s the pinic basket there.

 We also printed the backdrop from the internet and put it behind to make it feel more 3D.

All the fondant figurines were done a day before the competition.

Those competitors kept saying we were pro, so they kind of sounded unfair to them, but I don’t really agreed. Firstly, we are not pro, we are just hobbist and because it’s our interest, we explore and learn from all medias. Secondly, I would say we came prepared. We were not given a theme to work on, we just try to figure out what to design and came this design. Hence, with a design and plan on hands, we are well prepared so we are able to perform better.

Hmm, we shall named this as Ms Aibigail suggested….. “A Blissful Pinic”

Huge & Yummy!

It’s beyond description. See it yourself!

Happy Mothers’ Day!!

I am a mother of 3, but my gals are still too young to give me surprises for this special day. However, I would wish all mothers a Very belated Happy Mothers’ Day!

This Mothers’ Day, I did 9 pcs of cupcakes and 1 mango mousse cake for my friend’s mother and my own mother.

Personally, I love the cupcakes. They are so lovely and the colours were so vibrant in my opinion. If I have a chance to do it again, I’m sure I will be able to do even better!

Take a look and let me know what do you think? Do you agree with me?

  

As for the mango mousse cake, I did this for my own mother, it’s not very nice or fantastic, but since she don’t like to eat sweet cakes, she loves sponge cake, I had thought of doing this mousse cake for her. Though it’s not very nice on the outlook and design, but it’s taste was very nice! Not so sweet and yet full of  mango fragrance. (Picture not available yet)

EMO cupcakes

Someone requested for 9 cupcakes for her brother’s birthday. As she wanted the theme to be related to music and guitar, I had created for her some designs, however, she wanted to add in an emo faces which she had provided me an picture to follow. I’m glad with the outcome, it’s very nice and I hoped the birthday boy like these cupcakes that were specially designed for him. Hope it’s not too plain for him

 This was the EMO face, lighting not very good.

 

Can you spot the spikey hair?