Happy Birthday, Sister Number 3!

True to my word this time - I made these never-tried-before cupcakes in time to honour sister number 3's birthday. I chose this recipe because I think she would really enjoy these! Oh yeah, each time I will endeavour to choose a recipe that I think birthday-sister would enjoy!

Black-bottom cupcakes

i.e. dense chocolate cupcake with a dollop of cheesecake
topped with cream-cheese frosting - yummy yum yum!

Picture shown also includes unfrosted cupcakes - to show how they look underneath. To be honest, I really wasn't sure how it would turn out as I was baking them. The chocolate cake batter looked more like cookie dough prior to baking, and my cheesecake batter wouldn't become smooth and fluffy, like how the recipe said.

But turns out, husband loved, loved them!

Happy Birthday, Sister number 3! Hope you're having such a wonderful time, which explains why I haven't been able to get ahold of you all day!!!!

Busy Busy Day!

I had two sets of order today. One was for 15 chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting and 15 carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. And the other was for a dozen chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting and a dozen strawberry shortcake cupcakes. So I had three different kinds of cupcakes and four different frostings to do today. Phew!

The first order was for a little boy's birthday. So, naturally, it would be blue. His mother wanted them plain and simple, so that was what she got.


The other order was for a reunion dinner, so that one was simple too. Nevertheless, still a busy day!

Happy Birthday, Sister No. 3!

It is Sister No.3's birthday today and so I dedicate these to her. I know the flowers are not very pretty but I tried my best. Somehow, I just can't do the drop flowers properly. Even the leaves look kinda cacat (erm, spastic?). Ah, well! Practice makes perfect! So I will just have to practise more!

Happy Birthday, Sister No. 3! I hope you are having a wonderful day!

Lavender Cupcakes

They actually tasted really nice! Both icing and sponge were lavender-infused, though it's more obvious in the icing. You can't quite see it in the photo, but it actually had a lovely lavender/lilac colour (sister no. 2's favourite colour) to it!

Happy belated birthday, Sister no. 2!

Some Like It Hot....

Some like it cold, some like it in the pot, nine days old! Hahaha.....I thought this makes a good analogy for 'different people, different tastes'. I had an order a couple of days ago for a dozen vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting and a dozen chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting. The feedback was that some people found it too sweet. Well, one thing I've learned is that I can't please everybody, so I shouldn't beat myself up about it. Correct?

Really a Long Time Indeed!

Realised that I haven't baked for ages! My last post here was before my boys' Xmas Holidays...

Anyway, my friend ordered 40 cupcakes to be given to her friend's little girl. Have packed them separately - 24 for school plus 16 in another box.

Here are the photos... NOPE. They are not taken with my new DLSR. This is with my old point-and-shoot under BAD light conditions. Too lazy to move cupcakes to the windows for the natural lighting.

25 Cupcakes in a Plastic Container - For easy transport to school

The remaining 16 cupcakes

Happy Birthday to Me!

Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to dear OLD me, Happy Birthday to meeeeeeee! :)

I just wanted to post on my birthday presents which I received early from Sisters No. 3 and 4. I had wanted to bake my own birthday cake from a recipe from one of the books but I didn't in the end. A few years ago, if somebody had suggested that I bake my own birthday cake, I probably would've balked at the idea. But now, and I'm sure this has got to do with aging *gasp*, I'm very comfortable with the thought of baking my own birthday cake.

Why didn't I then? Well, my hubby went out and bought me an ice-cream cake. At first, I thought "It's ice-cream. It's not the same. We can have cake AND ice-cream". Moreover, I had already bought all the ingredients. But then, my older son had a birthday party to go to in the afternoon and of course, he would have cake there. And I thought that's just too much cake for him in one day (not to mention the ice-cream, pancake and various other desserts he had during our buffet lunch!). So I decided not to make the cake. Maybe next year!