Birthday cake

A colleague had wanted to bake for her daughter's birthday but had no time in the end so she ordered a chocolate cake from me. This is not the usual chocolate cake that I make as she specially requested it to be the cupcake recipe that I usually used. As she was gonna feed 30 people, I had to buy a new cake tin to make this and estimation was not very good as it turned out to be a little "shorter" than I anticipated. Nevertheless, they all loved it!

Buttermilk Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Donno why my picture quality is so bad. Anyway, had made dinner last night so this was dessert. Saw the recipe on the Donna Hay's 50th Anniversary Issue and got really excited about it coz it looked so beautiful! In the picture, it was actually four layers of cakes but I didn't have two small round tins so I just made do with one big one. Heh....somehow the taste reminded me of the chinese "kai tan goh"(literal translation is still cake but somehow you have to say it in cantonese to understand what I am referring to). = P

Cupcakes for Husband

Hahaha.....obviously not my husband. A friend ordered some chocolate cupcakes for her husband and this is the end result. Think I need to get more "guy cutters", all I have are like flowers and butterflies; just too girlie for a guy, right?

Chocolate Cheesecake Muffins

Heh....donno why but I have been wanting to try this recipe for the longest time ever! Very strange that I just kept trying other new recipes instead of this one since I have been thinking about it. Anyway, finally made it over the weekend. Was a little disappointing because I could not taste much of the cream cheese so it's just like a chocolate cake. On the other hand, I used reduced fat cream cheese so maybe that's why the taste of the cream cheese is not very strong. Hmmm........shall try this recipe again in the future but no this "reduced fat" bullsh*t! ; P

Farewell Party

A friend of a colleague has tasted the chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting that I made and liked it. So for her farewell party at her company, she has decided to order 50 of them. On top of that, she has also ordered 25 vanilla cupcakes with buttercream frosting and 25 vanilla cupcakes with chocolate frosting. Heh.....this is the first time that I'm using our colour ribbon and sticker, presentation is quite nice right? = )

Cookies and Cream

Hmmm.....picture a bit blur but it's the only picture that I took.

Mocha Cupcakes

This is my super expensive mocha cupcakes. If I charge according to what I normally charge for a cupcake, I would "sit pun" (lose money) BIG BIG time. =P

Mango Cheesecake

I have been wanting to make this mango cheesecake since I had it in Singapore when my sister made it. The base is made with Gingernut biscuits instead of the usual digestive ones. I love the taste of the ginger with the mango, the taste just complements each other so magnificently! Anyway, when my sister made this according to the original recipe, the whole cake was rather soft, like "lam pat pat" like that. This time, due to lack of ingredient, I kinda "tweaked" it a bit and the cake turned out to be more solid. Heh.....but as my sister said, it is more fattening!! =P

More chocolate and peanut butter!

Nuff said.

CNY orders

Had a total of three orders over two weeks during the CNY period and I am swearing off cupcakes!! Haha.......just kidding. =P My first order was for a hundred mini chocolate cupcakes. 50 with chocolate frosting and the other 50 with peanut butter frosting. Didn't take a photo of that coz I was crazy busy with rushing them off.



Second order was also a hundred mini chocolate cupcakes but this time, it's all with peanut butter frosting. Friend wanted to give to relatives and requested it to be packed in 20s so had 5 boxes in total.



Then another friend ordered ten vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream and I gave her two free to make a dozen. Thank goodness my eldest sister was in town that day and she helped me with the frosting; if not, I probably would have gone mad rushing it! Thanks Cheh!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Sister No.2!!!

Made our usual chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting yesterday and it is Sister No.2's favourite so here's to you sis, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Happy Birthday, Dad! (updated)

I am now in Malaysia over the holidays and staying at my parents'. Today is our dad's birthday and sister no.4 made a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Why am I doing this post if I didn't make it, you ask. Well, because I know sister no. 4 will probably not put up this post. FYI, sister no.4 is the one who had a baby girl six months ago. She HAS been baking quite frequently over the last few months actually. YOU ask her why she hasn't put up any posts :P

Anyway, Happy Birthday Dad!!

p/s: sorry, picture to follow soon.


Here's the pic, a week later :P

Bad photography

A friend of mine called me up the other day and she was telling me that there is a crisis. My heart almost stopped wondering what it was because she was SO serious! Then she said this other friend, whom I know, needs to get some cupcakes. Aiyoh.......I thought what crisis, scared the hell out of me. Anyway, she wanted the smaller ones and chocolate flavours with vanilla buttercream icing. I had to deliver them on thursday and I said no problem. Guess what? I forgot that I had training the whole day on thursday! Since I have already promised her, I would have to deliver in the morning and be late for my training loh.

My friend did not specify on colours and I was trying to figure out what colours to use. In the end, I went with lilac icing and pink letterings. As usual, my bad photography skills are not helping as you can tell from the photo. Anyway, friend called me up this morning to tell me that my cupcakes were a hit and they were all wondering if they could order from me, isn't that great?

Pretty cupcakes

When my sister from Jakarta stopped over in KL from her holidays, I was quite excited to get her to show me how to pipe the beautiful flowers that she has been piping. So, I actually prepared everything and all she had to do was just pipe and show me. Aren't these pretty? =)

purple and yellow fever

Made these for a friend who absolutely loves my cupcakes!

More Pink!

Got an order of 50 cupcakes for a friend's daughter and since it is a little girl, of course it will be PINK! Heh....we seemed to be having the pink fever at A Touch of Frost Cakes. =P As usual, my photography skills need to be questioned, therefore it is a bit dark. I did try to take under the sunlight to get the colours out but dark clouds were looming outside the house so fat chance for me to get a decent photo.



I know there are definitely no 50 cupcakes in there, yes I can count. It's just that the shop ran out of the big boxes so this is the biggest that I could find. Had to put the rest into another smaller box. Yes yes, there are two extra so it's not exactly 50 (I can still count). It was just to fill up the holes and this is a friend, so what the hell right? Heh......as usual, the kids loved the icing. I was thinking maybe I should just sell the icing for kids' parties, that will sure be a big hit(for the kids of course, don't think the mommies will be too pleased though)!!! What do you think?

Hot Hot Day!

Baked some cupcakes for sister the other day but my buttercream icing was melting big time! I donno what caused it. My eldest sister once said that my hand is just too warm to hold the icing bag therefore causing it to melt(what to do.......I am a HOT blooded woman!) but this time, I seriously do not think it's my hand. Hmmmm.....maybe it is the heat. It was afterall a very, very hot day when I was doing these.

Happy Birthday P!

It is my friend, P's birthday today and she loves chocolate cakes so decided to bake these for her. It was quite funny when I was doing this because my oven is still conked so I STILL have to go over to my sister's house to make these. There was actually a problem with the weighing machine and I didn't realise it until I have put in the cocoa powder TOGETHER with the flour. Aiyoh........damn cia latt.....so I have to wing it andslowly get the weight right, albeit wrong proportion of flour to cocoa powder I think. The texture that came out was not as fluffy as how we would normally make it but still good so thank god! At least I did not have to make more because I was quite tired by then already.

By the way, I did have big plans to make one batch of 25 cupcakes so I can rolled the fondant and cut out "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" but a lot of my friends are very healthy people and they only eat one or half or sometimes even none of the cupcakes. I always feel very sad when I see a lot of my cupcakes left so I rather not waste it and give less to them and then the rest to other people who will actually finish it. Hmmm.....actually, I donno if they are healthy or they just don't like my cupcakes. Anyway, like I said, I would rather give to other people who love and finish everything! I'm sure anyone who bakes or cooks could relate to what I am saying right?

Cupcakes for my 12 year old nephew

Another day of slogging in the kitchen for my 12 year old nephew's birthday. My sister has asked me to make the cupcakes in the shape of 12 but blur like sotong me bought the wrong box. The board and box were just too small so if I wanna make the shape of 12, I can only use like 10 to 12 cupcakes. So I gave up and just winged it, below is the result of my non-planning. Next time, I have to really plan how I want the cupcakes to look like before I start doing anything! Anyway, made a total of 59 cupcakes (25 chocolate and 29 vanilla) today......am rather zonked out now........

Full Moon Cupcakes

It was my baby niece's full moon and sister wanted to give cupcakes as favours for the party. So, together with sisters from Jakarta and London, we made a total of 125 cupcakes on the day itself. Have to say, it is A LOT of work. Furthermore, oven in my house kaput so had to lug EVERYTHING to my sister's place to make the cupcakes.....sigh.....somehow it seemed more work when you are not doing it in your own house.