Gong Xi Fa Cai!

I know I'm a few days late in posting this but it was the holidays and I was lazy, etc, etc. I was also comtemplating whether to post it or not. I had an order last Friday for 80 chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting and I was to pack them in boxes of 2. I planned to take a picture of the packed boxes but of course, after packing the 40 boxes, I forgot. I just can't help it, I'm old and have the memory of a goldfish. And to prove that, I actually forgot to put in my business cards! Talk about duh!


I made some extra and tried to colour the frosting orange. This is my very sad and pathetic attempt of a tiger. Well, tigers ARE cats! :P

Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous Year of the Tiger!

GONG XI FA CAI!

Under The Sea

A couple of days ago, my ex-neighbour texted me to thank me and to ask if I sell my cupcakes (I had given them some of the snowman/snowflake cupcakes). Her son (who is the same age as my older one) was going to camp and she wanted to order some for him to share with his friends.

She was very flexible in that she didn't mind what flavours or colours they were. So I just did half vanilla and half chocolate. At first, I thought I'd do a Christmas theme then changed my mind as I wanted to use the sea creatures-shaped sprinkles that I have. I didn't want to do all blue again as I've been doing that, so decided to do half blue and half green. There's loads of green under the sea, right? ;)

The sprinkles are shaped sharks, dolphins, turtles, sea lions, fish and sea horses. Hmmm...I wonder if the kids noticed them!

This Little Piggy...

A friend of mine saw FrostyD's piggies and squealed with excitement (pun intended!) and ordered a dozen for a kid's birthday party. My other half helped me with the ears, then declared to the world that he made them! The cheek!

Animal Cupcakes for Children's Day

It is, or rather was, since it's already late at night, Children's Day today in Singapore. I made mini vanilla cupcakes for my younger son's class and regular chocolate cupcakes for my older one. The decorations on the mini cupcakes, ie. the bees, ladybirds, butterflies and flowers were ALL bought ready-made. hehe, think I'll go crazy if I have to make them all :D


The pigs, dogs and cats were made with marshmallows, biscuits, Smarties, chocolate buttons and Pocky chocolate sticks (the cats' whiskers). Erm, I don't know why the cats and dogs have terrified looks on their faces. Maybe they knew they were gonna be devoured soon? ;p

MIA

Yes, I do realise that I've been missing in action for about two weeks. No, I haven't been on holiday (unfortunately). I've just been.........um, lazy. And there were other stuff (in my head, sad to say) going on. I've had a few orders of my chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting and other than those, I haven't really been baking. Oh, except that one time when I went to a friend's place. But that didn't work out so well as the frosting was really too sweet and I think my 'friends' didn't really enjoy them. I usually don't like my frosting too sweet either but I don't know what happened there. Oh, well!


I've been really 'out of it' lately. I had a minor accident a couple of weeks ago - I actually reversed into a PARKED car. I honestly don't know where I was then. Luckily, it was really minor. And then a few days later, as I was measuring ingredients for the chocolate cupcakes, I think I measured something wrongly as the cakes turned out very different from our usual fluffy and moist chocolate cupcakes. So I had to bake them all over again. I don't even know what I measured wrongly. Again, I don't know where my mind was. *sigh*

On a different note, last week, my almost six-year-old (he'll be six in two and a half weeks' time!) and I went on a Kids Fondant Cupcake Decorating Workshop. We learned how to make ladybirds, bees, beetles, turtles and elephants. Oh, and a rainbow. I have to say, it's A LOT of work. I don't think lazy me will be making these anytime soon.......hehehe. But it was fun, while it lasted. A tad too long (three hours!) for the kids though.

Note: There is nothing 'wrong' with the elephant's eyes. My son made them and when everyone asked him why the eyes look so funny, he said, "It's WINKING!" :D

Polar Bear Express

Express because I had some leftover icing and thought I should experiment rather than waste it...at 11.30pm. Not bad for a 3 minute job?

My only offering

Haven't had much time to bake lately, so not much to show for.
Had promised my work colleagues I'd make some cupcakes for our last meeting before the Easter break, so despite coming home at about 10:00pm, I made these cupcakes late into the night!!

Easter Cupcakes - Carrot cupcakes with cream-cheese icing, with a Lindt bunny slapped on top!

Think I'm not going to make cupcakes using clear/white paper cases anymore - don't like how they look. In retrospect, they would've look so much cuter with dark green paper cases - bunnies on grass!

I'll be getting my in-law's Kenwood, so hopefully I'll be more hardworking with the baking!

Little Lions

A friend ordered some cupcakes for his son's 2nd birthday. Since the little man loves lions, I thought I make some furry golden lion cupcakes. The single cupcake with a ringlet of flower is for the candles. Was going to attempt 'The Lion King' but thought that was a bit too ambitious for 8pm, night before order is due. What do you think?

Puppy Love (Dog Cupcake)

Everybody together now, "And they call it.....puppy looooooove...". Erm, that's the only line I know from the song. I made this from the same batch of banana cupcakes with cream cheese frosting as the little piggies. I was experimenting making different animals. I made the piggies which I thought were kinda cute, this puppy which is also cute although a bit cock-eyed, a cow, a sheep and a cat. Alas, the others didn't turn out nice. The cat was okay but could be better, so I'm not gonna put up the picture. I said to DH, "Can you guess what that is?", pointing to the 'cow'. He went "Er, erm, it's a.......er.......". So I guess I have to experiment more ;p

London A-Calling...

Happy flowers

Made these for an office party. Everyone loved the flower power feel of them.

Bunnies

Carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting won't be complete without bunnies!

The Three Little Pigs (Pig Cupcakes)

No big bad wolf though. The first time I made these was a year ago for my younger son's birthday party as party favours (he was born in the Year of the Pig). I made them again recently just for fun. This time, I had smaller-sized marshmallows. So it actually looks like the pigs have lost weight :) The top picture is the one from last year (they were vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream) and the bottom one is the recent one (these were banana cupcakes with cream cheese frosting). Are they cute, or are they cute? :)