...and a special birthday celebration

Moms will do anything to make their children happy. My colleague made me promise to bake a cake and a set of cupcakes for her daughter's birthday, 2 months ahead of  the date !  She's going to be 13 then and is a big big fan of Justin Bieber !  Theme color is purple...  the day before the  birthday party, mummy added another cake, mesti ramai invites nih.. hehehe

   

 

Carrot cupcakes with Justin Bieber purple theme!

Some recent cakes done.....

here's some of my recent 'cake creations' . these are all carrot cakes.

A last minute request from a friend to celebrate

family members birthday !

A cake for a mum & her daughters to enjoy

traditional design for carrot cakes!

simple design for hantaran

birthday for a mum

birthday for a group of boys...

Another cake made for kids (boys)

Cupcakes

I seems to have regular cupcakes orders now.  Am glad this is happening, at least I have some extra pocket money! He he he....  People always say that money do not bring happiness. But I always thought that I would rather be unhappy with money than without.  At least, if I have money and I'm unhappy, I can treat myself to some good retail therapy !

Well, here's some of my cake & cupcakes that gone out from my kitchen recently....

Baya, my collegue ordered these 2 (green & blue) with icing toppings for her kids at school. Guess, the teachers will have their hands full with sugar-hyper kids that day !

This was made for my hubby's nephew - Aizat, obviously, who was 22 yesterday.... Dah besor budak ni, dah kerje dah pun ! How time flies. He treated all of us with satay dinner, a treat from his first pay !

 

These toppings is quickly becoming Emma's fav.  Emma ordered these today, after tasting a not very favourable cupcake last week!  Good for me, and her colleagues....  Semua orang ada rezeki masing-masing!

Birthday Celebrations with friends....

I got to know Alice when IBM recommended her catering company for an event. That must have been way back in the 90s and we've been friends ever since. She is such a wonderful, bubbly lady, you can't help it but be friends with her. Through her, I got to know her son, Nick who is a chef. I became even closer to them when I started taking baking classes with Nick at their home.

Last Saturday (26 June 2010), Alice invited me to celebrate with them, her hubby's, Ernest's 70th birthday.  The man doesn't look it !  He he.  Below a pic of dear Alice at one of Nick's baking class that I attended. Pic of glam Alice that night is not to be, that's when my camera decided that it does not have enough memory!

Alice Bain in her element - the kitchen. She's always there to make sure that the students are well fed during lessons !

Ernest admiring his 70th birthday cake, loving done for him by his chef son, Nicholas.

Ernest's cake and cuppies !

After the birthday party, went home to decorate another birthday cake for Siti. For her teenage daughters, Nadia and Natrah. Natrah's birthday fell on 27 June, while Nadia's was a week before. She also got me to bake vanilla cuppies for the girls, and since cream cheese is her fav, the frosting was of course, cream cheese. The cake was Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Alia did the surfacing, I did the decorating on the cake. I need to go for more cake decorating classes !

Below are proof pics of the cake and baby pink/blue cuppies I made for them... The most important thing, they were happy with results and enjoyed eating the cake and cupcakes.

On Friday (25/06/2010), I baked another batch of cupcakes for Farah Hani again. This time its a gift for a pair of bride and groom. Requested for pink color. See below, I just love that pink shade. I mixed christmas red food coloring, bits of purple and food whitener to get it... I was told that the 'pegantin' eat with gusto after the celebration winded down.... good to know ! ;D

Since there seems to be quite a bit of cakes and cupcake postings..

plus I'm wishing (and pray, insya'allah with God's blessings) for more of such postings,

I've updated this blog with a cup of coffee background.

Coffee (or tea for that matter) goes so well with cakes,

 if I may say so...

Aiman Zarif bin Analiz

Aiman Zarif ( ايمن ظريف ) is my son, my only son, my first child.
Born in 1987 on this date, Aiman is 22 today.

Aiman has successfully completed his SPM with 6As.
Aiman has graduated with a Diploma in Accountancy from UiTM.
Aiman has completed his Degree finals this sem, with GPA of 3.47.
Aiman is the President of MPP, student body for UiTM Melaka Branch.
Aiman will hopefully graduate with a Degree in Marketing, sometime middle of 2010.
Aiman has a girlfriend.
My son has grown up.

I'm caught unaware, when did all these happened?