Cuti Nurul Quran....

Hari cuti... and I'm home, I mean really at home. Both hubby and son are working, bcos they both work in KL.  My two daughters are also out, one shopping with her friends and the other with her bf plus she has taken my car.  So, like it or not, I'm staying put in the house. I've baked two cakes this morning. One was a disaster, why? because I made the mistake of putting in icing sugar instead of flour... can you believe it? Me? Making that kind of mistake and to think that I had actually reminded myself that the container is icing sugar and not flour ! so I've labelled that container.... sugar is expensive you know !

After thinking quite a bit, I finally decided to just go and sign up for ICCA (Wilton's) Basic Cake Decorating class in PJ.  I realise I really want to learn the basic method of cake decorating. Glad I made this decision because I've learn quite a bit in this class. For RM500.00, the fees is quite steep.  So far, I've decorated a cake and cupcakes. Tomorrow is our last session, instead of butter cake, I've decided to bake marble cake for me to ice and bring it to class for more decorating.  Can't wait to learn how make the roses! :D

Let's see what I've learned so far in this class, not difficult for me, since I have been doing this on my own. But I'm happy to be doing this using the Wilton method... :D

This is Adlina, our Instructor showing us how to ice a cake using butter cream. Next is the ready iced cake.

 

This is the final product of my decorated cake.... not bad huh! I'm happy with it ! hehehe

 

Next we learned to make some flowers, and later decorate cupcakes...

we have templates that came with our training kit. 

so we actually pipe the flowers on the template.

below are cupcakes decorated by yours truly...........

below are gum phase flowers left to dry from another classes.  I want to go for this class but its RM750.00 !  Huhuhu... next year lah !



Welcome Home My Sistah

My sister, Kak Cik is the third among the four of us sisters. Yes, all girls. Now there's only 2 of us left after our two elder sisters had passed on. I'm the youngest. Kak Cik have a daughter, Juanita and a son Hafiz. Nita is married and now residing in New York. Nita have a pair of twins, now 1 years old (just a week ago actually). A boy and a girl, Zain and Anasofia. See the pics, that's Zain looking cool in his sunglasses.... Anasofia really looks like her mummy.

 

 

My sister went to New York to help look after the twins early in the year when Nita had to go through what thought to be a minor operation for torn muscles, but turned out to be much more. Other than the torn muscles, it seems the docs found several benign fibrous/polyp growth kinda thingies, which they also threw away during the operations. So in the end the operation became quite serious. And Nita actually needed about a year (instead of the initial 2 months) to fully recover. To make things worst, the babies nanny had to leave cause her mom had a stroke ! And getting a nanny in the US is not like us getting a maid here in Msia okay.  Their pay rate is US$850.00 a week that does not include Saturday and Sunday.  Apa macam? mau pigi kereja sana ka?

Anyway, my sister came back after being there for about 6 months.  She's kinda worried about her hubby and son who are fending for themselves here in Msia la !  So I baked her a lovely Red Velvet cake to welcome here home.

Since I was baking, my son who was going out on a picnic with some friends, decides to grab the opportunity to give me a really sorry puppy look, to get back to back him some cupcakes.  He got them, here's a pic of cuppies. He got 2 boxes of them.... Okay la tu kan?  Free pulak tuh ! :D

 

Next post.....

to actually do this ?  don't know, date day time to be confirmed.  when the time comes, I will upload my collection of cupcakes, most if not all that I've done lately....

another would be my macaron collections.... again, tbc.

appetizers,

 

...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!

A birthday, a cake and cupcakes

11th April 2011, last Monday, was my colleague and old friend's birthday.  We've been together since the early years of working... lama tuh! 

But we both still under 30s by the way...  betul !

Red Velvet birthday cake Plus RV cupcakes with carnation inspired toppings (cream cheese frosting).

and on Friday last week (8/4/2011), did this for another colleague.  Weekend family consumption...  vanilla butter and chocolate flavoured butter cupcakes.  Cream cheese and chocolate ganache toppings.



Cupcakes presentations to express your feelings?

It's wonderful to be able to let your creativity flow and see the wonderful results that comes out from that instances. It is usually a result of an influx of ideas that comes to your mind after going thru images after images that's available in the internet. You would start with an idea but will usually ends with another. And the result, is normally not what you had in your mind in the very beginning. Well, at least, that's the way it usually is with me....

Here's some of my collection of cupcakes for birthdays or hantaran. Not that many yet.. but its a good start. I'm hoping for more, of course....

This was the latest of the Birthday Cupcake wishes set that I've done so far.

Did this for a colleague's girls' day out!

Another Birthday wish, done for my department's unit meeting.

These are my own officemates... :D

Kinda colourful don't you think? My male colleagues complained that it was too floral. Should take this comments into consideration next time I do one, where are guys involved...

A Bertunang wish for hantaran gift, for a colleague of my hubby.

More Birthday wishes,

Above, made for my friend (for her colleague's birthday) is one of my personal favourite. And it was a last minute request... Pressure always seems to give good results!

Below, I did an impromtu set for our 25th wedding anniversary.

Just a little family do, using cupcake casings that I bought from Ikea.

Hmmm, not too happy with the casing actually!

Another family do. Did this last year. my first attempt actually.

Did it for after iftar coffee, so happens it was also hubby's birthday!

The writing for the name is a little fancy right? Sampai some people tak perasan pun yang I actually wrote hubby's name in the cuppies set!

So, another lesson learnt, stay away from too fancy writings.

Somehow, all above are carrot cupcakes!