More cupcakes

I surprised myself ! I had no idea I baked quite a lot of cupcakes ! But effective this year, I'm making sure that I keep track of my bakings especially those that were orders that I received.  At least, I will be able to see and keep track of my little itsy bitsy business.  Perhaps this will help keep me occupied when I finally retire !  He he he...

Special birthday treat for hubby.

Carrot cupcakes with chocolate cheese toppings and strawberries.

Another birthday treat for my nephew Aizat.

Carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frostings.

Vanilla cupcakes with strawberry flavoured cream cheese frosting

for a meeting at the office.

Carrot cupcakes I made for my good friend (a caterer) Alice. Year End gift.

Her son, Nick is also the Chef from whom I learn the basic on baking (cakes, cupcakes, etc)

Chocolate cupcake I made as testers, using a recipe from internet.

My colleagues from office are always happy to be my testers!

Carrot cupcakes for my niece, to enjoy with her big extended family.

Another vanilla cupcake for a friend.

And another.. I sure made lots of swirlsss.

These are carrot cupcakes, a very last minute request

from a colleague and friend at the office.

.... these too, for a family 'doa selamat' kenduri.

These are Red Velvet cuppies for own enjoyment !



My United States of Cupcakes

Sometime last year, I joined a hands-on cupcake baking session with a caterer that I've worked with at office functions. When with 2nd girl. It was run by her chef-son, Nick. A wonderful class, taught us basic cupcake mix, baking and of course icing. Fondant, butter icing, etc. So, from there on, I've been making cupcakes regularly. No problem with butter cupcakes because the recipe that Nick gave us is just so excellent. Everytime I make cuppies using this recipe, I will definitely have lots of happy campers...

Nick the chef/instructor. very imposing isn't he but looks can be deceiving, nick is one nice guy, and very generous with his knowledge. his mum is very proud of him ! ;D ladies, he's still single too..

class in progress

our materpieces..

Then came Aqil's birthday. Liza his mum, my niece-in-law, wanted to 'order' from me, but since its my first ever cuppies, I decided instead to give him as a gift.  So, since its a kid's birthday anyway, kinda caca-marba, colorful and playful.

Liza again wanted to order from me for her cousin's wedding, 100 cuppies (wah, she really loves my cuppies. best customer hands down ! hehe) but it was not to be since the the wedding was 30 May but she's going on 26th May 2010. It was in Penang and they wanted to try out the new happening place - Hard Rock Hotel. I didn't want to take the chance of ppl getting food poisoning. 5 days is to long... no preservative in my cakes! But made some for the road... Eddy insisted on giving me some csh.. my first ( :D). Definitly help cover the cheese ! I love cheese frostings...

Smarties topped for kids & those kids at heart, store bought pretty little red flowers and the 3rd, a little extra more toppings for Aqil & Aziq, prints done by Alia, my no 2, who temps at Secret Recipe.

There were more cuppies (I made 2 batches), so its free-hand toppings and photo-pimping time. Will add in another post later.