LEGO cake

hi there!!! how I missed blogging here! It has been really looooong since I last posted. I am still baking and decorating, the usual stuff, nothing to fancy yet not too shabby..heheh..been working on a few projects here n there..the kids are growing, 2 toddlers in the house ~ means hand are full, schedules are tight, lots of stuff to do and learn πŸ˜‰

here’s a LEGO inspired cake complete with a lego man stick. this is the usual rainbow cake, with all 6 colourful layers in it πŸ˜‰

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have u guys watched the LEGO Movie? we have and I just loved it! “everything is awesome!” <– can’t get this tune out of my head for weeks…LOL

Ben10 is number 1

Rainbow cake is getting “numbered” again πŸ˜‰ This time it is the number “1”..Nurul from kuantan requested the cake for her nephew’s first birthday πŸ™‚

As usual I baked a Square rainbow cake and layered them to start with..and cut into pieces like these

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Arrange them into the number 1 (cut off a bit to make it perfectly number 1 and glued the pieces together with icing)

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Covered the cake with icing..and now I love piping the sides of a rainbow cake with stripes of colors πŸ˜‰

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Nurul requested a Ben10 themed cake..and she wanted to put the birthday boy s picture on the cake..but since it was a very last minute order, I didn’t have time to prepare the edible image for the cake..so I gave her an alternative..photo flags to stick on the cake

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Hope Nurul and her family is happy with the cake πŸ˜€ and I do hope she would share her pic of the cake with me..if she does I”ll share em with u πŸ˜‰

63

Making a numbered cake is always fun..this time I’m doing a double digit cake – 63..it was a challenge for me as I’m used to make cheerful and cute single digit cakes for kids πŸ˜‰

This 63 numbered cake is for a mom as a special gift from her kids..Kak Ida from bukit sekilau, Kuantan and her siblings wanted a number 63 cake for their mom..I feel happy to make the cake because I was given the freedom to use my creativity on this cake (every baker appreciates this i think..hehee)

At first I still had no idea on how to decorate the cake..even after the cake was baked I was still not inspired..hehe..but I kept on going..carved the cake into “63” (only after the cake was 100% done I realized a spot I forgot to carve on the number 3)

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As I was deciding the color for the cake..the design of the just came to me..yay! The theme was pink and I suddenly was in the mood for roses πŸ˜‰

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And I was in the mood for chocolates..so here’s the cake fully decorated with buttercream roses and heart shaped chocolates all over..I hope it’s not too much..LoL

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This was my favourite piece on this cake

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I do hope kak Ida n her family especially her mom is happy with this cake πŸ™‚
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Send-a-cake: mini doll cake

I just love send-a-cake requests! Today I sent off this cute mini doll cake as a surprise for the birthday girl from someone special who couldn’t be with her on her special day..I love making people happy and making relationships stronger πŸ˜‰

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I purposely make the writing in a slightly darker shade to make it subtle rather than contrasting colors as I want eyes to focus on the doll cake, yet make it a personalised cake especially for the birthday girl..it is special but not too loud..I think..LOL

Mini Doll cake

Found this cute little doll..just had to grab her n make her a cake! πŸ˜‰

Since its just a small doll, one small cake was sufficient enough (half a batter)

Piped some frosting on the board to “glue” the cake on the board..I used a 7inch round cake board for this cute lil cake

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Place the cake on the board and cut a small hole in the middle to place the doll (I baked a chocolate cake in a small bundt pan)

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Wrap the little darling with plastic wrap and “stick” it in the cake

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Coat the cake with icing

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Piped some icing on her body for clothing, and some detailings for her dress..I made a very simple design..just some pink swirls in front and sprinkled some decorative sugar on the dress πŸ˜‰

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Romantic rainbow

Who says rainbow cakes can’t be romantic..hehe..here we have a rainbow cake decorated with red roses to give it a romantic look for anniversary cake πŸ˜‰

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Piped with bright red stripes on the sides (which now have become my favorite method of covering the sides of a rainbow cake)..and three roses on top..ain’t it just romantic.. πŸ˜‰

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happy anniversary πŸ™‚

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Pink Ombre

I’ve planned on doing ombre cakes for a long time but as usual haven’t got a chance to do so..this time when I got a request from cute Ras on making a mini rainbow cake, I requested to make her a pink ombre cake instead πŸ˜‰ luckily she says yes and here we have my very first pink ombre cakeΒ 

and Ras being a dear, shared the photos of the cut cake with me πŸ˜€ (which I really appreciate a lot! )

initially I planned on naming the cake Rainbow Uno, but the cake is better known as ombre cakes…but guess what, maybe I WILL call this cake Rainbow Uno, as rainbow cakes are what we do best πŸ˜‰

Thinking of some variations of colors for the Rainbow Uno series ~ and this one is “Pretty in Pink”

hannah montana guitar cake

mr amirΒ requestedΒ a hannah montana themed cake for her daughter, and I offered him a hannah montana guitar cake instead! i just love cake carving..have toΒ seizeΒ this opportunity of a cake project! πŸ˜‰

went to the baking supplies shop to find the largest cake board, and all they have was a 13×18 board..ah well, that’ll just have to do πŸ˜€

baked a chocolate cake in a 9×13 pan n cut it out into a guitar silhouette

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here we have the guitar on the cake board

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crumb coat

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and piped some details for the guitar

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add some edible image to make it obviously hannah montana πŸ˜€

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rainbow on rainbow cake

it’s becoming a trend now to have rainbows on rainbow cakes..i’ve been getting a lot of request for rainbow deco on cake lately..it IS rather cute I must say πŸ˜‰

another upcoming trend on rainbow cakes decoration are colourful and bright colours covering the whole cake! some people are crazy over it, but it’s just not my style πŸ˜‰ mine is smple n cute..or is it..hehe πŸ˜€ Β i do believeΒ  in “less is more” πŸ˜‰

rainbows for birthdays ~

rainbows for eid ~

Barbie doll cake

I’ve always wanted to make a Barbie doll cake..but I don’t know who to make it for..huhu..thanks to my regular customer rafidah, I get a chance to make this beautiful cake. To me, the idea of a doll cake is not just the cake shaped like a doll, but giving the doll as a gift to the celebrated birthday girl as well ~ double joy! πŸ˜€

Rafidah requested the cake to be decorated pink and purple..I choose a Barbie doll with her dress readily “printed” on her body, so that I won’t have to put buttercream on her body..that would be messy and kind a ruin the beautiful doll..hehe..I had fun mixing the colors as I tried to match the colors on the doll itself..the colors turned out to be very unique and pretty πŸ˜‰ talk about customized colors!

Here’s the Barbie doll cake fully decorated. Since Barbie has very long legs, I had to put not 4, but 5 layers of cake to hold her! I didn’t use the special Barbie “skirt” pan, just your regular round cake pan in different sizes and a small bundt pan for the top of the skirt and a bit of cake carving πŸ˜‰

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The Barbie doll cake after some personalization, made specially for the birthday girl Amina πŸ˜‰

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The cake definitely couldn’t fit ANY cake box! LOL πŸ˜€
So, this is how we impovise..heee πŸ˜‰

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Thank you so much rafidah. Your order really made my day πŸ˜€