My little cakes for you: June 2009

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Get well soon...

'Little' size mixture of moist chocolate cupcakes with chocolate ganache and vanilla vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream icing ,decorated with sugar roses, packed in see through white paper box with 25 cupcake's holder and a moss green ribbon...

Joyful colours

Thank you Connie and happy eating!!

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

My little cakes for baby Ariq Mikhail

These are ' Not at all little ' size (3 1/4 oz souffle cup), lemon flavour cake, frosted with vanilla icing , decorated with fondant and sugar booties...

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Happy Father's Day

8" pound cake in lemon flavour,covered with full fondant...(my 1st cake with full fondant) err... not that easy as what I thought ! But I think not bad at all for a person who never enrolled in any fondant classes before!! Well I'm so excited and nervous , to attend fondant class with one of my fav cake decorators next week....wish me LUCK!

Red velvet cake with French Buttercream ( This is simply the most delicious icing ever, it tastes like vanilla ice-cream!!)

Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Glaze... This is simple cake but very tasty, I love the smell and love to have it with a cup of hot lemon tea (Too much Lemon huh??) BTW anyone knows what is the different between butter cake and pound cake???

'HAPPY FATHER'S DAY' to Tuan Haji Zakaria , Tuan Haji IR Razali Ismail and Mr Shahizan Razali ( The guy who is crazy bout BMW) may Allah SWT panjangkan umur, murahkan rezeki , dikurniakan anak-anak yang soleh dan solehah ,diberkati dan dirahmati selalu, insyaallah,Amin....

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Cupcake Paintings

Finally, I have managed to complete the cupcake paintings that I have been procrastinating all this while...YEA! I got the idea from one of my cupcake book collection. I was thrilled to show it to my 'SIFU' Kak Aniza (Les Fleurs Decorative Painting) as I knew she would love the book and I was absolutely right, the moment she flipped the 1st page she kept saying, 'I love this , I love that, look at this one and that one'...and finally ' I must get this book' and right away jot the title. After flipping through the chic and divine designs, we then chose the one that I've painted. I painted them on the wooden plaques which I've coated with amethyst + titanium white and the other with sunflower yellow. I will paint more and try it on different materials such as bottles, cans and fabric.....

Sunday, June 14, 2009

White is pure

'M' box of 'Little' size (36pcs) vanilla vanilla cupcakes with butter sugar icing...

'S' box of 'Very little' size (36pcs) Moist chocolate cake with swirled milk chocolate ganache and decorated with white sugar daisies...

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Azam & Lisa

A 10" moist chocolate cake in vanilla frosting. Alhamdulillah the maroon colour has turned out so well. The sugar roses and rose buds look stunning on buttercup yellow icing. Azam & Lisa congratulation to both of you 'semoga kekal hingga ke akhir hayat', insyaallah. To my dear friend Kak Lynda thank you for calling me to order the cakes on behalf of them 'walaupun' last minute and thank you for promoting 'my little cakes for you'

Juniper green as always......make me smile!!

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Floral Cake

A floral theme cake covered in basketweave ordered by a 'petite lady' for her dear sister in law,

Happy Birthday Ani..

Garden Wedding theme as a Gift...

This is a moist yellow cake, 8" size with vanilla butter sugar icing, and 6 cupcakes same flavour and design to match the cake...to the bride & groom congratulation!!

Eat me I'm yours...'LITTLE CAKE'

Cupcakes are now becoming so popular that they are establishing themselves in many new ways. People are for instance , sending cupcakes instead of flowers , chocolates and etc to celebrate all kinds of special occasions from weddings , Aqiqahs , anniversaries and many more. Cupcakes come in many shapes and guises , but the one thing they all have in common is that they're small , individual sized cakes decorated with pretty icing and so versatile , truly there's a cupcake design for every occasion . Cupcake tiers are now the new fashion in wedding cakes too. Cupcakes are without doubt 'a cake for all seasons' universally appreciated by young and old.....

Using Colour

Mix and match vibrant colours to make your cake designs stand out , or learn how to add subtle tones for a more delicate finish . Your skill with modelling and piping is important , but a stunning ends result hinges upon your ability to combine and use colours .

THE COLOUR WHEEL

The colour wheel helps you to see how one colour relates to another . If colour are close together on the colour wheel and have colours in common , they are said to be related . Related colours go well together . The colour wheel is made up of primary colour , secondary colour and tertiary colours .

Primary colours

Red , yellow and blue are the primary colours , they are pure colours and all other colours come from a mix of these three . Red and yellow are warm colours , and blue is cool .

Secondary colours

Secondary colours are an equal mix of two primary colours . Blue and yellow produce green , red and blue produce violet , and yellow and red produce orange .

Tertiary colours

Tertiary colours , or the third layer , come from using one primary and one secondary colour mixed together .

COLOURING VARIABLES

There are no absolutes in mixing icing colours because of the many things that can affect the colour , such as ingredients , temperature and humidity , time and light .

INGREDIENTS

Shortening , margerine and butter make colours turn darker , whereas lemon juice softens colours . If you use salt in your buttercream icing , mix your colours the night before , if the salt is not thoroughly dissolved , it will leave little light spots in your icing .

TEMPERATURE & HUMIDITY

In icings that contain shortening , margerine or butter , the temperature of the room , heat of your hands and warmth of the liquid you add can affect the icing colour . Warmth seems to make the colour darken or become deeper .

TIME

When using buttercream icing , soft or light colours can be made and used immediatetly and will only darken slightly . But when you are striving for dark colours , mix in the colours and then let the icing sit overnight before decorating , you won't have to use quite as much colour . Charcoal grey will turn black . and an almost red will turn bright red .

LIGHT

When your creation is finished , be careful to protect your work from sunlight or other bright lights . Pinks are especially susceptible to fading . Purples fade to blues , blues to grey , black to purple or green .

SHEILA LAMPKIN

My little cakes for you