"Cakes I Made Before Bangkok"

I haven't been blogging for the last two months. Truth is, I've been so busy with the preparation of Ramadhan (fasting month for Muslims), the celebration of Eid and preparing for our move to Bangkok, Thailand. Yes, as am blogging this entry, I am no longer in Kuala Lumpur but am now based in Bangkok. Our family have moved to Bangkok earlier this month. Although I look forward to experiencing my new life here, I will surely miss my old life back in Kuala Lumpur.

 

The first adjustment for me is not being a working mom anymore. Yes, am now a full time mom and wife and I do hope with more time in my hands, I can pursue my love of cake making in this lovely Land of Smiles. I did however, make two cakes before I left.

 

The first one was for my son, Alex's or Haziq's 13th birthday celebration. I couldn't decide what cake to make for him as it was supposed to be a surprise. In the end, I decided to make a replica of him lazing around in his room.

  

Alex and his mobile phone lazing on a bed

 



Side view of Alex in his jeans



My dad says the sugar figure is a replica of my son

 



Aerial view of the cake



The cake was a hit with my family and we organised for him a small tea party and invited only immediate family members. I was happy because I made my son happy. The smile on his face is worth the time spent making this cake.

 

Happy Belated 13th Birthday, Alex. I hope being thirteen will turn you into a more balanced, matured, intelligent and wonderful young man you already are. I love you to bits and wish you the best experiences in life as you make your journey towards adulthood. I know you will definitely love your new school in Bangkok!

 

The other cake I did was a dinosaurs themed cake ordered by a family friend, Juwita. Her son, Ridthuan is fascinated by dinosaurs and she had organised a dino themed birthday party. I asked Juwita to pass me Riri's dino toys so that I could replicate them. It was quite a daunting task as dinos are not that easy to make and its very time consuming to make them. I know this as I have made a dino cake before and I spent most of my time on the dinos. With this in mind, I started on the sugar dinos earlier and even though I promised Juwita that I would only make two sugar dinos, I actually managed to pull off three dinos for Riri. An accomplishment for me. Yeay!

 

Full view of the dinosaurs themed cake for Ridthuan

Side view of the cake



The T-Rex up close all made by sugar and airbrushed to create the colour tones on the T-Rex



I managed to make the T-Rex stand!!! An achievement for me :)

The stegosaurus with the spikes on the body was quite tedious to make but I wanted to replicate the dino as close as I could get the dino toy I had

This dino species is called the triceratops

 Juwita was so thrilled with the cake and so was birthday boy. Her party guests were amazed that the dinosaurs are actually made of sugar! This was what Juwita wrote on my FB page, "This was the best cake ever! Not only it was breathtaking to look at (a lot of Ooh Aaah when we unveiled the cake), it also tasted amazing! Thank you so much! It was riri's dream cake!"

 

Thanks so much for the wonderful compliment, Juwita. I guess that's all from me for now. I will be updating my blog from Bangkok from now on and hopefully am able to continue my cake making here. Wish me luck, peeps!!

 

Till the next time,

Elinna Bahrin

xoxoxo

"What We Love"

I was approached by Marhaini way back in early January. She wanted to celebrate the birthdays of both her son, Mazhar and daughter, Marisa, which falls in the month of February. Mazhar turns 14 and Marisa is sweet 16 this month. Since I couldn't meet the earlier birthday date for Mazhar's birthday, Marhaini decided to combine both her children's birthday into one fab cake.

I suggested to Marhaini an open book cake, where she could have both her kids' loves and hobbies into a page each. That way, even though the cake is shared, each person will get their own special section. Marhaini agreed with the idea and proceeded to give me a list of all her children's favourite things and hobbies. With Mazhar, he is a fan of road cycling and running. Besides that, he also loves to tweet and watch youtube. I decided to make a 2D bicycle and have all the apps icon as part of the deco.

As for sweet Marisa, she loves cats. On top of that, she also loves reading and one of her favorite series is the Twilight series. Marisa also loves to listen to music. I decided to incorporate all that into one page. So, I had my edible image printer do for me the apps icon, the Twilight book covers and also the CD covers for albums from Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber and so on. The cake was fairly simple to execute and I totally enjoyed the process.

The whole view of the open book cake

The first section was dedicated for Mazhar, who turned 14 

The bicycle and apps icon

The ever popular apps - youtube, instagram, twitter, facebook and so on...

The 2D bicycle made from black gumpaste and handpainted silver

The second section was for sweet 16 Marisa

The black tabby cat is the focal point of this section

The CD covers and book covers...

The black tabby cat playing with balls of yarn...

Thank you for the order Marhaini. Am so happy to hear that not only was the cake a hit with your kids, it was a hit with the adults as well!! And thank you for the compliment that the chocolate cake as divine!!! I look forward to your future orders...