"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...

"Rockstah Sofiya"

I made this cake for my cousin's friend, Sherry, who wanted to celebrate her daughter's Sweet 16th birthday with their close friends. When Rosie ordered the cake from me, she only specified 2 main things, 1) the rockstar must have a guitar and 2) her hair must be like the princess character from Disney's Brave. With that in mind, I decided to create the theme around the colours pink, purple and black.

This cake was done without knowing how Sofiya looked like in real life. So, my figure proportions were a bit off as I'm told that Sofiya is actually very slim. My figure shows a full figure!!! LOL... I hope Sofiya is not too upset by the cake!!! This cake was not without any challenges, let me tell you!!! I spent up to the wee hours trying to perfect the cake as all things that could go wrong, went wrong with this cake. Its just one of those days I was having.  The cake to me turned out alright but not one of my best efforts I would say.

On the good side, the cake tasted pretty awesome as I made some changes with the chocolate cake recipe and the dark chocolate ganache. I hope that makes up for the rockstar figurine not having the right figure proportions!!

Whole view of the cake

My full figured Sofiya with the electric guitar

Another view of the rockstar

Love the hair but unfortunately it didn't really curl the way I wanted it too

The musical notes as requested by Rosie

Hope you had a fun celebration Sofiya and thanks again for believing in me, Rosie :)

"LV for Syafina"

Two weekends ago, I made an LV bag birthday cake for Maiza's daughter, Syafina, who turned 9. This was actually a last minute order that I don't usually accept but since Maiza and me have known each other for a few years already, I decided to accept her order. I did warn her though that next time, I would need at least 1 week in advance notice for any cake orders!!!

Luckily for Maiza, my edible print supplier was able to print for me the LV logo for the bag at a very short notice. I was able to make for Syafina an LV bag instead of a Chanel bag, which needed no edible print. The cake itself looked simple but the weather was so hot and humid that weekend, that my cake literally came apart at the seams!!! I had to spend a few hours fixing the handbag (as I am a perfectionist and I can't stand flaws!!!) and ended up making the cake most of the time with the ac on! I couldn't take another mishap as the cake was due the very next day and I still had the base to finish!!! Can you imagine my stress level, then??? 

With all the determination I could muster plus time was ticking too, I managed to finish the cake 2 hours before the collection!!! Phew! That was quite a feat for me. Maiza was full of praises when she saw the cake and Syafina was so happy!

The LV handbag up-close...

Overall view of the cake

The back of the cake and I added a piece of scarf as part of the cake

The cake base was airbrushed with silver sheen and the sides were decorated with floral motifs

Another full view of the cake...

Thanks for the order Maiza and thanks so much for the wonderful compliments on the cake... I look forward to your future orders...

"Another Lego Cake"

Last weekend, my friend Salmi requested that I make for her son, Azri's 8th birthday, a lego themed cake. Don't know why, but kids are so into lego these days, especially boys. Must be due to our very own "Legoland" theme park that just opened last year in Johor. Well, back to my cake, I accepted the order even though I was down with a nasty migraine for the better part of last week.

This was my second lego cake. I had done one last December for Oleen's son, Naeem's 8th birthday. So, I decided to change the concept of my cake as I do not like to repeat my designs. For this cake, I worked around the "Contruction Lego" theme, where I had the cake look like a lego building site and the lego men were in the construction get-up. I made a square base cake this time around but I still retain a round shape for the second tier.

All in all, this was a fairly easy cake to make. The only tedious part was making the lego blocks. The cake turned out quite nice and I was quite happy with it. 

The overall view of the "Construction Lego" cake...

Lego contruction man no 1...

Lego construction man no 2...

The building site with the lego blocks...

Lego blocks up-close...

Birthday boy's name in lego logo colours...

Thanks for the order Salmi and thanks for having us at your function. Am so glad that Azri loves this cake :)