"Mickey's Surprise"

I had a big order last weekend, 7th July 2012. This was for Ridthuan's or fondly known as Riri, 2nd birthday. Juwita, (daughter of Johor MB, Dato' Abdul Ghani Othman) wanted a Mickey and gang theme for the cake. We had discussed about this order about a month prior to Riri's birthday. The theme was finally set 2 weeks before the birthday and Juwita chose 4 of her son's favourite characters.

I had a big task ahead of me as I had to make 4 sugar figurines, namely, Mickey, Minnie, Pluto & Donald. A daunting task ahead and I was so worried I couldn't finish the cake on time. Since I work full time, I had to take leave on Friday to complete the cake in order for the early pick-up on Saturday. It took me 1 1/2 days to complete this cake. The cake was a 2-tiered cake, chocolate with dark chocolate ganache at the bottom tier and French vanilla with vanilla icing and white chocolate ganache at the top tier. I sketched the design of the cake earlier and I wanted to execute the cake exactly like my sketch.

I guess it looked easy enough but actually it was very, very challenging! I wanted my figurines to look the same as in the cartoon. I didn't want my Mickey to look like Mighty Mouse!!! So, I had to make sure the characters look realistic. Since I'm a perfectionist, I took a long time to complete each figure! I am so thankful that it didn't rain at all that 2 days and the sugar could harden easily.

This was my masterpiece and am very, very proud that I managed to complete the cake on time!!

This was what Juwita had to say about my cake, "Not only was it feast for the eyes, it was super yummy too. Thank you so much, everyone's eyes popped when they saw the cake!"... Awwww.... thanks so much Juwita. It was my pleasure :)

"Dino Train Cupcakes"

One of my oldest and dearest friend, Azlina, ordered these Dino Train cupcakes for her son, Adam's 3rd birthday celebration. Originally, the order was supposed to be a cake but she changed her mind and asked me to make cupcakes instead. As usual for me, I've never heard of Dino Train before this and neither have my kids. I had to google and look it up as how am I supposed to make the cuppies without knowing what's it all about, right???

So, I finally found out that its a Jim Henson (of the Muppets fame) creation of dinasours and trains and so on. Very cute actually. This was an easy order as Azlina wanted me to print out the edible images instead of making the sugar modelling (phew to that!!!). The dinasours would have been challenging to make and time was not on my side. 

At the same time that week, Tenby organised Olympics Day at school and I had to bake bread pudding as contribution for Hannah's class. Each class had to represent a past host nation and Hannah's class was The Netherlands. Since bread is one of the main food staples in Holland, I was told to make bread pudding by the teachers. Well, I guess that's easy enough considering I didn't have much else to contribute!!

My only contribution for Hannah's class, the bread pudding (left corner) with white chocolate sauce. According to Hannah, it was so good that there were no leftovers!! Amin to that!

Now that part was over, I could concentrate on Adam's cupcakes. The cupcakes had 3 colours mainly, green, orange and blue. I chose the images to have it custom made by my faithful edible image supplier. The cupcakes turned out alright and I must say its not one of my best efforts. I much preferred to make cupcakes or cakes that require certain challenges when executing them. Ta da, this is how the cupcakes looked like :)

Adam was so happy when he saw the dinos and Azlina loved the deco

Thanks again for the order my trusted and loyal friend. Will surely miss you when you move to Papua New Guinea at the end of the year. Happy 3rd Birthday, Adam....

xoxoxo

Auntie Elinna

Getting to know Pink Ellies

Pink Ellies’ cakes are made with tender loving care. The passion and love of the cake artist, Elinna, has been building up since she was in high school. She decided to share her yummy cakes to her friends and family, who then pushed her to start up a business baking, decorating and selling her cakes for friends and family first as a start. Word of mouth about her cakes led to the creation of  Pink Ellies.

The cakes are made not only for the love of baking and decorating but rather cakes that are good to look at and more than good enough to eat. A perfectionist that will not compromise on the ingredients used, Pink Ellies’ cakes will be a pleasure to your taste buds. Re-orders are common for Pink Ellies, therefore, the guarantee of taste satisfaction is Pink Ellies’ “middle-name”.

"Cruising"

This cake was ordered by Jess on behalf of her dad, Tan Sri Raja Arshad for His Majesty, Yang Dipertuan Besar Negeri Sembilan's 64th birthday. It was for a very private function hosted by her dad. What can I say but this cake was a very, very challenging cake to do!! I even had sleepless nights thinking about it. I guess it turned out alright but could have been better. The cake itself was about 14' long with a height of about 10'. So, it was quite big. The flavour is orange. Its all made of cake!