BAMBINO BABIES REUNITED

One of my sweetest memory of being in a small online community was the now defunct, so-called elite Union of the Bambinos, where funny, smart-talking 'babies' unite and plot to take over the world, which was started by a friend in Singapore. Wow, those were the good old days.

So imagine my surprise when Irah, a former member sent me a message that she and her whole brood is coming down to Penang for a holiday and would like to order some cuppies for her daughter's birthday. I was supposed to attend Ita's wedding in Bayan Lepas anyway on the same day, so I agreed to do it. It was exciting to finally meet her now 5-year-old sweet but sassy 'baby', Ilya Firzana.

It's funny how each delivery I make turns into a mini adventure, which details I shall spare the readers of this blog. Maybe in my other blog. Again, maybe. This entry is already stale news, by the time I draft a post in the other blog, the news is already breeding fungus! Eek!

Just some simple birthday theme cuppies in chocolate with chocolate ganache & lemony snickett's.

Happy Birthday Izza. Aunty hopes you guys had a wonderful vacation in Penang. And thank you so much to Irah, it was very nice to have finally met you and Ilya :)

THE 'LESS-IS-MORE' CAKE

An old school friend was about to get married last week and requested a simple chocolate as a 'hantaran'. Masnita's exact specifications were 1) the cake must be good and (2) the theme is black and white and (3) less is more.

Hmm... truth be told, being a simple person even, I had quite a hard time settling on a simple design on the cake and still make it look presentable on a dulang hantaran.

Flavour is moist chocolate cake filled and frosted with dark and luxurious chocolate ganache, sprinkled with white chocolate shavings.

The gorgeous and meletops habis bride and groom. My daughter Nunu couldn't take her eyes off you, Ita. And the lauk pauk kenduri hasil gotong-royong orang kampung was just superb okeh. Memang puas hati dapat makan eventhough nak compare dengan presentation yang catering punya tapi bila bab taste, hampeh. Tasteless!

Selamat Pengantin Baru, Ita & Eddy. Semoga berbahagia ke anak cucu!

BEARY SPECIAL GIRL

I gotta be honest. I was terribly excited to receive another fondant cupcake order, and this time from Ainul. It was a little difficult working with fondant this time due to the rainy season, but I think I did a pretty good job this time. This set was for her friend Izyan, who stays in Lunas.

I'll let the pictures tell the rest of the story.

Flavour is grasshopper cupcake - a chocolate cupcake with cream of mint filling, and a yet to be named cupcake that has an cream of orange filling.

Suggestions are very much welcomed!

GRASSHOPPER CUPCAKE

My take of the famous Southern pie - The Grasshopper Cupcake! Basically, it's a moist chocolate cake with a filling of mint cream and topped with chocolate ganache. I happen to have some caramel in the fridge so I just pop it on top of the cupcake, but I know that doesn't add any appealing effect to the photo. Hehe.

I apologize for the bad photos. And I really should have decorated the cupcake with a real mint leaf instead of a fondant leaf.

But I promise you, this is good stuff...

Credit goes to Nini for the inspiration. I've been wanting to try this for a long time.

CHERI CHERI LADY

Please welcome the latest member of the Liplickin', inspired by the 80's pop duo, Modern Talking - cherry almond cupcakes. 

Flavoured with cherry essence, with lots of chopped cherries and almonds, topped with a dripping wet Maraschino.

Go ahead and drool over this lady.

WHIMSICAL VINES

My pride and joy, to date.

Thanks to Ieda who has been such a great supporter to Liplickin' all these while, and was willing to let me create a special flavour for her, rosewater and pistachio cupcakes - my Princess of Persia.

Happy Anniversary, dear. May Allah bless you, Asrul and Alin always.

PRINCESS OF PERSIA

I've been dying to announce my latest cupcake flavour, but I keep putting it off coz (1) I couldn't find or didn't have the time to look for a real rose for my photo session and (2) I was feeling uninspired to give it a smashing name.

Well, look no more. As soon as I saw that movie trailer starring that Gyllenhaal dude (I can never look at him the same way again since Brokeback Mountain), I stuck a hideous gum paste flower on my frozen cupcake and just get on with it.

Rosewater and pistachio cupcake with rosewater frosting. Rosewater and pistachio are widely used in Persian and Turkish desserts such as baklavas and sholeh-zard.

Forgive me, but I just have to show how the insides look like. It's still very moist even after being frozen for more than a week.

The rosewater taste is quite mild. I'll probably have to add more rose essence to enhance the flavour, since pure and truly fragrant rosewater is hard to come by.

So yeah, this flavour is highly recommended for those who are sick and tired of chocolates already (yours trulylah tu... siapa lagi)

A FRIEND IN NEED..

Sometimes I couldn't help thinking like I'm some sort of a superwoman. 

How on earth I juggled 3 simultaneous orders in one night, designing, printing, cutting & gluing tags, rushed to the office, delivered the 3 orders within the same day and still make to that meeting in Penang (on a Friday summore! Hallo, Penang traffic on a Friday is impossible hokay?), I honestly don't know.

And I deserve a round of applause and a pat on the back for being able to pick up Nunu at 7pm on the dot as I've promised. Big round of applause, everyone!

This set was another SOS call. Kasuma pinged me and missed, then emailed me with a frantic request. To send a box of cuppies for her dearest friend, Kak Pah who was just transferred to a nearby school. A few sms exchanges after that, and it was settled. Such a pleasure to do business with you Kasuma! Another less than 24-hour notice order, but I guess the Almighty made it possible and easy for me.

Flavours were a mix of mint chocolatey cupcakes with mint buttercream and my latest experiment, moist chocolatey banana cuppies. They were delisious maximus but I have to tweak on the texture a bit more.
















Happy belated Birthday, Kak Pah. Too bad I couldn't wait for you in the office and wish you personally. I had to go and save the world!

Up, up and away!

SATC CUPCAKES

The very lovely Sam again ordered this set of SATC inspired cuppies for her friend, Annie - to cheer her up coz she couldn't join Sam and their other friends for a meet-up that weekend.

I do hope I get the concept right on the cupcake tags, coz I'd be the last girl on earth who will ever get the hoopla over this show :D

Thank you so much Sam! I had quite an adventure delivering these babies all the way to Tambun.

Sikit lagi nak terjun laut!