WHO NEXT? YOUR MOTHER...

Ordered by my dearest friend/ pet-sis, Kak Endang. Only a simple chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream for makan-makan at their family gathering in conjunction of Mother's Day. The names written on the cuppies are all names of her 4 sisters and their respective husbands, and her two little brothers

OK, kalau siapa pandai, cuba matchkan the couples :)

MY HEART

These were for the staff of the cardiothoracic unit at Penang GH, for their superb job of attending to my a dad of an old friend, Emi . Thanks darling Emi for the order. 

Balik from KL tak sempat bernyawa, terus kena prepare for Emi's order. I didn't have the heart to decline her request this time. Sorry Emi, I should have suggested something more creative for the deco, but my otak jammed oredy le... :)

MY VALENTINE

This valentine inspired cupcakes were one of my last weekend's project. A really last minute request from my aunt who needed these cupcakes for an engagement hantaran. 

Thankfully, she only requested for something simple, but still making fondant roses at 3 in the morning is no joke when the order needs to be ready by sun up. Quite lucky for me to find a nice red box to go with the cupcakes since all baking supplies stores were closed for CNY.

And what flavour could be the best match for these red beauties if it wasn't Red Velvet?

Selamat bertunang, Munirah. Thank you Mak Baik and Mak Long Suraya for the order.

WARM LOVE

When Ieda ordered some cupcakes for a friend's engagement and requested for a brown theme, I was quite stumped. I've done a combination of brown and gold before for her and I didn't want to recycle the same idea. 

A quick search on the net confirmed the existence of something I've seen before. Brown roses, the best kept secret in the world of roses. According to here, these roses come in a wide-range of tones and shades, from russet, to café au lait and from smoky to iced tea. Brown roses are known to have masculine appeal, so since this set of cupcakes are from the groom's/men's side, I think brown roses paired with some blue would be suitable.

Brown roses symbolizes warmth, intimacy and stability.  I think the colour of the rose looks deliciously chocolatey, as opposed to other conventional colours like red and pink that look too pretty to be eaten.

Flavour of the cake was  cookies and cream - oreo chocolate cupcake with a mix of chocolate and vanilla buttercream.

Thank you so much for Ieda, my number 1 customer,  for the order. I do hope Yusri and Huda love your thoughtful gift for them.

ROSES & DELIGHTFUL DOTS

The following was the order by Rafiza for her engagement hantaran, who stumbled upon my blog and coincidentally, a junior of a friend and fellow USM alumni. She wanted a simple but sweet deco but it was clear that this lady has more interest in the taste of the cakes rather than the looks. My kinda girl :)

Rafiza also specified that she'd like a pink & purple theme, and since I had some pink souffle cups in stock (a bit larger that the normal M sized cups) but I think it wouldn't matter if I exceeded their expectations a little bit.

Anyway, I really hope the recipients of these cupcakes like them. They're chocolate moist with chopped strawberries mix-in and yummy blueberry jam buttercream.

Selamat Bertunang, Rafiza!

16 CARROT GOLD

I took on the next challenge to come up with some gold-themed wedding hantaran for Diyana. Brave attempt, I would say, as it was VERY last minute. Luckily Diyana wasn't a fussy customer to deal with.

I had some luck as well as some misfortune while making this set. I had enough carrots to make the carrot walnut-white choc cupcakes, but the fondant didn't appear as 'gold' as I wanted to be. Perhaps with some edible gold dust, they would look much nicer. But I was fortunate enough to have found a charming little genius invention called the tart mould in the shape of a lattice heart, so my heart shaped fondant deco looked very sweet indeed.

But my worst luck was the mistake of purchasing that plasticky signage "Selamat Bertunang" instead of "Selamat Pengantin Baru". My bad for thinking that all the signs in that little box at the bakery supplies shop says "Selamat Pengantin Baru" and didn't check at the payment counter.

So, I only realized my mistake at around 5 pm, so I rushed everything because the store closes at 7 pm. It rained garfields and odies when I arrived at the store just minutes before it closed to get the right sign.  Although I managed to solve the problem, I was feeling jittery and nervous the entire time coz I was driving my husband's car that was extremely low on fuel and I had no time to stop for gas. Delivering the cupcakes through the dark and stormy night along an eerie route lined with palm trees did things to my nerves and contributed to really depressing thoughts (probably because I was late for picking up my daughter and I also needed to pee real bad!), but thank heavens it was easy to look for Diyana's home and I made it safely there by 7.30 pm.

I really hope she and her family love these cupcakes, coz I went through h*** and back for them.

SPRING SONG

Spring Song - A poem by Robert Louis Stevenson

THE air was full of sun and birds,

The fresh air sparkled clearly.

Remembrance wakened in my heart

And I knew I loved her dearly.

The fallows and the leafless trees

And all my spirit tingled.

My earliest thought of love, and Spring's

First puff of perfume mingled.

In my still heart the thoughts awoke,

Came lone by lone together -

Say, birds and Sun and Spring, is Love

A mere affair of weather?

Thank you so much to Ishtar who ordered these for her brother's engagement last Sunday. Glad you liked the simple deco, I stayed up till 4 a.m to bake these flora cuppies! Alhamdulillah, Allah gave me the strength and the rizq to accomplish the order.

AUTUMN BLOOMS

What I actually never thought would happen when I started this blog is - BACKLOG!

I'm still in the autumnal mood, so when Ieda, again trusted me whole-heartedly to make cupcakes for her sis-in-law's wedding with cream & brown theme, you bet I was more than glad to come up with my interpretation if the autumn colours.

I made a terrible mistake which shall serve a grim reminder for me next time I take orders that include people's name on the cuppies. The groom's name was supposed to be 'NAIN' (stands for Dzulkarnain) but when I was on the YM with Ieda, I wrote down the name as 'Naim'. I'm terrible sorry Ieda, thank goodness you were able to repair my mistake!

















The roses and ready made ones as I think they'd survive the travel to Negeri Sembilan.  They're still a little wet from the gold coloring that I brushed on them

Ieda's choice of cake is moist chocolate with chocolate and vanilla buttercream. I added something extra special, melted chocolate filling! The cupcakes were delivered Thursday morning but the wedding wasn't until Sunday, so I hope the cake are OK. I was really worried that they cakes wouldn't last till Sunday so I told Ieda to refrigerate the cupcakes in an airtight tupperware, which I normally wouldn't suggest to customers (they should be eaten immediately!)

However, some of the leftover cupcakes from the same batch that I kept in my fridge still tasted yummy & moist yesterday, so I hope it's all good!

FALL BLOSSOMS

What does these cupcakes remind you of?

If you answer that they *almost* look like the flowers in my blog background, then my friend, you're a winner!

The colour combination of autumny green and subtle pink is my inspiration for these cupcakes which I made for Kak Aiza's kenduri tahlil two Saturdays ago, but tried as I might, I still got a little off, didn't I? Made the colour a deep shade of maroon coz I want a colour that stand out (maroon is a gorgeous fall colour, dontcha think?) but I think I didn't get the shade of green that I planned. Mixed some yellow and green but too much yellow is seen here.

After a frantic search for the perfect box at a few baking supplies shops with Kak Aiza a few days before the event, I'm glad I found this lovely butterfly box at A to Z, the wedding supplies store in Seberang Jaya.

I had fun with my daughter when I was preparing the beautiful boxes for the cupcakes. I finished my baking project quite late, and woke up early to pack the cupcakes in the boxes. I also had to pack soe bahulus for my Mom coz coincidentally we were gonna have our own kenduri tahlil that morning.

I hope the guests appreciate my labour of love and would be gobsmacked at how delicious those lemony snickett's cupcakes are.