The giant cupcake!

So, with all those cupcake... it's only fitting that C's birthday cake... is a... Giant cupcake! :)

Yup, this is her birthday cake! :)

Ok, obviously, practice needed on spacings & neatness :) Anyway, as far as the white border *blush* I ran out of pink icings! Waaaa.... and it was nearly time to surprise C... so heck... white icing it is... (which explains the sudden break below) -_-'... o well.. learned something :) *Make sure enough icings!*
Oh and 1 more thing... don't let the cake stand out too long (exposed to air too long)... in my case... 1 day :P..... Icings become hard, and cracked when the cake is being cut >_<....

This is a close up of the bottom portion of the cake... the colorful lines :) *I like this... it took quite some time to mix all these colors by hand though -_-*... and yes, need to brush up on pressure when piping... :)

But I'm so proud of the top view! *I actually came up with this idea!* Like flower yah? :D

So this is my first successful cake :) Yayyy......

C's Birthday Cupcakes

So in the decorating classes, Linda taught me how to do all the flowers... just in time for C's b-day back in Sept 2008 ;) Took me lonnnnggggg though to do all of those... LOL... 2 days in the kitchen!

And the kitchen... well... I made quite a mess.... it's so "slippery"... :P *Icings everywhere!*

So here it is, the cupcake tower!

It's for "favors".. everyone who came to celebrate the birthday at midnight get one :)

So the simplest one... white and blue flower... *need to work to be tidier... heh heh*

A closer look at two of the cupcakes... red/white flowers bunches + purple flower on green grasses

The purple/blue flower bunches and the yellow/red flower bunches

And of course the birthday clown! :) Orange colored buttercream with M&Ms :D

And of course... made "Wiid" to distribute... heh heh heh....

But... turns out well! Yay!!! :)

Cake decorating class

Sooo... September 2008...

Decided to take a cake decorating class.... and I'm hooked! I found my newest hobby! :) So now during lectures all I do is surf the internet for tips, ideas, and recipes....

(Thus born the reason for the blog) hahaha...

My instructor: Linda Foelier - the best instructor ever!!! So nice and helpful and friendly... She rebuilt my faith in cake decorating... hahaha... :) Thanks Lindaaaa :)

The cupcake that starts it all....

After months... I finally stepped back into the kitchen and tried something else...

Mini Chocolate Cupcake... my first cupcake trial... so happy it turns out fine :D (Edible in fact!)

So addictive we nicknamed it "wiid" ;)

Up to this day it's still a hit... and a favorite to make :)

PS: Of course I bought a hand mixer... (lessons from previous experience) And see my icing work... no classes yet :)

First time baking a cake... ever!

Ok, so my boyfriend's birthday is coming up... I thought I'll bake him a cake... a sweet surprise. (Sounds better in theory, trust me ><)

I didn't have any hand mixer so I mixed all by hand and whisk... My poor armsss.... T_T (And I kept wondering how come all these lumps are not mixinggg and the batter is not smooth... boo hoo)

Spent at least 6 hours during the entire experience... gosh...

I sprayed the heart shaped pan with those instant no-stick can spray for baking... yea the cake didn't stick to the pan but there's a weird taste / smell to the cake sides... and of course: Top & Bottom part of the cake got overbaked.. (Burnt) The middle part? Uncooked yet... erh... I must have left the cake in the oven for like 2 hrs to make sure the middle part get cooked thoroughly..

I ended up trimming the top and bottom part (most of it) to get the cooked part in the middle... the edible part, I thought... :P

Then using the canned chocolate icing, tried to cover the whole cake.. got icings all over the place *doh*. I wanted to spell out "Happy Birthday!" with white icings using one of those ready to use bottle with tips for easy spelling (Define Easy... :@....) Ended up unreadable and in desperation, I just smear the whole white icing in the middle.... and added chocolate sprinkles... :'(.....

Here's a picture: Yea, didnt look tooo bad.. but totally not worth the 6 hellish hours I spent :(

And the result:
Taste.... err... let's just say we ate 1 bite *for symbolic purpose only* and that's it. Here's how it looks in the inside:

Let's just say... after this experience I didn't step into the kitchen for months... traumatized by the whole thing :P

Blogging!

One of my assignment (MBA class - ecommerce) was to talk about Blogging... and it got me thinking I should start my own blog... heh heh heh... :) Been thinking about it awhile... but never knew what to talk about... until now!

Being an undergrad in Food Sci has always made me interested in food. Never a wiz in the kitchen though. I always made a joke my major was food science but I can't cook anything :)

Then for my boyfriend's birthday, (back in November 2007) I thought I baked him a cake. How hard could it be, right... get a cake mix, a shaped pan, and voila... *Big mistake*. Will blog on that later... :D

So I found a new hobby... and started taking pictures about me playing in the kitchen, and I thought I should kept a journal about it...

Here's to Cake Play! First post! :)