Last week, i had a fun baking session with Sunnie at my place. We went out and had our lunch before starting the baking session.

At first, we didn't have any idea about what we were going to make. We had the idea of almond cupcakes but realised that we had no almond. We also had the idea of pistachio cupcakes (sound yum huh?) but also realised that i had NO pistachio!! Instantly we felt really stupid for not checking the pantry before heading to lunch before. All we had at home was chocolate, oranges, lemons and bananas. Finally, after all the thinking and deciding, orange won our hearts.

hmmmmmmmmmm......ORANGE CUPCAKES :)

We use orange peel in the cupcakes and it tasted really really good and fruity. It was a good decision after all.

Done with cupcakes, now with decorations. Again, we had no idea what to decorations to settle with so we both made things that we felt like. First was the butterflies, then Sunnie went on to beach theme, space theme and lastly roses. (See what i said about random?)

I know i know, orange cupcakes didn't exactly go with the butterflies, roses, beach and etc but that was like our "no plan" session. Should have made something fruity as the deco but oh well!

We didn't finish decorating until like 9 at night and continued after dinner till like about 2am. Crazy huh? Started at 2pm and ended at 12am. Almost 10 hours of serious baking and decorating! (excluding dinner)
Overall, i enjoyed it cause we took our own sweet time with Sunnie's ipod music in the background and Chico lazing just beside me. It was a lazy Sunday with a little productivity in it :P

ps: Here are the ones that i made. Sunnie took hers home so i didn't manage to snap some pictures of it. But believe me, when i said we had a random creation day

enjoy!

Wordless Wednesday

OK. I LIED!

In my last post, i said that i wasn't going to bake due to exams but you know, i tend to release my stress by baking plus i really really wanted to make full use of my spanking new majestic yellow KITCHEN AID! :P 

*note: my new mixer purchase wasn't just an impulse buy but my trusty cheap mixer died so i had to invest in something larger! prettier! and it had to have my new fav color-yellow!*

First i wanted to spend a couple of hours making Y's favorite Madeira Baby but i also got distracted by vanilla sugar cookies! Oh i hate having the feeling of wanting to do soooo many things in the kitchen in very limited time. I took out the butter from the fridge and sat there thinking of what to do next.... Madeira or Cookies or Madeira or Cookie Madeira or Cookie Madeira or Cookie Madeira or Cookie Madeira or Cookie???????

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After all the debate in my head, i ended making both Madeira cake with buttercream meringue and vanilla sugar cookies. That took my whole of Sat and Sun but i'm happy and stress-free!

Another session of caake photography.

Here goes the cake walk!

Madeira Baby in Vintage Style Photography

Well, i sorta couldn't decide on vintage or pure style photography and took a few more than expected pictures :P

Pure and Lovely

See the green touch to this picture?

A little vignette

Chocolate and Cream

Last but not least vintage!

A close up look on madeira baby with yummy merigue

Vanilla Sugar Cookies

(Recipe by cake journal)

(Design inspired by Consumed By Cakes)

*haven't really made cookies before but don't you reckon it's pretty alright for the first try??)

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Close up on the cookies (my deco job was pretty horrible)

Wrapped and ready to go!

*See my kitchen in action???

*Do you like my new vintage pots and tins collection?*

Bought them when i was on my shopping spree at QVB 

Till then~ 

Hopefully now i can concentrate more on my books!

ps: Exams update: One down , two to go!

These are the picture i promised!

I practically did a all round 360 shot of this cake. A good way to make full use of my new Nikon baby ;p

I've used the roses i made yesterday as the topper with purple butterflies. What do u think of it? Leave me a comment and let me know!

Pink and purple Christening Cake with butterflies

I've been questioned several times on how the cakes are stacked and i thought i'll give a little insight on how i do mine :)

First we start by covering the board with fondant and use your favorite ribbon to cover the ends. The board will then look like this

Close up on the ribbon i used. I bought this from Lindcraft at the lace section. Like it? I think it gives it a very classy touch to it.

My ribbon box. Have a dig!

First i covered the bottom tier with fondant

The smoothen it out with a smoother to get a finishing look.

The top tier

I've use two dowels (they are actually really thick skewers which i called dowel) in insert them into your bottom tier like this

Then use royal icing to cover the skewers which also helps to stick the top tier to the bottom tier

Last step is to place your top tier on top of the royal icing bits

Finally start decorating!

Purple butterflies

Name plaque

Oh yes! and of course these cakes are my very own favorite chocolate mud with ganache. This has actually been my popular sell out at the moment

Toodles~

Lilia

This is week, I'm working on a baby girl's christening and the theme is butterflies and roses! I found out that fondant modeling is pretty fun. Although it is a little time consuming but it was all worth it when i saw the end result :)

Oh yes! Did i mention that i finally got my hand on a D90? Yes! A brand spanking new SLR for my delight. I've been capturing heaps of pictures of everything and anything! :p

Its my first time using fondant to making butterflies, don't you think they look awesome?

I've used a preset in light room to produce some of these photos. Presets' made by Rebecca and visit her blog at Our Family Journal

An antique wash

This is how the original picture looks like.

A better view of the butterflies on the roses

I like this shot (Warm washout)

Here's one picture with two different presets. Don't you think they look great?

Stay tune! More pictures to come next~

Toodles~

Lilia