It's time to add some more pictures.

 

Made this years ago when Jack was little. He loved Spongebob then, and he's found his love again! Downloaded every episode and sometimes makes me watch a couple of episodes before bedtime!

He pointed out to me that I forgot Spongebob's belt...oops!

 

 Made this last year for Christina's son, a Star Wars fan.

Looks familiar?  I added the picture of the cake in an earlier post.  

Erin's mum found this picture with the real Tini  ;)

 

Halal Cakes

Some people have asked if my cakes and cookies are halal.

The good news is they definitely are!

I have separate sieves, bowls and utensils for different ingredients and everything is cleaned with my baking-only sponge (which has never been used on non-Halal equipment). I'm very meticulous about this sort of thing in general and have also talked to a few Muslim friends to make sure that everything follows the rules.

Chinese New Year Tidbits

Everyone loves Chinese New Year just for the sheer amount of munchies there are to be eaten. It's as if CNY is the one time you can stuff your face and no one will judge you (cos their mouths are full).

If you haven't noticed, there are a few additions to the blog sidebar.

1. Cakes price list
2. Cookies price list 

Ta-dah!

Cookies Price List (RM)

All cookies come in regular jars except for honey joys which come in large jars. Will post photos later to show you the scale.

chocolate chip - 22
cornflakes - 22
oats - 22
cereal & coconut - 22
hazelnut - 25
honey joys (cornflakes in a papercup) - 30

If you've never had Honey Joys, they're a mixture of cornflakes, almond nips, honey, butter scooped out in little papercups. My family loves them, and they're always first to go during CNY. I guess that's testament to how good they are ;)

Hayley, Caitlin, Erin

These are cakes I'd made for my darling nieces, Hayley, Caitlin, and Erin.


This first one is with characters from Richard Scarry's children's storybooks. My kids used to love these books too.


Hayley asked for a butterfly cake. She was into butterflies then.


This was when every kid was crazy about NEMO.


Caitlin really loved the Maisy books. For a change I drew and laminated characters and animals from the storybooks and stuck them onto a "farm". I really liked this one.


Caitlin had started ballet classes so I decided to dress this moist chocolate cake (her favourite) with a sugar paste ballerina. I normally use buttercream to dress my cakes, sometimes with some sugar paste flowers. This was the first time I used sugar paste to such an extent. Was so worried her arms and legs would break. They didn't :D


Last year I asked Caitlin what cake she would like. Of course she wanted a chocolate cake...with a happy face! Now, how was I going to put a happy face on her cake? Asked my boys for help and my youngest one, Jack, thought of a "smiley". I cut out a circle from yellow sugar paste and Jack helped me with the eyes and mouth. He's very artistic and did a really good job! Thanks, Jack xxx


This was for Erin's first birthday. Chocolate again because her sisters just love it! The flowers are buttercream and the name and bumble bees are sugar paste.


Just had to show you a different angle of the cake so you could see the bumble bees "flying". Can you see the bees smiling? :)


Made this last July. Erin's favourite doll, Tini, which she carries everywhere with her.

Colours

Remember what I said about colours making a difference?


Same design, different colours, huge difference! :)