Hot Hot Day!

Baked some cupcakes for sister the other day but my buttercream icing was melting big time! I donno what caused it. My eldest sister once said that my hand is just too warm to hold the icing bag therefore causing it to melt(what to do.......I am a HOT blooded woman!) but this time, I seriously do not think it's my hand. Hmmmm.....maybe it is the heat. It was afterall a very, very hot day when I was doing these.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY P!

It is my friend, P's birthday today and she loves chocolate cakes so decided to bake these for her. It was quite funny when I was doing this because my oven is still conked so I STILL have to go over to my sister's house to make these. There was actually a problem with the weighing machine and I didn't realise it until I have put in the cocoa powder TOGETHER with the flour. Aiyoh........damn cia latt.....so I have to wing it andslowly get the weight right, albeit wrong proportion of flour to cocoa powder I think. The texture that came out was not as fluffy as how we would normally make it but still good so thank god! At least I did not have to make more because I was quite tired by then already.

By the way, I did have big plans to make one batch of 25 cupcakes so I can rolled the fondant and cut out "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" but a lot of my friends are very healthy people and they only eat one or half or sometimes even none of the cupcakes. I always feel very sad when I see a lot of my cupcakes left so I rather not waste it and give less to them and then the rest to other people who will actually finish it. Hmmm.....actually, I donno if they are healthy or they just don't like my cupcakes. Anyway, like I said, I would rather give to other people who love and finish everything! I'm sure anyone who bakes or cooks could relate to what I am saying right?

12 year old Nephew's birthday

Another day of slogging in the kitchen for my 12th year old nephew's birthday. My sister has asked me to make the cupcakes in the shape of 12 but blur like sotong me bought the wrong box. The board and box were just too small so if I wanna make the shape of 12, I can only use like 10 to 12 cupcakes. So I gave up and just winged it, below is the result of my non-planning. Next time, I have to really plan how I want the cupcakes to look like before I start doing anything! Anyway, made a total of 59 cupcakes (25 chocolate and 29 vanilla) today......am rather zonked out now........

Cupcakes for my niece's full moon party

It was my baby niece's full moon and sister wanted to give cupcakes as favours for the party. So, together with two sisters from Jakarta and London who are here for a visit, we made a total of 125 cupcakes on the day itself. Have to say, it is A LOT of work. Furthermore, oven in my house kaput so had to lug EVERYTHING to my sister's place to make the cupcakes.....sigh.....somehow it seemed more work when you are not doing it in your own house.

Chocolate Cupcakes

Was so inspired by my sisters that I decided to bake some chocolate cupcakes today.

Baked today.....

Baked vanilla cupcakes today and decided to make some funny faces insted of the usual swirl coz I was feeling a little lazy to mix the colour of the icing.....hmmm.....does looked a bit plain. Defintely need a little more colour.........