When I told my colleagues I’m getting out of the capital market to become a sugar artist, many were surprise as only a handful knew about my secret passion . Now that the cat is out of the bag, there were many enquiries and a few orders came in. Hmm… maybe I should have quit early…. more cakes to bake.

My earlier cakes made for Lorraine and Lucas came from office. And this is the 3rd one since letting the cat out. Anis just wanted some cupcakes for her daughters. No specific theme was requested except that at least 5 cupcakes must come with chocolate topping.  Was told to make nice cupcakes so that she can impress those people near her.

Well, Anis herself was impressed when she saw the cupcakes. And she was so nice that she did some marketing for me As she was walking back to her place, she showed the cupcakes to the other colleagues. When she reached her place, she also emailed to a few others to come over her place to see her cupcakes

Many felt that the cupcakes were too pretty to be eaten   I slept at about 2am that night after completing the cupcakes but was very happy that Anis and the rest like them.

We, cake decorators, have a habit of hoarding tools because we don’t want to be caught in a situation of not being able to get hold of it when it is needed. I was kind of stuck in such a situation and this reaffirms my belief that hoarding is gooood

I wanted to buy a number 1 cake pan after receiving 2 orders but couldn’t get 1 as ICCA was out of stock and the pans in BWY looked cacat as usual. So, panic strucked! What can I do? Got no choice but to cut out from a square cake. Discovered that my favourite butter cake was too soft to be carved. Panic again! It had been a very stressful week for me…. sigh… Luckily, my fellow WMI, Kak Yom “rescued” me.  She was kind enough to lend me hers when I visited her bakery while waiting for my mum to be discharged from hospital. Love the shape of her number 1 pan.

So here’s the first cake with Mickey Mouse theme for Hayly. It’s a vanilla butter cake.

Birthday girl’s mummy, Renee, specifically requested for the cake to be pink so that the cake will look more girlish. Hayly likes Mickey but not Minnie.

Side view of Hayly’s mickey mouse cake.

After Hayly’s father arrived home with the cake,  Renee smsed to say the the cake was pretty and she loved it! 2 days later, Renee emailed to say that everyone loved the mickey cake and she and her aunt would like to learn how to decorate cakes from me This really made my day!

This other number one cake was made for Lucas who is Lorraine’s little brother. I made some Rapunzel themed cupcakes for Lorraine’s birthday earlier.

The request was to have chocolate cake with white buttercream with animal figurine, one of which must be a bunny. Cake was actually off white in colour.

Here’s are some close up of the cake toppers. I was told that one of bunny’s ears dropped after the cake reached Seremban…oops! Nonetheless, everyone loved the chocolate cake.

Now, I gotta find a place that can make me a nice number 1 pan? Any one know where that can be done?

This book cake was made for Monash University, Sunway campus in celebration of the launching of Dr Wong’s book  “The Export Demand for Malaysia’s Electricals and Electronics”.

The real book is actually very small as you can see below. Made the cake to look more like an encylopedia so that there will be enough cake to feed the 30+ people who attended the party.

Side view of the book cake.

The few days that I had to complete this cake was very eventful. Was so stressed that I thought of turning down subsequent orders. But when this sms came  “As always, everyone loved ur cake. Both how it look n how it tasted…. some even thought that it was a real book”, I knew I will bake more