Princess Ulyss turns 4!

It's the time of the year again! It's always a headache for the mummy and her daughter to settle on a theme for the little girl's birthday party every year especially so when her number of favourite characters keep growing. So this year, they settled on Rapunzel theme for the school's party (initially the girl wanted tinker bell). Actually, her 1st birthday party was also done in Rapunzel theme and she was actually the hairless Rapunzel at that time. LOL. Check out her 1st birthday party below.

http://jembakes.blogspot.sg/2013/07/princess-ulysss-1st-birthday_20.html

At that time the two-tier princess cake was actually a dummy cake as I was still new to cake decorating and constructing a two-tier cake. 3 years have passed and I have done a few castle cake over the time and therefore this time round I am more confident to take up the challenge.

However, to make things easy and more stable, I still bought some styrofoam cones and cylinders to create the castle and therefore only the base is made of a 6"cake.

This is one of the sweetest castle that I have made. Totally love the sweet pastel colour combination. Rapunzel topper is provided by the birthday girl herself (one of her toy). I also ordered some Rapunzel icing image to paste on the cupcakes.

Happy Birthday Ulyss! Finally a Rapunzel with hair!

Look at how big the little girl is now. She is a big Jie Jie in school!

Happy Birthday my dear girl! It is amazing to see how you have grown up to be so active and different from how your brother is, showing us that each have their own personalities and are unique in their own ways. Thanks for bringing us so much laughter and happiness and Xiao yi wishes that you continue to grow up strong and healthy! I'm glad that you always enjoy the cakes that I do and I hope I can continue to make your birthday cakes till you are tired of it! LOL!

Maisy cake...

An order from my Da Jie's long time friend, Diana, for her son Dylan's birthday party in school. She wanted a Maisy cake for the party. Maisy is a popular character of a story book and it looks like a mouse. She wanted Maisy and her favourite bear on the cake.

Therefore, I created a Maisy picnic cake with some picnic elements on it such as the picnic box, fruits, drinks, etc. And definitely not forgetting to bring along her favourite bear.

Diana said she loves the details on the cake which is all favourites of a 3 year old kid. Glad she likes it and Dylan had an enjoyable birthday party.

Happy Birthday Dylan!

Thanks Diana for the order!

Hellokitty cake and cupcakes set...

Another Hellokitty order and this time it is an order from Joanna who wanted to order a cake and cupcakes set for her friend's daughter, Avery's birthday. She wanted a design that was done before so this is an easy order for me.

I crafted the hellokitty faces free hand and by now I can say that I am really skillful in it and almost all of them looks similar. LOL.

Thanks Joanna for the order and hope Avery likes the cake! Happy 3rd Birthday!

Baby boy cake...

This is a simple cake order from Gay Hooi who wanted a baby boy cake for her son's 1st mth celebration. I previously bought the alphabet bunting mould online but it is a bit small for big cakes. I finally have the chance to use it now and I think it is good for 6" cakes. I also added some baby elements such as milk bottle, toy blocks, etc.

Happy 1st mth Xavier! Grow up healthy and happy!

Doc Mcstuffins cake...

Another Doc Mcstuffins cake and this time round is an order from May Ee who previously ordered the Thomas train cake for her boy. Check out the cake below.

http://jembakes.blogspot.sg/2014/11/thomas-train-cake.html

This time round it is her girl, Hui En's 2nd birthday and therefore she wanted a Doc Mcstuffins cake for her. I ordered the toppers online and did some simple designs on the cake.

Happy birthday Hui En! Hope you like the cake!

Plane cake for my second BIL...

Happy Chinese New Year! This year, my second BIL, Ben's birthday falls near CNY and therefore we decided to have his birthday celebration and our reunion dinner together at home! As I have previously done a car cake for my first BIL who loves car and recently got a new car, so this time round I did a plane cake for my second BIL who loves plane! Check out the car cake that I have done below.

http://jembakes.blogspot.sg/2015/11/3d-car-cake-for-my-bil.html

The last cake that I did for Ben was 3 years ago when I first started this whole cake business. Er Jie wanted a sushi cake to surprise him as he loves sushi. How time flies and he is now my BIL! 

http://jembakes.blogspot.sg/2013/07/sushi-cake-for-sushi-lovers.html

Initially I wanted to do a commercial plane but the plane needs to be very round in shape and I have baked a rectangular cake. Therefore, after searching for ideas online, I came up with the plane below which looks a bit like fighter plane. LOL.

I sliced off the front of the cake to make it look pointed. For the plane wings and the propeller, I used cardboard and wrapped it in fondant instead to ensure that it is stable enough and the wings will not break off. This is quite a stable structure in the end and it stayed neat and firm throughout. LOL. 

Happy Birthday Ben! Hope you like the plane!

Happy Birthday BIL! Hope this new year brings greater joy and happiness in your life!

Triathlon cake!

An order from Phildia for her husband who is turning 30 this year! She is planning a surprise birthday party for his big 30 and wanted a triathlon cake for her husband who is into triathlon! So fit! So she wanted a 3 tier cake to represent jogging, cycling and swimming in each tier. However as it was for a small party, she wanted small cakes instead. Therefore, I created a mini 4",5" and 6" 3-tier cake and it looks cute!

I never really had orders for 3-tier cakes as previously orders was only for 2-tier 5" & 8" cake so this was a new challenge for me for the start of the year. In addition, she wanted different flavours for each tier so I had to work with cakes of different density.

I did not use any pillar on the base tier as I thought the cakes are small and light. However, I was wrong after I placed the cakes on top as I realised the cakes dent in after a while. But it was too late for any changes. Luckily the structure is still stable as I used the chocolate cake as the base cake which is very dense. But still, I had my lesson learnt on the need for a stable structure!

I'm quite glad on how the cake turns out as all 3 tiers look like what they are supposed to be doing. Can you guess the individual sports?

Happy Birthday Samuel! Hope you had a wonderful big 30 celebration with your lovely wife!