Jake and the Neverland pirates cake...

An order from Cherish again and this time round she wanted to order a Jake and the Neverland pirates cake for her 4 yrs old son, Josh. She previously ordered a minion cake for her husband's birthday.

http://jembakes.blogspot.sg/2013/11/2d-minion-cake-agan.html

Cherish is actually my elder sis's colleague and so when she saw the pirates cake that I did for Wayne, she wanted one for her son who loves Jake and the Neverland pirates too. So I borrowed the toppers from my sis and used it on the cake for Cherish. But as Cherish wanted a small cake for their small family celebration, I did not make a pirate ship like the one I did for Wayne. Check it out below if you have not.

http://jembakes.blogspot.sg/2013/11/wayne-is-5.html

This is another easy cake (working with toppers) and so I made the cake that looks like the sea with an island on it and some treasure hunting elements.

Happy 4th Birthday Josh!!

Luggage cake...

This is an order from Edmund who wanted to order a red luggage cake for Adrian's birthday. It seems like a very interesting theme therefore I readily took up the challenge. And indeed, it was really fun making the luggage and I can't wait to go on my holiday too!

I added some details on the luggage such as the luggage tag with the name on it, a notebook, and a "I love SG" sign to show that this is a Singaporean's luggage. LOL. Really like the end results and the cake looks really nice and neat. Hope Adrian likes the cake and enjoy his holiday trip! LOL.

Minion cake yet again!

Another minion cake order and this time it's from Regine who want to order the cake for her 6 yrs old boy, Declan. This is another easy cake (due to the fact that I've done minion theme countless time). LOL.

I've actually added some disco dust to make the cake sparkles but it cannot be seen very well through the picture. Hope Declan had an awesome 6th birthday!

Surprise birthday cake for sis and her friends gathering...

This is a last min cake for sis who is actually meeting her friends from JC for 11 years for a steamboat gathering. She wanted to surprise her teacher and friend who is having their birthday this month with a small birthday celebration so she wanted a cake for them. And her theme in mind would be long-time girl friends so I made a few girls sitting on the cake holding hands.

The birthday girls really had a great surprise! Check out the surprise party below:

The birthday girls!

Happy birthday Ms Mak and Synn Ying!

Instagram cake...

Jeremy's friend Vivien wanted to order an Instagram cake and therefore being a nice friend, Jeremy referred Jembakes to her! Thanks Jeremy! So I gladly took up the challenge as it seems like a fun and interesting one. I started making the cake based on the Instagram logo.

This is actually quite easy to do and I think it turns out well. Jembakes is on Instagram as well and do follow us at iluvjembakes. LOL. Hope Vivien likes it!

2D Minion cake and cupcakes set...

I really have to hand it off to the despicable me craze and all thanks to it, I have a roaring business! LOL. Another order for minion cake and this time round is an order from Kireio for her son Cayvier's 1st birthday. She wanted both the cake and the cupcakes to be in 2D form which is a simple and neat design which I have done countless times but they still look really cute together.

When I delivered the cake over they were setting up the party and putting up the minions pictures and Kireio is even wearing a minion shirt. LOL. Hope they had a fun minions party!

Lightning Mcqueen and Mater cake...

This is another Cars cake and a referral from Cindy who previously ordered a Cars cake as well. Check her cake below if you have not:

http://jembakes.blogspot.sg/2013/11/ninja-turtle-cake-lightning-mcqueen.html

So her friend, Sheryl, wanted a Lightning Mcqueen cake for her son, Ranen's 3rd birthday celebration in school and since she ordered a bigger cake, I placed Mater on the cake as well. I found this cars toppers at Hanoi as well and they are really cheap and nice! LOL.

Hope Ranen had a blast at his birthday party!

2D minion cake agan!

This time round Cherish wanted to order a simple 2D cake for her husband Gerald's birthday and wanted me to put a letter "G" on the pocket of the overalls of the minion. This is the 3rd 2D minion cake that I have done and therefore the cake making process was fast.

Hope Gerald had a pleasant surprise and happy birthday!

Pooh cake for dear Wayne!

This dear prince of mine is really special and loved by all of us. For his birthday this year, his parents booked a room in hard rock hotel and they had a fun 3D2N staycation over the weekends. And as usual, the rest of us will not want to miss celebrating his birthday with him. So, we decided to make a cake for him and bring it over to the hotel to give him a surprise. And my mummy suggested a pooh cake for him as he likes to watch a "pooh and friends" dvd (he have watched it umpteen times and whenever we ask him to choose a dvd to watch, he will still choose that!) LOL. So, I made a pooh cake for him with a pooh and tigger topper.

This cake is really fast and easy to make. I just add on some details such as little flowers, bee, honey pot and the little pond. And as the pooh cake topper cannot stand on its own, I placed the legs into brown fondant and made it look like it is stucked in the mud. LOL. And guess what, Wayne interpreted everything on the cake correctly! He could see that pooh is "stucked in the mud", there is a pond with some rocks at the side, etc. I feel so happy that my work is acknowledged. LOL.

So here's some picture of our surprise party:

Happy Birthday Wayne!

Rainbow Care Bear cake...

This is an order from Eve who wanted a two-tier care bear cake for her daughter Jeraine's 1st birthday. She sent me a picture of how she wanted the cake to look like - a rainbow at the side and marshmallows at the bottom. The cake looks really sweet and lovely. She also requested for a little girl to sit at the top of the cake.

So I tried to meet all her requirements. I ordered the care bear figurines online and place them on the cake and also had the words in rainbow colour. I also made a little girl sitting on the top of the cake and I think she looks really cute on top. I also placed marshmallows on the bottom, surrounding the cake.

The difficult part is actually the rainbow at the side where I was thinking what kind of material should I use to make the rainbow which can stand on its own and is able to bend nicely. I did not want to use gumpaste as I'm worried the structure will not be stable and may collapse. Thanks to my brilliant mummy who is full of idea, she thought of using cardboard and cut the sides at regular interval and then fold them in and tadah, it bends nicely! I then covered it with foil and then rainbow coloured fondant and then my rainbow is done!

I'm quite pleased with this cake as it is quite neat and looks very lovely. Thanks Eve for contributing her ideas and hope Jeraine had an awesome party!

Captain America cake and cupcakes set...

This is an order from Lynn for her son's Xavi 1st birthday. They are having an avengers party and she wanted a Captain America cake. I'm not an avengers fan and have not watched the movie before and therefore I do not know how Captain America looks like. And as usual, google does the trick. So I started searching for the Captain America cake topper online but I actually found it in a shopping mall while I was on a random day trip to JB. LOL.

The cake is quite simple but again, I had a hard time making the topper stand on the cake as it cannot stand on its own. So I had to use black fondant to secure its legs on the cake and try to make it seems like it is standing on the rock. Does it look like it?

For the cupcakes, I ordered the edible shield image online which is easy to use whereby I just have to cut and paste it on the cupcakes.

Hope the avengers party went well!

Pooh and piglet cake...

Flora wanted a simple and pastel coloured pooh bear and piglet cake for her daughter's 1st birthday. Had a hard time finding a suitable cake topper as she wanted the baby pooh series one. But in the end I could not find it so we have to make do with the normal pooh topper.

The topper came in a set with eeyore and tigger but as Flora specified that she wanted a simple cake and did not want the cake to be too crowded, I placed just the pooh bear and piglet on the cake.

She also specify that she wanted the bees and honey pots as well so I placed a few on the cake and try to make it look as simple as possible. However, the toppers could not stand on its own so I made 2 big honey pots for them to stand on it. And I also found some wire to hold the bees so that they look like they are "buzzing" around. LOL.

Hope the cake did look simple enough and the party went well!

Mixture of minions cupcakes...

As I have mentioned, the demand for minions cake and cupcakes is really high and this time round, Jeremy wanted to order a set of minions cupcakes with a mixture of 2D and 3D ones. He is really very supportive and have previously ordered two cakes from me on different occasions as well. So here's the set of minions cupcakes.

Got quite bored with the repetitive designs so this time round I added the blue shirt on the 2D cupcakes and I think it looks cuter than the ones without it! LOL.

Jeremy said his friends like them and sent me a picture of one of the kid with the cupcakes.

So cute!

Check out his other orders below if you have not:

http://jembakes.blogspot.sg/2013/10/its-halloween.html
http://jembakes.blogspot.sg/2013/08/monkeys-and-crocodile-cake.html

Another set of hellokitty cupcakes...

If I were to say that minions is the no.1 in popularity, hellokitty will definitely be the 2nd! Received another order for hellokitty cupcakes from Wendy, my ex hall roomie, where she wanted to order the cupcakes for her friend, Isabel. I think I'm really comfortable with making hellokitty cupcakes right now and the cupcakes turned out well.

Hope Isabel likes them!

Wayne is 5!

How time flies and my nephew is turning 5 this year! He has really grown so much over the years and it is really amazing how kids learn and grow so fast (which also means I'm aging while he grows). LOL. Anyway, he is having a pirates theme party this year in his school as he loves to watch Jake and the neverland pirates (I do watch with him sometimes). His ever so loving mummy went to buy the figurines to be placed on the cake and his ever so lovely xiao yi (which is me) is of course tasked to make the birthday cake once again.

This time round I wanted to try my hands on cake sculpting and to make a pirate ship for the cake which is different from the usual round or square cakes that I normally make. But still, I started off by baking a round 10" cake and then I cut out the shape of a ship and assemble bits and pieces of the cake together. It was quite fun actually and it was not as difficult as I thought it would be.

My ship-making in progress.

After piecing them together I started covering the ship with buttercream icing to "stick" the ship structure together and then lastly covering it with fondant. Since the ship is made by wooden planks, I covered my pirate ship by cutting out brown strips of fondant and pasting it one by one like how wooden planks would look like. I also made some pirate cupcakes around the cake which will be easier to distribute to the kids during the party. I wonder how are the teachers going to cut the pirate ship cake. LOL.

The final product.

This is really a breakthrough for me and I'm really happy with the final result. Hope to try out more cake sculpting designs next time!

Check out Wayne's birthday party below:

Happy birthday Wayne!

The happy family!

Wayne and his classmates.

The kids enjoying the cupcakes.

Happy 5th birthday my dear boy! You have grown up well! LOL.

Check out his 4th birthday party below:
http://jembakes.blogspot.sg/2013/07/a-cat-in-hat-party.html

Mario cupcakes...

This is an order from Joann to celebrate her son's 1st birthday. She said her son Xander has a yoshi dragon plushy and she wanted a cake with the dragon on it. As yoshi dragon is part of the mario game (I googled), so I suggested mario theme cupcakes to go with the cake. However, her mother ordered a cake for her from elsewhere and therefore she stick with the order of 80 cupcakes only. The designs are quite easy and simple (I did play mario before and do know that there are coins to collect, mushroom to eat to grow bigger, and flowers that will cost me my live). LOL.

Hope the cupcakes will go well with the cake her mother ordered! Happy Birthday Xander!

Family and garden theme cupcakes...

Another order from Evonne! Really very grateful for her support and this time round she wanted to order a set of family figurine + garden theme cupcakes for her friend's birthday. She sent me her friend's family photo which also includes their maid who they treat as a family as well. So here goes the cupcakes.

Really like the garden theme with the bees and beetles which looks really cute. LOL. Hope her friend and family likes them too!

Check out her other orders below if you have not:

http://jembakes.blogspot.sg/2013/09/present-cake.html
http://jembakes.blogspot.sg/2013/08/20th-wedding-anniversary-cupcakes.html

Another present cake...

Here's another present cake for my team mate's birthday! As I do not know what she likes I thought a present cake will be nice and suitable for the occasion.

The cake is really simple and easy to make. And I have to say I'm getting better at making bows now and it looks much neater. LOL. Specifically likes the colour combination - teal base + pastel pink with gold pearl dust. Check out the birthday gal with the cake below.

Happy Birthday Weng Kuck!

Despicable me cake and cupcakes...

Another minion order! This time round it is from my sis's bf's aunt who is ordering a birthday cake for her 15 yrs old son. She wanted a small cake as it is just a small birthday celebration within the family.

  

I found these really cute minions cake toppers while I was in Hanoi last weekend. They have really nice and cheap figurines of all characters and I bought quite a few back for future use. LOL. 

Complimentary cupcakes.

Tried the icing image that I bought previously on the cupcakes and they look really nice and neat. 

Happy Birthday Yoke Yue!

Harry Potter cake and cupcakes...

This is one order that I'm really excited about as I'm a huge harry potter fan! I've read the books and watched the movie umpteen times and have a huge collection of harry potter related stuffs. Really love how the story goes and the wonders of the magical world. Enough of that and back to the order.

So Lynn wanted to order a set of harry potter cake and cupcakes for her daughter's 1st birthday. Apparently her daughter is named Hermione (maybe because Lynn is a huge fun of harry potter as well?). Anyway, she specifically wanted the following stuffs on the cake - snitch, wand, scarf, hat and specs. Also, she wanted a chocolate coated cake instead of fondant covered. So I tried my hands on it but the finish is not as smooth. Still have to work this out.

The cake looks really cute with the wand and stuffs and it was better than what I have expected. LOL.

The character cupcakes. Can you guess them?

Tried my hands on the character cupcakes as well. But I find it hard to carve out Hermione's face as there is not much special characteristics about her.

Anyway, when I deliver the cake to Lynn's house I saw a lot of wizard's hat and think they will have lots of fun having a wizards and witches party. LOL.

Ninja turtle cake, Lightning Mcqueen cake and Transformer cake...

Cindy ordered 3 cakes for her 2 boys' birthday this month. First up is a Ninja turtle cake for her 6 yrs old son Travis's birthday celebration in school. This is quite an easy and neat cake and it turned out well.

Next up is their birthday celebration at home for the two sons, Travis and Titus. She ordered a transformer cake for the elder son while a lightning mcqueen cake for the younger one. I seriously have no idea how transformer should look like (I'm not a transformer fan and have not watched any of its movie, the closest I ever got in touch with it is the transformer ride that I took in USS). So, I googled it and tadah, here's the cake!

For the lightning mcqueen cake, it was easy as I placed a cake topper on it instead. I was thinking it will be good as a toy for the boy after they finish the cake. LOL.

Thanks Cindy for being so supportive and placing her trust in me to order 3 cakes in one go. Glad all of them turned out well and hope the boys love the cake!

Jembakes does charity again at PMO!

My friend Weiling works at the finance department in PMO and they are having a President Challenge charity drive and she thought of me and wanted to sell cupcakes for charity. Of course I'm more than willing to help and she decided on four designs for her colleagues to choose from - Halloween, Ice-cream, Minions and Hearts and Flowers. The response is good and we receive a total of 100+ cupcakes, similar to the previous Citi charity sale that I did.

http://jembakes.blogspot.sg/2013/08/jembakes-does-charity-again.html

So, I started on making the cupcakes and the packaging of it. As usual, the minions cupcakes is the no.1 in popularity! LOL.

Ice cream cupcakes.

So for the ice cream cupcakes, Weiling specify that she wanted real cherries on the cupcakes. So I bought the cherries and biscuits to place on them.

Packaging for 3D cupcakes.

Packaging for 2D cupcakes.

The whole lot of orders.

The 4 different designs.

I'm glad to be able to take part in this charity drive and hope we have contributed in one way or another to help the needy. Thanks Weiling for the chance!