Happy birthday my dearest Da Jie!

2 days after the little princess's birthday, it's my Da Jie's birthday! Still remembered last year we had a birthday surprise for her when we were having Ulyss's 1st birthday party. I made her a hellokitty cake and we bought her a very big hellokitty balloon where we assumed she likes hellokitty. But she since then clarified she does not like it. However this year, I continued the "misunderstanding" and made her a hellokitty cake instead. LOL. Actually I have bought a hellokitty mould long ago but did not have a chance to use it, so I wanted to take this chance to use it and see how it looks like. Sorry sis for being the "guinea pig"! Anyway, the cake really turns out very neat and nice. Really love it although I'm not a fan of hellokitty either!

We had a small celebration at home. Check out the pictures below:

Mummy used the mould to make jelly and it turns out good too!

Happy birthday my dearest Da Jie!

Another Madagascar cake...

This is another Madagascar cake order from Ashley for her son Timothy's 1st birthday. So I ordered the figurines from the previous online blogshop which I chanced upon with a lot of cake toppers. And the cake design is also similar to the previous madagascar cake. It's quite a simple and neat design and is easy to work with the toppers. However, with previous experience, I've placed some "stones" around the toppers to prevent them from toppling. Here it is:

 Happy Birthday Timothy!

Ulyss turns 2!

Times flies and the little princess at home turns 2 this year! Still remember her 1st birthday party last year which was around the time where I first started out with this whole cake decorating thing and I tried out my first two-tier cake for her birthday (but it was styrofoam inside, LOL). Things have really change in this 1 year. I am now able to make a real two-tier cake with ease (not really but not as difficult as before) and the girl is so active and talkative right now compared to a year before. Check out last year's party below:

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

So this time round, my Da Jie wanted a snow white theme for the girl's birthday party. However, she realised that the little girl actually do not know who is snow white (she thought the figurine is Cinderella), so she changed the theme to minnie mouse instead which the girl could recognise immediately. So while I was making the cake, the little girl keeps circling around my area and she said, "Xiao Yi I'm waiting for you!" The little girl can't wait for her cake to be done and when it is finally done and I asked her whose cake is this for, she quickly raised her hand high up and said "Me!". She's such a darling and is really cute with all her baby talks at this age. So here's the cake.

This time round I've learnt my lesson (did a minnie cake previously which did not end up very well).
I cut up cardboard and wrapped it with fondant for the ears so that it won't be as heavy as using all fondant and also inserted toothpicks into the cake so that the ears do not slide down. And it really works! The ears stayed nicely throughout the 2 parties (one in school and the other at home). We had a small celebration at home with the family but the poor little girl is a bit stone as she's sick. Poor girl.

Happy birthday dear Ulyss! Thanks for bringing so much laughter into the family. Hope that you grow up healthy and pretty and continue to be our bundle of joy. Xiao Yi loves u lots!

21st Birthday cake...

I've realised I have been receiving a lot of orders for 1st birthday but I seldom have orders for 21st birthday cakes. And the only one that I have received previously didn't end up well either. Check the link below if you want to know what happened.

http://jembakes.blogspot.sg/2013/08/21st-birthday-gone-wrong.html

Anyway, this order is a referral from my colleague Lucas for his cousin Jayanne's 21st birthday. She wanted a cake with some macarons on it and the theme is tea party. So I decided on pastel colour theme for the cake and bought some macarons to place on it. Here's the cake.

Jayanne says she loves the cake and it can feed all her 60 guests! Thanks for the order and Happy 21st!