Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Shin Chan


HAPPY 12th BIRTHDAY XUEZHONG!!
2nd april was a very busy day. Had to complete two rather big cakes, and attend two birthday parties. It was an almost sleepless night! Panda eyes. ): He initially wanted a Shin Chan cake, but i thought it will be difficult and time consuming to do the figurine! So i suggested a 3d spongebob cake. But as the date drew nearer, i realised i will not have enough time to do the spongebob cake. I was fretting over the design for this cake for awhile, then... I saw one of my cake decorating friend's photo on facebook! She tooked up a few diploma class, and the latest one i saw was about chocolate drawing! Tada! I decided to use chocolate to draw out the SHIN CHAN, since this was the original cartoon he wanted! He loved this cartoon since he was young, and i was surprised that he still liked!
My white chocolate dried very fast after coloring it. I did the image the night before to let the outline(Dark chocolate) set completely. When i transfered the chocolate over to the cake, i realised that there were several holes on the underneadth, most probably because my white chocolate wasnt liquid enough to flow. Also, the fragile parts like the hands and legs cracked. So i quickly melted more white chocolate to cover it up since my outline was already done! The white chocolate was better, so it flowed pretty well to cover up the spot. 2/3 of the cake was lemon flavour and 1/3 was chocolate. I wanted to add in more varieties. 

See how ugly the cake became... His mum friends wanted to smash XZ's head into the cake, but she warn them many many times not to do it because it was my effort! Her friends then tried to use a small part of the cake to smear on XZ's face. But when they put their hand to the cake, trying to get the "cream" they stunned! Hahaha, the cake doesnt have any cream! If only i was fast enough to take picture of them reactions.. Hahahaha. So they ended up trying to stick the fondant onto XZ's face. Shin Chan's shirt came off while cutting, because the chocolate was a whole piece on its own!  The cake was well received, especially by my family! They were so supportive, i guess after seeing my improvements. I remembered in the past, they will always have many things to say about the cake, to give me some comments to improve. But sometimes, i ended up being upset and disappointed with myself. But this time, with their support i feel more confident about my cakes! Yayness.

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Bernadette's Sugar Cookies


After finishing my Stitch cake order, and delivering it, hurry had to start on my cookies! Luckily my sister was around to help me. We had fun decorating the cookies for Bernadette! Sugar overload as they are covered with royal icing! Spent the whole afternoon doing it.
Played around with a few of my dust! Loved the outcome! I think i will spend more money getting different dust!
Holidays, can you hurry come please! So i can work and buy more things, and take in more orders!
**CakiePeckie wont be taking in orders for April.

Monday, 21 March 2011

Stitch cake


Completed an order during the weekend. Undercharged again.. But i was quite happy with how the overall cake came out! Feel good about myself. Although some improvements can be made! Stitch playing with volleyball on an island himself, surrounded by sea.

Sunday, 20 March 2011

2 Cake Orders


Two friends ordered cakes from me! So happy. But they are due on the same day, so i spent the whole day with my decorating tools. These are the results.
My friend, being part of the NTU floorball team ordered this cake for her team. She wanted a simple cake, so i suggested a jersey cake. I followed accordingly to the colour of their jersey, which was red. I had a hard time covering the cake, but i really love how it turn out. It was nicely covered. Super proud of myself. Since it is for a group of girls, i wanted to make boobs. My friend was so excited about it, she even wanted a D size boobs! Does this look D size to you? This cake was a chocolate cake with ganache, 8inch. After cutting up the cake, i used the remaining and made them into blocks, and pasted "BIMBOS!" on as requested by my friend.
The second cake i made was for a friend's friend's 21st! My friend organized a surprise party for her friend and ordered a cake for me. I deviated from the original design i had in mind, but still happy that it turn out well. I brushed "21" with glitter, which made it bling bling as the bday's girl likes bling bling stuff! 

Tuesday, 15 March 2011

Castle cake: Important lesson Learnt


I am thankful to see her smile.
Ever since i started baking, i had been planning to make a very beautiful cake. But every year
i failed, and she was disappointed. This year, i was so excited with many ideas, i decided to make a castle cake for her, since she is the little princess in the family. But...
She requested for her fav flavour, chocolate banana cake. I agreed and made it accordingly,using WHIPPED CREAM. I remembered that whipped cream cannot touch fondant, as it will melt the fondant. I thought i was smart enough to coat the cake with ganache so the fondant isnt touching the whipped cream. As i finished decorating the cake after about 4 hours.. i started to realised the cake looks weirder each time. The fondant was looking more like marshmallow? Crumpled kind? Then. It suddenly hit me that the whipped cream needs to be refrigerated, while the fondant cannot. At that  moment, i felt like shooting myself. The whipped cream was getting softer each minute. The worst mistake i made, was to put the whole cake into the fridge. I thought that after taking out from the fridge, i can put it into the aircon room and blow for many
hours and the fondant will harden. But... IT DID NOT!!! When the cake was brought to the place for my mei mei to cut, the whole cake just...
looked like this...
Imagine the disappointment? I was so regretful, and blaming myself. I quickly did another cake, for her to cut it the next day, which was her actual birthday. But.. it was a simple celebration at home. I am sure she will be beaming with happiness if the cake wasnt destroyed, as everyone tells her how pretty her cake it. Is okay, she was still happy with the second cake i made her.
I most probably just ruined my own reputation as a baker, but this is an important lesson for me. Which i will not do again. Please appreciate the photos below.