Sunday, December 8, 2013

Rainbow cupcakes

Had an impromptu baking fix some months back and bake the kids rainbow cupcakes. Googled and got everything all prep out. All you need is a good vanilla cupcake recipe and then separate them into 6 bowls and add different colors into each bowl.
Colors needed Colors in each bowl Layering them colors by colors Into the oven and rise , rise and rise! Final product. Am super satisfied with my 1st attempt hehe Am super loving the colors!!!! Happy tummies! The kids super loving it!
Going going gone :)))

Friday, February 15, 2013

Finally a decent place to bake...

Finally have a decent place to bake. Feeling the itch to bake for a very long while now just that not having a proper place to bake puts me off baking completely.

I have since bought fresh ingredients hoping to start my baking journey all over again. Bought some really cute hello kitty stuff as been longing to do my own hello kitty fondant and cupcakes.

I finally succeeded albeit not that perfect. However it's almost there ya.

Enjoy folks!







Hello kitty fondant by yours truly 💓







Hello kitty fondant cupcake! ❤💙💗💜








Lastly the final presentation!


As you can see from above some of the hello kitty cupcake toppers are missing the eyes and whiskers! Due to the lunar new year period, most of the colorings were sold out thus I couldn't make the whiskers and eyes. Guess what I use for the black eyes and whiskers instead? I took about 2 hours to make the fondant skeleton from 12-2am and I had to wake up to prepare for work at about 4plus am. By the time I reach back home was so dead beat as I had to bake the cupcakes and do the party stuff for my God daughter's 9th birthday!

Considering there were still tonnes of finger food left unprepared and I had only like an hour to do every thing! Therefore that explains the absence of some of the kitty eyes and whiskers!


If you can guess what I used for the hello kitty eyes and whiskers, I have got something to give away! As there is only one and if you are a hello kitty fan, kindly send in your answers!


Gonna continue my hello kitty baking adventure!


See ya soon!

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Hmmm, have been on long hiatus that I nearly couldn't get back my blog. Spend an hour finding out how to do a new post as I simply couldn't find the new post tab on my blog. Urgghh...


I thought I was over baking as I haven't bake for a really long time now. Really can't find a good and suitable place to bake. Just feel my baking skills getting all rusty.


Baking gives me tremendous amount of joy and makes me feel enthusiastic about at least one thing in life for I am a super procrastinator. To get me beginning to do and enjoy something I do is really difficult. So while I have the passion for something, I waste no time in getting it done. I guessed I am after all not that nuah. I just somehow will find the drive doing stuff that I enjoy doing, no?

I really hope soon I can bake again. Baby you will realized my dream right?

Getting all psyched up again....

Wait for my return! Girlie cupcakes will be back with a vengeance.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

New mixer

Yay, as i write this post, am jumping with joy over my newly bought stand mixer from Borsh. Was at Vivocity and decided to pop by Tangs for fun. The varieties of mixer immediately caught my eyes. I zoomed in to of cos the cheapest haha. The mixer that my instructor used set her back by about $900 plus for the kenwood.

Seriously i am not about ready to splurge on such an expensive mixer or rather i am not that good as yet. Tangs was having another 12 % rebate for Citibank customers on top of the existing 10% discount and offer already offered on the Borsh mixer. The Borsh mixer was like the cheapest there is, the $199 price stand staring back at me.

I guessed for a novice baker like me, this machine would be most apt. I consulted my bf and casually mentioned if he would buy it for me, he agreed almost immediately. :) I was really really happy cos that means i am able to whisk my egg whites to a more consistent texture now. hehe

Knowing my passion for baking and ramblings on how my mum got me a weighing scale that looks like it was manufactured in the 60s, he suggested i also get a digital weighing scale as well...How sweet is my bf. Love him to bits really! I wanted to actually but seriously the weighing scale is kinda ex really. However he still got it for me. :)

I was a happy gal, lugging my mixer all the way back to the car and now still dreaming about what gorgeous cupcakes and puffs i can make with the mixer. :)

Photos of my loot coming up soon...

Monday, August 30, 2010

Of Durian puffs, cupcakes and a bitch...

Hmm, since i have so much passion in baking now, i might as well strike while the iron is hot so i enrolled myself in more courses. :)

This time, i signed up for the durian puffs and durian cupcakes class at a local CC. As much as i love durians i really can't stand the smell of it!

On the whole, the class wasn't something i had expected though, as the first class i went to was very organised down to the layout of the class, materials, ingredients and all. When the details of the course says hands on, it literally mean hands on! To the setting up of the tables, chairs, to washing of the utensils. Its not that i am complaining as its really quite cheap and all, but i prefered to be informed that i will have to do the above.

The class was initally a size of 7 but 3 signed up last minute on the spot and the instructor had only brought just enough materials and ingredients for 7 people.

There was however one incident that made me really pissed though. When it was my turn to cream my puffs with durian cream, there was none left for me! None! The selfish bitch before me had already used up all the cream, she was literally squeezing lots into every single one of her puffs. I sort of already know that's gonna to happen and told the instructor to give me some of hers which she had excess then. True enough there wasn't a single bit left to cream any of my 6 puffs! That bloody woman was one selfish bitch. And intermittenly through out the class, she kept trying to stand infront of me wanting to catch a better view of the instructor's demo. She was totally oblivious that me being shorter was standing behind her! I told myself then that if she was going to block my view again, i will sure give it to her. Luckily for her, she stepped aside just when i wanted to let go at her.

Now that i am thinking of it, the 3 woman who signed up very much later should be the ones who have to give up their share of durian cream! So what if they pay for the same amount, had they signed up earlier there would be enough for me to cream my durian puff. Not forgetting another group got extra portion of the durian cream to fill their already creamed durian puff!!

The instructor sensing my unhappiness actually gave me an extra puff and one for me to eat on the spot.. but that's really not the point. I still have 6 puffs that were not filled with durian cream and the course i signed up for is durian puffs not empty puffs!! The instructor later decided she will add durian fillings to the cupcake instead so that everyone's cupcake will have durian cream and no one will be unhappy. I know she was trying to pacify the situation but still... i hate very "auntied" aunties around. They bring their KS syndrome everywhere! They are really such a disgrace i feel!

I am so going to write a letter to PA!

Anywhere... pictures of my durian puffs and cupcakes!


hurhur the choux puffs waiting to go into the oven...
haha poofed up puffs, some were flattened like shit!

Yummy durian cupcakes!
 And last but not the least... the KS bitch!!







Don't let me see you again, i sure give it to you.. bitch!

3rd attempt at making cupcakes

I left my cupcakes sitting in the oven while i prepared my flower decorations using white fondant. I tinted the fondant to pink and yellow flowers with chocolate or pink buttercream. I love how the decorations ended up. I spend like 6 hours from the baking to the buttercream and decorating of the cupcakes.

It was when i was going to prepare my buttercream then i remembered my cupcakes were still left sitting in the oven. Boo hoo... the cupcakes that were supposed to turn out so well ended up having moisture on the surface and within. As i ate my cupcake, i was quite disappointed that it ended up this way. It was alittle hard in the middle perhaps due to the moisture settling in... :(

I was quite happy with the end product though. However my buttercream was still melting as i piped them onto the cupcake. Do i really have to use the shortening even though its super unhealthy? Also even though there's trans fat free shortening, is it really so?

Got to crack my mind at googling what are my alternatives again.

Anyway, here goes ... my 3rd attempt.


I made like 40 over flowers, 20 leaves for my cupcakes!


Pretty, can you see the buttercream melting? Sigh...

Sunday, August 22, 2010

2nd attempt

Found so many pretty cupcakes online, the creators are all so talented.

I will try my hands at one of the easy decors for my 2nd attempt at baking... Let's see....

Its bow in different colours using fondant, pretty isnt it!
Its just ready made roses icing over white buttercream swirls...