Cris' Farewell Cake

Sadly, another colleague at work had to leave us in search of greener pasture. We have had 2 farewells within a span of a few months and both of these colleagues were from the same department. 

I was requested to bake a rainbow cake for Cris' farewell party and wanting to be different, I suggested a star shaped rainbow cake. The end product was tall and big; it was 13" across and weigh nearly 4kgs. 

All the best, Cris and I shall miss her beautiful personality and lovely singing voice! :)

Star Shaped Rainbow Cake - 13" across

Banana Walnut Cupcakes & Rainbow Cake for Sheffiq & Girl

I was requested to prepare these cupcakes and cake by Girl for her boyfriend's birthday. She requested that I secretly delivered it at Pullman Hotel while she and her boyfriend, Sheffiq was having a romantic dinner there. Girl had arranged with the hotel's staff to bring in the cakes and birthday present as a surprise during the dinner and I must say that it is the sweetest thing :) 

Sheffiq is a racer and the photo on the cake is that of his own race car. I wonder if he had the heart to cut the cake with the photo of his car on it...

Thank you Girl :)

Banana Walnut Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting, decorated with printed edible icing sugar sheet & fondant cupcake toppers

Rainbow Cake with printed edible icing sugar sheet decoration

Rainbow Cake for Adrian's 3rd Birthday

Salam!

I would like to share with you photos of a Rainbow Cake I had recently done for Izyan, my repeat customer :) I love love love doing a Rainbow Cake and I was really happy to get an order for one. For one, I love the colours, and two, I love the challenge of assembling the cake. I like my layers of cake to be 'fat' so instead of 6 layers, I made only 5 layers of about 1 1/2 inches thick, so the final product was about 10 inches tall. 

As I do not fancy the overly sweet buttercream made of butter/shortening, icing sugar and a bit of milk, I layered and covered my Rainbow Cake with Italian Meringue Buttercream. I like the buttercream for its subtle sweetness and creamery taste.

Anyway, Izyan had ordered the cake to celebrate his nephew's third birthday. Little Adrian is a big fan of tractors and all these big boys' machines, so Izyan had planned to put toy tractors on top of the cake. I had left the decorating of the cake to a minimal so that she could do just that.

After I had finished decorating the cake, I realized that it was too tall for a standard round cake plastic container that I bought, so I improvised it. In my haste to get the cake ready for pick up, I had not snap a photo of it, but it was such an awkward looking container :)

Thank you Izyan and I sincerely hoped that everyone had liked the cake!

Rainbow Cake is being assembled

Simple baby blue decorations made with Italian Meringue Buttercream

Birthday boy Adrian happily playing with toy tractors which had been put on top of the cake . Seeing a cake sliced that way makes me hungry...