Sarah's Room - Sweet Thirteen

This theme is the most difficult order so far! But I am happy to rise to the challenge. Thank you boss, Pn Suhara, for this order. I hope the birthday girl is happy with her cake! Happy 13th Birthday Sarah!

Task at hand: To convert the birthday girl's bedroom into an edible centre piece. Pn Suhara has graciously provided the photo of the actual bedroom as below.

Initial Discussion:  Granted permission to modify and tweak the existing arrangement in the bedroom. I regard this as a home improvement programme. Hehe.. These are the items I think can be translated into The Cake -


Flooring - Beige tiles - CHECK
Rug - Pink - CHECK
Bed - Pink with beech coloured frame - CHECK - Note: A change of bedsheets and bedframe possible
One (1) Lotso Bear on Bed - CHECK
One (1) Camel on Bed - CHECK
Two (2) Cats on Bed - Grey + Brown - CHECK
Bedside table - Brown - CHECK - Note: Considering to change the table into a small side dresser to support table lamp
Table lamp - CHECK
Clothes basket on floor - Deep pink - CHECK
Girl in Pyjamas - CHECK

Dearest mum also requested that a laptop or tab should be present and some balloons indicating the birthday girl's 13th year birthday. Oh dear, this all seems very taxing! 

THE PROCESS:

Work in Progress

Tiling of floors. Mixing of colours and assembling the tiles, tile by tile, piece by piece, painstakingly. 3 hours' worth of work. Guess this is how people do actual tiling in real life!

Pink rug created and to match the actual rug, two toned colours used with a dusting of edible pearl luster powder.

Lotso Bear from Toy Story

Funny Mr Camel

Table lamp

Clothes basket on the tiled floor

Birthday Girl in PJs 

Grey Kitty

Brown kitty

White MacBook



All was left of baking the cake, crumb-coating and assembling!

The Birthday Girl

Pac-man [(Pakkuman パックマン )]

This is a past order in January 2013. Cute Pac-man game was the theme for this box of six!

 

You can see red Shadow Blinky [Akabei (赤ベイ)], pink Speedy Pinky [Pinky (ピンキー)] and orange Pokey Clyde [Guzuta (愚図た)]. Can you spot who is missing in this box?

 

The black background for the cupcake is kinda cool isn't it?

 

 

SunshineYellow

This is the first order from one of my earliest customers, YBhg. To' Puan Azian in November last year. She gave me plenty of freedom in terms of designs and I came up with this sunshine yellow theme!

Rainbow

Cheerful Mr Sun

Hand Bag

Yellow Rose

Cute and Cheerful Bees

How to Order,Pricing/Charges,Comments/Complaints

How to order?

Simple - just fill in the following details and call/text 0123336260 or email me at lilianchong81@yahoo.com or leave a message at My Sweet Little Cupcakes FB page:

1. Name
2. Contact Number
3. Date and Time for Pickup
4. Cake or Cupcakes
5. How Many
6. Theme/Colour (if any)
7. Design/Pattern guide (if any)
8. Wording

You will be contacted as soon as possible with a quote.

Pricing/Charges

I guarantee a fair price to customers and will try my best to meet your demand subject to the time constraint considering that I have a full time job elsewhere. I have received comments from a fair number of customers that my price is lower than many. I did not increase my price as I pride myself in being able to provide affordable but beautiful cakes for all to enjoy. Making them makes me happy. For me that suffices!

Comments/Complaints

  

I am not a professional baker, so I value your comments and feedbacks. This is important for future improvement of my baking and decorating skills. Complaints are included in this category.

I have received complaint on the turning down of a certain order on a weekday. I am very sorry, but if I am unable to commit to you, I am of the view that I should let you know beforehand to be fair and not to let you down. You may be unhappy now, but I assure you that you will be much much more unhappy if no cakes/cupcakes are available on the delivery date!

Some customers decided to proceed ahead despite being forewarned of the risk that there might be no cake/cupcakes on the day of the delivery and had backup plans for emergency whereas some decided to change their orders to a weekend date. If you decide not to go ahead after being informed of the risks, it is fair enough and I hope that I will be able to serve you another day.

Sometimes, if I cannot make meet the order, other alternatives may be considered and your order may be passed to my MSLC partner that is subject to you agreeing to the arrangement or changes. Under MSLC we both run our own orders, therefore our arrangements may vary.

Pink! Simple and Sweet

Thank you Ms Wendy Hii for the order today. Wishing little princess Ashley a Happy Birthday and many happy returns!

Ms Wendy specified a simple enough design (simple and sweet) but it was challenging as my free hours are short during working weekdays. This is the design (top layer) which serves as my pattern guide for the cake -

The design requires a tall cake therefore two rounds of baking were required. The base colour was brink pink so a large amount of time was spent mixing the colours to get a close enough shade of pink.

As for the cupcakes Ms Wendy requested for the hidden heart cupcakes as below and agreed that the colours for the deco shall be oppose to the cake. This is my second time attempting this type of cupcake. The picture below was the first and the hearts were red velvet whereas this round I have changed them to bright pink strawberry flavoured hearts.

This is the final results of last night (or more precisely, early this morning):

The following pictures are courtesy of Ms Wendy from Ashley's Pink Party. The birthday girl's happy face is priceless! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Full Moon

According to Chinese customs, when a baby turns 1 month old, there will be a celebration to celebrate his/her first month of life, hence full moon. Traditionally, hard boiled eggs (dyed red to symbolise luck and blessings) and food such as cakes, angku kueh are given to friends and relatives. For baby Danniel, my nephew, I made a whole cake and cupcakes whilst my mum and sis dyed the hardboiled eggs.

Wedding at Church

A request for cupcakes suitable for church wedding.. Simple and beautiful.. Love them! Congratulations to Josh and Ange!

Complimentary chopstick gift to the newly wedded couple - Josh and Ange!!