The Wonderful World of Nemo....

I knew I wanted to make a Nemo cake for my daughter's third birthday since a year ago. After some research, I was inspired by the Nemo cake by Spring Lake Cake. However, I decided to bravely go ahead and make my own figurines instead of using plastic toys. I hand-crafted all the decorations and figurines using gumpaste and fondant. Some details are piped with royal icing, including the 'Happy Birthday' message and the little bubbles.

Voila! Ze Cake. The bottom tier is dark chocolate cake with chocolate ganache, my daughter's favourite. Top tier is strawberry cake with lemon buttercream.

Left side of cake. Oh and there's Dory! :)

Back of cake. Here is Pearl, the cute little octopus, amidst some anemone and sea grass...

Right side of cake. More coral and anemone.

Dory looks like she found something in the sand, which is just brown sugar.

Another close-up of the back of the cake.

Here's Peach, the starfish.

Nemo and his dad, Marlin. They were a little hard to make, but I had fun creating them.

Welcome to Metro City.

My sister LOVES Astroboy! She requested for an Astroboy cake for her birthday. I wasn't very confident with my figure-making skills yet at that time, so I created a cake for her with a 2D image.

I chose an octagonal shape for the cake just for extra quirkiness. It's chocolate butter cake with coffee buttercream inside, covered with yummy chocolate fondant.

I piped the Astroboy image out of royal icing on top of a gumpaste circle.

The buildings are created out of gumpaste, and details all piped with royal icing.

Texas Hold 'Em

My dear Uncle Alan turned 70 this year. To celebrate, we had a big bash for him at his favourite restaurant. And of course, a big bash calls for a spectacular cake. My cousin gave me the idea for the cake, and I took it and ran with it. The concept here comes from the Chinese term for 70-year old - "chat cheong" (seven cards literally), and no change. LOL!

It is chocolate and vanilla butter cake with coffee buttercream on the bottom tier, and chocolate and vanilla cake with orange zest buttercream on the top tier.

The decorations including the deck of cards are all hand-crafted from gumpaste. I handpainted all the cards with food colouring gel paste.

My uncle and aunt posing with the cake. Happy Birthday uncle!!

Birthday Cupcake Tiers for 1-year old Boy

I was requested to make a cupcake tier for Eshton who celebrated his very first birthday in March. His mum asked for something really cute for the little tot so I designed something in blues and greens on cream for him.

These were marble and chocolate cupcakes with vanilla bean buttercream.

All fondant pieces are handcrafted including the 3D letters that spell ESHTON and the number 1.

'Happy Birthday' spelled out on half of the cupcakes, and the other half had a cute blue-green star adorning the top of the buttercream swirl.

Chinese New Year cupcakes

I should be shot for posting this blog in April. Business has been picking up and I've been very busy juggling my duties. Hopefully most of you have been visiting my Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Babysweet-Cakes/102395663483, for more up to date photos and postings.

I designed these CNY sets according to traditional symbols usually seen during the festivities, ie. mandarin oranges, plum blossoms, and the 'fook' character 福.

All decorations are handcrafted from fondant. The 'fook' character 福 is piped in royal icing and then painted with edible gold paint.

The mandarin oranges are sitting on a circle of chocolate fondant.

Royal Cookies

An old friend of mine from college days contacted me about cookies for her wedding. She and her husband have always teasingly referred to themselves as the King and Queen, so naturally they wanted crown-shaped cookies as favours for their wedding.

I've always remembered D to be a fun-loving and vivacious girl, and I wasn't at all surprised when she wanted spicy gingerbread cookies instead of the usual sugar cookies. I was able to come up with a design she liked. Something that included some simple details and the bride's and groom's initials as the centre of attention.

I liked how it turned out and the contrast with the cookie is really nice. Perhaps for their anniversary I'll make a small batch of extra spicy gingerbread cookies for her with full icing regalia.

Ze Royal Cookie.

All prettied up with a ribbon bow.

Fuchsia & Orange Wedding Cupcakes

What a beautiful way to start the new year 2010! Congratulations to Saki and Edward on their special day.

Flirty hearts and the double happiness "hei" character for the special couple.

The bride requested for smaller tiers for both her home and the groom's.

The daisies are inspired by the wedding invitation, and the flirty hearts are the reverse of the ones at Saki's home.

Five-tiers for the church reception.

Christmas Edition Chocolate Truffle Cupcakes

Dear Babysweet Cakes Fans,

I would like to introduce my limited Christmas edition cupcakes in two designs:

Silver Snowflake and Red Candy Cane. The cupcakes are made of moist chocolate cake topped with a rich, luscious bittersweet chocolate ganache.

The snowflake and candy cane are completely hand-crafted from fondant, with absolute love and care. I am offering these cupcakes in two quantities:

Six in a box for RM24.00, and nine in a box for RM36.00.

(Larger quantities are also available - please contact me to make arrangements.)

The cupcakes will be packed in a silver box wrapped with a red ribbon.

Please place all Christmas orders LATEST by the 18th of December, 2009.

Thank you very much for your support.

Warmest regards,

~ Pleasance.

Phone: 016-2869792

Email: babysweetcakes@gmail.com

A sweet proposal.

It's not often I'm asked to be part of a special secret like this, and I was completely honoured. The proposal went well, and the couple are off to a new adventure :)

The cupcakes are chocolate with chocolate buttercream. Fondant pieces are all hand-made.

Here's to the sweet couple.

Double Happiness for old friends.

I recently found out that an old primary schoolmate of mine is getting married in December. He told me that his fiancee was thinking of giving away some pre-wedding cupcakes to her colleagues. She had in mind the Chinese character 'hei', which signifies double happiness - a character commonly associated with Chinese weddings. Prior to this, I'd not written much in Chinese before, let alone pipe in buttercream. So with much trepidation, I proceeded to practice and practice with leftover buttercream. I got it right from the get-go, much to my mom's and my surprise.

Here are half of the cupcakes which were presented that day.

Upon their request, I created slightly different designs to differentiate the three flavours of cupcakes.

I'm incredibly proud of these beauties. Mostly because I was able to make a special couple really happy, and make my mom proud of my rudimentary piping of Chinese characters.

Close-up of the three different designs: Medium pink one with three blossoms was chocolate cake. Pale pink one had marble cake, and the red one was coffee cake. All three were iced with vanilla buttercream.

Thomas the Tank Engine Cupcakes

A very dear friend from London requested some very special cupcakes for her beloved nephew who was turning four. She mentioned that he loved Thomas the Tank Engine, so I said I would try to make something very cute for him.

These are chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream. The characters and lettering are handmade from fondant.

Happy Birthday, Vish! I hope you liked your Thomas cupcakes.

Hari Raya Cupcakes

This past Hari Raya Aidilfitr, I received a couple of orders from a dear friend. She wanted some special cupcakes for two of her friends celebrating the festival. She mostly left the details to me, but stated that she would love to have some amount of variety in the set.

So, I decided to put together three different flavours, and was able to, surprisingly, fit in tiramisu cupcakes along with some marble and chocolate ones.

The outer ring of cupcakes are tiramisu; middle ring ones are marble with vanilla, and the 'ketupat' ones are chocolate and vanilla.

Diagonal view of the arrangement.

I really love the little ketupats I piped out of buttercream.

Look at how teeny tiny they are.

Maureen & Elson - Wedding Cupcake Tiers.

I recently made my first real wedding cake. Technically, it was a cake with cupcake tiers and a cutting cake at the top. It's a really new trend that's just about catching on here in Malaysia. I am most grateful to have been given the honour to make the cake for this beautiful couple.

The cupcake tiers from the side view. I made the entire stand by myself using cake boards, styrofoam dummies, pretty textured paper and loads of satin ribbon.

Slightly higher view to show the different tiers. I made these tiers closer in size because the customer wanted height but not too large a quantity of cupcakes.

View from the top. I had to stand on a chair to take this photo. Love how it looks from up there.

Close-up of the top cake, which was also the cutting cake. It is covered in ivory fondant which is starting to bubble a little because of the heat. The pink ribbon bow and all the flowers are also handmade using fondant.

The lovely newlyweds cutting their cake.

The inside of the cutting cake - it's dark chocolate espresso cake with orange creamsicle buttercream. Very yummy, if I may say so myself.

Sexy layers of cake, with just the right amount of buttercream.

Thanks, Michelle, for the wonderful opportunity to make this cake for your sister and your new brother-in-law. I hope that it was a sweet surprise for them.

Engagement and 'Hantaran' cupcakes

We had our first 'hantaran' cupcakes order recently. 'Hantaran' is the Malay term for dowry gifting presented from the groom's family to the bride's family. We came up with an ornate design along the colour theme of the wedding.

These are regular-sized cupcakes, with fondant toppers. The roses, blossoms and leaves are all handmade from fondant and dusted with edible shimmer powder.

Our friends also ordered a set of cupcakes for their own family too. I made a simple but cute arrangement for them. These cupcakes were marble cake with vanilla buttercream.

Here's wishing the lovely couple a happy engagement, and a happy marriage in the near future.

Amelia's Mini Cake

As promised, I am now posting about Amelia's mini cake which I specially made for her birthday. It's really quite tiny as you'll see in one of the photos, but just perfect for one person.

I decided on a two-tier mini cake, both covered in pale green fondant which I then piped little swiss dots with royal icing. For a sweet touch, I added a pretty pink ribbon around the bottom of each tier. Two cute pink blossoms adorn the top, and a lavender butterfly completed the cake.

Cute, isn't it?

Birthday girl showing off her mini cake

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Beautiful butterflies.

I made Amelia a mini cake for her birthday, which I will post about shortly after this. For the rest of the guests, I made some souffle cheese cupcakes, which is my present favourite. I iced them with a thin layer of vanilla buttercream, and laid fondant butterflies on the top just for fun. I added some tiny details on the butterflies with royal icing.

Flutter, flutter....

Soccer balls and cupcakes.

A dear friend ordered some cupcakes and cookies for her husband's birthday. They are newlyweds so I wanted to make them really special for them. She mentioned that he loves football (soccer, to my American friends), so football cookies it was! Along with some really guy cool birthday cupcakes :)

Cool cupcakes for a cool guy.

Awesome football cookies. I had WAY too much fun making these!

Aren't they just the cutest couple??!? Hopefully also happy customers.