cupcakecollection
May 11, 2010 at 9:08 pm | Posted in Cheese, Chocolate, Cupcakes, Fruit | 6 Comments
peach cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
chocolate cupcakes with chocolate ganache for my favourite class 🙂
chocolate thumbprints
April 10, 2010 at 2:45 pm | Posted in Chocolate, Cookies | 2 Comments
no-frills recipe – baked these during the march break. a shortbread base with chocolate filling, how can this go wrong?
recipe here. made a slight modification – i replaced the light corn syrup with butter to make the chocolate filling. this will ensure that the chocolate sets hard… and of course, hundreds and thousands for good measure.
over the past weeks
April 10, 2010 at 2:23 pm | Posted in Birthdays, Cheese, Chocolate, Cupcakes, Fruit, Royal Icing, Weddings/Engagements | 2 Comments
aidah’s girlfriends ordered this for her hen party last month – peach cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
for a baby shower – chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
peach cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
chocolate cupcakes with royal icing
love is in the air
March 23, 2010 at 11:41 pm | Posted in Cakes, Chocolate, Cupcakes, Fondant, Royal Icing, Weddings/Engagements | 7 Commentsanother member of the NIE gang got married last weekend, and I was tasked to make the cupcakes. aidah & shafiq, here’s to eternal wedded bliss!
the 200 cupcakes wasn’t daunting… it was the whole-cake-covered-with-fondant that intimidated me quite a bit. it’s someone’s wedding, mind you! and it was my first time making/decorating such a cake.
of course there were imperfections.
kamala and I arrived before the reception started to set up the cupcake table. it was fun! 🙂
mint buttercream-filled chocolate cupcakes with whipped chocolate ganache
March 11, 2010 at 2:31 pm | Posted in Birthdays, Chocolate, Cupcakes, Mint | 3 Comments
we celebrated wan’s birthday last week by having a picnic by the beach. to stay true to our theme, i decorated the cupcakes with paper umbrellas.
yums
February 20, 2010 at 12:20 pm | Posted in Cheese, Chocolate, Cookies, Cupcakes, Royal Icing, Slices, Weddings/Engagements | 2 Comments
chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting – part of a wedding gift for kel & bani whose wedding was held last saturday.
brownie with chocolate ganache – a colleague ordered for her friend’s bridal shower.
iced sugar cookies. must keep in mind that when using royal icing, the cookie should be made less sweet.
liverpool-themed cupcakes.
cake backlog
January 25, 2010 at 8:22 pm | Posted in Birthdays, Cakes, Cheese, Chocolate, Fondant, Fruit, Orders, Weddings/Engagements | 2 Comments
chocolate cake, ferrero rocher filling with nutella buttercream for a good friend’s birthday. this was overkill, seriously. everyone was on a sugar high.
cheesecake with chocolate ganache for an acquaintance’s solemnisation.
strawberry cheesecake – i really had reservations with the wordings on this cake… but my friend insisted. -_-
chocolate cake, sliced bananas and nutella ganache.
chocolate cake with chocolate ganache.
daddy’s mango cheesecake.
brownie with fondant figurines.
cupcake backlog
January 25, 2010 at 8:14 pm | Posted in Birthdays, Cheese, Chocolate, Cupcakes, Orders, Peanut Butter, Royal Icing | Leave a comment
chocolate cupcakes with chocolate ganache.
chocolate cupcakes with chocolate ganache & buttercream.
nutella cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.
chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting.
order “leftovers” for the boy. :p
chocolate cupcakes with royal icing – for a friend’s cousin’s solemnisation.
chocolate cupcakes with royal icing – for a dear JC friend’s engagement.
tiffany-box cake
January 4, 2010 at 3:21 pm | Posted in Birthdays, Cakes, Chocolate | 6 Commentsthe dearest cousin requested something “tiffany” for her birthday this year so i busied myself with a bit of research prior to making the cake. it was my first time working with white icing so this was a real challenge; from measuring and cutting individual pieces to “stitching” them seamlessly together. this labour of love took me about 4 hours to complete!
her birthday gift was nicely nestled in that paper bag behind the cake… now THAT was a surprise.
layers of chocolate cake sandwiched with chocolate ganache.
i had fun doing this, but it will be some time before i attempt such cakes again. i feel more comfortable around cupcakes!
double chocolate macadamia cookies
December 5, 2009 at 1:41 pm | Posted in Birthdays, Chocolate, Cookies | Leave a commenti’m not really a fan of double chocolate cookies, but these little dark beauties may have changed my mind. i adapted a recipe from woman’s weekly cupcakes and cookies and it turned out to be an absolute keeper.
today we sprang a surprise (fancy being “ambushed” after coming out of the toilet!) on one of the boy’s friends, ridhwan, who is flying off to laos for the sea games in a couple of days. he likes dark chocolate – “the darker and more bitter the better”, according to the boy.
125g butter, softened
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
275g firmly packed brown sugar
1 egg
150g plain flour
35g self-raising flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
35g cocoa powder
250g chocolate chips
70g macadamia nuts, chopped1. preheat oven to 160 degrees celsius. grease a couple of baking trays.
2. beat butter, vanilla extract, sugar and egg in a bowl with electric beaters/mixer until smooth; do not overbeat. add in dry ingredients, then nuts and chocolate chips. mix with a wooden spoon until just incorporated.
3. roll dough into balls (mine was about a little smaller than 1 inch in diameter) and bake for about 12-15 minutes. stand cookies for 5 minutes on tray before transferring to wire rack to cool.
feel free to play around with the mix-ins – the recipe called for raisins but i substituted it with nuts. i used the macadamia nuts that my good friend bought for me all the way from perth, which i received yesterday. i also used a mixture of chocolate chips and chopped dark chocolate. fans of white/milk chocolate, you could use those!
happy birthday wan! kick box some ass in laos! 🙂 i would send you off if i were around; but i’ll be there in spirit. all the best!
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