Incredible Birthday Cake Ideas

So I was on Craft Gossip and saw their post on these 30 Amazing Birthday Cakes Ideas at parenting.com. Tell u, they are all TRULY AMAZING. Most of the cakes are for kid's birthday but with some modifications, can be made for adults too.

The cakes are all very pretty, easy to make, or at least I think so judging from the picture, with a step-by-step recipe. Best of all, each cake has photo labelling all the fun parts which is not made by fondant btw, made from real edible stuff like gumballs, runts or even mint!!

And last year was no exception. They came up with these 31 Unique Birthday Cakes Ideas.

Truly inspiring. With Ms. Kecik's birthday coming up in August. Got to plan early to avoid unnecessary kalut-ness in later days. These are a few that caught our eyes:

From 2009

1. The Pincess Castle

2. The Princess

3. The Handbag Purse

From 2010

1. The Teddy Bear

2. The Fish Tank

3. The Hot Air Balloon

Not bad eh?

Red & White Polka Dot for a Wedding Anniversary

Alhamdulillah, bulan 12 ni rancak pulak dok berbaking-making. Practice makes perfect, aye? Lg byk order masuk, lagi banyak opportunities for me to experiment, which eventually will lead to better cupcakes deco everytime.

2-3 days back ni, I received few orders. One being for a gift to a friend. Client is going to her friend's all-in-one party - housewarming, farewell, anniversary etc etc. But the cupcakes specifically is to be made to suit the wedding anniversary. That, and the cupcakes had to be chocolate.

Godek sana sini, we are hooked with this red and white polka dots.

Source

Since it's a gift, we figured it'd be best if we selang seli the cupcakes with toppers siap dengan greetings to celebrate the anniversary celebration. So, toppers it is.

Pastu do simple swirls on top of the cupcakes and sprinkle them with LOOOOOOVVVEEE!!!

Oh, and think we might be double up this batches for a wedding gift to a dear friend on the same delivery date. Maybe just change the theme color je kot, depending on the ribbons that we can find nanti.

Pink Orange: A Baby Shower Do

Izzy B. has an upcoming order for a baby shower celebration. Uh, and we are soooooo excited about the whole thing k!

We were told that we can go crazy over them. So, off we went to look for inspirations. And guess what we found??

The ever-so-lovely Martha, of course!!! Go drool....

Client has requested for soft pink and yellow theme color. So, the picture above resembles the color scheme that we should be working with - soft pink, yellow, red and a little bit of orange, maybe.

And of course, there should be some contrasting colors for the cupcakes to pop-out. Green is good. Maybe a little flowers here and there, perhaps?

Tak sabarnya!!

Baking Inspired: My Little Pony

We received an order for a 12 pieces of cupcakes. To be delivered on coming Thursday. Customer requested for my little pony theme. Uh, Ms. Kecik sure happy tgk final product nanti cos she looooveessss horse-y.

Discuss2, gedebuk2, gedebak, she let me decide on the colors but mentioned that she wanted them to be colorful. She also loves the toppers that we made for another client. So, we know for sure that we are going to make them again specially for her. Or, more like her recipient la kan.

She also email-ed me the cake that her recipient had for her birthday last year. Which was also my little pony theme. Sorry, we can't publish the picture here as of yet. At least not until the delivery was made. Kang nanti terkantoi plak kan. We thought, it should be a surprise?

Anyway, a little inspiration from En. Google:

Group picture of the Ponies

The pink & violet castle

The rainbow

pics: Google images

Baking Inspired: A Strawberry Shortcake Birthday Cookie Bouquet

Our latest order came from a colleague who is celebrating her daughter's 5th birthday today. She ordered a cookie bouquet, which we never did before but had attended a class to learn. So, this should be our opportunity to experiment on the cookie and the deco.

The theme is strawberry shortcake. We google-d 'strawberry shortcake' to find some inspirations online and found this:

Pastu, google-d some more, only to find more and more inspirations for cookie bouquet which is the customer wants. Since the birthday party is for a girl, we are particularly attracted to pinks or any soft colors. And this looks just perfect for the occasion:

It suits the colors that we are looking for a girl's birthday party and of course, strawberry comes in red/pink. The real deal would of course, combined the 2 inspirations together..but in a tin bucket. We are so excited about the whole thing. Let's see how they turned out!