Happy Birthday Fong

My Best Friend Fong's birthday on the 15th of this month. Made few block of cakes with teddy bears sitting on them and with some assorted chocolate. I know the work is still very rough, hopefully I will improve as time goes. I actually picked up the idea from a book by Debbie Brown and modified the idea abit.

Happy Birthday Bryan and Clement!!!

Went back to Lumut after work yesterday. Started baking and decorating after dinner. Luckily managed to ask grand uncle to help me baked a butter cake in advance so I only need to bake one cake last night. Two of my cousins' celebrating their birthday today. So I decided to make two cake. One is the shape of car for a 14 years old boy and an Elmo car for a 3 years old.

This car cake was decorated using fondant. This is my first time shaping a cake and decorated it with fondant. Took me more than an hour to get it done. Weren't able to make too much detail as I was tired by then. May be should plan better next time. The base cake is the butter cake my grand uncle baked.

This elmo cake was a nutella cake which I baked last night. Decorated it with buttercream and fondant. Used fondant for the eyes, nose and lip. The rest of the face was decorated with buttercream. The eyes of Elmo was too heavy and it actually dropped out when it arrived in BSB. Managed to put it back but not as nice anymore lor. Sigh.. Next time have to consider the weigh of the fondant if were to decorate the cake like this again.

Flower cake

Using the new heart shape silicon pan I bought from Gina's KC Store in Singapore I baked this raisin butter cake and covered it in fondant. All the fondant figurines on it are also made form the goodies I bought from her shop. (Finally have time to play with my fondant since coming back to Brunei.) The cake is still sitting nicely in the box as no one want to cut it. LOL

Fondant Course

Despite the current H1N1 screening everywhere I still take my chance to fly to Singapore during this May vacation of mine. I have planned 2-3 months ahead to attend a 1 - 1 cake decoration course with Gina Choong from KC Forum and Taste of Time. Been long to know how to decorate cake with fondant. Tried did make a ipod cake once with the Marshmallow fondant but was very frustrated with all the effort and time and the fondant actually harden very fast and the outcome is just satisfactory. Therefore one of my aim this trip was to learn fondant making and decoration. All together I had four days of 4-5 hours per day with her. Lunch included somemore. Had a great time with her, beside the schedule course content, she was so nice to share other knowledge with me, basically anything related to cooking or baking, she will answer whenever I asked her. Regret that I didn't take a picture with her. Was having fun with fondant, chocolate, and picture taking of fondant that I forget to take picture of human. hahaha...

Cakes we made to be used for decoration

Cupcakes with fondant figurines on top

My Garden Theme Cake, better picture can be view here

My lady in RED which took me so long to get her done, her dress top is cracked cuz the fondant dried up

Another cake which I have fun with the fondant figurine (except the bear bear).

Palm Cafe

Had an interesting night out with my best friend at Palm Cafe recently. My first time there and lucky to meet Wu Zhun there and took a picture with him. Hehehe. Well as usual, I only remember to take picture of our appetizers and dessert. Why no main course? Simple ---> cuz the food looked so yummy that I forgot that I need to take a picture before MAKAN lor...

My pot of Green Tea

Dun remember what is it called... scallop with cheese???

The yummy chicken liver patte... i love it so much... especially with the sour berries thingies...

The just nice, not so sweet, not sour Lemon Meringue Pie

The sweet white chocolate cheese cake...