A 12th Birthday Black Forest

This cake has quite a unique request. My fellow parent volunteer in school ordered a cake almost at an instant after she saw my cake pictures.

Why is it unique? Because she wanted to have a birthday cake with edible image for his 12 year old turning-son, but she wanted me to put a picture when her son was 1+ year. I need to tell you this because if I don't, you may think that I made a mistake putting his age on the edible image.

I made this cake with passion and threw a lot of things on the cake. People trust me to make something on their special days, so I would put my total effort to do it.
One of my good friends said, I make cakes with TLC...Tender Loving Care, she told me. If I think I need to put more tid bits I will just put it eventhough it was not included in the budget. Well, not excessively, though.. My satisfaction is more
important than the price of a cake, I suppose.

Well, here are a couple shots of the cake.

Carrot Cake

Introducing the Carrot Cake that had made almost everybody who'd tried it fell in love with it. Almost? Hehe, that must be because of my son. A picky eater ever.

You see, why I always talk about my children here? Because this is the reason why I jumped the rope and put on the apron. They are everything, and with some experiments I have come to some stage, to know what the likes and dislike in my children's 'book'.


Well, back to the delicious Carrot Cake. I have baked this for many years and to no complaints, because the ingredients are nothing but yummy and healthy. This is my second winner from the oven at home, after my Brownie. 2nd because only my son still having a 50:50 mood on this one. I hope with the time flies, he will like this as much as he likes my Brownie.

Have a bite...and you'll never turn back to any other Carrot Cake :) Hard to believe? Bake one (or order from QnR Kitchen), and you'll know what I'm talking about.

Q's Birthday

I had a very busy week last week. It started with a request from my daughter to have a birthday party like a friend of her had. A simple one would do. Ideally, a simple celebration on D day should be sufficient. But when I looked at the calendar, I know that it would not be possible, because her birthday falls on the same day when the final exam started.

Not to be demoralised by that, I planned an early birthday party. Still a simple one, though. I marked the calendar and invited some of her closest friends from school. Designed an invitation card with my niece and had it printed it at a very low cost. I also arranged to have an edible image for her cake decoration. A chocolate cake but not brownies, was the request from the b'day girl. Alrighty, deary!

And so I just grab the idea of baking a TCCC, that is a Triple Chocolate Caramel Cake of Teh Uceu that I had in mind for quite sometime. At last I had the chance to try it out. I decorated the cake with an edible image of Q with Hannah Montana background. Grabbed the idea from a kitchen forum, NCC. That is really helpful.
The verdict? Not very good for weight watchers, but a heavenly chocolate for chocolate lovers... I guess the kids can afford it. :))


For the goodie bags, I decided to have all home-made stuffs, that is decorated cookies and chocolate lollipop. But...because my time management was not that good, I ended up delegating most of the cookies decorating and chocolate lollipop to my sister and daughter and my kitchen assistant as well :) That is: I can't expect to have a result that I wish for...hahaha...but that's alrite, really. We had fun making all those things and the experience is priceless.


Happy Birthday my Little Precious Girl! Eight is an early number to begin your teenage life. Enjoy childhood while you can! Smoochy...smooch...