I have been wanting to do this. Dressing up a little princess with buttercream frosting! :)
A lot of reasons why I kept on delaying it. I don't have the right mould, I'm not sure on how much bc (buttercream) I should use, I am not confident I can do it...bla bla bla. All that I could actually brush aside if I really HAVE TO do it.
Let me tell you what really stopped me doing it. I've got sooo many things I want to make & bake until I don't know which one I should do first. Many times I go to the confectioner shop and putting a lot of things into my basket. After which I try to reselect them and usually more than half of the content will go back to the shelf, because I know that those items will not be used until perhaps a week or even a month later. That means the expiry date is getting nearer without me using it.
Yesterday, as any other Tuesdays, I dropped Qinan off at Kumon. Then went to Popular with Raqi to satisfy his crave to look at all the toys there. After that we went to Poon Huat, the nearest and price friendly confectionery shop. Going round the extended shop [yes! It eventually extended to the next door unit and they bring more items in - getting me even crazier and stay longer on every visit :)] and thinking what I should make/bake yesterday. Since there were too many occasion that I forgot what should have really be bought, I stood up and recalled what were my abandoned plans. *Tuing...tuing...* Aha!! Than I remember about my little princess that's been waiting to be dressed up. So I ended up buying nothing, because I have all the ingredients available at home.
After Q finished her Kumon session, we went home. I let the kids watched TV and played. I was off to the kitchen and preparing ingredients. I baked a chocolate cake which I divided into two small moulds (6" diameter). One of the mould is for the upper part of the skirt. It's 6" at the top around 2" at the bottom. The bottom will be the skirt's waist.
The process was a normal one, interrupted by this and that. Including picking up my hubby from the airport after a meeting there, leaving my baked cake cooling down in the meantime. Came back frome there I made the buttercream. Soon it was dinner time, had to make the dining table.
When everybody were in the living room watching TV after dinner, I took out the princess from her 'cave' (been putting 'her' in a box) and washed her. I stood her up beside the two stacked cakes...ayayyy...how could the princess have become so tall? Meaning I can't dress her up that night because I need to bake more cake to cover her long legs. :)) Well what to do, just went to sleep and this morning I baked another cake. This time round is a steamed cheese brownies (Brownies kukus keju) that I sourced from Radin Cake [Thanks for the recipe Nia!]. Never made this before, and I did not steamed it. I baked it instead. Put some into mini cuppa for tasting, and...hmmm...delicious.
So, what's left to do is to dress up the cake...oops, I mean: The Princess.
I'll update again when it's done, together with the pics. Wish me luck!
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11 July 2010
Hello again!
Promised to update with the pics of the dressed princess. Didn't know it will take another fortnight just to log in to the blog again :(. Anyway...I shall present it to you now...
