Ryan is 4

Vanilla Sponge Cake + Butter Cream and Edible Image

Repeat order is always encouraging. Knowing that someone is giving you another opportunity to brighten his/her special occasion with your creation will give you the spirit of giving your best in it.

Thank you Lynda for trusting Ryan's birthday cake to me. Having in mind that the cake will be consumed by Ryan's grandparents as well, she told me that she just wanted a simple two-layer cake with only butter cream on it, including the filling. What makes the cake special is the Power Rangers Operation Overdrive edible image that is put at the top of it. No chocolate, no fancy things....hehehhh... Actually, I should feel relieved that it was a simple cake to make. But somehow I feel that to make a simple cake look attractive is even challenging.

I used an eight-egg sponge cake with little dry ingredients. It turned out quite well ( I said quite because I can't judge on 'look' only). Even though I had done this a lot of times and always get good commendation of it, I really hope it had also pleased my little customer and his family today.

Happy 4th Birthday, Ryan! Keep smiling, Sunshine...

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.

Fruity Sponge Cake

I was planning to bake either Opera Cake or Black Forest for Aidil Adha yesterday. Somehow, I gave up the idea because I was asked to make a birthday cake for Philo's birthday on the same day. And Philo's mummy chose Vanilla Sponge Cake as the base cake.

Not to complicate the process, I decided to go along with the cake choice and put in a similar filling with a twist of mandarin orange. Cut it in pieces, and...voila! Nice, soft n fresh Petit Four for the Hari Raya... Enjoy!

Philo and His Flag Cake

I just did another Flag Cake. This time round the order came from a bubbly young chap who's celebrating birthday together with the Aidil Qurban today. This sweet little chap had asked his mother if he could have an Indonesian Flag on his cake. Well, it shouldn't be a problem at all. The only reservation the mother had was the sugar level of the cake. I don't have a sweet tooth anyway so I had encountered sugar alteration most of the time.

Syerli (the mother) chose to have Vanilla Sponge Cake with Blueberry filling and whipped cream covering instead of buttercream. No problem. Customers' request is my command :D. So, there I went to the kitchen and had the cake done. Not much time to think though, just trying to pull off my creativity to its place.

Happy 5th Birthday Philo! May you bloom and groom together with your age. Thanks Syerli for trusting the birthday cake to me. ^_^

Sponge Cakes - Black Forest & Green Tea

This time round is an order from Devi. She wanted to surprise her hubby on his birthday that fell on the same day as the group's gathering for fast-breaking during Ramadhan.

She ordered two 9x12" Black Forest. I thought about it and felt that it would be better to have different flavours for two different cakes. I proposed to her to try on the Green Tea Sponge with cream cheese + whippy filling -just like a tiramisu, just change the cheese- and she agreed to it. Well, let's get to work then! :) It is always challenging when your customer is willing to take up the challenge of having a new taste. And it is left on me on how to make the cake turn out great. Here is how it had turned out.


I started baking on Friday morning. My new K didn't give me the result that I wanted (well, I should've given it a try anyway). After two batches of cakes, choc n green tea, I left for work. I came back home and did another batch for the green sponge & half of the choc. Yayyy, they turned out well! Why I baked another half for choc? Because Raqi would surely ask for his share :) I learnt from my experiences, though.

After brushing the cakes with their syrups (lemon for GT, cherry for BF) to help them stay moist, I went to sleep. I continued after Sahur. Made the cheese filling, whipped the cream, putting in all the fillings, covered the cakes, with some interruptions of this & that, including going for JMC class with Raqi. Came back at 1 pm, I started to decorate the cake. I was grateful that the weather was friendly enough that I could work in peace with the whipped cream. Finished decorating the cake just in time to leave for fast-breaking at my fellow KUA friend.

Happy Birthday Arief!

Black Forest and 3-Layer Sponge Cake for a Dear Cousin

I just finished two cake-order. Both came from the same person. Siti, my hubby's cousin's wife, had just delivered her third baby boy and is now still under maternity leave. She wanted to send these cakes to her fellow colleagues in school (she works in a school's general office) as a gesture of appreciation for her colleagues and teachers' support throughout her pregnancy.

The first cake is a Black Forest Cake. As you can see, I don't know why I like to have a minimalist look for any chocolate cake that I make. Because I think with the chocolate glaze and a touch of cherry, it shows the exclusivity...no need the 'noisy' decoration...whoaaaa... :)). The BF is made of two layers of sponge cake with the usual dark cherry filling on top of a layer of whipped cream. Cover it with cream cheese and pour it with chocolate glaze. Perfect!



Second cake is a three layer cake, all three different flavour sponge cake. Vanilla, chocolate & coffee. Hmmmm, they are so nice and light! For filling I put a layer of bitter-sweet ganache and cream cheese custard. Hehehe....how much eager I want to taste them after assembly, I can only dream of it. Perhaps I will make it again for the family next time... But the spongy texture was really appealing (I got to try all three flavours when I trimmed the sides ;)).


Covered with buttercream, I was quite lacking of idea on what to 'draw'. Because Siti didn't want any writing on it and just wanted a simple deco. So, after putting the borders I made the body of the clowns sitting at the 'beach sand' of brown sugar, piped out some greeneries and threw some sprinkles. Put the clowns' heads...et voila! A simple and cute cake.