Thursday, January 6, 2011

Lia Cakes Chocolate Oreo Treats!









The lastest offerings and craze by me...Chocolate Covered, not Dipped, Oreos!

I'm into chocolates these days and I sourced out these molds and went straight to work with them.

These makes such great and different gifts for birthdays, anniversaries, wedding hantaran or door gifts...just about any occasions.

These comes in 5 pieces or 8 peices packaging and also some individual ones.

So below are more of the chocolates oreos I've done.








The marble effect























Individual packaging perfect for wedding gifts.













An order by a friend who wanted to give a thank you gift to her son's kindy teachers.




























This was made for another friend for her university's small reunion.

Chelsea! Chelsea!

A friend of mine asked me if I could do a soccer themed cupcakes for her son's birthday . So I tried my hand at modelling. I don't do much of it. I first made the shoe while watching TV. Since the details were so tiny, my eyes blurred after finishing it. Then I did the whistle.

There's no molds or hard and fast rule. basically mold as you go and figuring out the how-to that was quite challenging. The whislte was inspired by the net and like a painter as my hand mold fondant, my eyes piercing the image on my laptop.


I did the cap by making a ball and cut it in half and tip of the cap was tricky. so little and thin enough to stand with a bit of wave curled.

The muffler was really really bonkers for me to think of as there was only one cuppy left without a design and I didn;t want to do another shoe. Strangely took me awhile to figure how to make it as I didn't want to make any blue icing to write Chelsea. Originally I wanted the entire thing to be blue but on a blue background, I ahd to change it to white. Since I ad most of the writings in white , this is what i ended up doing the muffler. Not so bad...i think.

One of my fellow baker friend cried " Welcome to fondant modelling" when she saw this. I have my reservations when it comes to fondant / gumpaste modelling but I finally did it!













So thanks to my friend Zai and happy birthday Hakiem!

My first Pavlova


I've been curious about pavlovas for a long time. It was only recently that pavlovas surfaced so frequently in TV and net and FB when I chanced upon PASSIONFRUIT PULP !

So I jumped at the chance to finally make this dessert. SO I made this timely for a pot luck and as simple as the recipe was I didn't realised how it blown out from and 8 inch layer of meringue to 10 inch size!! I didn't have anything to put it in to bring to the pot luck at my freind's. But I found a 12inch board i bought so long ago an I only had an 11 inch box. Oh well...it survived the journey and everyone love it! I managed only a slice and then I understood what's all the bru-ha-ha was all about. It was delish!!!!

I wanted to make this again but till today...hmmmm....

My babies have grown!!


Ok, my two youngest have pestered me for MONTHS over their borthday cakes. EVERYDAY at least 3 times each day, they would repeat what they wanted for their cakes.

But this year, since my other son would be kindy for the last time and his birthday isn't until December, I decided to make his cake in November before the school year finish and he could celebrate with his friends in school. Along with his sister whose birthday is in November, we had two celebrations. Happy birthday darlings. Now stop bothering me with the cakes already, ok!




Last year, my son decided on a music theme for his birthday cake. The piano notes on the sides of th cake was inspired by other designs I saw on the net. The music "arrangement" was also a design I saw on the net and I wanted to do a pattern transfer. But as I did the cake I just make them free hand and again I applied double piping on the lines and wordings to avoid bleeding of the black icing. Happy birthday son. May I have many more years to make you birthday cake.