Kiddy Party Favours

Cupcakes make fun and fantastilicious favours - especially when creatively packaged. So I'm loving the see-thru dome covers which shows off individually-packed cupcakes! Neat, mobile and pretty - they make lovely favours for kiddy parties, weddings, what have you.

This selection was made for a 4-yr old's birthday party! So I used fun toddler-friendly designs made from fondant and candy choc, and of course flavours are kiddy faves such as PB Choc and Passionana! Especially love the buttercream gerberas with choc bumblebees!

Babylicious 'Fullmoon' Cupcake Giftbox

I remember I had babies in the days when the best personalisation offered with 'fullmoon' giftboxes are crudely rubber-stamped names of your newborn. I ended up choosing the best-tasting supplier and consoled myself that at least the food inside was delicious.

For the uninitiated,'fullmoon' gifting is an age-old chinese or rather Malaysian-nyonya tradition of announcing the birth of a baby with gifts of symbolic food - red-dyed eggs, 'angkoo' (steamed glutinous rice 'cake' with a mungbean filling), curry chicken and turmeric glutinous rice. Of course modern moms would more than gladly do away with these fattening and not-so-pretty selection in favour of something appropriately pretty and babyish ... thus the cupcake option.

Pretty decorated cupcakes are perfect for baby-themed celebrations. Everyone coos at buttercream prams and booties, babypink fondant blooms and the new symbol of babyhood - the yellow duckie! Perched on top of delicious cupcakes, these are almost too pretty to eat!

So I started to offer it as a 'fullmoon' gift idea to friends and customers ... with a twist. That is to have tradition and beauty in one box! The giftbox thus consists of 4 pretty cupcakes, plus some of the classic symbolic food such as red eggs and preserved ginger, and sweet potato 'angkoo' - all deliciously homemade. Meanwhile, omitting curry chicken diminishes the anxiety over it turning bad if not delivered on time.

Being particular about presentation, I also made sure the boxes had the ideal trimmings and the all-important baby profile card! Basically, everything's handmade with love ... as I would for my own baby. The end results - proud parents are usually thrilled to bits, and many have told me that their lucky recipients totally loved them as well.

These are premium giftboxes, and are priced at rm27 per box (complete with computer-generated baby card with baby pic), minimum order of 10 boxes. For parents who prefer the handcrafted hand-embossed baby profile card with sticker photo as shown, an additional rm2.00 is charged per card.

Little Erin's 1st Birthday!

Pink, pretty and everything nice - I love creating these oh-so-pretty cupcakes for sweet little babies like Erin!

This is one of my typical 16-pc birthday cupcake-cake - a perfect size for small celebrations, and adaptable to 25 or 36pc squares, or 20/30pc rectangles ... depending on the number of persons in the party. The upside? Great portability, fuss-free, more flavours in one 'cake' (I usually propose a 2-flavour combi)... all you need to do is bring extra little boxes to conveniently pack home the leftovers (if any)!

I was really happy with the design I created for this particular 'cake' - it's one of my faves. The idea came from a cute baby card I spotted at my fave scrapbooking haunt - Papier - a line of baby laundry drying in the sun! I added a trail of yellow duckies at the bottom, complete with bubblebath and all! All little kids love yellow duckies, don't they?