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!

Action Cartoon Cupcakes for the Boys

Oh boys will be boys, and they do want the most 'non-pretty' decorations on their birthday cupcakes - as long as it is their favourite cartoon or action character. So I took on daunting tasks earlier this year - recreating edible Spiderman and Pokemon characters!

Doing cartoon characters meant a lot of research and printing tons of cartoon pics for the pattern to be traced out. I remember having to negotiate with Mitch to select the simplest 4 Pokemon characters that were at least 'doable'!

While Spidey was all buttercream piping, Pokemon marks my first foray into a painstaking drawing technique using candy chocolate (compound choc). This is pretty sweet chocolate but allows me to create cartoon-like decorations that are fun and perfect for kids! It's always nice to discover new decorating techniques and different styles.

Now I wonder what these boys will want next year .....

Birthday Cupcake-Cake for Pretty Girls!

Birthday themes for young girls never stray far from the colour 'pink', flowers, some hearts maybe, and pretty butterflies! Everything nice... as the poem goes!

So whether it's for a precocious 4-year old or young ladies approaching their sweet teens, these cupcakes put a smile on their faces. I particularly like the little fondant bluebirds - they add a 'fairytale' touch befitting a princess indeed!

And for musiclovers, I did play the 'Happy B'day' tune on the piano to get the notes right, but have to adjust the bars and omit time signatures to fit the notes! Now if only I can insert a little gadget in the cupcakes to actually play the tune! That would be pretty awesome indeed!

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?

Spelling Bee!

This was made for my son's school party, and he requested it pretty late! So, I quickly whipped up the Oreo Crush with a white choc glaze and the Moist Choc with a choc ganache glaze - kids' favourites!

I wanted to keep the decor fun - he was in primary 3 - so I opted for a 'Spelling Bee' theme - alphabets complete with little bumblebees!

The kids loved it... and so did their teacher ... so much so that I was invited to participate last minute in the school's fun fare with some more cuppies!

3-D Birthday Cakes

Some of my earlier attempts - birthday cakes for my little sweetie pie and a dear friend's son. My girl actually had two - one for the celebration at her playschool and one for our own celebration at home! That gave me a lot of opportunities to try out some designs. All these were first attempts - luckily they turned out well!

Only mishap - the balloon on the teddy cake burst when the candles were lighted!

Fairytale Castle B'day Cake for Two Princesses

Large cakes are never my strengths - and I only mainly make them for my own family's celebrations. Nonetheless, I couldn't talk these 2 girls into switching to cupcakes, so began the challenging journey of creating this cake!

The brief was simple - pretty, pink, fairtytale-like! I think a castle would only have a fairytale feel if it is on top of a hill, so I decided to precariously tier a small castle on top of the lovely Wilton Cascade bundt shape - the perfect hill! I used rounded shapes for the castle, and soft swirls to decorate the turrets, so as to keep it magical and girly... and lots of edible sparkles and shimmer for a dreamy fairytale effect!

With some last minute ingenuity (thks to some kind suggestions from a guest at the party) - I managed to tier the castle on top of the bundt cake - on site - without dowelling. Pretty petite cupcakes topped with flowers and butterflies surround the castle, some spelling out the birthday princesses' names - Marilyn n Marissa. I particularly loved the two little handmoulded fondant bluebirds holding up the "Happy B'day" message banner! I'm such a sucker for all the glittery petal dusts - they do add magic to the cake!

Well - the final outcome was pretty good - the girls do love it! Happy Birthday princesses!