Cupcake Obsession

Amy e-mailed me the other day asking me if i could do some cupcakes for her friend’s birthday. Desiree had recommended me to her and she had been impressed with the work she’d seen on my web. As such, she asked if i could make some cupcakes representing her and her friends plus some Starbuck cups. Why Starbucks cups some of you might ask? Well.. Amy told me that her and her friends always hang out at Starbucks all the time and they are known as the Starbuck girls. So she wanted the cupcakes to be designed to include their favourite hangout.. thus the Starbuck cups.

After thinking about it, i remember previously coming across some gorgeous face cupcakes someone else had done and thought this would be perfect for Amy’s cupcakes since she wanted the cupcakes to represent each of her friends. Amy had even though ahead and provided me with a photo of her and her friends as a guide for me. So once the idea was pitched to her and confirmed, i went ahead and started thinking of ways to make the cupcake look like each of Amy’s friends. After doing up some really bad sketches which i’m not going to post up here :p  i began on the cupcakes.

As for the Starbuck cups, i did a google search to see what the Starbuck’s logo looked like since i never really studied it before. So after finding some great pictures, i begain the painstaking effort of slowly painting on the logos onto the cups.. which trust me is one of the toughest things I’ve ever done due to how tiny i had to make the Starbucks cup in order to fit it onto the cupcake. Trust me, painting on the logo onto a cup that is smaller than my thumb is not the easiest thing to do. I could feel my hand shaking with each stroke of my brush and i had to hold my breath every time i lay brush to cup. Whew!! So once the cups were finished i began on the faces which took me longer than expected. Overall i was very satisfied with how they turned out Can any one guess which cupcake represents which girl in the photo? Haha.. a little hint *the cupcakes are arranged according to the sequence of the girls in the photo.

 From the photo, Amy is the girl on the top row extreme left and the birthday girl is the girl in the top row extreme right. So according to the cupcakes, Amy is also the girl on the top row extreme left Did any of you guess it right? :p

Anyway, here’s a shout out to the birthday girl, wishing her a very Happy Birthday. I hope all you guys liked the cupcakes!

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I got an e-mail from Mala about a month ago asking if i could make 2 boxes of my pooh cupcakes for her. Apparently someone had given her my cupcakes to try and as she found them very cute and colourful and wanted very much to share my cupcakes with her colleagues and family.

Unfortunately, not long after e-mailing me she realised that some of her colleagues were on a health kick at the moment so she unfortunately could not confirm the order. I thought that would be it.. but about a month later, Mala called me! You could imagine my surprise!!! Mala apparently had been trying to convince her colleagues to try the cupcakes and had finally managed to do so, so she was now ready to order the cupcakes!!!

So of course i had to do these cupcakes for Mala right So off i went to make my yummy chocolate cupcakes with Pooh, Piglet and Tigger as toppers. I really hope that Mala’s colleagues and family enjoyed the cupcakes especially after all the hard work she had to go through to convince them to try the cupcakes Thanks Mala for your support!!

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My cousin called me the other day and asked if i could do some special cupcakes for a girlfriend’s birthday. Like every other girl, she loves LV bags, Chanel bags, Prada high heels, nutella, and well a whole lot of other things which i shan’t go into right here right now

So after some discussion with my cousin, we decided to go with doing some bags and shoes for the cupcakes. I only realised after placing the toppers on the cupcakes that they were a little bit too small.. will definitely be making them bigger next time

This was the first time i made the bags and shoes.. but think they actually turned out quite well. Since the birthday girl liked nutella, i had to do my yummy nutella cupcakes for her, and of course these cupcakes had the special surprise in the centre… a whole blob of nutella baked right into the centre of the cupcake!!! Yummy!!!

So what do you think of the cupcakes?!

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As everyone knows, Halloween is just around the corner and of course, i had to get into the groove and come up with some special cupcakes for this occasion right?!

Although Halloween was not widely celebrated when i was a kid, i believe nowadays more and more kids and teens are actually celebrating Halloween nowadays If you take a drive around some places in Singapore you can even see some houses all decked out for this occasion with lights all strung up and fake cobwebs on the gates. Walking into Cold Storage you will also see lots and lots of Halloween decorations plus the all important pumpkins of various sizes all available for sale. Everytime i see all the decorations and pumpkins available at Cold Storage I always miss the time when i was studying in Perth where you would see everyone decked out in full Halloween costume with all the gore and vampire teeth everywhere… people even go out and rent costumes for these occasions so it’s always fun to see what everyone comes up with and trying out the costumes are always really fun!

Anyway, as i had some extra cupcakes leftover from a batch i made, i thought why not try making some Halloween cupcakes?! After thinking, i decided on doing ghost cupcakes, pumpkin cupcakes and mummy cupcakes… since i always think these 3 are always the core decorations for Halloween

So here are the cupcakes And Happy Halloween in advance for everyone out there!

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Yudi called me the other day and asked me if i could do some sunflower cupcakes for his girlfriend’s birthday as his girlfriend loves sunflowers.

I tried scouting around Singapore for some nice sunflower cutters that wouldn’t cost me an arm and a leg but wasn’t very successful in my search. In the end i had to improvise and ended up using another flower cutter and cutting up each petal in 2 to make additional petals so that it would look like a sunflower.

I thought they tured out quite well considering i had to improvise on my cutter :p I just hope that Yudi’s girlfriend loved the cupcakes as much as i did

These sunflower cupcakes were nutella cupcakes with a gooey nutella centre and frosted with a pale green frosting before being topped off with the sunflower. I thought the light green frosting would bring out the yellow of the sunflower and make it pop

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Jeff, Alan and Rosaline’s friend contacted me the other day and asked if i could do some cupcakes for him. His girlfriend, Pearl’s birthday was coming up, and Pearl loved the cupcakes I’d made for Alan and Rosaline’s baby shower, so as a birthday surprise, Jeff asked if i could do some cupcakes for him.

He wanted the cupcakes to spell out Happy Birthday Pearl and as his girlfriend loves playing mahjong, he thought it might be a good idea to have the rest of the cupcakes being mahjong tiles as toppers I was excited to do up the mahjong tiles since i haven’t made it before and well, whenever i think about mahjong, i remember the noisy family gatherings during Chinese New Year and the happy clatter of mahjong tiles being shuffled and long conversations being held while the mahjong was being played.

Well, once the design was decided on, i did some research before beginning to make the tiles. These were the final results. I just hope that Pearl liked the cupcakes and here’s wishing Pearl a very Happy Birthday!

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I got an e-mail from Sharon the other day asking if i could do some customised cupcakes for her. Her special request was for some dance themed cupcakes for her boyfriend, Nash, as they were both dancers and loved dancing!

I thought doing these would be pretty cool considering I’ve never been requested for a dance themed cupcake before. After some discussion with Sharon, who was so great in providing pictures of what specifically wanted for the toppers the final decision was to do bling bling $ necklace, high-topped shoes and a funky cap for the cupcake toppers! From the bling necklace and high-topped shoes, i assume that Sharon and Nash both do hip-hop style dance which i myself also love! :)

So once we confirmed the order, i put on some of my favourite dance music to put myself into the groove, and started making the toppers for the cupcakes Sharon had requested for the nutella cupcakes which is one of my personal favourites and i of course used my new and improved nutella cupcake recipe which includes the delicious gooey nutella filling in the centre. Hmm… yummy….

Well these were the completed cupcakes. Don’t they look nice and cheerful Hopefully Sharon’s boyfriend, Nash likes them

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Rosaline called me up the other day and asked if i could do some cupcakes for her to celebrate her baby’s 1st month. Of course being neighbours and her husband being my hubby’s ex-colleague i of course agreed.

After discussing with Rosaline, we finally decided that the design of the cupcakes would be the same as the previous ones i’d done here. I love making these cupcakes as i think the sweet pea design and baby booties are so cute

Anyway after doing up the cupcakes i decided to make a little cake to go along with the cupcakes as a gift to Alan and Rosaline. There are lots of ideas for baby shower cakes out there and many of them are just gorgeous.. but as i wanted to do something a little different and incorporate both the parents and baby in the cake theme, i finally decided to make 2 figurines to represent Alan and Rosaline, and Rosaline holding the baby Rachel in her arms.

As i also wanted to incorporate elements of the baby theme, i decided to place the figurines sitting at the side of the cake so i could decorate the top of the cake with the baby cradle and other baby things. This was how the final cake turned out.. i thought it looked quite cute and was really happy with how it turned out

Here’s a picture of Alan, Rosaline and baby Rachel with their cake Hmm… does anyone think that the figurines look anything like Alan and Rosaline?? haha….

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Joanne contacted me after her daughter attended Keisha’s Ariel and underwater themed birthday party. Apparently Joanne’s daughter, Khairina had loved the Ariel cupcake at Keisha’s party, but as the Ariel cupcake had been reserved for Keisha, Khairina had to settle for the little Flounder cupcake instead. As such, Joanne called me asking if i could do some Ariel and underwater themed cupcakes for her daughter for her birthday party which was coming up.

I of course agreed as i always like making kids happy, and seeing their exclamations of happiness and surprise upon seeing the cute and unexpected cupcakes always makes my day After some discussion with Joanne, we finally settled on the individual designs for the cupcakes and i soon began work on them. One of the cupcakes of course had to be an Ariel cupcake which after my previous experience had helped a lot in making the Ariel this time. I think i did better this time in making Ariel although i still think it’s a far cry from looking exactly like Ariel.. :p But i think it was a pretty good attempt on my part :) 

I didn’t manage to get many good photos and these were the few of the better photos that i managed to take.. so i do apologise for the few photos :p Happy Birthday Khairina!! Hope you liked the Ariel cupcakes!

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Cassie who had previously ordered the Beagle cupcakes from me called me up again the other day and asked if i could do another set of cupcakes for her. This time she wanted some cow cupcakes and asked if i could do them for her. Of course i immediately agreed, seeing as i just finished a cow cake for Valerie and loved how the little cows turned out there :)

Cassie’s request was quite simple.. she wanted a box of 9 cupcakes 5 of which had to be cows holding the name HELEN and the other 4 would be decorated with flowers. So i happily started making the cows and flowers and these were the final results Cute little fellas aren’t they

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