Relus contacted me sometime back and asked if i could do some cupcakes for her. She had 2 birthday celebrations on the same day and wanted a set of cupcakes with flowers and a cow, with another set with flowers and a rat. The reason for the rat and cow was cos one of the birthday celebrants was born in the year of the Cow and the other in the year of the Rat.
For the mouse, i did them in 3d while for the cow ones, i switched it up a little and did 2d version of the cow’s face on it. I thought they came out quite well and hopefully the birthday celebrants liked the cupcakes too! 
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Posted 1 year, 2 months ago at 10:06 pm. Add a comment
After getting her cute doggy cupcakes, my Auntie asked me if i could do similar cupcakes for a colleague of hers who is also a dog lover. However, she wanted all the cupcakes to be topped with a dog rather than having some topped with doggy toys and bees, plus she wanted the doggies to be holding the words “Happy Birthday”. After some thinking i decided to make the letters in a cheery yellow since doggies always make me think of them happily romping outside in the grass with the sun shining, their little tails wagging… the colour yellow also gives me the same feeling.. so i thought having the letters in yellow seemed pretty apt.
Once she told me what she wanted, i quickly got down to making the cupcake toppers followed after by doing the cupcakes. These little fellas are sitting on a base of chocolate cupcakes.. My favourite doggy is still the one that is standing up begging. So i used those doggies to hold up the letters.. only thing you can’t see for these doggies are their cute little belly buttons i added :p I made 20 little doggies in all… the only regret i have is that i didn’t manage to put as much expression and change the doggie positions much since bulk of the little doggies were holding onto the letters.
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Posted 2 years, 4 months ago at 12:32 am. Add a comment
I just recently joined facebook and realised what a fabulous tool it is!! haha.. yes I know, I know.. I only JUST joined? How “sua ku” can I be right.. haha.. well.. the truth of the matter is that I just never bothered to join whenever I had gotten invites from friends.. it’s only recently that I decided to join it and realised how great it was.
Lots of people like it cos’ of the many applications you can add.. i.e. vampires, zombies, all out to bite and fight each other, applications which allows you to send little gifts or “poke” a friend, fluff friends – your typical online pet.. and so many others!! Well.. coming back to why I like it.. I like it cos it managed to get me in touch with all the ex-classmates which I had lost contact with after I did my degree in Australia! For me this was the best thing… I’m and ex IJ girl and ex-ACsian.. so it was really great to stumble onto facebook and realised there were actually groups out there created so that we could get in touch with all our ex-classmates! Classmates whom I’ve lost touch with donkey years ago are now just a click or e-mail away all with the help of facebook. Isn’t it great…
Anyway.. how does facebook link up to my title to my post you might wonder.. well.. it happened because of facebook! I had joined a group in facebook that had put me in touch with my ex-classmates and one of my friends who had seen the pictures of my cupcakes decided to order cupcakes from me! Yay!!!
As she didn’t really have any fixed ideas about how she wanted the cupcakes she ordered to be decorated, I decided to do try and do something special for her and came up with the ideas of hand molding fondant bears each holding a letter that spelled out the words “Happy Birthday” for the standard sized cupcakes she ordered. Here’s a pic of the bears without the letters… I loved how they turn out… Don’t they make you wanna smile just looking at them?
As my friend had also ordered some mini cuppies.. I decided to decorate those cuppies as well with cute little hand molded fondant bees to go with the bears. With this idea in mind.. I started to do up my bears and bees before the big day and decided not to tell my friend, Adeline, so that it would come as a surprise
I wanted each individual bear to have it’s own expression and looked on the internet to see if there was any help to be found… as luck would have it.. Lorraine McKay had done up a great video on how to do a little fondant bear and I quickly dove into her video to do up my bears Isn’t Lorraine McKay great!! I love her simple and clear instructions Well… I completed the bears and the bees with no problem and thanks to a great fondant recipe I found, I now have no worries that the fondant would melt in Singapore’s hot and humid weather. Yay!!!
Well.. to cut a long story short, I completed the cupcakes and frosting and placed all the little fondant toppers on top of the cuppies… this are some pics of my end product.. Don’t they look cute!
Here’s a pic of my mini army of bees.. hee hee…
Here’s a close up look at the bee
Some other views of the bears and the bees prior to placing them on the cuppies
Oh, and if anyone’s wondering about the cupcake flavours, the bears were placed on a yummy chocolate cupcake topped with ganache while the bees were placed on mini cupcakes which included vanilla cupcakes with chocolate buttercream, strawberry cupcakes with vanilla buttercream, mocha cupcakes with coffee buttercream and my all time favourite.. banana cupcakes with peanut butter buttercream frosting. Yes!! PEANUT BUTTER BUTTERCREAM FROSTING!!! YUMMY!! haha…
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