Another customised valentine cupcake request

I got a request for a really specialised valentine day cupcakes which i had a great time making. The reason was that this particular batch of cupcakes were really really customised. Every single cupcake was different and every single cupcake had a little story attached to it for the couple.

Unfortunately, they had requested that i not name who they are.. so sorry no names The girl had requested for these special cupcakes for her boyfriend and each cupcake topper was specifically requested by her as they each had a special meaning for her and her boyfriend. What were the cupcake toppers she requested for you might ask? Well, these included a boy and girl figurine to represent the 2 of them, a figurine of a boy who was still in his army uniform with a handphone in his hand as the he used to wait for her call all the time when he was in the army, cathay movie tickets since they love to watch movies, a dragon and a snake to represent each of their zodiac signs, Mr Bean since the boy loves soya bean, and i even got a chance to try my hand at making a carebear cupcake again!! Yay! There were also several other toppers which i shall not go on to name, but i really thought that this was such as sweet gift since each and every single topper had a special meaning for the couple and was a celebration of little captions of the love.  

Although these cupcakes took quite a bit of time to make, since every single cupcake had a different topper and required a different colour fondant, i was really happy with the way they turned out and hope that the boy loved the cupcakes when he got it, especially since there was so much thought and meaning behind each and every single topper for this very special valentine’s gift Happy Valentine’s Day you two

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Love is in the air…

Jennifer called me up the other day after learning about my little blog and cupcake escapades from my cousin. Her request, some cuppies for Valentine’s Day of course

What was her request you might ask… well it was the Omega Seamaster which Daniel Craig wore in the most recent James Bond movie… (*007 theme song playing in my head as i type this). Sorry about that but i just can’t help it.. haha.. everytime someone mentions 007 or James Bond, the song just starts humming in my head and it’ll be stuck there for the rest of the night. Here’s a little side note and trivia… did you know that every single James Bond since the very beginning wore an Omega watch?! Some of you might be wacking yourselves on the forehead and going DUH!! but seriously i didn’t know that!!! haha… i guess i’m just a blur blob as my hubby always tells me

Anyhow, Jenn’s boyfriend has been eyeing this watch ever since the latest Bond movie came out and since Jenn couldn’t give him the real deal, she decided to go for the next best thing A cupcake with an edible imitation of the watch!! Hee hee.. I thought that was so sweet! To ensure that i got the proper glittery strap accurate, I added some silver edible glitter to the strap of the watch.. then to add the finishing touches to the watch, i hand painted on the individual dials, numbers watch hands and of course the Omega insignia

Jenn shared some pics of her boyfriends surprised and happy expression when he saw the cuppies… although i can’t share all of them here with you, here are some of the pics she sent me. I’m guessing he loved them.. Happy Valentine’s Jenn and David!

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Customised cupcakes for Valentine’s Day

Janette e-mailed me the other day and asked if i could do some customised cupcakes for her. She didn’t provide me much details but her initial request was for me to do a cupcake topper which was a white bear which her boyfriend had given her previously.

After some discussion as to the designs for the other cupcakes, she requested for Eeyore, Dumbo, and a pig, with the remaining cupcakes having a special message to her boyfriend. These were what the final cupcakes looked like  

Janette looked really excited when she came to collect the cupcakes and hopefully her boyfriend loved them as well as she did Happy Valentine’s Day you guys!!!

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Hippy themed wedding cupcakes..

About a week ago, i got a call from someone asking whether it’s possible for me to design, customise and do up a cupcake tower for a hippy themed wedding. That definitely started my juices flowing.. i mean how cool is that to do… a hippie themed wedding… cool :) Of course the first thing that popped into my mine was flowers and tie-dyed stuff.. but just to make sure that i had a good idea of the theme, i immediately went to my trusty laptop and started surfing the net for inspiration. These were the end product.. nice and bright don’t you think

I just realised after my many hours of searching the internet, that there are lots of hippy stuff out there :) But here’s the thing that got me thinking… is  there a difference between retro and hippy?? After surfing the net for both.. i realised that there is a common theme between the 2 in terms of the bright colours but the difference lies in the fact that retro seems to have a more circular design whereas the hippy designs include peace signs, smiley faces, lots and lots of flowers and of course tie dye and the emphasis on free love.

After all that surfing i realised there aren’t that many designs out there in the world wide web of hippy designs for cupcakes… hippy cakes yes.. but not hippy designed cupcakes… so after much discussion with the bride, and her sister, we finally came to the conclusion that we’d keep it to 4 cupcake flavours and 4 designs, namely, the smiley face, the peace sign, flowers and of course a heart… Well… once the design was settled, i continued to research and think about how best to do up the cupcakes (mini’s were requested) and what colours to use since there wasn’t a fixed colour theme… but then, come to think of it.. can you have a fixed colour theme for a hippy wedding?? haha :p

After trying out a couple of designs and think up various colour combinations, i decided to stick to a couple of colours and of course to make sure that the colours were bright enough to blind.  Problem with that of course is how to get the colours bright enough without adding too much dye to the frosting and causing it to turn bitter!! After some experimentation and a frantic purchase of several different paste colours… i finally managed to get a nice bright pink, orange and of course purple!!! Cool… next up… to do up the designs in fondant….

I’ve read many bad reviews about how bad fondant actually tastes, especially a certain brand that seems to be the only available brand here in Singapore!!! Of course, with this in mind, i had opted from the get go that i would never ever buy and use this particular brand of ready made fondant. Add this to the fact that this was the only brand in Singapore, i was left with the only option of making my own. As can be seen from several of my previous posts on fondant, it was a never ending cycle of experimentation before i finally got a recipe that works in our blastedly hot and humid weather that changes into a blink to a humid and rainy one and of course tastes delicious to boot!! Trust me.. it was a delight when i finally got the recipe down pat! Well.. off i was to whip up a batch of this delicious fondant and start on my designs for the little hippy cuppies.

After much kneading and colouring of the fondant, plus many hours of trying out different colour combinations, i finally settled on the colours i wanted. Problem was.. i needed cutters to do up the flowers and hearts. So off i went to Phoon Huat to search for some cutters…. hehe… oh well.. excuse for me to buy cutters is always good All in the name of research and satisfying a customer’s wants right! So after an hour of shopping in Phoon Huat.. i finally went home with more than what i bargained for… :p I can never seem to just go to Phoon Huat and get only what i want.. all those cute little dragees and cupcake decorations always drag me to buy just a little bit more of this and that.. no wonder my hubby now chooses to sit out in the car to wait for me hoping that I would be out of that shop just that little bit faster :)

Well… armed with my new cutters, i quickly did up the requisite designs for the cupcakes and left them out to harden a little. I then did up the cupcakes and popped them into the oven to bake. More whisking took place and voila… icing was prepared… add the colours… more whisking and finally icing was ready to be piped over the cuppies. I decided to do a simple round swirl so that the designs from the fondant would be the main accent to the cupcakes, so after icing and placing the ready fondant designs… these were the final product… The only thing i think i would change a little is the smiley face.. haha.. smiles not big enough i think

Sadly though.. at the end of the day the bride had decided not to go ahead with the cupcakes… oh well… i did get a fun time out of designing the cupcakes and of course.. my new cutters!

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