Hello Kitty Cupcakes!

Hello Kitty for your sweetheart, anyone? That's what customer Hafiq did! He ordered a dozen cupcakes with a Hello Kitty theme together with the words requested. Happy anniversary to you both! :)

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Cupcakes for Engineers!

Hello all! Now, who says engineers don't eat cupcakes? :P I was contacted by a customer of mine to design mechanical engineer themed cupcakes for her boyfriend's upcoming birthday. She ordered a dozen cupcakes (mixed) and told me that I'm free to do whatever I want, as long as I stick to the theme. Yes ma'am! :) I made a hard hat, nuts & bolts, gears, a protractor/ruler and a spanner. :D

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Cute Little Chicken!

It's so adorable! Look at it, with it's glasses and all! This cake was actually a last minute order by a friend of mine, Ceres. The picture was also taken by Ceres, by the way. :)

Prior to making Syukri's cake (in the previous entry), I was contacted by Ceres and she asked if I could take her last minute order of a cake shaped like a cute little chicken with glasses. Why glasses? Because the recipient of this cake is a man who sells chicken rice, and yes, you guessed it, he wears glasses! I suppose it is rather comical to symbolise the chicken and the uncle. Ironic, but pleasantly warm. Ceres told me how the uncle reacted and I felt so happy! The uncle was so moved by the surprise his daughter and colleagues had decided to surprise him with a cake on his birthday. He was 50, I believe. :) He was so touched by the act, he excused himself to the wash room and came back with red eyes and nose. (The effects you get after crying!) I'm so thrilled that I got to be part of what made him so happy that night. It's definitely something he will never forget and I am honoured to contribute to that. :)

Love always, 

The Enchantress

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Syukri's Car Themed Cake

First off, yes, I'm very sorry for the hiatus, but as you know, May and June are the months where knots are tied and ceremonies are held. Yep, you guessed it. Weddings! I've been so busy with wedding cakes and custom cakes that I forgot to blog about them as I make them! I promise I'll be much more up-to-date on cake postings etc. However, we are active on Instagram, just so you'd like to follow us there. ;)

Now, on to the cake!

Cute, isn't it? A cake made especially for 23 year old Syukri! I was just given a theme to do any small cake with a car design. Once again, I had the freedom to design it however I like. This time, I chose to go for a race track! (with a mini red Ferrari!)

My customer loved it! And so did her son.. (and daughters too!) It was beyond their expectation! I suppose they thought about a cream cake with toy cars on them or something! Given a budget and any theme, I'm sure we'll be able to whip something up for you. After all, surprises are the best, aren't they? ;)

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A Very Ombre Birthday

Hello! I hope you all had a great weekend!

So this week, I had an assignment to make goodies and cakes for a princess themed party.

That included a two-tiered cake, 4 cakes, 60 cupcakes, 230 mini cupcakes.

Have a look at these pretty things!

Specially made for 9 year old Asha.

The top tier. :) 

Ruffles ruffles ruffles!

I also had a request for the cake to be "elegant" and yet princess-y.

My thoughts on elegant? Something classy, and of course, shiny!

I got to use my luster dust for the first time! Have a look at the before and after photos!

A little dust goes a long way!

Before

After

After the bottom tier was done, it was time for the ruffles!

It was tiring but I'm glad how it turned out!

The two tiered cake took me 7 hours to finish. Of course, I was watching several *cough* three *cough* movies as well since I did the cake overnight, I needed some company to keep me awake. I was happy with the results, though. :)

That's an ombre cake for the gift packs.

And it was cut into fours.

Ta-da! Pretty, right?

Fits a princess perfectly! ;)

Also, I took the initiative to buy a can of silver spray paint for the dowels. 

The dowels are the pillars that holds the second cake.

If you noticed, it's silver in colour! It shines, like the luster dust I used!

Of course, I spray painted the dowels, washed and dried them first before sticking them into the cake.

Pretty and elegant, isn't it? :)

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A Sticky Situation

Greetings from the hundred acre wood!

Say hello to Winnie the Pooh and Tigger!

This was a repeat order by Mdm. Faridah. Just last week I made her her rainbow petal cake. This time around are her daughters' birthday! Yes, two. Twins girls Yana and Yaty.

They really fancy Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, and so that was the theme I was given.

Honestly, I had no idea how I was going to build the cake under so much expectation, until that Friday. (A day before the party). From what I remembered of my childhood days, Pooh's problem would always be not having enough "hunny". And Tigger would always aid Pooh with his problem. Let's give Pooh the hunny he's always wanted, shall we?

So here, I present to you,

(or Tigger will be presenting to you)

Pooh and his giant "hunny" pot!

Mdm Faridah said the cake should be enough for 20 people. No way an 8" cake would feed that many! This called for a second tier! (Right when I got the inspiration!)

After she picked up the cake, she complimented on how cute the cake is and that her daughters didn't want to cut the cake, for fear of ruining it! Aww, I'm really flattered!

Below you'll see my work in progress at 5AM that Saturday morning.

Pooh Bear and Tigger

We're almost done! Just need to add finishing touches to the hunny pot.

Have a look at that! That, my dear friends, is butterscotch sauce. A very generous amount was poured in to make the pot seemed like it was filled with real honey! Of course, using real honey would be a disaster. The colour and texture would be off from the ones we see in the cartoon. I figured butterscotch was just perfect! I mean, who DOESN'T like butterscotch?

Oh,

and P.S.,

TIGGER BOUNCES!!

Alright, he actually just springs up and down on the spot.

What's my trick?  Have a look at his tail. I moulded it into a spiral, much like how a metal spring would go.

Just tap his head a bit, and...

Toing! Toing! Toing!

I regret not taking a video of it, though. But oh well, maybe next time. :)

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Rainbow Swirls

Hello! So, here's another gifted cake.

(I just love gift cakes! I could do whatever I want with it!)

I made this for my mom's 50th birthday. She loves red velvet and cream cheese.

So I thought, why not change the colour of the cream cheese into, well, perhaps something colourful?

And classy, of course.

Feast your eyes on this pretty little thing!

Birthday girl and her best friends since kindergarten.

What's left after distributing the cakes evenly to 6 guests. :)

Love,

The Enchantress

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New Alphabet Stencil!

Adorable, right?

I love the font! Bought it specially for a friend of mine from college. She ordered this last week asking for a different font, but I broke the old stencil. Clumsy me! Oh well, it was an old one anyway. Have a look!

She ordered a chocolate Kit Kat cake with cream cheese frosting.

Classic! I love it!

And here's a picture from my friend.

Thank you Ceres! :*

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For the love of CARAMEL!

Drooling already? Well, the cupcakes below, you can get them at Shell Jalan Wan Alwi!

1 box has 3 cupcakes and they sell for RM11.

They're all assorted. This was for Saturday's restock! And tonight we'll be restocking the same thing again!

We have this week;

1. Red Velvet

2. Cadbury Mudpie

3. Cookies & Cream

4. Chocolate Chip

5. Caramel Meringue

6. Buterscotch

Just look at the ooey gooey sauce!!

And below we have one of our signature cakes from our Kit Kat Edition collection.

The cake below costs RM100 and was ordered by a customer from Sibu. Happy engagement to you!

Have a great week, everyone! :*

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Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting!

Say hello to our red velvet cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting!

We've done this on cupcakes two years back but no one really wanted it.

So, with the ever expanding market, why not try again, right?

Re-introduce one of my all time favourite frostings!

Also, to my aunt, 

Happy Birthday Aunty Jijah!

May you celebrate many more birthdays and wishing you success with your gift shop! Hope you loved the cake! Made it specially for you! ;)

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Rainbow Petal Cake

So I don't particularly have a story for this one but a customer of mine wanted a rainbow cake for her birthday with ANY design of my choice. Alrighty then!

 I present to you, our very own rainbow petal cake!

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Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone!

This is the first time we've made something for Easter.

When I was in Miri last week, a friend of mine who's working there asked if I had anything planned for Easter. Gift packs, etc. 

So here I present to you Strawberry Pink Zinnias, Lemon Yellow Mums and Red Velvet Roses.

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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star + An Interesting Experience

Hello! This is an overdue entry but I'm still determined to write about it, since it holds a very interesting experience that I would love to share!

A week prior to this event, a regular customer of mine ordered a Kit Kat rainbow cake with her cousin's favourite characters on it. You can YouTube "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and you'll find a video starring these two friends; an owl and a star.

In the video, there were trees as well. Imagine the KitKat and fondant leaves are the trees.

Also, this song is mostly sung to babies as a lullaby to sleep.

How about a little metaphor, dearies? Doesn't the cake resemble a bed? ;)

(and of course, the blue night sky)

Here are the steps and fondant work I made the night before;

Stars

Clouds

And our two main characters!

Have a look below for the close up!

What do you think? :)

Also, while setting up the cake at the party, the crew from the KFC branch at Jalan Khoo Hun Yeang (India Street) were there to cater the event. Have you ever noticed that little KFC near the famous Kuching Open Air Market? It is located opposing the Police Station. Yep, that's the one! It has been there for more that 10 years and I've had the honour of meeting the staff members at the outlet, as they are very special to me.

Why is this KFC branch so special? This is the only KFC branch in Sarawak that is manned by a special group of hearing and speech impaired staff, meaning, a KFC branch that employs the less privileged. Curious, I "talked" (signed - from what I remembered in Primary School. I was really rusty) with one of the staff members and did my little own interview while I was there waiting for my cheque. Apparently, the KFC that they work at are 1 of 3 branches which employs the less privileged. The other two are in Sabah and KL. How very noble of KFC to give them an opportunity to work and not be judged by the public. Huge salute! In my opinion, one of the best things a franchise could do to keep our beautiful country from experiencing a high rate of unemployed citizens.

Upon receiving my cheque and leaving for my next delivery, three of the staff members told me that my cake was "beautiful" in sign language and took many pictures of the cake. I'll definitely pay them a visit one day, and also bringing along cupcakes, too! 

Does anyone want to come with?

Let me know! You have my number. :)

xx

The Enchantress

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Spring Petals for a Special Occasion

And of course, cakes ARE meant for special occasions. Or any occasion, really. As long as you're in the mood to celebrate and enjoy eating cake while you're at it! 

Have a look at the cross section of our Spring Petals vanilla cake with lemon frosting! Remember on my last entry, I was itching to bake a cake to add to the petal cake collection? I just found my opportunity! Can you guess what was the special occasion?

It was my parents' 30th wedding anniversary! 

To Mr and Mrs Wan Yusof, may this day of your anniversary make your relation stronger and lovelier. Wishing you a happy anniversary and God bless!

Love from your daughter, 

Lyanna

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Pretty Pink Petals

Good morning dearies! How was your weekend? Hopefully it was well spent because I know mine was!

On this fine Monday, I would like to introduce our Pink Zinnia Ombre Petal Cake! This pretty thing will be under a new section from our cake menu under "Petal Collection". This is the first cake in the collection and we hope you love it! We're gonna do more of these petal and ombre cakes! Order up, okay? I am just dying to pipe out these beautiful edible flowers!

And as you know, I always have a story for each entry, and this time won't be any different.

Right, so I woke up early on a Saturday morning to fill and crumb coat this pretty little thing. On the menu we say it's vanilla but this time, I changed to cake to red velvet to fit a certain special occasion!

One of my mom's closest friends turns 50 on Saturday and she had a birthday lunch on the day. What would a birthday be without cake, right? My mum and her best friend decided to give her a cake, but to my horror, they opted a Secret Recipe cake. Not on my watch! 

So when mum suggested I do a red velvet cake with the normal rosettes, I begged to differ. 

Since I was giving away a free cake, might as well make it one of a kind, right? And it was also a good opportunity to show to you my skills in piping and ability to create a beautiful pastel cake! It's been a while since anyone wanted me to create a new custom cake. My fingers were itching to play around with all the different types of swirls! Right now I'm waiting for perhaps one of my cousin's birthdays or some anniversary or really any celebration because I have a new cake idea in mind. No, I can't make them for fun or for anyone in the household. I think my family's pretty much bored of my cakes. No one would eat them if I made them for the house! :P

Anyhoo, enjoy the rest of the pictures! I also had leftover frosting and cupcakes. So, why not, right? I have a cake version and a cupcake version of baby pink zinnias. I only decided they were zinnias after I finished piping. Honestly, I just had this great idea (I think all my ideas are great, until they fail miserably), picked out one of my trusty nozzles and just piped away! I really didn't know what I was doing with my cream and piping bag until it came out pretty and I decided to just go with it! (What a confession!)

Oh, and the 6 cupcakes you see above was given to my sister's friend. I had just finished piping them before sending my sister off to her friend's birthday party. Just the perfect present, right? And my sister's friend uttered in her ear, "Your present was the best!".

Aww, you see? Cupcakes do make birthdays special!

So what do you think of our #1 cake in out new Petal Collection?

Does it resemble a zinnia flower to you? If not, what flower does it resemble? :)

And a shoutout goes to my mum's friend:

Happy 50th Birthday, Aunty Ken!

Wishing you a birthday filled with sweet moments and wonderful memories to cherish always!

Have a happy Monday dearies! Drop by our mini outlet at Shell Jalan Wan Alwi for your cupcake fix to combat those blues! Much love from me! xx

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