Lunchtime Cupcake Wedding!

These pastel shade of cupcakes were for a wedding at UOB plaza on the 60th floor at a Sichuan Chinese restaurant. The view was to die for, but getting up there and taking all the cupcakes was a logistical nightmare haha! Thank god the bride asked some of her friends to come downstairs and help me, as we had to take one escalator up and change two lifts before we got to the venue.

But back to cupcakes, so this couple came to me early in the year around January or February and made the intention to order back then. They chose red velvet, vanilla cupcakes with strawberry and chocolate buttercream, and a Choco Nutter small cake which is my chocolate cake with choc chips and finished with a peanut butter frosting. Yum! You could smell it from far away! I dressed the cake and cupcakes with royal icing flowers and butterflies.

Time to get back to my moving, I hope to put more cupcake pics next week. Btw, congrats Seeping and Stephen!

Green Butterfly Effect!

These cupcakes were one of the most intricate I've done in a year of my little cupcake business. The bride gave me a photo of what she wanted, the colour and I set to work. I had to prepare the fondant circles and butterflies a few days in advance so they could dry and set on time, and I used royal icing to ice the white swirls and little white flowers. There were only 50 to make but it took time because of the details involved. Then I packaged the cupcakes into my clear square boxes, and the couple provided the ribbons and sticker tags.

I also made a cake for them in the same flavour as the cupcakes, which was a vanilla base with vanilla buttercream and I dressed the cake in some royal icing flowers and fondant butterflies dusted with edible gold dust. I bought my small cake tier just for this occasion, and hopefully for more in the future! The reception was at a restaurant in Boat Quay, thank God my mother could find parking on Circular Road and we walked from there which wasn't too bad. The set up inside was lovely too. Congrats Carol and Pol!

Pink & White Church Wedding!

Talk about a crazy cupcake weekend! I had 4 weddings to bake for, plus take care of house moving stuff and attend a couple of F1 parties, I tell you it was insane! My sleep pattern was for a few hours each night, as the cupcakes last weekend were quite a lot to prepare for. But ah the results are always worth it!

I made these pink and white themed cupcakes for a Saturday morning church wedding. They chose red velvet cupcakes and vanilla cupcakes with strawberry buttercream. I cut out 6 petal fondant pink flowers to top the red velvets, but they started to soften a bit when I set them up in the church. The room was quite warm then as well. But the result was a soft and pretty look. Congrats Dinah and Roland!

Black & White!

What do you think? For another potential wedding.

Garden Theme Variety Cupcakes

These were made for a tasting session last week, and I'll be doing their wedding next week. Pics to come!

Blue, White & Silver Cupcakes

I made these cupcakes all of last night and part of today. The lady ordered for her sister's wedding, and they chose lemon for the base and a vanilla buttercream for the frosting. We came up with these 3 designs, as they wanted to present one cupcake on each guest's plate at the reception as a welcome gift. I played with a lot of fondant for this order, it was tiring but very fun! Especially the handmade small blue roses. The F and J stands for the couple's name, and I tried my best to match it to the style of their invitation cards.

Turquoise and Pink Themed ROM!

You will not believe the drama I had with these gorgeous coloured cupcakes! They were for an ROM at the Marriot Hotel at the poolside. The couple are lovely and judging from their colour theme and set up, they are quirky, fun and filled with love!

Before I get started, the flavours were chocolate with vanilla buttercream (turquoise) and vanilla cupcakes with strawberry buttercream (pink). So anyway, I originally made the icing on these cupcakes are giant beautiful swirls and I planned to "sit" the fondant hearts on it. Guess what? The bellman at the front door loaded my big plastic storage box with the cupcake boxes inside onto the trolley, and he angled it high to get it up the steps and I said don't do that as they might topple! He said sorry and we went upstairs. But as you guessed it by now, I opened the box and everything had toppled and squashed ! All my hard work was literally gone!

Needless to say my face turned pretty "black" as I never had this happen to me before. I took a deep breath, gathered my thoughts, and asked the coordinator for a butter knife and I set to work. There were 48 cupcakes, but it took me nearly an hour to ice them all smooth and wipe the cupcake wrappers clean as everything was so messy! Bless my dad, sister and brother in law for coming to the rescue and they helped me fixed and cleaned everything up.

But with no doubt, the cupcakes still turned out beautiful and the fondant hearts with initials really dressed up the cupcakes and they looked beautifully whimsical sitting among the yummy dessert table. The bride and groom were pretty cool about it too, and I thank them for that!

Anita and Mark, I wish you both a long and happy life together! I promise next time I'll carry the box of cupcakes myself! ;)