The not-so-magical-but-absolutely-wonderful BUTTERCREAM

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I've had a lot of customers that tell me they like our cakes because they love our buttercream. Most of them say because its smooth and there's no gritty sugar in our buttercream, and most importantly that our buttercream isn't too sweet. Thank you to those who complemented, and I must give the compliment to mi mama because its her magic hands that usually makes the buttercream. I've tried writing down her recipe and doing it myself but it doesn't really turn out the same as when my mum does it. hmm..

Anyways, besides the taste, a good buttercream makes the decoration look nicer too. Like the cake in the picture above, you can tell that the buttercream is really smooth. Especially when you want to smooth the buttercream on the cake (like what we did on our Zebra cake), its really easy if you have the right consistency. If its too thick or hard some would say, it makes the job harder and its difficult to achieve that smooth, shiny look.





Of course I can't tell you what my mum's secret recipe is, but if managed to find a rather interesting buttercream recipe here. They called it "World's best buttercream" so I guess its worth a try! Let me know if anyone does try and maybe you could even share some pictures of it =)



We're backkk!

OMG. It's been the longest time since I last updated the blog. By the way 'Selamat Hari Raya' to all our Muslim friends.  Me & mamamia have both been super busy. A lot has happened since the last post. The biggest thing has got to be me quiting from my permanent day job. Some people were puzzled why on earth I did that, other's were amazed and supportive of my move, while family of course can't help but be worried. But I'm happy I did it, because in the end, to me, in life you have to do things that make you happy because you only get on chance at life and of course you would want to make out the best of it. It will never be easy, but working on your passion will definitely give you the ultimate satisfaction.

So enough about me, let's see some of the projects that we have done. And I must say that I'm happy with quality of work that we are at now, we definitely have improved our skills in baking and also cake decorating.

Firstly, let me just show you the birthday cake that my mum made for my maksu. Happy Super Belated Birthday Maksu!!hehe..It's a Coconut buttercake and since my maksu don't really fancy sweet cream, we just served it plain with some simple deco. Although I have to admit that I cheated a bit with the flower because that was bought from the cake shop that I always go to =P.  

Second is the most recent birthday cake that I made. Those are actually goalie gloves which later on I added adidas logos on the side but I didn't snap a picture.

Next is hantaran cake. And this has got to be one of the most romantic hantaran cakes I have ever made. However, I was in a rush and forgot to snap a close up picture of the roses. If you can see, There are also some rose petals on top. Oh! and by the way, the cake stand is actually one of my hantaran dulang that I rent out. Cantik kan? =D

I don't know if you guys noticed, but I LOVE doing kiddy cakes, birthday cakes usually. And I'm happy with this next Hello Kitty cake. And I thought I did a good job with the font since I'm usually bad with cursives! =D

And lastly..my favourite of the bunch, this aeroplane on runway in the sky cake...I hope you guys love it as much as I do!

That's it for this post. But stay tuned for more because we actually did a lot more..Ohh and before I end this, I just have a small favor..Our maid just quit, so we desperately need a replacement. So if any of you know of any agents or where we can hire a helper, do let us know =)

Thank you everyone! Till next time.