The Mahjong World

There was this particular week where I had 2 orders for Mahjong... One was on cupcakes, and the other one on carrot cake.

This was ordered by Pin Pin: "dai sam yun" (大三元)

This one was for Yvonne: "dai sei hei" (大四喜)

Some pictures of the making

Putting all these today will be a "wrong" set of tiles haha...

Back to Simplicity

Lyn placed an order which was like 3 orders, for 3 occasions. Lyn was my first cupcake customer, yeah I mean the first person who bought a box of cupcakes from me. I still remember that was a box of 16 pieces medium cupcakes and it was not specially arranged - Lyn saw the box of cupcakes and just decided to buy that off me. It was a good start, cupcake orders is a big part of the TeaRoom biz now. And for the next few posts, you will be seeing a lot of cupcakes. In fact, there was an inquiry just now, but this will be another story.

Chocolate coated coffee bean and couverture white chocolate droplet

For Lyn's order, it was all about simplicity and back to innovative use of ready made toppers. Some of her favorite toppers were the chocolate coated coffee beans, marshmallows, chocolates and the icing itself.

Cadbury's Moment - Hazelnut praline


Marshmallows

A Smiley which Lyn has specifically reminded me to put on and direction of the smiley face specified as well. Not like this way :) Haha... You know, if I'd drew it the wrong way, I can always just rotate it :p

On Thursday evening, before I left office, Lyn called to urgently arrange for one of the boxes to be delivered that very night. This was the one, for her mum's birthday celebration. (Thanks for coming all the way to pick this up babe)

This was the other box which I'd managed to deliver also one night earlier.

And this box was picked up this morning for a birthday celebration in the office. Hope you've had a great time!

Lyn's cupcakes were vanilla cupcakes with coloured butter icing.

Good Bye Siong

Sis ordered a cake for her colleagues' farewell. Although her colleagues all love the chocolate cake, but sis was longing for a change.

The decoration of the cake was originally laptop, book and a pile of paper, kind of office stuff. But since the delivery of this cake was after Zoey's cake, sis changed the decoration to TTB (TeaRoom Teddy Bear). One that holds "System Biology", the subject her colleague specializes in. Together with TTB a large System Biology book.

Here's the special message to Siong. And I heard Siong actually had the "Best" piece of the cake.

This is a carrot cake (with raisins, walnut and chocolate chips, yes chocolate chips. Moisten with banana) and covered in cream cheese frosting.

A Farewell Cake

My immediate boss recently left the company. He told us he's leaving because of some personal reasons which we all know what is one of those reasons. There is someone in this company whom we find very challenging to work with - to put it in a nice way.

Thought of making him a cake as his farewell present. Chose something with chocolate since he's quite a chocoholic - Mars Bar cheesecake with butterscotch and chocolate sauce. The cheesecake is encased in oreo biscuit.

These were my messages...

All the best and we really really miss you...