Treasure Chest Cake

It's a girl's cake!
Michelle got this for her niece. Instead of a girl's jewelry box cake, the birthday girl wanted a pirates type of treasure chest.

I think this is such a cool cake for a girl :)

Jake and the Cars

Cheryl will always plan very much in advance for Ryan's birthday celebration cakes, despite booking a month ahead, she was still worried that it was too last minute :)

This year's cake theme was Cars 2 and the chosen characters were Lightning McQueen, Gram and Acer on a fondant covered cake with road, flags, finish sign (which was a challenge to have that long suspended fondant strip across like that...) and the Cars 2 logo.

McQueen

Gram or Acer this one??

Cheryl specifically reminded me that the cars needs the dented and rusty parts. Okay or not like this?

This was cupcakes for the celebration at school, theme was Jake and the Neverland Pirates with a mini pirate ship, treasure chest... and human figurines!

Was quite stressed out with the human figurines but turned out not too bad and as Cheryl said, better than she has expected hahaha.... Happy birthday Ryan!

Last year for Ryan's 3rd birthday cake was a chocolate cake with Timmy Time and friends and Cheryl got Ryan a Pororo and friends themed cupcakes for the school celebration.

And I wonder what would be next year's theme - if I am still making Ryan's birthday cakes/ cupcakes ^^

Bursting with Money!

This was the last delivery before my recent trip, it was delivered the night before I left Malaysia.

This cake was for Anna, my other long lost friend, for his son's birthday. Originally she said a cake with all the dollar signs... later after some brainstorming, it was a bag of money, or a treasure chest full of money. Whichever it was, it has to be spilling with money, loads of money. Anna has described his son as "fat chin hon" (Cantonese saying). Haha...

Gold coins made of fondant and mixed with some chocolate with gold wrappers.

Green paper money and coins bursting out of the treasure chest

Some crushed butter biscuit as "sand" around the treasure chest. Gave the pirate movie feel didn't it? :)

This was a chocolate cake with milk chocolate filling. The body of the chest was 3 layers, and the cover was 2 layers of cake. The treasure chest was about 7 x 3 x 7 inches tall.

The cake was supposed to be a surprise and I heard mummy Anna had successfully done that!

Happy birthday Brenden! Many more (money) to come :)

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

It's strange... I actually love carrot cake but so far no request for carrot cake. My favorite used to be the one from Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, but the carrot cakes don't seem to taste as good now a days. The one from San Francisco Coffee taste better, but I think they don't have raisins in the cake. Next would be the one from Dome, but... it's RM12 per piece. A bit pricey.

Finally, my colleague requested for a carrot cake for her birthday. This carrot cake has been customized to include white chocolate besides the standard walnuts (and for some, raisins). The cake is also very moist because I've added bananas.

The fun part was the "construction" of the 3D topper, a treasure chest. Decided on a wooden one with some leather looking straps because I don't have gold/ silver colour to achieve the metal looks. Here is the making...

Stuffed the box with loads of chocolate coins. Would have made the coins if I had gold colour, but these were actually more convenient and real. For the fun of it, I made a treasure hunt map. Okay, I actually have no clue how one map should look like.

Covered cake with cream cheese frosting. To save the hassle of smoothing the icing, I've just "weaved" them on... Ta Da! And here's the cake...