Roses

I love to decorate my cakes with piped fresh cream roses. Why? Because it is easy (once you get the hang of it) and it NEVER fails to impress. :-) People always ask 'You did that?' 'How?!'.


This is my first rose basket, created at the end of my cake decoration class in March.

This one's for my mum's birthday, roses and scrolls.



This is one of my favourites, baked for Mother's day in May 2007. Isn't it lovely?

Baked this next one when we were invited to a friend's place for dinner. Its a black forest cake with lots and lots of fresh cream roses.

This is the most recent one. Baked when we are invited to a church gathering for new comers. We are currently settling down in QBC.

Are you having an overdose of roses yet?

Heart Shaped Cake to say 'Thank You'

My MIL helps me with my two young children and I am extremely grateful to her for dedicating her time and energy on my two bundles of endless energy :-)

So one of the very first cakes I baked and decorated was one to convey my heartfelt thanks.

The idea was taken from one of Wilton's cake decoration books. The borders are piped rosettes - bigger rosettes for the bottom border and smaller ones on top. I also made small icing sugar flowers in pink and white, let them dry out, then placed them onto the rosettes at the top border.

Through this cake, I learned that icing sugar decorations are NOT meant for the refrigerator! The little flowers softened and lost its shape. Thankfully, it did not drip down the sides... so the cake still looked pretty.

Sharing My Creations

I got interested in baking three years back when I bought my son's first birthday cake from a home baker. The cake tasted great and I was inspired to create my own personalised cakes at home. I chanced upon Creative Culinaire on the web and without hesitation, signed up for Chef Judy's cake baking and decoration classes. Chef Judy is really a gem of an instructor!

This is one of my favourite cakes baked with tips learned from the lessons. Its for my son's third birthday last year and his favourite cartoon is Winnie the Pooh.

My oven is small, so I had to bake two ten inch cakes and join them together :

Then I trace the picture I want with chocolate and use marshmellows as decorative borders :

Finally, fill in the colours. This took me ages! But the result was good, the cake was very well received. :-)

Will be sharing more of my creations. But I'd probably start with the ones I created in the past. Being a working mother of two, juggling work, family and hobby is certainly not easy!