"Frozen" Blue Wedding Cupcake Tree for Siti & Ilham

Here's a Blue-themed Cupcake Tree for the Groom to match their blue-themed wedding! So a Malay wedding can be held in 2 different locations - 1 for the bride and the other for the groom... These days the groom pretty much do not wanna be left out on the specifics in the weddings... they too! would want a fancy outfit of their choice... the kind of food that is served... and even the wedding cake!

A wedding cake for the groom isn't easy to design like i thought it would... It shouldn't be too feminine but yet classy... It should have some form of masculinity in it too...  but not too boisterous either... well IT IS a wedding! Fortunately, the theme for the wedding on the groom's side (Ilham) has set its tone for me to create his wedding cake (he has chosen to have a wedding cupcake tree). The theme is the colour Blue! Inspired by the Disney Movie "Frozen".

So i googled "FROZEN BLUE" and this is what i found and was inspired from...

SHADES OF BLUE is what I see! 

Not one, not two but lots of lovely different shades of blue! So Shades of Blue it is! Using fancy silver cupcake cases, with a dust of Silver Sugar Crystals to create that Magical look and fresh white baby breaths to make a nice snowy touch to it to add some elegance. 

I have not seen Ilham's Decor/Setting before the set up... and was afraid that with too much blue around, the wedding cupcake tree would blend to much into the decors... but once we've got the tree up... It pops out like a blue crystals in a sea of waves! (blue crystals being the tree and the wedding decor being the sea of waves.. ;) heheh. It was perfect...! 

I was happy... fortunately so were the lovely Bride and Groom... my Friends Siti Khuzaimah and Ilham... :)

Congratulation to the both of you! May Allah grant your marriage happiness and everlasting love In Shaa Allah. Thank you for giving Sweet Bakes the opportunity to design and create your wedding cake! AlhamduLillah!.. :) 

Nutella Rolls Aidilfitri 2014

Like every year for the past 3 years, once again this year we're opening orders for our all time favorite Nutella Rolls Aidilfitri for this upcoming special festive! We are calling all Nutella Lovers out there!! Order yours soon!! Limited numbers of orders applied. To order, do check out our Facebook page!! Like us and PM us your order!!! Hope to hear from all you Nutella Lovers out there!!

Have a blessed Ramadhan everyone!!

Here's What We've Been Up to in the Month of June 2014!

We receive lots of love in the month of June! And would like to thank all those that have supported us by ordering their favorites from us!! 

Red Velvet Cake of Roses for a Wedding Reception!

48 Pcs Red Velvet Cupcakes Order! 

 

Garden of Nutella Blossoms!!

Mango Cake for a Mango Lover Mom on her Birthday!

 A Father's Day Cake!

Sweet Bakes' Charity Bake Sale @ Muhammadiyah Welfare Home Fiesta 2014

Alhamdulillah! Once again this year SweetBakes manage to be a part of a worthy event of raising funds for a home for boys - the Muhammadiyah Welfare Home! Held last week 31 May 2014, an open to public event called Muhammadiyah Welfare Home Fiesta 2014 from 9am to 10pm. We would like to share our involvement with everyone!

Masya'Allah! it was once again a brilliant and definitely enlightening experience for all of us involved! This year SweetBakes manage to provide more yummies for our charity bake sale which all proceeds went to the funds of this simple and humble welfare home. AlhamduLillah we have manage to raised funds for the home through the sale of our goodies on top of the sales of the donation coupons! We would like to thank all those that had helped contributed to this cause as well as to helping us with our involvement in the bake sale!

Big thanks to SweetBakes Besties :

Siti Khuzaimah 

- For being there with us from break of dawn till the end of the event selling our baked goodies and at the same time also selling some other sponsored desserts!

Nur Huda Ishak & hubby Izar Rahmat 

- For being our transporters in transporting our goodies from our kitchen to the home!

Fara Rabu & Sha 

- For being our transporters in transporting back our setup materials back home!

Next Factor 

- For printing out our lovely stickers which looked great on our packagings!

The Muhammadiyah Welfare Home Fiesta 2014 Organizing Committee!

- For having us be part of this effort! We couldn't have done this without your support and trust in us!

last but not least… to

To those whom have contributed through donations through us!!

May Allah bless all of YOU with everlasting rezki and enlightenment! In Shaa Allah!

Take a look at some photos below taken at the event!

Prepping the cupcakes!

Our Stickers!!

Here are our stickers we have gotten printed for the first time for our packagings! Sticker printing service is provided by NEXT FACTOR! Thanks to Ms Reen for her fast service and Huda Ishak for the recommendation and delivery!! Check out their site here: http://www.nextfactor.com.sg

Here's what we have baked for sale for our booth!!

Some of our Hot Favorites!!

Special Assorted Cupcake Set! 
Cookies & Cream, Salted Caramel Peanut Butter, Red Velvet,  Triple Chocolate!

Rainbow Cake!

Salted Caramel Cheesecake!

Friends who came to give their support!!

Brother Hairul and Family!

Volunteers at work!!

and not forgetting our volunteers Fara Rabu and Sha!!!

 It was definitely for a great cause and we had much fun in our charity bake sale! We hope to be able to do this again next year In Shaa Allah!! BIG THANK YOU to all that has contributed and supported us to making this event a success and a meaningful one! AlhamduLillah!

Fresh Flowers 2 Tier Wedding Cake - Lilac

Last week we did a fun one! A 2 Tier Wedding Cake ordered by my very own sweet cuz Muni! Its a gift for her bestie who happens to love fresh wild flowers… and requested that the cake is Lilac in color. And this one is an all eatable cake! So you can imagine the challenge of having to transport this one big heavy cake! But we did it anyway! We were happy with the end product and looks like so were the happily married couple! :)

Our New Sticker Badge Design

We've designed our very own Sticker Badge which we can't wait have made!! Looking for sticker printers now for a good affordable quotes for sticker printing!! Can't wait!

Cake of Roses

Cake of Roses are simple yet cakes to give as an engagement gift or wedding gift. The roses can come in different colors and even sizes to suit any theme! Here's one Classic White that we have done last week from an order and a pretty Shades of Pink version!

Barbie / Princess Cake

We haven't done a Barbie / Princess Cake before but couldn't reject the request. And we were glad we didn't! It was a challenge and it was a fun one! 

Mimi (mummy to birthday girl Hailie) requested that the princess would be wearing a pretty navy blue dress with some pink because that's what sweet Hailie will be wearing to her birthday party. So it was a good time to put all my piping tips to good use… i haven't done this much piping techniques in one cake! and honestly we are pretty happy with our end product :) 

I started of with the skirt first using a giant cupcake top mold with extra layers of cake below to make the skirt a little longer so as to proportion the length of legs to the body of the doll. Started looking at some pictures online and ideas for the design came thru… and pretty much knew what i wanted for its design in my head. I didn't start off sketching the design or anything… i just went right down to piping the frosting on the skirt. It was like i was in the 'zone' from start to finish!

Most customers probably would not notice this but i was pretty much obsessed with the piping details! for my first attempt in a Barbie / Princess Cake… I'm happy with the results! AlhamduLillah Mummy and Hailie are too! ;) 

We want to thank Mummy Mimi for her support with SweetBakes for the first time and the opportunity for allowing us to do something that we haven't done before! Looking forward to doing more Princess Cakes really… ;) Do contact us if you need a Princess Cake!

Till next time… Have a great week ahead everyone!

Football Cake

So is it 'football' or 'soccer' ball? In Singapore, its FOOTBALL as I have been told many times! Since we adopt England's English… Football its is! Here's a step by step on how we made the FOOTBALL CAKE requested by a new customer who's dad was a FOOTBALL coach, apparently for team Singapore once before… We were honored :) 

Step by Step FOOTBALL CAKE :

The Base

Here we have a plain rich chocolate cake covered with ganache and then again with light green butter cream over it for the lighter green field.

The FOOTBALL

We got a silicon mold for this ball at a pretty good price for S$25 at Lau Choy Seng at Temple Street. It works great and a good investment for future FOOTBALL cakes or even other ball cakes too!

The Football on the Field!

Dirty iced the ball before placing it onto the field base

Frost Ball?

Over here we use a small open star piping tip to pipe on white and black buttercream on the the ball… 

Grassy Field

To create that extra texture… we used the same piping tip to make the grassy patch using a darker green buttercream and simply pipe out in a brushing / stroking method around the base cake as well as around the ball. and then walah…

The FOOTBALL Cake :)

Push Pop Cakes

Sweet! Finally we got the opportunity to make the cool Push Pop Cakes! Thanks to a dear friend Joe, who wanted some for his birthday! Thanks Joe! We had so much fun making them! Here's a Red and Blue Velvet Push Pop Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting!