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!

Lacoste Cake?!

Yes… It's a Lacoste Cake… A colleague of mine is obsessed with Lacoste… He even had a Lacoste themed birthday party… Dressed top to bottom with Lacoste apparels! 

EJ (birthday boy) specifically requested the alligator to be on the cake… Since its a cream cheese frosting, i avoid using fondant or gumpaste to avoid them from melting… so i had to pipe the gator and words down… thank goodness the gator didn't look like a dinosaur..! Phew! There you go birthday boy… your Lacoste Cake… :)

 

Interesting fact:

Here's what I've learned when attempting this cake… i honestly thought the brand CROCODILE and LACOSTE is the SAME thing … BUT ITS NOTTTT…(felt kinda silly there) 

Crocodile has a CROCODILE facing LEFT with its jaws CLOSED whereas Lacoste has an ALLIGATOR facing RIGHT with its jaws OPENED! 

I wonder what brand I'll be requested to do next?! hahah… ;p

KitKat Cake

Here's our recent cake project… Nilam my colleague wanted a birthday for her 2yr old nephew… her requests… red velvet and kitkat chocolates!

Baby Ghazi's Balloon Birthday Cake

Ghazi's daddy wanted something  specially made for Ghazi's 1st Birthday last weekend...

Something Blue and Something with Primary Colors.

And Something with Balloons!

So we baked a cake with blue frosting...

 Made tiny balloons out of gumpaste and also a banner specially designed and printed out for the cake.

Simple yet Special for a Special Baby Boy! :)

Thanks Najib buddy for your support!!

Red Velvet Craze! in 2013!

2013 has been more of a Red Velvet craze for us all year round! Red Velvets at work… Red Velvets with Sweet Bakes! We have done them in all shapes, forms and sizes! Here are some of the Red Velvets that we have done in 2013!

Wedding Gift Cake

Birthday Cake

Cupcake

Wedding Cupcake Tree

Red Velvet in Cups

Order your Red Velvet today!!

And here's to more Red Velvet for the year 2014!!