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My kids birthday

Rina — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:47:18 +0000

We celebrated both our daughter and son’s birthday yesterday on 28th December 2008. Ayra turned 5 and Adam turned 2 yrs. For weeks I was cracking my heads on what cakes to bake for them, as they keep on changing the characters that they want. In the end I decided on a Barbie Mariposa cake and a Dibo the Gift Dragon since my daughter loves Barbie and my son loves Dibo. If any readers have not heard of Dibo, well, its a purple dragon that brings gifts to those who wish and airs on Disney channel everyday at 9am. I started baking on Saturday night and since the party was at 4pm, I only started decorating the cakes in the morning. I had strict instruction that no one was to disturb me so that I could finish the decorating in time to get ready for the party and the drive to McDonald where the party was being held. I baked chocolate cake for my son’s cake and orange cake for the Barbie cake. Love the cakes and they were a hit. No leftovers for me to eat :( Here’s the pictures. Hope you like them too

Barbie Mariposa

Dibo the Gift Dragon

Posted in Barbie cake, Home, Novelty cake

Flower Garden

Rina — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:46:27 +0000

This is a flower garden cake, adorned with colourful flowers and butterflies made from soft fondant. The cake itself is one of our favourite – orange butter cake with orange mousse filling topped with buttercream. The orange cake is very refreshing and gives a zest to those who eat.

secret garden

Posted in Baking, Novelty cake Tagged: flowers, garden cake, Novelty cake, orange cake

Engagement cake – A minimalist design

Rina — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:19:00 +0000

This is an engagement cake with a minimalist approach. Its done in white, with just a few roses on top. Very very simple just like the bride and groom themselves. The cake is orange cake covered with white fondant.

White minimalist engagement cake

Posted in Baking, Engagement/Wedding

Chocolate Ganache cupcake – a real devil!

Rina — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:41:53 +0000

I promised my office mates that I would bake them some cupcakes, so on Sunday, whilst I was in the kitchen looking over my recipe book on what cake should I bake for them, I saw an unopened chocolate chip on the table. Hmm..that gave me an idea…..A chocolate cupcake covered with chocolate ganache. For a bit of zest I decorated the cupcakes with pink flowers – just for fun…I hope they enjoyed the little chocolate devil as much as I enjoyed baking them.

Posted in Cupcakes Tagged: chocolate cupcake, chocolate ganache, cupcake

Shopping for baking items

Rina — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:30:55 +0000

I had a wonderful weekend splurging myself on shopping items … not on clothes, not on shoes not even parfume but on baking items and cooking books! Yup! you read it right – BAKING ITEMS!… I would never thought that the day would come that I would enjoy baking so much and would go all out to find baking items to satisfy my new passion. I bought myself some tips, new pans and some sugarcraft items. I am still looking for some more items but sadly, they are not available in any of the baking stores in KL. That means I have to browse the internet for the items…thank god! for the world wide web…it sure makes shopping for items not in KL much, much easier. Now, if only i have enough patience for the items to arrive …..

Anyway, here’s a list of my favourite baking stores in KL/Selangor for those who are looking for baking/decorating items.

1. Bake with Yen – they have outlets in Puchong, PJ and Chow Kit area

2. PastryPro

3. ICCA in PJ, Sri Hartamas. They are opening a new store in Kota Damansara on 16 Dec 2008 which will be their HQ with big kitchen for classes.

4. Bagus in Tmn Melawati, Shah Alam.

Posted in Baking Tagged: baking shop, shopping

Strawberry Shortcake Cuppie

Rina — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:26:30 +0000

Recently I had the pleasure to do a strawberry shortcake cuppie for an adorable lil girl, Lillie. The cuppie was just for fun for Lillie and some of her friends who came over to their house during the school hols. This is the cuppie I did for them - A vanilla cupcake with edible image of strawberry shortcake. When my daughter saw this she insisted I bake a few for her to eat and lucky her, I had some extras and she was happy to have them all for herself.

Strawberry Shortcake Cuppie

Posted in Cupcakes Tagged: cupcake, edible image, strawberry shortcake

A Barbie cake surprise

Rina — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:28:24 +0000

Last week, a friend of mine wanted to surprise her daughter with a cake for her birthday. She told me any simple design would do. Since her daughter’s age was the same as my daughter, 5 years old, I decided to do a simple Barbie cake. This was an experiment – my first Barbie cake. The dress was made from moist chocolate cake covered with purple and yellow fondant with some flowers attached to the skirt. When I brought the cake to the office the next day, she was not the only one surprised but so does my other colleagues….they did’nt realised that I could bake! .

Posted in Barbie cake

Hello & Welcome!

Rina — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:26:02 +0000

Hi and welcome to my blog on cakes, cupcakes,cookies and all things delicious and delectable from Sweet Cravings. A bit about myself – I am Rina from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I am a full time working mom and I love to cook whether its dishes for my family to desserts like cakes and cookies. Previously I’ve never been bothered with the design or decorating of the cakes as long as they are delicious but all this changed last year when I decided to bake both my daughter and son’s birthday cakes. I browsed through many cake books and the internet for kids birthday cakes and was really surprised by the many deligthful designs. I then baked a 3D Barbie cake for my daughter and a 3D Cars cake for my son using a Wilton cake pan and buttercream icing. It was a hit among both the kids and adults. I was really proud to be able to do the cakes myself for my children. I love to decorate cakes and decided to learn more via cake books and the ever reliable internet. Recently, I decided to branch out of buttercream and learned how to decorate using fondants and I was really hooked on fondants. It was not easy to decorate using fondants at first since I am not a creative persons but this does not hindered me in pursuing my baking passion. The designs using fondants are limitless, only limited to your own creativity – it can be a sloppy design or immaculate, at the end of the day, the design is yours to claim. I still love buttercream and use them in all my cakes but I use fondants for novelty cakes or whenever requested.

So, come in and enjoy this blog as this is my journey into the baking and decorating world. Please bookmark the blog as I will update them with cakes that I bake/decorate as and when available.

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