First Bakes for Christmas!

Its my first time baking during this christmas season to give away to friends and colleagues. As i do not have any time for any trial run, i chose something not that complicated to bake which is light fruit cake. This is unlike the traditional dark fruit cake as i felt my friends and colleagues would probably prefer the light version.

Made 2 different types, some with rum and some without so that the kids can eat. However as i didn’t have time to soak the rum for longer time ( i only managed to soak for 1 day), the result was that the rum cannot be tasted

Spent quite a lot to buy cookie cutters for Christmas, had intended to give away christmas cookies to the kids but dun have enough time to do the icing so end up din give any away, wonder how am i going to finish so much cookies too??

Some pictures to share:

Cake Decorating Course

Its been a busy past few weeks with work and family. In the midst of these, i attended the a cake decorating course part 1 which i have signed up months ago. It’s really a struggle bringing so much barang to and fro home and the venue especially in this rainy weather. Been tiring trying to prepare for the course also as I got bake and prepare buttercream of different texture from home.

This is my first cake, as you can see the skill not that good yet in piping and icing:

This is my 2nd cake, learning to pipe a clown:

This is my final cake for the course, learning how to pipe roses (most difficult part of the course) and practising other skills i learnt as well:

Have also signed up for course 2, hopefully this time will not be so hectic, meanwhile look out for my post on what are my first bakes for christmas!

First Fondant Birthday Cake

Its the celebration for my baby princess 1st birthday, its also the first time i am making a fondant cake. The weekend has been tiring, was out the whole saturday morning and afternoon and spent the evening baking a chocolate cake. Sunday morning was busy frosting followed by covering the cake with fondant and “decorating” it. Was looking forward to a nice attempt but turn out to be kinda challenging. As I didn’t manage to get the wilton rolled fondant, I used another brand and end up there are a number of cracks and because I didn’t cover the fondant well, part of the chocolate cake was exposed. Instead of decorating the cake according to my original plan, i have to do “patching work” instead.

After a tiring 2-3 hours, the result is :