Little Cakes...to Garden Wedding, with loves

The reason why I named The Little Cake Shop for my future bakery is because I technically enjoy designing and creating mini cakes and sweets. This is also why at one point I told my close friends that my new name is siew tim tim....little sweet sweet...Well, I guess people will get to enjoy more choices when the cakes and sweets are served in smaller portion. It is also meant for those who wants to stay slim! These little cakes are specially made for my cousin's wedding. She loves the icon of heart shapes - this is why you can see a lot of 'loves' in this design concept. When I was a kid, I enjoy mini jelly cakes the most! It's tiny spongy vanilla cake dipped in strawberry jelly and coated with dessicated coconut. My nanny will buy for us whenever she goes to the big wet market in Pudu. That's why I love decorating my mini cakes with red piping jelly as it brings back the sweet memory.

Besides baking the mini cakes for my cousin to give out as pre-wedding gifts, I baked for her wedding cake too. It is a simple but sweet 3-tier Strawberry Mousse Cake, decorated with pink and white chocolate hearts...The cake is topped with two pink lollipops with the bride and groom's initial written on the lollies.

 The wedding reception was held at her garden, with beautiful sunshine and greens. It was a prefect day for outdoor wedding. I'm also glad that I made her little finger food to serve the guests. A perfect theme for wedding - based on 'love' and the shape of hearts. Bread pudding was topped with whipped cream and decorated with mint leaves and sliced strawberries. Served cold with warm vanilla custard sauce.

    Mini love swans, romancing on top rose petals.

     





Mini fruit tarts, decorated with pink-coloured dessicated coconut, little heart-shaped candies and crushed peanuts.

 

Cold strawberry-flavoured jelly, served with whipped cream and fresh strawberries.

 








 
Chocolate rum balls coated with pink-coloured dessicated coconut and topped with heart-shaped candies.

SAVOURIES

Heart-Shaped Sandwiches filled with fun mayo tuna, kickin' hot chilli tuna, creamy dreamy egg mayo, home made teriyaki chicken

Mixed finger food - baked baguette served with smoked salmon, cream corn, chilli tuna, egg mayo, chicken teriyaki, fresh vegetables...

Savoury and sweet palmiers - parmesan cheese, marmite, brown sugar...












 Mini Tuna Cucumber 

 Little Egg Pots

Happy 35th wedding anniversary dad and mum. This is what I call fate and true love. I dedicate all my love to both of you and to those who will be celebrating their wedding celebration soon. Marriage is like a business, it’s easy to set up but not easy to maintain. It needs patience, understanding, tolerance and most importantly, true love.



May those who'll be celebrating love and those who are celebrating love...may you'll be blessed with happiness and sweet thoughts...yum yum...

Cakes for Adults

Hey fancy having a kinky 'bikini girl' cake for your birthday? This cake was specially ordered for a guy who obviously love sexy icons, enjoy sweet things especially chocolates. This is why the whole cake was shaped with dark chocolate cake filled with rich chocolate fudge. It took me a while to research the different types of lingerie that I want to design for this cake. The difficulty of designing this cake is to research the guy's underwear. My dad is the only guy in the family who owns the traditional styled boxer and most of the time it’s either white, brown or blue – my mum’s choice. She said no one can see the inside, why there’s a need to buy sexy underwear. Hehehe Sorry dad, your ‘under’ secret has been exposed by me. Honestly, when I was designing this cake, I need to think like a sexy male lover – sexy red, leopard spots, G-string and kinky spikes…


There are more to share on naughty adult cakes - fancy to have 'big boobs' cake for your bachelor's party?

Freelance Food Journalist?

I’m pretty excited that I dream of sharing my thoughts on some selected recipes through my practise as a freelance food journalist – yeah that’s my current dream too. Please hold your laughter as I’m laughing loud too. But why not? Years back I was always holding back myself from doing anything I like, love and enjoy. Why with restrictions? Why the rules? Is it because I came from a typical Chinese family where there's always worries and each time you thought of an idea, you mum will tell you all sort of horrifying stories. But T've gone through my down time. I survived. Today, it is me, Sandy da baker who has nothing much to worry – besides work, my parents, my friends, my life, my pets …other than that I don’t see why can’t I realise my dreams. I'm a happier person now...Let's get the swiss roll, rolling now till it gets in shape!

It's a designer's bag...but from my little shop...

It's a special cake for my special friend, fran fran... missed her so much as she's in langkawi now...those were the days where we celebrate our birthdays in the 'little aquarium'. Sorry...it's only a bag from my little shop as I can't afford to buy you real designer's bag...kekeke...

Baking Interest

Hey, it’s after work time and I have the urge to blog again. I was doing some serious thinking yesterday about my team and my future in the F &B industry. How do I manage my team well while they have different thoughts? The things I’m learning with my current position helps me a lot to structure my working committee for my future baking store. Oh talking about this, although I’m using TLCS for now but I seriously thought of naming my little bakery

---i-- ---r, your little cake shop

in the future…it’s a mystery for now as I want it to be a surprise to everyone. Since I’m working in the creative communication school, of course I need to play a little gimmick in enticing my customers.

Alright let’s get back to what I want to share today. The colour black and white inspires me a lot today. I wonder if the main reason is that my the other colleague wore the almost look-alike outfit too :P. I find that we can do plenty of designs with the colour of black and white. Personally I like these two colours as we tend to make fewer mistakes with them. The other day I was watching Cake Boss, one of my favourite programme besides CSI, House, Ghost Whisperer and practically I love watching anything that moves. Cake Boss’s boss did a great job in designing three different cake designs using the colour, black and white. It was so stylish, sophisticated and elegant looking. It was meant for a fashion magazine but I think it can be used for any wedding and food magazine. Anyway, the design that he ahs chosen were Victorian style – with black flowery design on top of pure white icing, modern style – with simple black stripes and roses around the three-tier white sugar-iced cake and the final design was something I called contemporary – it still has its touch of modernism and its magic of elegance – it looks like it’s meant for the top executives than the playful youth. Black and white does make a good couple. It’s like two pieces of jigsaws puzzle, completing each other. Unfortunately, my colour is grey. Although I tried hard to differentiate them but somehow we will always ended in the grey area.

While we are still sharing thoughts on the ‘couples’, have you ever wonder for difficult it is for the Chinese to have their wedding cakes or gowns in black and white? If we can wear them for our prom night, parties and dinners – mind you Chinese wedding dinner is also know as dinner mah…, why can’t the bride and groom wear them too? Aha…gotcha! Welcome to the grey area.

Mini Cupcakes transformed to Mini Wedding Cake

It was a fun challenge to turn cupcakes to mini wedding cakes. I love the sweet pink colour as it add the magic touch to a sweet wedding. A prefect gift to the bride! In fact you can surprise the bride by hiding something kinky in the 'love tower', which made of sugar paste.

Birthday Cake for my Aunty

This is a special cake made for my aunty 50th birthday...there's reason why I chose teapot as the theme....hehehe...

Baking Portfolios

Whoa...my first 3D designer cake...it was made for a friend who was celebrating her 21st birthday. A surprise birthday cake ordered by her boyfriend - so sweet... was almost 4 years now...


Little Misses.. and Little Mr....the base was dark chocolate chewy brownies, topped with little chocolate bombs - then decorated with cream to illustrate each different character of little miss...and little mr...


Little edible Farm House...tasty chocolate cake with rich chocolate fudge as the filling...


The back yard...full with colourful candies...

The baker is back!!!

This morning I've attended an interesting workshop on Web 2.0 and just last Friday, my mind was bombarded with the term of Social Media Marketing. It simply makes me wants to blog again but this time, I want to do my way - happy-rainbow, sexy-red and cutie-blue. I guess these are some of the colours I use to decorate my collection of sweets - be it wedding or my lovely cupcakes. I've progressed a lot since I last blogged in 2008. Who would have guess a young looking baker who has not been through any baking course can bake so well? While surviving my current job at one of the leading college in creative communication, I spend my time creating required cake designs for my clients (who are mainly my friends and relatives). Hey check out the wedding cake I created for my cousin in 2009 - can you imagine that i waited this long to post these pictures? My cousin's baby boy is almost 8 months old! haha...I can;t deny that I was busy with many things or I simply giving myself excuses only. Ohh...at times, I do get some referral clients too. Do check out one of my proud production. It was a three-tier, golden-ish, victorian styled wedding cake with dark hand-made roses and edible white lilies....I guess that's the latest creation as of for 2010. Am happy about it even I was going through one of my toughest time in my life at that time. I guess the only way to pull my feet back on ground is through baking. By nature, I'm born to be a baker...although I enjoy putting on my thinking hat to strategise and branding my college...

In the end of the day, I'm just a plain girl who likes to bake while trying to make a change among the youth...