Recycle Truck / Garbage Truck Birthday Cake

Adam turned 4 in 2011..and following the red fire truck is yep, you got it...garbage truck..I wonder what he wants this year....

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(front view)

(a little back view)

Once again, rushed home from work and prepared this! No blue prints! See the signboards? I don't really understand why it's there but my son does like signboards and putting them there creates a 'busy' illusion, as well as adding colours and takes your eyes away from the sloppiness of the icing...am i right?

The birthday boy with his cake! Why such obsession with garbage trucks (at that time)? Because of the mechanism and as a toy, it can do many things other than moving front and back...Also, he has seen many impressive garbage truck when we were in Melbourne..and they don't smell...so, more like fond memories than stinky ones!

These are part of his birthday presents!

Clowning Around!

A dear friend of mine wanted a special birthday cake for her husband and she decided on a clown cake.


Well, I've never made one before so I told her to try other cake shops for this type of cake. But since it was kind of last-minute, she turned to me once again and begged me to attempt this task. Along with the reason behind a clown cake was a sad story of how her husband never had a birthday 'do while growing up, and he always wanted to become a 'clown' if he wasn't that successful in becoming a lawyer...(can you imagine?)


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btw, the cake is chocolate and butter cake....





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and throw in a tray of cupcakes with it!!

Fire Truck Cake

At first, he wanted a garbage truck cake, then he wanted a fire truck cake...It was a working day and I had to rush home and the time? Not enough to bake, create and ice. So, I cheated a bit...

How? I bought a banana cake, cut it into few blocks, 'paste' them together with icing...and then concentrated (not really, with the 2 kids running around...) in making the icing, colouring them, then iced the cake, put it in the fridge and taking it out again...continue icing, what a process!

Finally, after about 2 hours or so, I told myself to stop (or else it won't get done coz' it was messy and far from being perfect) and hey, what's important was that my son approved it!

Ignore the messy bits, please...the cake was accessorized with bits and pieces of my son's toys such as the cone, little firemen, shovel and the firehydrant! Anything will do take make it look done!!!

There's my princess and prince blowing the candles!

Flora cuppie cake

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side view

some for the teachers...



It was my daughter's 6th birthday and she had been begging me for a cake to bring to her kinder for weeks before the big day. Finding time was the challenge. Somewhere after work and at 9-ish till midnite, I managed to whip this up. It was between a chocolate-covered cake and a flower cuppies cake. And the cuppies won because I want it to be different and knife-free and mess-free! Even the teacher thought it was a whole cake before my daughter started to take a cuppie one at a time to passed it to her friends!

1 Year Old Cake

Here's a No.1 cake that I baked last year and decorated without any tools at hand..hence, the sloppy finishes but one very happy birthday boy (my son, that is...)

Castle Cake

This is a beginner's luck. It was in 2008, when my daughter turned 4. She wanted a castle cake for her birthday. With no decorating tools at all, I simply used buttercream in several colours, placed them in a plastic bag and puched a tiny hole to do some major freehand decorating. Ta-dah!

The Cake? Cream cheese filled Chocolate Cake.