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?)


(top view)
btw, the cake is chocolate and butter cake....





(side view 1)

(side view 2)

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

top view
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!

Strawberry cheesecake vs Chocolate cheesecake

Here are two very simple-to-make cheesecakes with different toppings. Strawberries vs. Chocolate ..both are simply delish!

The base is a mix of oreo cookies+Jacob crackers+Weetameal


(which explains the mixture of colours but tasted very nice!) The cheesecake is basically a mixture of cream cheese + whipping cream + sugar + eggs + lemon juice + a couple of tablespoons of flour and then, into the oven. No sweat!

The strawberry topping: Strawberries, sugar, water over heat.
The chocolate topping: Double-boiler chocolate pieces + milk.

Simple yet satisfying.

Upside Down Apple Cake

One of the easiest cakes to make is this one...I used green apples and the results: worth the effort..but then again, since this was too easy to make, what effort?
And the smell...who could resist...
(The recipe taken from myresipi.com- click the title of this post and it'll get you there)

This taste wonderful when served warm alone, or topped with a dollop of whipped cream or vanilla ice-cream. It can be kept in the fridge, and whenever you feel like eating a piece, just pop it in the microwave for a few seconds, and it will still taste nearly as good as it first came out of the oven. Trust me on this!

Rainbow butter cake

I've always wanted to bake a colourful cake and finally, I did. This is a butter cake with 4 pastel colours: yellow, baby blue, baby pink and pastel green.

Chocolate Cake with Strawberries

I made a chocolate cake with cream cheese filling, with chocolate ganache and topped with halved strawberries. This was for a party at a friend's house. The cake arrived and gone within minutes!

sloppy sides, picture taken before I repaired them...

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.