jeng jeng jeng...
Today is the day of assembling my cakes peeps... I woke up so early that I scared myself hahhaa... first thought that comes to mind when i woke up was.... GASP! Today's the day! I collected myself and my thoughts and prep-ed myself
Took out the cakes out the fridge... scared myself silly thinking that I might just drop one of the cakes
Stared at all my 3 cakes and ready with my pillars
I arranged the roses on top of the top tier
and waal-lah.... there you go... i manage to stick in the pillars without a hitch, alhamdulillah (yes ira, they were not that hard and much simpler than i thought they would be - thanks fren =) )
Cakes all ready in their boxes to be transported to Dewan Suarah.
The other big box carried all the 20 pieces of cupcakes for the vip goodie bag.
I brought extra buttercream in 3 piping bags with three different types of piping tips... just in case...
so the kepo me...
My brother drove the car. I carried the biggest of the lot, my sis and cousin carried the other two boxes. Alhamdulillah we reached Dewan Suarah in one piece... in 3 pieces i mean... *wink wink
Again scared myself silly that I might just trip and drop the cake... for those who are familiar with Dewan Suarah, there are a lot of stairs you need to climb before you reach the hall....
I assembled the cake....
and here it is peeps:
(drum roll please....)
MyCupcakes' OFFICIAL FIRST 3 Tier wedding cake...
ta... daaaaa...
Am so proud of MyCupcakes' first official 3 tier wedding cake.... sob sob sob... i am so touched that our cakes played a part on Atikah's wedding day... so the drama me i know....
Bye bye cake... parting with it was such sweet sorrow.. again so the drama me... i know...
Took a last look at the cake before i went back home to change and later on attend the majlis as as a guest ')
Some pictures taken:
the cake crew
(we had a good giggle actually during the assembling of the cakes -
are we for real doing this?!)
all 5 kg
top tier (8") - 1 kg
middle tier (10") - 1.5 kg
bottom tier (12") - 2.5 kg
vanilla flavoured sponge cake with vanilla buttercream filling and frosted with vanilla buttercream
I loved the recipe... they're yummy and stamped of approval from Erwin obtained of course!
Note: Starting price is RM300 ... subject to requests/deco - any that you have in mind - do inform us.. of we could always work something out based on your budget)
After all is assembled and done... Have a look at how MyCupcakes' made Atikah's day:
Awwwww... so sweet!
Note:
Later on Atikah told me that she wanted more of the cakes when she had the first bite of the cake after cutting the cake on stage... so funny... can you imagine the bride and the groom forgetting all their decorum and actually sit down and EAT a huge chunck of the cake during the cake cutting ceremony... that will be the day hahaha....
What an experience! Atleast now I know that I can do this and the fact that MyCupcakes' first experience doing a wedding cake was alhamdulillah a success... it will definitely boost my confidence to do better and make wonderful looking cakes... be it for wedding, birthdays etc...
and i found out that baking and decorating cakes is not as intimidating as i thought it'd be and... i loved the experience!!! wonderful wonderful
What have i learnt from this experience.. i need to manage my time... i learnt that it is very difficult to get a totally smooth cake surface using buttercream.... it takes a lot of imagination to make wonderful wonderful looking decorated cakes which i drool over in the internet and books and magazines.... the possibility is endless
Reading books, research through the internet and YouTube does help but then again attending a class to know the tools of the trade would make a much confident baker and cake decorator.... hik hik hik giggling myself silly... me? a cake decorator... who would've thought huh? (ask any of my family and friends.... their exact same thoughts!)
I sooooo want to attend a cake decorating class.... which I plan to do in due course once I have found the time and enough moolah... I am very interested with wilton courses at ICCA.... let see how that goes ok....
Next month I might have an order for a 2 tier fondant wedding cake.. let us see how it goes. My friend Ira told me to practise and have a feel at covering a whole cake with fondant... which I will do sometime this week insya allah... and will update and put up pictures of course!
In the mean time, I am taking one week off after my 3 tier wedding cake.... no cakes and cupcakes thoughts... just me and rewarding myself with huge sized lobster at Magenta....
Note: The day before the function, my boss' wife, Mrs Wan called and told me she attended a wedding and the couple's tiered cakes fell down when they moved the table! Didnt need that story to scare myself silly, I can do that all by myself.. but it was a good reminder for me and hence called Atika to inform the person in charge of the cake during the majlis to take good care of the cake and that once the cakes have been assembled, in no circumstances should the table be moved anywhere!
take care peeps
Hope you have enjoyed reading this entry coz i sure had fun writing it =)
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