Engagement Cupcakes

Received this order from a repeat customer. This time she wanted me to do engagement cupcakes in 2 different themes - red and white and the other one black, white and silver.

3D Mosque Cake

Can you do a Mosque cake? was the question by my customer. I had never done it before and I was excited to be given this opportunity, The mosque cake was to be a hantaran cake and therefore, I had to consider the size to ensure that it fits in the hantaran tray or box, For the cake, I chose to do the mosque in brown/bronze theme colour which was the theme colour for the wedding.

I baked 2 butter cakes in 2 sizes: 10" for the base and 6" half round cake for the dome. The cakes were covered with fondant and sprayed in edible bronze for the dome and pillar. The doors were cut-outs fondants. It was really challenging doing the cake since the weather was not kind to me. It was quite hot and humid and the fondants decorations kept falling off. When it was done, I kept the cake in air conditioned room and thankfully, the decorations stayed glued to the cake.

Here's the pictures of my first 3D Mosque cake for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

Classic Funky Engagement cake

I received an order for an engagement cake recently and what was interesting was that the bride-to-be wanted a clock cake with the hands showing 3.00 pm and the colour to be in blue and pink, which was the colour of her engagement dress. I did asked why the 3.00 pm and was told that the event would start at 3.00pm..... A very symbolic cake indeed for a once in a lifetime experience :)

My initial sketch for the cake was to have a base to hold the clock and they would be in either pink or blue or something in between that would go with the blue/pink clock. But later, the design changed as they wanted the base to be something in white or cream as that was actually the theme colour and for the clock to maintain the blue/pink colour concept. Hmm... so i have the base in white/cream colour and the clock in blue/pink...so how do i design this???.... well, the result - something very very different for an engagement cake -i call this a classic funky cake .... here's the picture. ...................

Silver Blue Cupcake

Recently I purchased a flower veiner from an online store in Australia after reading rave reviews about it by fellow decorators. Few days ago I finally got to use the veiner for an engagement cupcake that I was commissioned to do. I love how the flowers came out and this is absolutely one of my favourite tools. Below is the cupcake that I did. The flower is the one in blue. Love them to bits :) By the way, Happy Valentine's day to all.

White Engagement Cake

This is an engagement cake with a minimalist approach. Its done in white, with just a few roses on top. Very very simple just like the bride and groom themselves. The cake is orange cake covered with white fondant.