Temple of Zeus

Temple of Zeus. I made this for my sister's birthday and threw her a party at The Dining Room at the Westin in KL. Needless to say, the inspiration was the Temple of Zeus in Athens, Greece. We had just returned from a 2 week vacation in Europe where we spent a few days visiting the ruins of ancient Greece in Athens and Temple of Zeus was my sister's favourite so I made this cake which took almost a week to complete and could not be a surprise because we lived in the same house!! The pillars are made from gumpaste, hand sculpted onto lollipop sticks. The cake is an orange butter cake with an orange butter cream filling.

Sakura

Sakura. This was made during Chinese New Year and of course the fake branches of the sakura flower that is so prevalent during Chinese New Year was the inspiration. I made this as a gift to an aunt and needless to say, it made an impression! Again, 100% edible with the flowers made from gumpaste and everything else fondant.

Xmas Tree

Xmas Tree. My mother wanted me to make a cake to take it to church on Christmas day for the potluck they were having. I used butter cream for needles of the pine tree and chocolate ganache for the bark of tree. Snowflake icing decorations from Wilton used together with gold and silver beads and a final sprinkling of icing sugar to put some realism into it. This was very popular and I ended up getting requests for classes which was quite flattering! But then again, I brought myself back down to earth by reminding myself it was Sungai Siput (my hometown) where they hardly ever have cake decorating classes

The BFF Cake

The BFF Cake. Made for my friend Cheow, the cake had 7 mini monsters in total. One for each of my Best Friends.

Adults usually don't like the sugar paste on cakes because of its intense sweetness but sugar paste creations are pretty so to balance the looks with great taste, I made my signature chocolate cake with chocolate ganache as the base. This particular one was made with Willie Wonky's 100% Chocolate ordered via mail order all the way from England because my BFFs are all chocolate lovers. Each friend took their BFF home in small little boxes and we ate the chocolate cake.