Hantaran cake - The Pagola Toppers

 

The above cake design was copied from a book "The Art of Royal Icing" by Eddie Spence. The overall appearence looks "neat", however, it was a very nerve-wreaking experience, especially during assembling all the royal icing pieces.

This cake was featured in NONA Magazine, January Issue.

Dianah's Engagement

Dianah “Hantaran” Cupcake

 

This “Hantaran” flowers were made of royal icing. The theme color was red brick ( in malay, Merah batu bata) and cream.

 

I asked one of my Engineer friends about the color of brick. He informed there are many grades of bricks, depends on the content of the clay, from the reddish to the brownish and started to lecture on bricks, huh,huh, at certain time my brain just switch-off, not listening, just respond my saying mmmm…….

 

He informed me the British India Office in Kota Damansara was made of the most expensive and the highest grade of bricks. On Sunday, during my pasar tani routine, I pass by the British India Office, almost ¾ of the building used bricks, more like terracotta color. This building must cost a fortune.

 

Back to the hantaran, the roses I used terracotta color, however I think I used too much color paste and it turned more to the reddish color.

 

Overall I’m satisfied with the outcome.

Shahiza's hantaran cake

This love shaped pink cake was from the groom to the bride, Shahiza. This cake was a vanilla cake with chocolate ganache fillings.

The cake was adorned with royal icing flowers. Royal icing flowers took at least one to four days to really dried, depends on the “thickness” of the flowers. It will be easily brittle if it not totally dried.

5-Tiered Cake

Five tiered cake – Wedding Cake

This five tiered cake consisted of 16”, 14”, 12” 10” and 8” diameter cake. Set-up was done at site for final finishing touches. All the cake was placed on a “Tall Tier Cake Stand” I bought from Wilton .

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the cake was not to be placed near the “pelamin”, the stage where the bride and groom sits. Thus, the tiered cake has to be carried to the stage during the cake cutting ceremony. So the fully assembled cake have to be stashed somewhere.

I went to check the cake on the verge of the cutting ceremony. I realized the tiered cake tilted a little bit. The boys (who help in the ceremony) help to check and we found out one of the table’s leg rubber had worn off. Heartache!!! Heartache!!!....anyway no time to rectify the problem…….The weight of the cake worsens the situation.

When we carried the tiered cake to the stage, one of the boy tried to put a piece of Styrofoam on the worn off table’s leg to stabilized the table but the Styrofoam was crushed when we placed the tiered cake on the table, the table (I think) cannot take the weight of the cake………Arghhhhhhh!!!!!.

I am very worried the cake will topple….. The degree of the “tilting” seems to increase when it was on stage….look like the “Leaning Tower of Pisa”.

When the bride and groom ready to cut the cake, I requested three boys to go up on stage…..to grab the tiers, just in case it topples…….(this was caught in the wedding video)……..

Thank God!!! The cake does not topple……

By the way, the 2 figurines are specially ordered to match the groom and the bride's face =)

Lesson Learned:

1. Do not rely on the table provided; I have to have my own table.

2. If possible, the fully assembled cake must not be moved frequently, especially for tiered cake more than four.

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Wedding Token

Wedding Favours as a Token for the guest at my niece’s wedding.

Wedding favours play an integral part in making the wedding unforgettable. Besides the ordinary “Bunga Telur”, we also gave each guest chocolate cupcakes. 

To do 1,200 cupcakes was a challenged, especially when you are doing it alone. The baking part was a breeze but decorating and putting into the dome container was an agony. 10% of the dome containers' covers were malfunction, it does not close the container properly, and really eats up my patience….arghhhhh…..I have to return it to the supplier……..

Special Gift/Hantaran/Special Events

Since these are the season for engagements and weddings, we've been getting request to make 'hantaran' cakes. Will post more special cakes pic soon.


Birthday Girl with 'one' of her cakes XD yes, the lucky girl got 3!

Owh, btw, this cake's flavour is Moist Orange Lemoney Cake.
Designs and flavour can be negotiated =)

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"Potong Jambul" Nestum Cake

Butter Cake cream laced with Nestum, the aroma is SEENFULLY SEDAP!!!!!!

This cake was a gift to a friend, who is celebrating her daughter's 45 days old birthday and her 'Potong Jambul' ceremony. (Its a ceremony done by the Malay culture to celebrate a person's first hair cut)

The design was copied from Wilton Book of cake decoration. The cake was decorated with daisies made from royal icing, the 'baby face' with a nice 'jambul' appropriate for the event.