Peacock Wedding Cake - Jessy Dass

I've done quite a number of peacock cakes and through time, my peacock cake looks much better, I also had find ways to simplify in making the peacock feathers.

This cake was for Ms Jessy Dass's Wedding, its quite a challenged when she wanted it to replicate exactly the peacock feathers colors. 

Kolam in front of the hall way.

When I reached the venue, somewhere in Gombak, I was amazed at the "kolam" in front of the hall, a vibrant colors of a pair of peacock. Since I was a child I always amazed at my friend's mother, (Sorry, I'm reminisced to my childhood day - my friend's name Ms Manimagalai, her house just like 20 meters from our school) she makes the best chicken curry I've ever tasted. She makes the curry from scratch making a thick curry paste using the "batu gilling" (granite slabs and stone rollers for grounding chillies and spices).

She used to draw the "kolam" in front of the house, she do it free-hand, there's no "blue-print" as a guide, all in her head. Every week with different design.  My friend told me, if her mother in a good mood, there would be vibrant colors on the "kolam" otherwise it's just a plain white outline design. 

I would like to thank Ms Jessy Dass, for e-mailing a few photos during her wedding and a few from a professional photographer - a vast difference from my amateurish photos.........

photo from professional photographer, REAL PIXEL PHOTOGRAPHY

 

Ms Jessy Dass with Groom

Tinkerbell

This cake design was inspired from a children book about  tinkerbell that lives in a teapot. I was commissioned to do a cake with a tinker bell figurine on the cake. Since it was quite tiresome to do a small figurine with gumpaste, I had decided just to look for a non-edible figurine. I browsed through the internet and managed to get a set of tinkerbell with friends. It were really pretty......

The figurine I ordered through www.WeddingDecoGift.com

The set of figurine

Fathers' Day Cake - Pandan Layered Cake for Pak Yusof

I was very surprised, happy and at the same time touched when my friend, Yasmina Yusof, who now reside in Australia, contacted me requesting to send a cake for her father on 16 June, coincidentally the same date with Fathers’ Day and he is 91 years old!!!. 

My last encountered with her father was like more than 20 years ago. Her  father is a big fan of William Shakespeare........ He asked me whether I still remember any of William Shakespeare stories. I told him I remembered “Macbeth” (I read the story when I was 15 years old)...... this was how I summaries the story....Its about a Scottish general named Macbeth, on the way back from a war he met three witches and gave a prophecy that one day he will be King of Scotland. He informed his wife, Lady Macbeth, she’s a schemer, the one who really behind all the killings of the king, the generals and their families, just to ensure Macbeth remained on the throne. With all the murders, both of them eventually became arrogance, insane and irrational. At last, he was killed by one of the King’s man (this part I not sure) Macduff,  who took revenge on Macbeth for the murder of his wife and son....actually I remembered bits and pieces, just like a jigsaw puzzle with several holes......and maybe this is my imagination, when you read the story you felt cold, dark and stuffy.....

He asked me, what is the moral of the story....”history repeats itself”?? , I answered. (main hentam je!!)

“Nope, human never learn from History and power, greed corrupts all” he responded.

Back to my cake, I suggested to Yasmina Pandan Layered Cake, very refreshing, for hot sunny day. Its a soft sponge pandan cake, with pandan pudding layers....yummy....

When I delivered the cake to him, he can still remembered me even though after more than 20 years, and he recited a few lines on Macbeth’s story, especially on the three witches!!!!......"fair is foul and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air"......

L to R : Pak Yusof's wife, Yasmina's elder sister and Pak Yusof