A Choc Cake for Seth's Teacher

After The Rascal's birthday, my sis asked me to prepare a cake, not cupcakes, for The Rascal's teacher. I wasn't confident with baking a whole cake since I've been baking cupcakes for some time already.

So I bought a pre-mix of Betty Crocker's Choc Cake instead of baking one from scratch.

The ingredients are simple; just eggs, corn oil and the pre-mix pack.

I tried the pre-mix before and it has never failed me.

The batter could make 2 layers of this size of the the pan.

Cooling the cake on the rack.

For the frosting, I melted 50g unsalted butter with 1o0g dark choc in a metal bowl over a pan of boiling water.

I'd some left over of Chockylit's vanilla and choc butter cream. Vanilla butter cream was used to sandwiched between the 2 layers.

I covered the top of the cake with the melted choc and the side with choc butter cream.

It's the first time I tried piping words on the cake. So... it's so fugly!

I mixed the remainder of both butter cream and piped out the rim of the cake.

My sis's feedback from the teacher was that the cake was very well-received by the teacher and students.

A Bone, A Paw and Cupcake for Ah Wang

I was prepared to have a baking marathon for these birthday treats for our dear colleague, Ah Wang. He's our 'dog' in the office. Yes, we bully him quite alot as we treat him as if he's one of the sisters too.
So what did I intend to bake? A dog bone biscuit for our dear 'dog' and some cupcakes as well.

Preparing the aluminium sheet for easy rolling of choc dough.

Without bone cookie cutter, I used a knife to cut out the rectangle shape, and rolled 4 small balls before flattening them.

I know they weren't the best-looking dog bones but it was still hard work to make them. My partner at work commented that they looked like flatten lizard!

Now for the dog paw. Using free-hand as well.

It was time to rest after these cookies were done. Another round of baking awaited the next evening!

On 2nd evening...

I started with baking Nigella's Vanilla Cupcakes.

Looking bouncy and full, didn't they?

Now for Chockylit's Vanilla Butter Cream.

I simply love this piping.

Finally, choc butter cream. What do ya think I was gonna do next with?

I piped another round of choc butter cream on top. Something different I would say.

Now for the cookies...

I melted strawberry choc for piping Ah Wang's initials on the cookies.

These would be Ah Wang's present and should last him for the next few days.

As there were a few extra cupcakes I baked with some batter, I decorated with the choc butter cream and strawberry choc. Hmmm... maybe this might be a source of design for my next cupcakes.

Big... big... cupcakes for Little Rascal & Frenz

My sis dotes on her lil rascal so much that she asked me to bake him and his pre-school classmates bigger cupcakes for his b'dae. She tried, liked and wanted the white choc cup cakes, which I baked for the Piggies' gathering previously.
And for the lil rascal, I went to Phoon Huat and got bigger cupcakes liners.

These colourful cupcake liners are from Wilton.

They're so cute, and I can't bear to use the rest of them!

The batter ready to be baked.

I filled slightly more than half (maybe around 2/3) of the cupcake liners.

I had run out of white choc chips, so I mixed the dark and white together.

I stirred them in with a toothpick, to prevent them from sinking to the bottom.

My trial samples. I used ordinary and smaller cupcake liners as I couldn't bear to waste any of those pretty ones.

Now for the real stuff.

They gave a sunny and tan finish on the top, just rite for the lil rascal!

The next evening...

I ordered the cupcake courier on Amazon.com. It excited me to use it for the 1st time, especially when a need arrived just in time!

Blue's my favourite colour, but I chose the bright cheerful yellow.

Choc buttercream

A total of 24 cupcakes with choc buttercream and sprinkled with colourful teddy bears.