The Busy Weekend

barbie chocolate cake. Banana chocolate chip muffins

Ayden's M nM first birthday cake. Strawberry chocolate cake.

The weekend has been such a busy one – On Friday I had to do one birthday cake to be sent into school but ended up being sent to the house as the poor girl was down with Fever. Then in the afternoon I had the pleasure of wathching my son performing in the drum line at the annual JIS International Day which was a blast. Then back home to do some muffins for my Sister in Law’s open house for Saturday afternoon and with Zahra down with fever for the past 6 days on and off, I was feeling quite exhausted come Sunday but..no real time to relax as I had yet another birthday cake to prepare, this time for a friend’s daughter. She wanted a Barbie doll cake. It was quite difficult at first to get the doll to stay upright after being wrapped up in foil but my son and I sellotaped 4 satay sticks onto the doll and stuck it through a piece of cardboard this in turn helped to stabilize the doll when I finally stuck it into the cake! The last time I did a barbie cake I stuck the barbie in an oval shaped ckae then put it onto the square chocolate base. But I could not be bothered to do that this time! We just stuck foil around the doll before icing it. Decorating the doll was quite fun although as usual I panicked when it came to adding the right amount of colouring to the icing!! Amin came to the rescue and I think we got quite close to the right colour! My new resolution is to attend a cake decorating class sometime to help improve future cake designs .I must say I was quite pleased with the outcome and the real pleasure is that the cake is pure chocolate, no additives and no spongy taste like what we normally get at most local bakeries which would charge an arm and a leg for a cake this size and style! Maybe I should start charging more!! Still decorating these cakes are quite fun although sometimes there are hits and misses..like running out of space when doing the writing or mispelling a word, but I guess that's part and parcel of decorating as a novice!! Happy Birthday again Maya and Shuih Lin and I hope you feel better Shuih Lin. I've uploaded the pictures of the various cakes I've had to do recently including the no 1 cake for Ayden's birthday that was last month. Also a picture of the chocolate chip banana muffins. Muffins are so easy to do and the only tedious part was putting the spoonfuls of mixture into the paper cases. Anyway lets hope next weekend will not be so busy, but I doubt it what with Amin's impending Haj trip coming up, I guess I'll be busy packing all his things!