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May
1

Gum paste flowers – roses

I have tried making roses many times but up till to date, I’m still not satisfied with how it turned out. However, I think I’ll just leave a note here on how it is done. Then we can all practice to perfect our roses. Items needed are :   6 inch stiff wire, tiny hook …

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Apr
29

Bakingproject.com is featured !

I just stumbled into this last night, I was browsing through the AllMalaysian bloggers project. I was wondering why my cake photo was displayed there. Apparently it was chosen as the ‘featured blog’. Quite an honour actually for a newbie like me, whose archive only contains 3 months post. Thank you so much to the …

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Apr
27

Cupcakes in a jiffy

My brother called yesterday and announce that he’s taking us for lunch to celebrate my dad’s belated birthday. I had always wanted to make a nice birthday cake for my dad, but was waiting for him to come to KL from our hometown in Perak. My dad had just arrived in KL yesterday. Due to …

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Apr
26

Cheese Onion scones

It’s Saturday ! Time flies, isn’t it. What do you do on weekends ? If you are planning to stay at home to try out some new recipes, here’s one that you might like to try. I made this a few days ago and it’s really good. It’s originally called Russian Cheese Onion Scones. The …

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Apr
24

Gum paste butterflies

Inspired by some of the designs I see in Flickr and also in a friend’s blog, I decided to try to make my own butterflies from gum paste. Its fairly easy. Just cut out some butterfly shapes. Then create the look you want. I use my piping tips to make tiny holes and also to …

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Apr
22

Making royal icing run-outs

Picture from the book – Making great cakes by Angela Nilsen No, in case you are wondering, I’m not running out of royal icing. It’s the name of those things like the butterfly and the love shapes in the picture above. Basically it’s made of dried royal icing and today I’m going to show you …

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Apr
20

Modelling with sugarpaste

Today is a lazy Sunday, no cooking or baking done. Kitchen is closed on Sunday . Just decorating my cuppies with this cute animal figures made from fondant. Enjoy the pictures ! I wish it will snow in Kuala Lumpur..then we can make snowman, like this one..   Me making a cow, poking his nose..ouchhh …

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Apr
19

A baker@sugarcrafter’s shopping list

This morning, I drag my husband out of bed and reminded him that he promised to take me to some of my favorite bakery supply shops. Well, after having a late breakfast, we went to Pastry Pro in Kepong and also the shop in PJ. So this is what I bought :   Another can …

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Apr
17

Decorating with clown head

I noticed some leftover butter cream in the fridge.. I thought of throwing it away, but then decided to use it to practice on my clowns. You need to buy the clown heads which are quite cheap, about RM2.50 a packet. (Maybe 10 heads, I didn’t count). These are made of plastic. The tip I’m …

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Apr
14

Decorating with piping gel

Piping gel is another ingredient that you can use to make interesting pictures on cakes. Most of my visitors who are in the cake business is already an expert in this technique. However, for the sake of some newbies, I’ve decided to document my project this morning using piping gel.Take note that I am also …

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