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Apr
27

Cupcakes in a jiffy

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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
22

Making royal icing run-outs

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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
17

Decorating with clown head

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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

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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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Mar
3

Making leaf & cake decorating from buttercream

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Done !!

Yesterday I have shown you the steps in making roses from buttercream. Today, to complete the picture, I’m going to make the leaf and show more ideas on basic piping. The tip used for the leaf is this one. The tip comes in a few sizes, the bigger the tip, the bigger the leaf will …

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