3D Chanel Cakes For Girl's Birthday

Undoubtedly, 3D fashion themed birthday cakes are girls' favourite. Chanel and LV are 2 most popular brands among all which are regularly replicated in the form of cakes.

Our highlight today is a set of Chanel's dinner bag and box commissioned by Billie. She looked so beautiful posing with her roses and Chanel cakes.

(Picture courtesy of Billie)

The cakes were quite heavy, the whole box, including its cover and the dinner bag was made of cakes. It must be real cool cutting them. Perhaps I should make myself a designer bag cake one day! :)

Mommy Makes My Birthday Cake

It's holiday season. After making so many cakes in 2012, we at Mom & Daughter Cakes would like to slow down our pace and plan for 2013. We would like thank the support of all our clients, fans and friends for the past 3 years.

From baking cupcakes to birthday cakes and then wedding cakes, it's a journey of learning which is full of 

trials and errors. We appreciate the comments, compliments and even critics from our clients, you guys have brought us to where we ar today, thank you.

In 2013, we would like to start sharing some techniques of baking and cake decorating with you. We hope that more moms, mm..not necessary moms, it could be daughters or anyone with a loving heart to pick up basic skills of cake decorating such that they can make unique and personalized cakes with their own hands for their loved ones.



Look at these three cakes for little ones, if you could make them yourself for your kid, how nice, isn't it? "Mommy makes my birthday cake!" Your kid would be so proud of you.

So, stay tuned for our plan to come true in 2013. *smile*

Owl Cake For 1st Birthday

I nearly miss out this owl cake. Not ordinary for a 1st birthday, Aurelia's mom asked for 'something different' for her daughter's 1st birthday cake. She thought of an owl at last after considering various whimsical choices.

Well, I was so excited to read that in her email. The owl must look beautiful, girlish and pinkish. The mom put so much hope on my creation. I told myself I wouldn't disappoint her. From the reference given, I tried to tweak and include other elements in the design. Colours play an important role in bringing out the design. I was cautious on that and hoped that the colours chosen not only matching with the theme but playing the magic.

The end result was pleasing and undoubtedly it is one of my favourite cakes thus far.

Lovely Bears Birthday Cakes For Children

Do you love Forever Friends Bears? I guess the answer is yes for most of the girls and some boys too, hee..

They are not only our forever friends but they are forever young. Recently I've made a few cakes with the  Forever Friends Bears theme, they were mostly commissioned  for the 1st birthdays. 

Besides the main bear, some would like to have extra bears to put around their cakes or sitting on top of cupcakes, I think they are equally cute :) What do you think?

More Indian Wedding Cakes And Our Appreciation

I really like to do Indian themed wedding cakes. They are usually bold, vibrant and colourful. I like their concept of feeding each other, parents and relatives cake as part of the wedding reception, it's a symbol of love and sharing of the sweetest moment in life with their loved ones.

Many have enquired about the peacock themed wedding cakes since I blogged about it. I found the video of the wedding reception taken by Digimax Video Productions, the cake was featured in the video, so as the cake designer, that's me, hahah! Wanna have a look?

Yay! Let's check it out.

I'd like to share 2 beautiful wedding cakes with you that I did back in July. They are challenging, I have to make 50 pcs of roses, arranged in cascading form from top to the bottom of cake besides the lovely couples standing on top.

Another cake is a saree themed cake. It was my first trial doing a fabric effect fondant deco, thankfully everything run smooth. I dusted the roses with gold dust and made a pair of bride and groom in their traditional wedding suits too.

Have a closer look at the adorable figurines.

The bride texted me right after the wedding reception:

"Thanks 4 the cake. It tastes good n the design was superb."

It really made my day and I would like to express my appreciation for the opportunity given by Indian friends and clients to be part of their big days. It was really special to me!

Fun Photo Session

Hi, long time no see. Sorry for the long absence. Not that I was lazy but was thinking of presenting something special for our blog or site. Besides showcasing our cakes and cupcakes, I wish I could share some beautiful outdoor pictures with you, just like what you see now, not only cakes but people in the pictures.

Do you play Tap The Frog game? If you do, you would recognize who they are, :)

Who doesn't know them? I made 2D version of Mickey and Minnie for my cupcakes, both were given to the kid models, a 3 years old boy, Pherng  and a 7 years old girl, Lina. They loved them, hehe......

They are laughing, so cute, just like.......

......the kids, thumbs up for the cupcakes, haha, thanks dearies......

Can't help to put up another picture of Mickey and Minnie, :)

After a session of 'hard work' in the morning,

Pherng: Let's eat!

Lina: Okay, hehe......

Special thank to Egg Photography for the brilliant shots.



Cupcakes: Mom And Daughter Cakes

Photography: Egg Photography

Model: Pherng & Lina

Venue: Taman Gemilang Playground, BM. 



Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore And Piglet 1st Birthday Cake - Fully Cropped

Cake photography is as important as cake designing. Good picture enhances the beauty of a cake and vice versa. A gorgeous cake may appear to be less sensational if the picture quality is poor. Average cake would look below average if it is not captured under proper lighting and set up.

Again, I don't have a good camera to take good picture. Hence, I always need to adjust the brightness and contrast of the picture. This is called basic editting I suppose. My photo editting skill is so limited that I didn't even know how to crop a picture.

I told myself I gotta learn it as I don't always have time to set up a proper background for the cake. Yes, I'm  always in a rush!

After nearly 3 years into baking and decorating cakes and cupcakes, finally, I learned it! Hahah......how slow am I. I used a software downloaded from the internet to crop this picture, ya, it's not photoshop, I'm yet to touch photoshop, it looks too sophisticated to me, :p

So, presenting to you my very first fully cropped cake photo, hope you like it, :).

Love,

Amy Teoh

Minnie And Friends 1st Birthday Cake For Hayley

Hayley is 1! We did her full moon cupcakes when she was 1 month last year. How time flies! Justina is the proud mom of Hayley and a very friendly client of MND Cakes. She told me that Hayley had become a small fan of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cartoons, especially Mickey and Minnie.

We decided to make Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Daisy for her 1st birthday cake. I made the baby version of them as Hayley is still small.  They would appear like her peers.

I can't  stop staring at them after assembling them on the cake. I wish I could keep them for myself, hehe!

Hayley and mom were having a good time with friends and family. Look at Hayley, how happy she was!Thank Justina for sharing the picture.

Minnie and Mickey, they are forever young in every kid's heart.

Cheers!

Amy

Pastel Colours On Children Birthday Cakes

Recently I start to fall in love with the ussage of pastel colours in children birthday cakes. They tend to leave an ever lasting impact on the cake design. You simply can't get bored of it by looking your cake pictures over and over again.

On health basis, pastel colours leave lesser colour pigments in icing too, though edible and FDA approved, these pigments are still considered chemicals, lesser is better, especially to the kids.

Hence, you may see a series of children cakes from us in pastel colours from now onwards.

Trying to do little flowers painting on the sugar fonts too. It adds girliness to the cake for Klaire, a 1 year old girl. Here's the whole cake, the toppers mimics Klaire's favourite soft toys, adding personality to the cake.

If you agree with the use of pastel colours on cakes for small kids, let me know by leaving a comment., ok?

Malay Wedding - Kek Kahwin Dan Kek Hantaran

As Malaysians, we appreciate the cultural rich society where our traditional costumes, food and festivals are distinctly different and unique among each others. Yet, we are able to live harmoniously as we respect each other.

Last 2 weeks, I was blessed to be given the opportunity to make Malay themed wedding cakes after doing quite a number of Chinese and Indian themed wedding cakes.

For Malays, the bride and groom need to prepare hantaran or gifts for each other during akad nikah ceremony (when marriage contract is done legally and religiously) which is held a few days or weeks before the elaborated celebration of bersanding ( similar to Western wedding day) when friends and family are treated.

I did 3 cakes with different theme colours each for the wedding ceremony (2-tiered turquoise wedding cake with a pair of bride and groom in Malay traditional costumes) and hantaran gifts (purple hydrangea cake for the groom and pink roses cake for the bride).

I tried to incorporate new elements in the cakes such as the Malay couple and the stripey side design on both the hantaran cakes. Purple hydrangea are also my first trial :)

My special thank to Zainab.for giving us the opportunity to make these lovely cakes for her cousin's wedding. Thanks!

Love,

Amy



Umbrella Cake - Hope It Rains Tonight!

Hi reader, long time no see, hope to catch up with you more this week.

Will it rain tonight? Emm..I don't think so. But, I truly like the idea of my client who had given me the idea of making an umbrella cake. It's for her best friend's birthday.

The umbrella was crafted using styrofoam, the rest was cake and sugarcraft.

This cake is so personal and full of character, her friend likes it very much, so do I, hehe......

Winnie The Pooh And Friends Cake For 2 Years Old

Never get tired of making Winnie and friends, Tigger, Piglet and Eeyore, I like them all to present together on my cake.

Usually handmolded 3D figurines take time to produce. Each part of the figurine, including the black little dark eyeballs need to a pair of hands to work out. Sugar arts, people call it, talent, skill, subtle heart and patience are needed to produce life-like creatures in sugar form.

This is the reason we are unable to take mass order for fondant cake and cupcakes, so as 3D cake toppers. Usually I need 1 day to make a round cake with  one or two pieces of 3D cake toppers. Slow ya? Indeed.

So please place your order as early as possible, 1 month or 2 months earlier would be good, especially if your celebration falls on a weekend though our lead time is only 1 week. Please bear with us and we apologize on any disappointment caused thus far.