Friday, March 26, 2010

our first sale!!!!

woo hoo!!!! i love mad things! as y'all can tell, i DID go a little mad... hehe.... spend the whole day yesterday making 112 cupcakes for a friend's daughter's first year birthday. where did the 12 come from? well, her sis has seen the red velvet so often on facebook she HAD to take this chance to order some. hence the 12.

it was fun! i started at 10, but the first batch of ganache was too bitter, i am not going to try new things when i have to sell the next time. thank you chin for the phoon huat choc chips but i still i will stick to nestle or hersheys for my ganache. the first and second batch took me an hour to stir and perfect, off to the fridge it goes. i then set off to make the red velvet cake, the devil's food cake which is now called "the devil amongst us"

just at this point phillie came over to start on the fondant, alas! the woman at phoon huat sold me the wrong one. $6.60 wasted, i am bringing it back to her to make her make the fondant infront of my eyes. she totally wasted our time. we had to run out, halfway through the baking for 2 hours. truth is the going out was a good breather. so off to the bedok phoon hust we go just to find out they have closed down. so everyone, no more phoon huat at bedok. so we had to run to the simei branch, come home, squeeze in dinner and the baking continues.
after perfecting the frosting, hehe... i finally found out how to make them perky, meringue powder and loads of icing sugar, i have to say, after 50 cupcakes, my swirling became effortless and actually became fun! so with phillie making the Ds, some lilacs, blue that turned out green, yellow, ganache and 5 hours later, (mind you with the help of my mother with the individual packing) we were set and ready for collection!
respond? she just text and said the red velvet is so so so so good and that they cannot stop smiling while eating it. yay!!!! the feeling of satisfaction engulfs me.... so off to make somemore fore my nephew and niece. once again, YAY FOR FIRST SALE!!!

Friday, March 19, 2010

Think PINK!!!

aren't gay boys the greatest? hehe... so guess which party i was at last night?


Since phillie and i will be known for our creations soon, she did the balls (how apt right?) i did what i know best, CUPCAKES! one is a devils food cake and the other vanilla. i love how everyone waited till the last minute before engulfing it. think they were shy... or just watching their weight.... i always love the vanilla but i'd have to say the devil's food was yums but i think a little too rich. so drool away....

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Balls Balls Balls!

Pink ones too!

Our dear friend is celebrating his 21st *ahem!* birthday again on Friday and the theme is, no big surprise, Pink! As a little gift to him, I decided to make him some pink rumballs! Ok ok so they could be pinker, but I really don't like the idea of white chocolate, so everyone will have to deal with the dark chocolate base!

Anyways his tagline is 'I for Love', so this is really quite appropriate doncha think??

My Pink Balls!

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All packed and ready to party!

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Happy Birthday Ai-van!

Love,
Ah Whel (aka Phillie)

Monday, March 8, 2010

我们是...奇怪的厨房.

Hahah We were having this conversation about how business/company names would sound in mandarin, and I guess this would be us! (Apologies to those who don't read mandarin)

Don't run away! Come back! Pleeease? We're really not all that strange! I think.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Food For Thought - Red Velvet

I really wanted Phillie and Charissa to try out Food For Thought’s Red Velvet. Now, the thing is, Singapore doesn’t have that many places that sell Red Velvet. From my previous trip to FFT, I felt that I could make better, so last night, I made some. All that’s left was for Phillie and Charissa to try some and compare which one was better, FFT’s or mine.

Here’s a picture to get you salivating…

My Red Velvet used Magnolia’s cake recipe and I added walnuts to the icing. I’m glad to say that after Charissa tried mine, she went…

“Yums! This is what Red Velvet is supposed to taste like!”

YAY! In comparison, the FFT Red Velvet was very dry and tasted like normal sponge cake, just with a little color added. I will let Phillie tell you her point of view, but in her own words…

“… tasted a bit like cardboard…”

So, in a very “not shy” manner, I declare… Mine is better!