Hello!! I’m still alive and well, been baking and living life to near fullest I say! I’ve just baked today, made some yummy violet buttercream icing! Lovin’ it! I woke up early to bake some cupcakes today! Yummy Hershey’s chocolate chip, white choc chip, Nutella, Blueberry and yummy vanilla flavoured cupcakes…. with my new Violet colored buttercream icing. Made them for my friend who left for Denmark today, and gave some to my other friends as well. Glad they liked them!

Here’s a photo of my naked cupcakes before going into the oven:

Tired tired tired. Been baking the entire day… For my friend, Lionel and a birthday gift for tomorrow’s party. I’m not really in the mood to write anything today so I’ll keep this entry short and sweet. This order is specially done for Lionel’s wife and it’s of the  ♥ L.O.V.E ♥ theme I’m glad Jen finds them yummy and loves the cream - that’s because I reduced the sugar by half so it wouldn’t be so sweet  I have yet to take any photos of the birthday cupcakes so I’ll leave that for the next entry.

Presenting Monsieur Lionel’s cupcake order…

Set of 12 loveydovey cupcakes… ♥

Dream dust cupcake  

Love♥dust cuppycake  

Little Fairy cupcake 

Valentine cupcake

And finally…. Lionel Lewis with his Sugarina Cupcakes! 

Hitting the sack… Miss Sugarina ♡
 

*LONG ENTRY ALERTTTT* 

Hello there my fellow cupcake lovers!

  I’ve finally completed my 1st order (!!!!!!)

I was wondering… do you think SG$2.50 per cupcake is expensive? I don’t think it’s really justified to receive a comment like "so ex". I think you should try baking on your own and you’ll experience how it’s like. You’ll come to realise that it’s really about the effort (and it’s alotttt of effort) you put in from scratch till the cupcakes are completed and also the whole experience for the eater/customer, which cannot be measured in monetary terms. PLUS, this is a special order. I surprised Charlene by adding white chocolate into the cupcakes as the ones she ordered are plain vanilla and decorated with special toppings.

On a lighter note, I went to buy baking stuff yesterday and spent 150 bucks! Incredible. I almost died from yesterday’s heat and fever dizzy spells while walking back to the car (it was a longgg walk) with nearly 3kg of stuff tp carry zzZZ  but I’m very pleased that I bought everything that I thought I would need for this order and I really did use what I got!

I’m so excited for Charlene! ♥ I hope her colleagues and her will love the cupcakes *keeps her fingers crossed* She thought my previous cupcakes’ icing was very sweet. This time I made buttercream icing instead of royal icing. Yummmyyyy and I’m in love with fondant* (*Fondant is a sugar paste. Some would peel it off and not eat it as it doesn’t taste very pleasant but it really makes beautiful decorations.) and making it was absolutely….. painstaking. I also handmade little gifts for her (as you can see the materials I bought in my previous entry heh) and her colleagues!  I also did special packing to make sure that they are secure cause I was so afraid….cupcakes are really fragile, especially the icing! It gets really messy. It’s a real pity Cup-a-cake is not for international sale, otherwise I would get them. They are tupperware for cupcakes!

I met buds Weizhi for dinner at Hua Ting today. Was late cause I spent half the day in the kitchen baking! Although late, buds was really nice and patient, and! he got me my Mcqueen scarf!  Thankyou and I’m so glad you and your sister love the cupcakes! ♥

I’m going to bake cookies next. It’s been a longggg while since I baked sugar cookies. Yummmylicious… and I wanna ice them! Can’t wait!

Here are photos of the cupcakes I baked for Charlene today. *Warning: Image Heavy

Charlene and her pinkilicious order! Cute enough to eat =DDD

1. Twinkle Pink Cuppycake

2. Petal Love Cuppycake

3. Satin Heart Cupcake ♥

4. Party Cups - Chocolate Chips w/ Green Heart

5. Party Cups - Chocolate Rice w/ Blue Star

6. Party Cups - Lil’ Rainbow Star

Viola! Présentez….. la finale…. Sugarina Cupcakes’ 1st Order!

I GOT MY 1ST ORDER !!!!

Gonna get started by hunting for packaging sources and buying of ingredients… As for now, I’m feeling a little sickish so gonna see the doctor tomorrow then get my baking ingredients along the way. Hehhhh. I know my baking has been on a hiatus, I am just looking forward to the big project coming up this week! Hope it turns out well. I’m a baking noob… hehhhh.

I live for cupcakes though  

Got to post this up because I’m so hooked on chewing them gum balls! Lurvinnnn Sanrio cuteness

*Edit// Just bought them today 11 June (after having lunch at my favorite Sun with Moon and doctor’s )

Candylicious Sugarina Pink Cupcakes!

Turned out pretty well, except that while my cupcakes were baking in the oven… due to my impatient nature, I sneaked upstairs to enjoy some chilled air in my air conditioned room. The weather has been a killer!

When my cupcakes were ready… the color of the cupcakes was a tad too dark. I got a shock  Too caramelized I guess. The heat’s too much. Realllll hottttt. Because I forgot to lower the temperature to 160 degrees! *roars* It would’ve been perfect….

Oh! And I almost forgot to tell you about the icing. It went crazy on me. The icing sugar was a total disaster. It was so difficult to sieve, especially when the icing sugar kept forming into clumps and it was tedious when I used the cup sieve. So here’s a piece of advice, change to the traditional sieve while sieving icing sugar. It’s alot easier, use a metal spoon to press the sugar against the sieve too. Sugar goes through the holes in the sieve easier that way.

This is soooo sinful. You have no idea how much butter and sugar I used for these cupcakes (batter+cream glazing) and I already reduced the sugar and butter! Oh wellll…… Life’s too short… You gotta enjoy the food you love while you can!

Without sprinkles…

Cutesy rainbow sprinkles on pink sugary sweet rich cream cupcakes! 

I made a separate set of cupcakes for my family because they don’t really have sweet tooth like yours truly here so I added raisins and abit more vanilla essence into the batter. Turned the little petite cupcakes into muffins! 

On a random note… I snapped a photo of my backyard while getting restless in the kitchen…. My maid was boiling soup in the ancient way….I thought it was pretty cute. Heh 

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Tata for now! I’m gonna grab a cupcake for supper ♥ 

A bientot, mon chéri !

My 1st attempt using my brand new oven (Believe me, I never had an oven at home in my life! I don’t think it’s much of a surprise I’m obviously not the only one xP)  and I must tell you, I am really proud of moiself!

Slice of me baking life!

Here’s my debut…

Description of the Chocolate Orange Cupcakes

Chocolate Chips & Orange bits fluffy cupcakes with Dark Chocolate Glaze (has orange flavor as I added the essence and cream as well) I made 16 so 8 had rainbow sprinkles and the other 8 had orange fruit pieces (cut in pineapple slices).

YUMMY!!!

Reviewed by:

1. My maid duh because she helped me with the manual mixing of the batter (long history behind why I didn’t get an electric mixer omg almost died)
2. Mommy was speechless (pride reasons haha) and said I should be making cupcakes in the future with no excuses like buying or hiring a patissier……..hmmm…so much faith in her daughter…
3. 3 outsiders - My regular salesguy at On Pedder (he laughed at me! how dare him! he didn’t believe I was gonna bake! so I had to show him my success! HA!), old time buddy Benson whom I met for my favorite Crystal Jade La Mian dinner (before dinner he ate my whole cupcake and gave me a nod!) and my friend Delwyn (who said my cupcake is better than his….definitely hehhhh xD)

So pleasssseeeeddd!

I’m gonna make Sugarina Pink cupcakes next! If they succeed, they’re gonna be my signature cupcakes…. yummmms*

ps: I’m going to take photos using my Lumix this time. My trusty camera died on me when I was about to snap them…….

xoxo, Baker Cheryl ♥