Bake Sale + Awards

Been busy lately with another trip up to KL and meeting up with friends there. That explains why I have not been blogging lately. But it was so good to see my dear friends again, really miss them a lot. >.< Besides that, I got myself involved in a mini project given by my SIL. which took up most of my time in the past 3 days. :P My SIL's elder daughter's school has this talk for the Sec 1's parents cum a side charity bake sale to raise funds for the school. My SIL approached me to see if I was interested to bake something for her to sell over there. I was delighted because firstly I love to bake (nothing new about that), secondly making decorative cupcakes is like super fun for me, so yeah, making them alright! Even though I knew it will be time consuming but I agreed immediately because I didn't want to let this golden opportunity to slip. ;)

You want the truth? Truth 1: I totally enjoyed making this little fondant figurines on the cupcakes. Truth 2: Brings me back to my childhood days which you can mould whatever you fancy with that waxy plasticine, how fun!. Truth 3: I can do this everyday!

I used my usual favorite butter cake recipe for the cupcakes. I then top it with normal butter cream and finally the fondant.

Overall I am pretty satisfied with the cupcakes...just that I wish I have more time to make more, lol! In the end I only made 19, and 16 of them are for sale. I saved the other 3 for my little girls and my niece. :)

I was lucky to purchase a few cupcake boxes from KL during my last trip which cost me much less compared to buying them here in Singpore. :)

My SIL has requested me to bake some brownies as well for the charity sale. So I decided to bake a variety to make it more attractive. I researched a few recipes and finalized on 3.

One from Jamie Oliver (recommended by Grace from Kitchen Corner). 2nd one from Precious Moments which I baked before awhile back. And last one from Martha Stewart's Cream-Cheese Brownie. Yes, all are decadent, sinfully rich and able to satisfy your deepest chocolate craving. :) Now I just hope the parents at the sale will like them!

I want to thank my SIL for giving me this opportunity to let me introduce my bakes to the public. Whether it will be all sold out, it ain't that important to me. What's most important is I got it done in time and I enjoyed the whole process. :P Hope there will be a lot these of opportunities in the future.

About a week++ back, a handful of nice lady bloggers have graciously passed on to me a couple of awards. One of them is this "Beautiful Blogger" award. And the sweet bloggers are Elin from Elinluv's Tidbits Corner , Joslynn from A Nyona's Kitchen and Ann from I so Hungry.

I thank these ladies for thinking of me upon their own receival of this beautiful award. :) Really appreciate it. I however will not be passing this baton on since I see most of the other food bloggers I know have already received it. :P
This lovely award was given to me by Anncoo. Thanks so much! You are one "true-blue" food blogger which I also adore reading your posts. Thanks again for being so supportive. :)

I would also like to dedicate this award to all the other bloggers out there that "work hard" to post up something decent & nice for all to read. :)

Got to run...hope you all enjoyed viewing my post again...have a great week!