Battle of the sexes

These were cupcakes that I made for 2010 Election day cake stall for the kinder and the school. This year election was battle of the sexes...battle between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbot (the 2 strongest party). I have no preference so I thought making cupcakes that have 2 different sexes would be fun.

cupcakes of boys and girls, male and female elephants, male and female pigs and the last ones were high heels cupcakes vs tie cupcakes. Now I have my preference, I really like the female elephant and pig because they have long and curly eyelash that make them look really cute and sweet. But still not too sure which party should win...:-) Do you have your choice yet?

My shoes collections

I just can't get enough with shoes...since I made the first shoe couple months ago, I get addicted. This time I made much smaller shoes so they can go into my collection shelf. Firstly, I cut out a cardboard template that I've drawn. Then roll out the black fondant to about 3mm thick , with sharp knife trace the template later cut them out. Put them aside. roll out 2 small balls for the heels then shape them. Using water, glue the heels onto the cut out shoes' bases. Turn the shoes around and shape the heel, let them dry for few minutes. Prepare your shoes design by cutting out any shape, colour and pattern that you like.

Making shoes are great fun and they look great as decorations on cupcakes and as edible collections.

Hubby's birthday

It had already been 1 month since hubby's birthday and now I have time to write on my blog. This year's winter is horrible...full of illnesses...my family (the kids and me) get sick all the time. It's like playing soccer
where you keep passing the ball around and around and never stop. Around hubby's birthday, Audrey and Sam got really sick so we didn't really celebrate. We just had simple 'seafood dinner' (hubby's favourite)...I made him some cookies bouquet since he didn't feel like having cake. With cookies, they have longer shelf life so we can keep them until everyone gets better.

For these cookies, I used simple butter cookies with orange flavour and decorated with fondant. Flowers are quite feminine so I used more masculine colour by combining dark violet with light violet and white. Cookies bouquet makes a really good birthday gift or even a valentine's gift.

I felt really bad not making hubby a birthday cake so on the weekend folowing his birthday, I made him his favourite mango cake. I used a cake recipe from the book that my mum bought me and iced the cake with chopped fresh mango and whipped cream. The top layer, I used sliced fresh mango and pour mango jelly on top. My husband loved the mango and the whipped cream but he thought the cake was a bit too dense. I'm not happy with the cake as well but love the whipped cream. It was my first time using fresh cream and whipped it. The secret of beautiful whipped cream is keep on whipping :-)

Simple lunch box idea

My goodness...I ran out of idea for my children lunch's boxes. With this lunch box, I used wholemeal bread, mini frankfurt, cheese, butter, lingon jam, baking paper and gift ribbon. I boiled the mini frankfurt, trimmed all the crust from the bread then spread butter, lingon berry jam finally assembled the bread into a mini sausage roll/ hot dog. :-) simple and easy and the most important my children loved them...hope I'll have a better idea next time...