Happy 1st Month!

My blog is officially 1 month old =).

Big Thank You to those who have been supporting me this far, I now earn myself to be qualified on Foodie Blogroll! Will add the widget when I qualify, cross fingers it'll be accepted =).

Anyhoo, for any those of you who are in need to find more tools, equipment, icing nozzles, food colouring etc, I recommend Robert Dyas but they have their limits. So, I recommend you this shop:

It is not far from Camden tube station

Full address: 152 Camden High St, London, NW1 0NE (Tel: 020 7267 3805)

They don't only sell those of course but there is a huge range of things that they sell (even bubble wraps!) for a reasonable price (cheaper than Tesco and Sainsbury I think)

Check out the stuff coming into the entrance of the store:

Baking trays of all sorts, icing nozzles, cupcake liners, even individual silicon cupcake liners!

 Colourings, cookie cutters



Ok, I think you get the picture now ;)

Have a great week! 

Cupcake Decorating

The Make Lounge offered a really good introductory course to cupcake decorating. Leigh was our instructor and she works for Sketch, one of the only restaurant that serves Michelin standard of high tea. She was so helpful through the class. It started tonight from 6.30pm and wasn't too far from where I live, so I walked.

We learnt things from making a piping bag out of baking sheets to colouring and shaping marzipans with really cute motif cutters. The session was 2.5 hours long with tea, coffee and wine served with biscuits. And we get to go home with 7 nicely decorated cupcakes =). I took home tips too such as falling in love with meringue butter cream (it tasted soooooooo good) and using salted butter instead so that it adds more to taste.

Best part: No need to wash up!

 

Icing colour I decided on. Either that, it was purple and yellow. Decisions decisions...

 

Pretty 1M Swirls with glitter, marzipan and icing white balls

So if you're keen to play around with icing, I recommend this course as most materials are supplied plus you get to bring home your very own designs...

Into the world of Cupcakes

And so I was browsing as usual and again on motivation and inspirations in which I am driven by one thing that I can never run away from...

Competition...yes, I have to admit that I am and always have been competitive. I use to hate being one, because it stresses me out, because it is a negative feeling and because it makes me compare. But I know that this 'force' this drive, when use wisely and controled would yield the most greatest thing in life. For me, I make sure that I put this little piece together with passion, just like the icing on top of the cake ;).

And so I browsed around for competitions so that it pushes me to keep learning new baking skills as well as be exposed to the other people who have been doing it for so long. And boy was I exposed and covered with more so links and blogs to other people's website!

It first started with Iron Cupcake Earth. And then you go to another link to vote for the contestants..

And then apparently there is a theme for each month and the voting starts for 7 days for stunning prizes. This month's theme: Music and here is the list of the contestants. OMG, there are so many competing and the cupcakes are amazing. Feel free to explore their website and vote for them before the 5th of Nov which is quite soon :)

I so wish I could cast my votes to all of them as never in my life I have seen creativity bloom in the world of sweets and desserts. Good Luck to all regardless!

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