Ok I’m blabbering. A dive buddy of mine will be flying to UK so she could continue her studies. Taking Masters in Finance? Accounting? Maths? I dunno..... but she will be leaving us soon. So for that reason I baked her ‘Farewell cupcakes’. As always, I planned out the design and sketch some ideas. This time I thought of using fondant to make small cute figurines such as the famous London double-decker bus, the red post box, the queen’s guard hat, the underground sign and the British flag with a mermaid sitting on top. Yes... very very ambitious.
To summarize the whole thing, the fondant figurines came out all wrong... total DISASTER! So went to plan B and use the chocolate melting technique. A DISASTER! I use different method which I shouldn’t have. At this point I was pretty frustrated. I ended up doing the classic swirl for all the cupcakes and sprinkle colourful sugar dust. My mind went blank. No ideas. No design..... Until I was about to go zzzzzzzzzz, I had an epiphany. I looked through the internet for British Slangs. I know a few but just to get a couple more; I went back downstairs and started making cartoon speech bubbles. I thought “why not design cartoon bubbles that has the common british slangs?” Honestly I think it was a pretty good last minute idea but because it was quite late at night it turned out a tad messy. But ‘the thought that counts!’
