Wednesday, August 4, 2010

ALOO MATE!

One of the mermaids will be leaving for the English shores. She decided to look for a Master in Leicester. There’s nothing left for her here. She will swim far far far away until she can’t swim no more.... oh farewell thy mermaid!
Me with the mermaids. Mermaid in pink is the one swimming off to look for sum english bloke! hehehe

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!’


Had croissant with whipped cream for bfast today. So YUMMYYY! Put a little bit of sugar + 1/2 of vanilla pod + cream. Thought i should share :P

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