Snow White Themed Mini Cakes

The company's gonna have our own screening of Snow White and the Huntsman at IOI Puchong tomorrow, so I figured I'd make something nice for once, and to dispel allegations that I only ever make nice treats for the screenings of the movies I worked on. Hah!

All the little cakes together, some with a little extra icing I did to experiment on

Making them didn't take as long as I thought; probably about 5 hrs? That includes baking time, cooling time and cleaning time. Inside was a coffee butter cake, with coffee buttercream (although there was very little of it, cuz I kinda ran out) I'd have liked to add more details and fun things to decorate the cakes with, but I needed to be in bed by 1am latest, so I settled with a basic layer, a white doily with a black apple on top and a white ribbon and bow at the bottom to hide the ugly bottom.

Yum.

the anime cookies post

So here're the anime cookies I worked on to sell at Comic Fiesta. I had pretty ambitious plans at first, with great details, more characters! I was pretty much aiming to make a 1000 pieces and laugh my way to the bank. Then the cloud of excitement settled down onto the cold hard floor of reality. So I chopped my plans down to what was actually possible versus what my head likes to imagine. It's not like I'm in it for the money :( if I were, I'd be in a whole different line of work. What I love is doing stuff like these, and if my hobbies can help pay for themselves, that's awesome.

In a msn conversation with Joyce one day and I was wondering what I'd name the range of cookies for sale. "What about Cookie Gundam?" she suggested, "thats like cookie group in Japanese, right?" I fell off my chair laughing. Well, I was pretty sure gundam isnt the Japanese equivalent for 'group' but I googled just to be 100% certain! Trusty ol' google translator helped convert cookie group to Cookie Gumi. Sounds cute enough for CF.

first colour goes on

Making these were pretty fun. A little back breaking and eye straining, and sometimes I'll run late into the night just to get some layers of icing ready before the next day. 

I hold the icing bag pretty weirdly.  Looks like I should work on that.

Of course I wouldn't have been able to do it without talented help! So much thanks go to my mum, my sister, Gianne, Shae Lyn, and Shereendar for coming over to lend a hand T-T (they were duly rewarded, although I still feel like I haven't paid them back enough!) you guys are awesome! 

And for the photo roll : 

Rin and Len cookies with a doily border thanks to Shae Lyn's insistence.

cookies in the works.

food colouring markers!

most of the colours used.

Strength looking cute

I forgot her name.

Elizabeth from Gintama

Domokuns. I just adore how simple yet incredibly endearing they are.

Miku being packaged.

Companion cube <3

 I really intended to make the companion cube 3D, like an actual cube, but I was running out of time so I scrapped that and did something easier :

Totoro cookie standing on grass cookie. 

So thats about it. It was a pretty steep learning curve for me, and there were a lot of "so thats why we shouldn't....." moments. I'm not exactly impressed with myself just yet, I think I could use a lot more practice and experiments, especially when dealing with our hot humid weather which really affects the icing a lot! :(

More cookies to come!

The end

5 months late Comic Fiesta post!

Haha so my last post was 7 months ago, that's more than half a year +_+ I've been extremely busy in those months, from my own projects to extreme overtime at work. When people tell you to enjoy your life before getting a job, seriously,... do it.

One project I worked on late last year was an Artbook x Calendar with my Bus Squeeze mates to sell at Comic Fiesta. We called it 'Yum!', a dessert themed artbook x calendar. When it comes to taste and design, these girls never fail. We handmade 100 copies (built the stand from scratch ourselves) and sold out before CF ended : D

 

Marianne took a really gorgeous picture of the calendar

This is quite a picture heavy post, so don't say I didn't warn you! :D