The Beginning of The Last

About six months from now, I will be done with school. Definitely looking forward to that. But in the meantime, a lot more to do and learn this final semester. Now I can appreciate why these things take time and a reminder why in similar universities and colleges in the US, it takes four years to obtain a degree. So whether my two year programme is suffice, I will only know at the end of it.

The above is a strawberry cheesecake baked with love for me on my birthday. It is a reminder of what truly is important in my life and what needs to be done in the next 6 months... and looking forward to making it happen. :O)

No piece of cake - part 2

Madness!!

It was a day of applying Murphy's law! What could go wrong, went wrong!! :O) It started the day before when I went to the cake store to buy the base for the cake. The shop was closed.

9.00am
The next day when I went there, they didn't have the right size. So I had to buy the larger ones and trim them to size.


11.00am
The rainbow coated frost mix took really long to apply, so it was back to the shop to get the plain vanilla frost.

3.00pm
Finished the first batch of 16. I boxed them up, dashed out to the print shop to get the labels done. It must have been project assignment due day, cos' there were so many art students packed inside the print shops at Sunshine Plaza!

3.30pm
Headed down to Cana to do the paste ups!

4.00pm
Handed Cana the first 2 boxes and then off to NUS and SPH! By evening, I had covered the East stretch of the island, completely hand delivering the first batch by 930pm.

Phew! How's that for madness? Doing something not usually your regular routine? Thanks, mom, for the help in the pantry and the noon delivery! Wanna see the final product? It's on The Workshop blog!

No piece of cake

I tested out the cake idea today. Bought empty boxes, eggs, food dyes, two Betty Crocker mixes and some fondant. I had issues with the fondant which I found out after tasting that it's actually quite close to marzipan! I don't think many will appreciate the taste of marzipan.

The initial idea was to mix the pure white fondant with the red and blank colourings, but it wasn't that simple. Even flattening out the fondant was difficult as it would stick to the table top! I didn't even get to the point of cutting the coloured fondants into the shape of the company logo.

Well, back to the drawing board... :O)