Thomas & Friends Cake

I've been wanting to make a train themed cake for quite some time, thus was really excited when I received an order for Thomas & Friends cake from Hanani. Nani even willing to come all the way from Penang island to pick up her order, thanks Nani.

Her order was for a chocolate cake with fudge filling, but I thought I would be too unappealing for little Thaqif, so I added a white chocolate whip cream layer too. Looking at how Yna just scrape all the leftover from the mixing bowl into her mouth I just hope that Thaqif would like it too.

Anyway... i'm still searching for a better tasting white choc, the couverture I have tasted more like condensed milk than chocolate :(

Take us to the top, Arsene Wenger tells his Arsenal players | Arsenal - Times Online

Take us to the top, Arsene Wenger tells his Arsenal players | Arsenal - Times Online

We'll see this coming Wednesday... good luck Gunners! There's not much excitement with this season's EPL in our house, much of it I think because Asyraf (my nephew) is still confined to the bed after his spinal injury 5 months ago. Asyraf, my kids and hubby would put on their MU jersey and stayed up to watch MU matches whenever they could last season.

 

This order came on such short notice, I left it with my helper for the customer to pick-up; now I realized I didn't even get her name. Her request was for 10 Arsenal logo cupcakes, with the balance left for me to choose whatever flowery image I like. I must have had a short term craze for swirls and spent the whole evening looking for swirl designs and even put up an order for the AI templates from Kerawang.net ! (Actually, I do like their designs, they seem a lot softer with traditional malay flair)

Cupcakes and Roses

Ordered by Ja all the way from Langkawi.Cupcakes with five red roses and a white rose (only Ja knows what the roses mean). This is the first time I received a delivery request to an address without any Taman, Apt or Jalan prefix to it :) 
Finding the house wasn't that difficult since I've been there a few times visiting a friend (she still has the strength to drive every week to KL to work, I've given up all the traveling since the past 2++ years). With a little guide from Ja over the phone and asking a makcik to point me Najmi's house, I arrived at brightly painted house that sits on a carpet of lush green grass. It was a beautiful sight indeed, a lot different from my mom and mil's house where grass is treated the same as weed, so what's left was just sand and gravels. Me, I'm glad I managed to save my little plot of grass in front of the house from being covered with cement and tiles by the renovation contractor (at hubby's instruction) a few years back.
I learnt a good lesson too delivering this order, when in kampung don't ask where is this and that house number, over here everyone knows each other by name. And.... spare some time to sit down and chat with the makciks  :0
Thanks Ja....