Cupcakes, anyone?

Yummy update.

Here's one of the reasons I love visiting my aunt so much (apart from the generally awesome time I have chatting and lazing around). Baking! Like, serious baking. Her fridge is always stocked with yummy cupcakes and icing. And sometimes there are home-made chocolates too.

About an year ago, she decided to start baking professionally, and now she runs a bakery, XOXO Desserts,  from home. Since she bakes on order, sometimes I get lucky when I'm there and can help her out. The last time I visited, we baked some [a few ;) ] cheesecakes, biscotti, and cupcakes. The best part was that all of it wasn't for her customers. ;) yum-yum!

So this time around, we did a birthday cake for a one year old. It was soo much fun deciding on shapes & colours, and playing around with the fondant. Here are a few pics of the cake:

LOVE the butterflies!

how cute is this lil fella?!

After we were done with that, she suggested that we do a smaller one 'for me to practice on'. So we did. And I would have totally messed up when putting the fondant cover over the cake if it hadn't been for her. Whew! Definitely not a piece of cake, that part! ;) The results?

Pretty awesome! ;)

Wish all bugs looked so cute!

sparkle makes me happy! :)

Oh, and we also baked some cupcakes. Chocolate ones. With chocolate ganache icing. [So were both the cakes.] Heaven, anyone?

I took the cupcakes to an iftar party at a friend's house. Since all of us were really impatient to attack them, there was no time to really pretty 'em up. It was an emergency of sorts. Hehe!

managed to get one pic!

And then I came back home and prettied up the remaining ones for my brothers and myself.

Sisterly love. The best of it's kind. ;)

For the record, Oshu and Dullu are not their real names. That's simply what mum calls them when she's feeling extra loving-mommy-ish. And what I call them when I want to embarrass 'em feel extra loving. And I get away with it 'coz they know that I truly love them. And that I'm their only sister. So they love me back. Most of the time. ;)