Monday, August 22, 2011

Macarons: Macaron + Cake Pop (Part 4)

My fourth consecutive blog post on macarons...I really must stop so I could get on with my real job. Macarons are consuming me! This time it's macarons + cake pops! Here's a gist of a cake pop pictorial...the part to ensure the cake is secured to the lolly stick.


Make round cake balls.


Dip lolly stick into melted chocolate and poke them into the cake ball. Do this for the whole batch and by the time you finished, the first one would have hardened, so you could proceed to the next stage as shown below.


Coat the whole cake ball with the melted chocolate, drip off excess and stick them upright onto a styrofoam block to dry. I left the top flat...


...that's to attach macaron shells as hats. We, at Mackie Mania call them Mackie Babes. Cute? There are five of them...

Happy Mackie 

Shy Mackie 

Cheeky Mackie 

Winky Mackie 

 ...lastly, Mackie in Love. She has hearts as her eyes...as they say "Blinded by love, blindly in love, love is blind"...haha...I love emoticons!

Can't wait for Halloween...they shall be in costumes, but before that Deepavali. As well as Christmas, Chinese New Year...etc. till the next Hari Raya and Hari Malaysia, where they will be one year old!

Big plans for them...but for me now, its back to work while I put Mackie Mania on auto pilot as much as possible. My next post shall not be on macarons...I promise!


Thursday, August 11, 2011

The Day Wedding •August 6, 2011

Last weekend the wedding bells were ringing again! The Wheaton’s, our long time family friends, threw a wedding for their daughter Heather and her new husband, Wes. Heather grew up with my girls, so I was honored when she asked me to do their wedding cake. This cake was yellow butter and devils food with a whipped cream filling. It was complete with a butter-cream icing done in an all-over lace design. The Bride had given me ribbon she wanted to go around each tier in order to compliment her black-and-white-themed wedding. The day was just beautiful and what a pleasure it was to create their wedding cake.