Baked with love.

After the successful attempt (ehem..) of baking carrot cupcakes for Abby's engagement hantaran, a week later, I've decided to bake another carrot cake for my office tahlil & potluck. 

Only this time, i'm on my own....no mama to refer in the kitchen...haha! 

Only mama's note as my reference and I had to change the icing recipe since I forgot to buy the cream cheese...heheh...So, I just pasrah-ly use butter, icing sugar, vanilla essence, lemon zest and juice!

Here we go!

The recipe:

and this was the final outcome:

comot memot...but not bad! hehe...so I decided do bake another cake, a few days later, to surprise Peter on his birthday...but since I only have few hours to bake it, I figured I should opt for simpler cake...after a quick googling, i decided to bake lemon cake...(besides, i thought to myself: who doesn't like lemon!)

took the recipe from Martha Steward's page ...this is my first time baking a lemon cake from scratch...and this is not bad at all right???? looking good so far.....

until i put on the icing and went overboard with the decoration...hahaha! 

(blame the over excitement..huhu)

cam nak nangis tengok kek ni sebab i dun have mixer at home, so everything pukul pakai tangan sampai tumbuh muscles....huhuhuhuh... T_T

and here's Peter with his cake! 

Now I'm thinking of baking my own wedding cake later since I still got the time to practice now (harapan laaaa) tapi takut nanti cake dah siap cantikkk, perantin tak siap siap lagi...haha!

I wanted something like this before...simple and elegant!

but after giving it a thought, I might wanna opt for something much much simpler like the screen grab below...

(minus the flags please! haha...) and all I need to find is one beautiful cake stand for my cake...