Birthday, Birthday and Birthday

Birthday, birthday and birthday..... Ramai pula celebrated birthday in April, my eldest sister, my father, truly yours, Husna (Adik's best friend) and a few more friend and relatives.... Saya buat birthday cakes for them but not for myself.

Yesterday, staff at the office gave me a slice of carrot cake for my belated birthday cake. Ingat juga dia orang...

Carrot cake is my favorite. They bought it from The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. Sedaaaapppp. Thanks Arfa, Fadz, Mazy and Zainal.

I made this cake for Meera (Akak's friend). She ordered for her brother, Anuar, who was celebrating his 16th birthday last month. She told me that her brother is a bookworm and loves basketball. So I made book cake with basketball player figurines as the deco.

Choc moist cake covered with fondant icing.

Princess cake ini saya buat untuk Husna (kawan baik Adik). Adik told me Husna loves green color, so, I decided to dress the Princess with green dress.

Vanilla cake with orange buttercream filling.

I wish I have pinggang seramping Princess ..... Yeah right....

My Princess Cake for Husna Birthday and photo frame from Husna for my birthday

Last weekend my hubby invited his staff and office mates to our house for breakfast. I made mixed fruits trifle for the dessert. (The rest of the food, I ordered from a few places.) I baked the sponge vanilla cakes a day in advanced then I made the custard on the day I assembled the trifle. I din't use the readymix cake and custard. For me the homemade cake and custard taste better.

The trifles....

Mixed fruits and blueberry filling trifle

Mixed fruits and strawberry filling trifle

By the way, I told Abang and Adik, I am planning to make Lychee Trifle for them.... Tapi bila????

Happy Birthday Batrisyia

Kami sekeluarga menyambut harijadi Batrisyia yang ke 10 pada hari minggu yang lalu. My Hubby and I decided to invite her friends and Aiman's friends as well. Aiman tak pernah mengajak kawan2 datang ke rumah sebelum ini......

Dan untuk pertama kali dalam hidup, saya masak Laksa Johor!!! Puas called kakak2 saya di Johor minta recipe... Selama ini saya cuma suruh kakak2 buat untuk kami, dan kali ini anak2 pula nak saya masak Laksa Johor... They prefer homemade... Yer lah, I always told them, "Umi masak with love, sebab tu sedap". Perasan lah pulak, hehehe....

Siap jer kuah laksa,  spaghetti dan ulam2, Akak pun buat food testing... Dia kata "Sedap, macam laksa Mak Long, Mak Ngah dan Cik Nor". So kira Ok lah tu... Legaaa... Boleh bagi kawan2 Batrisyia and Aiman makan... Setiap kali saya cuba masakan baru (kira first time try), anak2 dan suami jadi "food tester". Kalau dapat dolby mark from them, then next time boleh buat, kalau tak dapat, cukup hanya sekali......

For her birthday cake, Batrisyia wanted chocolate cake (her favorite) with fairy as the theme... She chose fairy cake from Sugar Craft magazine. Adik ni very demanding..... Buat figurine fairy lah pulak... I went to Wilton @ PJ to buy the mold to make the fairy's head, tak ada lah pulak... Out of stock... The girl at the shop suggested I go to their outlet in Kota Damansara. Jauh lah pulak, so I decided buat sendiri lah kepala fairy tu.... So the result tak berapa memuaskan... Masa buat tu saya agak tergesa2, so mulut fairy agak comot.... Kesian Adik... Aiman kata "Fairy banyak sangat makan lollipop, sebab tu mulut dia comot". Macam2 lah Abang ni..... Akak pula kata "Fairy ni kan budak kecik, suka main lipstick, so comotlah". Adik macam kelat jer.... "Next time Umi buat cantik2 untuk semua orang, ok kan...."

Batrisyia's Birthday Cake

Batrisyia and her birthday cake

Another photo of Batrisyia

Batrisyia and her friends

Eh, bila pulak kawan2 Aiman conquer the dance mat????

Alamak, lupa lah nak snap photo of my Laksa Johor. The laksa was my achievement for the month of January, hehehe...

The party was ok... the girls were busy dancing on the dance mat. The game was initially organised by Akak, but mid way  through the game, the girls took over.. Aiman and the boys pulak busy playing PS3 FIFA football and Band Heroes game upstairs... Riuh rendah rumah kami di buatnyer.... Paling penting, semua orang happy...

My hubby and I told Batrisyia, her birthday party last week end will be her last birthday party celebrated with her friends... The next birthday will be celebrated only with Abah, Umi, Akak and Abang. We are too old to organise another birthday party for her.......

Happy Birthday Atiqah Azrina

Pada hari jumaat, 4 Nov 09, saya dan keluarga telah di jemput untuk menghadiri majlis hari lahir Atiqah Azrina, anak kepada jiran kami. Majlis akan di adakan pada hari sabtu 5hb. Saya dan keluarga telah merancang untuk pergi bercuti pada 5hb. Arrangement for flight and hotel were already arranged. Panic seketika dibuatnya... Tak sempat nak beli hadiah... SMS (the invitation) saya terima semasa di pejabat... Memang lah tak sempat...

Balik dari pejabat, saya terus kedapur... Instead of beli hadiah, saya pun buat cake... Malam tu lah buat cake, malam tu juga lah nak kemas baju (walau pun cuma baju saya) tapi sibuk lah juga.. Nasib baik anak2 dah besar, pandai packing barang2 sendiri...

Pada hari sabtu, selepas subuh saya sambung kerja2 menghias cake... Dengan pertolongan dua orang consultants cum advisors (Afiqah and Batrisyia) saya buat cake "Princess" untuk Atiqah. Disebabkan kesuntukan masa, decoration for "my princess" was so simple.... I hope Atiqah likes the cake...

Batrisyia's Birthday Cake