Today is the day that TheBakingGrace (TBG) held its very FIRST event - Varsity Christian Fellowship 60th Anniversary. Firstly I would say many thanks to Nat (a LCB friend of mine) and Aunty PH (the lady who assisted with the organizing of this event who is also a very nice lady) for giving me this opportunity to work on an event like this. As I had not done this before (referring to holding an event - just the pastry and table styling portion if you are wondering), I was a little, a tiny bit, ok I meant very stressed BUT excited at the same time. I had always wanted to prepare pastries for events as well as styling of the table :) This is my chance! How can I missed it! Thankfully the event is scheduled to be held today ('May' was a busy month for me as I was away last weekend and will be away again next week), hence I concluded that GOD is hinting that I should accept this task and make it work!
To be honest, it was not easy as I am totally new to this. There were lots of ideas and plans. However, dreams are not reality which simply means what you imagined might not look as good or work in real life as you thought. So experimenting is inevitable.
After discussing with Aunty PH, we had concluded to have cupcakes, cakepops and a fondant cake for the event. Colour theme being white and orange / something cheerful :) And so I started to work on it. How I should place these cakes on the table, the size, materials needed, etc.
Opps I had forgotten to take a picture of the done up display pieces. my apologies. Anyway, after the display pieces were done, I move on to doing my Mise en place. Next on the list was making cakepops!!! gosh the video by Bakerella looks totally simple BUT dont be trick by it. I am serious (saying it with a serious face -.-) hahaha ok I should take back what I had said because there is a high possibility that the problem lies with ME. It is just me not following the instructions in the video well enough which resulted in my cakeballs committing countless suicidal attempts (either drowning into the bowl of CandyMelts or being stabbed by the lollisticks to death). I am sorry but there are no photos on such gruesome story. Lets move on to see if the remaining cakepops managed to survive.
Lesson Learnt #1: Please read / listen and follow instructions accordingly!
Next, the making of fondant cake. My second attempt but i was quite confident =x ahem* My only worry would be storage, since the weather in SG is so humid. also was afraid I would overwork the fondant resulting it to crack when placed on the cake. Thankfully no hiccups on this as compared to my 5am cakepops torture which i almost surrendered to them ;)
I wanted to add more design over the white fondant covering. However with the many things piling up the cake I think I shouldn't add more and just let the focus be on the number '60' and 'VCF'.
hmmm looks kinda bare? I think I could have done more to it. :(
Lastly not forgetting cupcakes!!! my 'Proudest' product. keke. ^^ There were 2 flavours (Lemon and Earl Grey)
and now FINALLY for the overall display at the event with the help of Aunty PH :) I present to you Varsity Christian Fellowship 60th Anniversary!!!
Another great reason to set this day as the official opening of TBG is because my dearest Girlfriend from Uni aka PRETTY OH got married today!!! I sincerely apologize for not being able to attend your solemnization today but I made it to your wedding dinner!!! I know that you will not be petty over such stuff because you not only have a pretty face, sweet smile, awesome personality, not forgetting your hot body, over all that, you have a BIG heart!!! :) Happy that you got married and wishing you and WS a blessed marriage. Love you always!!! muacks!
and yup that's all folks. be sure to stay tune for more postings ;)
xx,
TBG
