Tribute to Tinkerbell*

I decided to explore my limited creativity by baking fairy cakes, also famously known as cupcakes. It's a craze over here in Malaysia to bake tiny little butter cakes and then make them pretty with icing sugar and sugar decorations. Since everyone calls them cupcakes, I thought why not be slightly different. So I call mine fairy cakes.


This was the first time I baked at home since 4 years ago. It took twice the usual time to prepare the ingredients mainly because I couldn't locate all the tools and machines I needed for the bake. The mix was impressively nice with some taste of orange zest in it.


The fairy cakes (actually they look more like muffins now) smelled orangeely gorgeous right after they came out of the oven. Note that these are still my cakes even if the cups are different from the previous picture. And this was not it. Far from completion.


Next task was to use our imagination to decorate these small little fairy cakes. We were very into decorating, also a bit too competitive for the first few cakes. After the 8th cake, I honestly couldn't be bothered to make them anymore prettier because I was overdosed with sugar. Also I ran out of ideas.


The final product. We also decorated our fairy cakes with fish roe. Check the orange one out. Haha, no... those are all coloured sugar.

Later after the mini project, we headed to The Apartment at The Curve to check on the popular cuppacakes. I have to admit, they were wonderfully done. Compared ours to theirs, you can actually see that we're beginners.

Fairycakes

Cuppacakes

From this, I can conclude that baking these fairy cakes was no doubt a fun experience. But I just cannot bring myself to eating them. So I'm sticking to basic cakes with no fancy decorations.


*my missing fairy earring who is probably enjoying herself in Sabah.