Baking a rabbit cake for hospice!

It's baking for hospice time again! You might remember last month I baked some rugby themed cupcakes for the north shore hospice. This month the theme was spring and after looking around online for a bit I decided to bake a rabbit cake! I got the idea and recipe from this website. I was very happy with this because:

a. It looked pretty good (if I do say so myself hehe)
b. I got the off cuts! YES!!!
c. There was remaining icing to eat with the of cuts! YEEEEESSSS!!!!!
d. I knew the people at the north shore hospice would like eating this cake! (and if they don't, i liked eating this cake so all goods!)

Here are some photos!

The batter! I made a pineapple and coconut cake!

Before it was baked!

And after! Can I just say this was super moist and delish!

I cut out the rabbit shape using a template.

The icing! It was interesting icing as it only used butter, flour coconut cream and normal sugar.

I iced the whole cake and started to put shredded coconut on top!

After I covered it with coconut it looked like a big lamington!

Then I used a peanut m and m for the eye, a normal m and m for the nose and liquorice for the  whiskers!

I then iced the pink parts for the ears!

I almost forgot to mention that my best friend came over and helped me too! Thank-you rachel! I really appreciated your help! She not only is great at decorating cakes but she kept me sane when I was decorating and perfecting the cake! : D

Some Malaysia + Singapore food!

I'm back from a great 2 week holiday and I just wanted to share some of the awesome food that I had while I was away! So please enjoy :)

Asian dishes!

This is roti canai, one of the most popular dishes in Malaysia.

You eat the roti (bread) with a curry sauce This is one of my favourite Malasian dishes!

Snickers cupcakes!!!! And I'm going on holiday!

These cupcakes are soooooo sweet and amazing! They are the ultimate snickers cupcake! It starts with a chocolate cupcake and then it gets filled with snickers and caramel. Then to finish it's topped with a caramel butter cream and caramel sauce. It's decadent and sweet but the saltiness of the peanuts in the snickers contrasts well with the sweetness. I made these for my friend, Amy!

4 of the finished cupcakes!

If you are going to make these, I recommend you do it over 2 or 3 days as they do take quite awhile. They are totally worth the effort though! I followed all the steps and recipes on this blog!

Big fat ZERO cupcakes and decorating them!

I had some leftover blue butter-cream icing to use up so I thought that I would bake some cupcakes to decorate! I wanted light and fluffy cupcakes because the icing was quite sweet and rich. I decided to try this recipe from the healthy food guide because I had made them once before and they weren't to sweet. An added bonus, these are fat free and low calorie (without the icing!)

Some of the cupcakes in the container, ready to be taken to school and shared!