Got’cha! Nah, no sexy lady parading with a C cup bra here. Haha..

C is for Cupcake. Lovely-looking and delicious cupcakes. I love them for their petite size topped with colorful and interesting ways of decoration. They look so cute and you can decorate each little one of them with different variations. But sad to say, the icings and buttercream are laden with loads of sinful sugar and cream. Yes, I agree, they are for aesthetic purposes. Even my nieces find them too sweet.

I made these cupcakes in a lesson I attended last month at Shermay’s Cooking School, taught by Joycelyn Shu. Have your been to her blog? The food she creates is simply stunning. And she’s self-taught.

Being a novice in baking, let alone cupcake decorating, I couldn’t do the piping steadily. But I had fun rolling and shaping the marzipan and chocolate putty. They gets soft easily and would be hard to shape, so you got to work fast. I am pretty happy with the flower I’ve shaped.

The Valrhona Dark Chocolate cupcake was rich but not too sweet. I guess using good quality chocolate and vanilla extract/paste does makes a difference. I was tempted to get the vanilla extract but hesitated as I wasn’t sure how often I would bake. I didn’t bake as often as I wish I could as I only have a few supporters. Any extras will go into the bin eventually, what a waste. There are so many to bake and cook on my list.

Have been thinking of having a sinful rich brownie with vanilla ice cream for some time. Put it in front of me now and I will chomp it down with no regrets! Talk about my growing waistline. Haha..

Oh yeah, I didn’t know Cafe Cartel sells their cakes at 50% off after 9pm. Only for dine-in orders. We had 2 slices of cakes for the price of one. Yay! But service attitude is not that pleasant. We placed our order. And when the waiter served us the cakes, we told him they got one of the order wrong. He gave a pissed look. I know he’s not pissed at us, but with his colleague. I just thought that he shouldn’t have done that. Yes, he may be busy or stressed, but in the service industry, your smiles and attitude matters.