Back to school

Good day all,

I booked myself a cake decorating class with Karen Portaleo around early July, doing a 3 days 3D mermaid class. Reaching Allentown was quite a journey, I had to stop over in New York city for a night and continue to Allentown for my cake class.

The entire trip was very worthwhile despite the long journey, flying 21 hours to get to New York.That was my first ever trip to the US and I will be back in August for my holiday. I was really lucky to meet many talented cake artists (and cake sculptors) and great teacher. It was fun to be a student again.

One night in New York .. view from my hotel room

Sculpting realistic/ 3D face is the hardest thing i have ever done. The face is made from modeling chocolate... yummm

My attempted mermaid ready to be dressed, weighing about 5 kg of white chocolate

There she is ... all airbrushed, full on make up on and decorated. My first ever realistic figure sculpture, I think my hard work is really paid off

Finish product ... she is totally edible

Me and Karen Portaleo, what an amazing artist, I feel very lucky to have her as my instructor

Mermaids are everywhere - group shot

Figurines Collection

What did I do today? Hhhmmm nothing glam really, I was pretty busy doing a little TLC (ie. cleaning) to my studio and  found some little treasures of figurine artwork. From Cyclist, Superman, Little baby, Wonderwoman, I have them all. Let me flash part of them out before they start collecting dust. 

Hope you like it.

Cyclist with champagne glass and Superman

Wonderwoman...ohh how hot is she?

Little cute baby with stylish hair style

Handi's Cakes Window Display 16/07/12

I want to share a little story about my window display which is a recent addition to my cake studio.

It is approximately 1m x 1.2m, simple design, painted all white and it works hard everyday showcasing my cake works to my students, students to be, clients, clients to be, and my neighbours.

Let me introduce you to Handi's Cakes current window display, the Eiffel tower and Poodle with bling collar. Hope you like them both. If you pass my studio, please say hello to my window display.

Parisian theme - Eiffel Tower and stylish posh poodle

Hello Poodle.. love your pink diamontes collar & pink bowtie

The famous landmark, Eiffel Tower ... anyone up for a mini tour?

Handi's Cakes in Penang 2012

Hello again Penang,

I still cant believe this is my 2nd class in Penang in less than a year, how time flies. This time around I was in Penang for one week teaching:

• High Tea Topsy Turvy (Handi's Cakes 1st launch of Topsy Turvy was in Penang...aawwww)
• 3D Car and 
• Figurines demo

Students were coming from Manila, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and of course the locals. Thank you to SUGAR for having me again. To my Penang class students, thank you for your hard work, I am really proud of your results, I am sure you can conquer cake in any shapes right now. Check out their amazing works.

High Tea Topsy Turvy class - arranging and setting up

Fillers - Mud cake slice, Cupcakes, Sandwiches, Chequer Board cookies, Choc Chip cookies, Croissant, Macaroons, and...for yumcha lover you can make BBQ pork buns (next to the purple macaroons). The more the merrier, let your tastebud and imagination guide your hands.

Topsy Turvy - here's the final results, I am very proud of you all. Amazing work!!

Figurines demo

3D Car class - Sculpting the cake - very serious students...high concentration mode.

3D Car class - Detailing and some finishing touch to add. Getting there ladies, not far from the finishing line.

3D Car class - Great job again by my students. Now they can sculpt any 3D car cake...any car in any brand, any size and any color

After the 3D Car class - Time to do a little R&R and enjoying Penang

Handi's Cakes in Jakarta

Hello my dear readers,

After 21 days being away from Sydney, I am now back and updating my blog again. I am still a little jet lag but super excited  to share my recent trip to Jakarta. It was such an experience (in a good way of course) to be able to teach in my home country in 100% Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia). Big applause to Heavenly Sweet for having me and for organising everything for me, it was a great event indeed. Thank you to all students for working really hard and putting up with me for days, I hope you still love me haha. I will be back to Jakarta in September to share more techniques with cakers. Hope to see you again. For timetable or course information, please check my website or email thia_11@yahoo.com.

Me in blown up poster

I work them VERY hard in the class

Thank you to our media sponsors - SEDAP, SAJI and NOVA (food magazines & newspaper)

The Large flower class - feeling overwhelmed, students were coming from Bali, Surabaya, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Ambon and Bogor. WOWWWW...Thank you all for spending sometimes with me.

Look at those cute and gorgeous figurines created by my students in 2 days. Very cute & detailed indeed. I think they are ready to go to the Oscars to receive their awards.

Large flower class students with their creations

2 tiers with flower class, colorful and gorgeous results