Birthday Cakes

When celebrating for your children Birthday Party, birthday cake is an essential item that you would never want to miss. Most children enjoyed this moment where they are make the centre attraction, sitting in the place of honor, have their beautiful birthday cake lighted up with candles, and many guests gathered around, singing the "Happy Birthday" song.

As you know, there are plenty of bakery shops available in Singapore. Its really depend on individual's preference. Planning for your child birthday cakes requires to take into theses consideration ie. look, taste, theme, cartoon characters, size, shape and color. Here are the cakes that we have decided to use for our kids birthday:

My BB1 - 1st Birthday Cake from Eatzi Gourmet - (http://www.eatzi.com.sg/)

The pricing is reasonable and have free delivery if you exceed certain amount. The presentation of the cake is nice but taste is too sweet. 

My BB1 - 2nd Birthday Cake also from Eatzi Gourmet - (http://www.eatzi.com.sg/)

We wanted to get a 3-D birthday train cake for him (he likes train very much) and we browsed from eatzi web site showing a nice 3-D train cake. But the actual presentation was quite disappointing as it looks more like a ship than a train and the taste of the cake are indeed very sweet. Then we have a bad encounter. We were trying to contact the company to inform them of a change of our venue just a few days before the actual delivery. We been calling the company for days, leave our contact in voice mail. But no one responded our call. Indeed disappointed!

My BB1 - 3rd Birthday Cake from Polar Puffs & Cakes - http://www.polarpuffs-cakes.com/

Since he likes "Thomas Train" so much, we decided to order his "Thomas Train Cake" from Polar Puffs & Cakes. One for his celebration in his child care and the other one at home. The price of the cakes was considerably reasonable and the cake taste good too. Polars Puffs & Cakes also provides others cartoon character cakes such as Bod The Builders, Cinnamoroll, Hello Kitty, Doraemoe, Looney Toons, My Melody, Little Twin Stars, Power Rangers, Sesame Street, Stitch and Tom & Jerry etc. 

My BB2 - 1st Birthday Cake Ecreative – http://www.ecreative.com.sg/ 

Then, my BB2 1st birthday, we decided to try Ecreative cake. We also received feedback from friends that their cakes taste good and not so pricy. We are indeed pleased with the product!

Of course, there are still many others bakeries to choose from. Like Four Leaves - http://www.fourleaves.com.sg/ . They also provided kids Birthday cakes. We purchased a standard cake on my Dad's Birthday celebration.

Then, there is this Rive gauche - www.pokkafood.com.sg/gauche . The cake is indeed delicious but is rather pricy.  The standard mango cake was purchased for my Mother-In-Law's Birthday and the standard chocolate cakes was a gift from my hubby when I am doing my confinement after giving birth to my BB1.  

Well, if you are looking at other cartoon characters cake, you can also try the following:

• Bengawan Solo provides Disney cartoon, Baby Looney Toon, Superman, Batman characters cakes for kids - http://www.bengawansolo.com.sg/ . I tried their cakes before. Price is at reasonable range and taste nice too. 
• Prima Deli provides Barney cartoon character cakes - http://www.primadeli.com/ . Price is also  reasonable and taste nice too.
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Children Day Celebration

Another family times...it was 1st Oct. 2010 - Children Day. We took company leave and brought our children to Sentosa - to visit Underwater world via cable car. This was our plan to celebrate Children day with our kids but I guess there are too young to understand the real meaning of 1st Oct. To them, it was just another usual outing that we would bring them for fun.

We bought a package tour at the Cable Car ticket booth which cost $69.50 for per adult and free for children below 3. The package include return ticket for cable car ride, entry to Underwater world and Sentosa Cineblast (a 4-D motion simulated ride). Transport to these places was included in the package. My son enjoyed the touch pool at the entrance of Underwater watching those sea creatures swimming in the pool and at times, get a chance to touch and feel them. He wasn't really excited at travelling along the 83m long tunnel walk watching those amazing sea creatures swimming around us. However, he was looking forward for the 4-D ride before it started and he thought it would be fun for him. Unfortunately, he was freaked out half way through and cried out loud when it almost come to end. My younger one fell alseep before the ride starts and was waken by his brother's loud crying noise. Both brothers ended up crying together till the ride ends. As for us, we pretty much enjoyed the air-conditioning inside the cinema rather than the ride as we were damn tire and sweaty.

After completing our tour, we took the free shuttle bus service from Imbiah station to Resort World Sentosa for our dinner at Baits (Ding Tai Feng). Prior entering the restaurant, my boy was overjoyed by those "walking candies" and be so happy taking pictures with them. Then we headed to Baits restaurant where my son love eating 'La Mian' (he would call it "Piak Piak Mee Mee" as he used to watch the chef making the 'La Mian' in such a manner that while stretching and pulling the noodle, they will bring the noodle together and smack it on the table - then this will produce a loud "piak piak" sound). He just love watching them making the noodle. Anyway, the food at Baits was nice and the staffs was friendly too. Worth trying!

Our final destination was to bring the kids for free monorail ride (within the island) from Waterfront Station at Resort World Sentosa or also know as "Sentosa Express" (You have to pay $3 when you board the ride from Sentosa Station at 3rd level of Vivo City). The journey was short as it only contains four stations - Starting from Sentosa Station, Waterfront Station, Imbiah Station and lastly, Beach Station. We alight at Beach Station and wanted to spend sometimes at the beach upon my boy's request. He was delighted in the first place but changed his mind completely when we arrived at the beach and commented: "Mummy...eeeee.... the beach was so dirty". Then, we headed back to Imbiah lookout via bus service and to complete our cable car rides and return to Singapore Island - our home.

It was a "Transportation Day" for us as we took different transports travelling from our home to Sentosa and within the island, i.e. MRT, Coach, Bus, Carble Car and Monorail. It was indeed tiring but perhaps fun for my children as my elder boy loves travelling with different types of transport.