I was looking for items for a Singapore theme for the meeting of my toastmasters club, two days before Singapore's National Day which is August 9th. Daeso the Japanese bargain shop, where everything is two Singapore dollars, was selling pairs of Singapore flags; also a banner with several triangular flags on a white cloth string, again for two dollars.
I went to the Daeso branch in City Square Mall beside Farrer Park MRT station, one stop from Little India on the North East line. Daeso in that mall is quite hard to find, even when you know where it is.Walk past the main escalators on the ground floor to the back and then turn left and take the back escalator up to the fourth floor.
Biscuits and Cakes
I found pictures of biscuits with the red and white flag on them. Quicker and cheaper to make, or buy and decorate than a full size cake.
Cakes are hard to carry intact. You need to keep them upright in a tin, or wrap in clingfilm. Or decorate on site. Biscuits, if very hard, would be easier to transport, so long as they are hard and don't crumble. If you buy from a shop such as a patisserie, you might get a cake in a box with a handle.
Failing all else, I shall simply put the flags on the food table.
Other Flag Items
Ebay sells iron on or sew on patches for clothes, also tattoos, and bumper stickers..
Toothpick Flags
You can also buy toothpick flags, a dozen countries but not singapore. You could print a teeny flat and paste it over another flag. I thought you got mixed flags. When I went to buy, I discovered that on several of the sites you do not get a mixture of flags but you can choose 50 or 100 or the same country's flag, for example the USA.
Customised Cakes
A couple of years ago I customised a cake in Singapore for a major birthday. The cake maker, Mr Ho, who was catering at the American school and for events everywhere, made a cake with four pictures on the top showing my husband's interests which were, one was a mountain for trekking, one was a playing card for playing bridge, another a motorbike, because he had a motorbike, and another was a portrait of the birthday boy.
Later in the UK I looked at ordering printed edible toppings for a birthday cake. The first time I ordered a large photo of the birhtday boy, my husband, and instructed him to do that again for my birthday, with a picture of myself.
The third time we tried to do it the price had increased. However, it was cheaper to order a dozen pictures to go on cupcakes. I made the mistake of adding text included in the price or very little extra, happy birthday to be printed over the picture. Unfortunately, on a tiny picture this obscured my face, over one eye.
One picture of the birthday boy or girl can be used in the centre of a larger cake. The others can be kept for another event if it is within the use by date of the edible topping.
To print a flag or the picture of a person (such as the UK queen or the US president or your club or company president or your mother or Member of Parliament or guest of honour) you need an edible printer. Or take a photo to a bakery and ask them to print a topping. You then lay it on your iced cake and if you like, add whipped cream rosettes around the cake base and up the sides and around the photo A lot of work.
Singapore flag cake from the Cake Shop Pte Ltd, cheapest is:
listed as $62.90. I messaged them on their website chat and got immediate reply.
They will delivery free for a cake dosting over 70 dollars.
They replied:
We can customize a photo image print cake. The smallest size is 8 inch around 1kg. The cost is $62.90
You can order for the photo image print cupcakes instead. We do have 12 pcs ($46.90) and 16 pcs ($55.90).
We also give 10% discount for SAFRA Member."
From their website:
Hotline: +65 3157 0303
Whatsapp: +65 9662 0303
Whatsapp: +65 9662 0303
Please kindly email us at admin@thecakeshop.com.sg for any enquiry after operations hours.
They are at JCube, Grandstand, and Seletar Mall.Useful Websites
carousell.com
ebay.com
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Toothpick-Flag-100pcs-Qatar-Saudi-Arabia-Singapore-Thailand-Turkey-UAE-Vietnam
Video on you tube about how to make a photo cake - fasinating even if you don't have the budget or time to do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ldH9EBm2XI
UK cake with optional topping photo
https://www.sponge.co.uk/cakes/whole-cakes/chocolate-orange-cake
UK topping to order free delivery UK, can deliver worldwide:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Birthday-Cake-Edible-Image-Printed-Topper-Decoration-PERSONALISED-Mobile-Phone
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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