Strawberries and Cream

A basic sponge cake ( this is a sponge base i got off a japanese website) topped with strawberries and sour cream frosting. LIght tangy and delicious .

Cake pops

The most basic kind ...
It is only a matter of time before i made them .. :)
Of course you can't do cakepops without mentioning Bakerella

I started with some butter cake (pound cake) ...
then i added some butter cream frosting ...
and then some sugar hearts and fairy dust (disco dust i think they call them at bakeshops)




When I ran out of buttercream, I added some thickened cream i figured by the time you mesh the butter cream in the testure would be similar to cream....and it was still tasty and not as sweet .. :)





Then i did one more with some yoghurt with butter cake. I used strawberry yoghurt which was a bit inspired by the raspberry bullets ..:)

What a 7 year old can do ....

Who says you can't learn anything from a 7 year old .. :)

There was some butter cake, odd pieces of fruit and cream, and this was the presentation that was created :


Insisting on preparing dessert, she cut up some strawberries and skewered it and placed it on a plate of yoghurt.


We were given some granola bars at a craft fair and there were more people than bars to go around. So the little one cleverly distributed it and presented it with some frozen mixed berries on a bed of fresh cream.


Sometimes when she describes the dessert we remain skeptical, well we just need to be more trusting :)

Kids Can Cook ...

During the school holidays ( in Australia ), we decided to entertain the kids (my nieces) with a of baking class. We invited some of their friends and on the menu that day was an apple pie each, butter cookies and bruschetta for afternoon tea. The age group that day was 5- 12 . It was really interesting to see how well kids can do when they are given the opportunity. Everyone had fun and in case you are wondering, yes there was a mess but it was all in the backyard so it was all good cause the rains came the next day and cleaned it all up :)

Butterfly Cake

When I asked my little niece what she wanted for a birthday cake all she said was butterflies. So I made a few chocolate butterflies and made pink cream cheese frosting to ice a red velvet cake.

Swiss Roll ... or rather Japanese roll ?

I first tried an authentic Japanese sponge cake roll when i was at Mt Rokko in Japan. It was just so light and the cream inside was not too rich which made it a really nice balance. The sponge is made to look like a cow too and this was not only just painted on the exterior of the sponge roll it actually goes through the whole sponge sheet (unfortunately I was too busy eating to take more pictures)



So This is my attempt at the swiss roll . Pretty successful I thought although definitely not as pretty. I got this recipe from a Japanese website. I am quite proud of my attempts with a bit of guess work and google translate :)