Angry Birds 3D

Every little boy just seem to want one .. :)

1st Birthday circus

Inspired by some cupcake covers with a circus theme in vintage-ish colours ...

Butterfly cookies

Cookies for party pack ... A fairy themed party of course :)
The brief : Brightly coloured butterflies

Alice In Wonderland ...

Party favours for an Alice in Wonderland themed birthday tea party .. :) This was a really fun project ...

Mushroom cake pops

A picnic anyone ? the perfect picnic dessert .. :) Mushrooms cake pops

Angry Birds cupcake

I have caved in and one and angry bird themes cupcake . I did a few fondant pieces and some banner style stands. the finished product was great.

Chinese New Year cake pops

Never go empty handed while visiting during Chinese New Year. If possible always bring mandarin oranges .. :) Here is a twist on the tradition with Mandarin cake pops.

I used clove sticks for the stems and moulded some leaves out of chocolate.

One Arm Bandit

3D one arm bandit cake .yummy red velvet on the inside .. :)

Durian Macs....

Yeap duriAN (The King of Fruits) in a macaron ... a mini mac :D

Lion King

This was a pleasure to make as it was something different .. :) The child was really into Baby Simba from the Lion King and in particular the baby Simba ...





(oops didn't get a picture of the assembled cake as i delivered them separately just in case .. the cake was red velvet )

Barbie ...

When a little asks to have a barbie doll on the cake what do we all automatically do ? We make a dress cake ...:) I tried to keep it simple but glittery .. I guess i went a little too simple although i used a REAL Barbie in the construction ..:) (an extra birthday present for the little girl )

Barbie & Disney Princesses

All the princesses you can imagine ... :D
pink cupcakes with mini m&ms inside ..i tried to find smartie poos but they are apparently not available at the moment.

Cream puff math

(this picture is NOT blurry because of the photographer having eaten one too many Baileys cream puffs )

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 :)

Japanese Sponge Cake

This was an interesting experiment I found a Japanese website with detailed pictures of how to make the sponge cake. Only problem is I don't read Japanese and the translators are not 100% accurate. WIth a bit of guessing .... VOILA ....:) it tasted really good though didnt look exactly as it did in the japanese website .. :P




For those interested
http://marron-dietrecipe.com/desert/dessert_spongecake.html

Kiwi sourcream

I have been playing with t a few different frostings and have been trying this sourcream frosting which is really light and yummy. On top of that I have been attempting to stabilize my frostings with some gelatine which is interesting too. As a result a mousse like (?) Tastes alright kinda tangy not sweet at all not very stabilized though the cream :D

Red velvet disasters

Is Red Velvet still in trend ?

I guess good flavours should really never go out of trend. Thought lately I have been doing a lot of Red Velvets and sometimes while rushing things tend to go pear shaped... The other day while i was trying to whip up the cream cheese frosting and instead of adding powdered sugar I added flour . How you may ask ... well this happens when you ask someone else to help you sift sugar while you do something else...:) Was not easy to chuck out the lot of cream cheese ...:( However alls well that ends well ..




And then disaster strikes again - Overfilling cupcakes... trying to be too generous is also not a good thing ...

Toffee apple cake or toffee cake apple ?

From the humble apple cake i dressed it up to like so :

I started by peeling some apples, kept the skins, and tried to put them in a cupcake pan. (sometimes what you imagine would happen and what actually happens are two very different things ... all in the spirit of experimentation) :D



Then i fill the applecake batter and apple chunks into the batter . After baking and chilling I removed the cupcake wrappers. Then made a batch of toffee. I then stuck biscuit sticks into the cupcakes and dipped the cake into the toffee. Trying to make them look a bit like toffee apples.






I then drizzled some of the toffee over the rest of the cake which i filled with a whipped sour cream frosting and a layer of caramelised apple chunks:




It was eaten much faster than I could get a decent shot of the insides. :)