Mango Pavlova

I managed to find some really nice mangoes and decided to make a mango passionfruit pavlova. Only problem is when I cut open the passionfruits this morning, they were overriped so it will be just mango with mascarpone on a bed of crispy chewy pavlova.

Rock Star Baby Shower

Bollywood Cake Revisited

A strawberry chocolate cake was requested with a bollywood theme. I had ideas initially to use fondant to carry out the design but then thought about it further, the cream is made out of fresh strawberry puree and may not be good to sit it outside. However, fondant does not sit well in the fridge as the condensation will cause it to become sticky. So settled for buttercream frosting. I am quite happy with the way it turned out, I could have made it into a more girly cake but the instructions were to depart from that.

Snake and Ladders

Had a request for a snake and ladders cake for a 5 year old. This was quite tedious with having to cut out each square and different elements of the cake. Hope the birthday boy likes it.

Caleb's Full Moon

A "thank you" gift actually ordered by a friend for those who had given her gifts and well wishes on the birth of her son. Simple but different, some blue M&Ms, and 2 sugar cookies.

Purple and Blue Whimsical Wedding Cake

I know same picture of the same cake but this is one of my favourite cakes now. A little dissapointed with the sugarpaste that dimpled a little but then again as one famous baker said " there can never be a perfect cake".

Blackforest slices

Had wanted to have blackforest for awhile but was not too keen in those you get in most old time bakeries where they stinge on cherries and lather on too much cream. Made this ina rush over the weekend. I had one hour in between appointments, manage to whip up the sponge and put in chunks of chocolate and cherries in between chocolate buttercream. *Craving satisfied*

February and March Babies - Office Birthdays

A sky high hummingbird cake for birthday celebration at the office today. It has been awhile since I attended a class that taught amongst other recipes, the Hummingbird Cake. Not easy to find this cake but who knows, will it be the next Red Velvet? I did not have the urge to instantly try the recipe I learnt as I felt the colour of the cake did not turn out nice. So upon stumbling on another recipe for this cake, I made this for the celebration today.

Hummingbird cake is similar in taste and texture to the familiar carrot cake but the ingredients are different. There is banana, pineapple, coconut and cinnamon in this hearty cake. This may be a keeper but only when I feel like it.

Lemon cake with Fresh Blueberries

A light luscious lemon cake with fresh blueberries. The lemon cream is a new recipe, it is like clouds of tangy lemons on a cake. Lovely. Have uploaded a close of the the sprinkles and the cross section of the cake. If you are a lemon lover, this is for you!

Cupcakes to say "thank you"

We had been working really hard the past couple of weeks. The project was finally delivered end of last week. So some cupcakes to thank the team.

Nutella Cupcakes - it seems

Tried out nutella cupcakes. I used to have nutella long time ago when it was in those little plastic containers with a plastic spoon. A real treat. But now I noticed that these were reintroduced into the market but at a rather high price (or was I not aware at how much my parents paid for our indulgence many years back). Anyways this is a chocolate cupcake topped with nutella icing but I reckon the nutella does not come out too much in the cream, tasted more like just chocolate. But pretty anyway.

Strawberry Cream and Dark Chocolate

Sorry I have been so quiet these days but hopefully from today onwards, there'd be more frequest updates. Work had taken over my life for the past one month and now that things are settled, it's back to the kitchen for me. Here is one of the cakes I made for the office a couple of days back just for stress relieve. A layered dark chocolate cake with strawberry buttercream. It was very tasty, a new recipe I found. Many more layered cakes I hope, to come. It is always in phases, at one point I was into cookies, then agar-agar, then chiffon, then butter cakes, now layered cakes. The good recipes are kept and the not so good ones are swiftly dumped into the bin.

Farewell Breakfast for Fitch

Too many colleagues leaving the organisation. We had a breakfast farewell for one of our friends - Fitch who has since moved to greener pastures. Some pictures of the food I made..... sarnies, sausage rolls and blueberry almond muffins.

Tribute to Whitney

Shocked to hear about the death of Whitney Houston. Had her CD playing in my car.....great voice with a sad ending. Anyways, made a cake in tribute to her. A light pink vanilla cranberry cake covered in all american buttercream, sprinkled with confetti and stars! I love how this cake turned out.... the smell of butter was intoxicating.

MIA and the army cake

Yes yes it's been awhile and a number of friends had asked whatever happened to me? not blogging anymore? not baking anymore? still blogging and still baking just no time to do it. Have slowed down a little on the baking as my day job deadlines are closing in. Anyways, here is a picture of a camouflage I made out of buttercream and some paintball splatters for a kid's paintball party.

Party Favours

I was requested to make some personalised favours for a friend's birthday party at Raju's. Here they are.

Courtyard Wedding Cake

I had the priviledge of baking a cake for a wedding at the Courtyard Garden. I have not been there before but when I went to set up the cake, I was like "not bad this place". Hope the bride liked the cake, Congratulations Ann!

Fairies

I love love love this cake. Was such a joy to make for twin girls. I hope they like it. I took so many pictures of this cake. The fairies could still be improved but I love how whimsical this looks.

Lemon Lemon

i had extra lemons at home and decided to improvise on some recipes for a beautiful, beautiful lemon cake which I will call "Lemon Lemon". Moist buttery genoise layers with buttercream and fresh lemon curd. Divine especially if you are one who love lemons.

Bake Sale 2011

My office held a charity bake sale a couple of days ago. Yes, I have been busy and now after the event, am feeling the strain of the marathon baking session. Some pictures of the goodies I had on sale. Cakes were very well received.