Maw's 92nd birthday

Birthday cakes

Another dirt bike

I was a little skeptical about doing a cake like this - I like my cake clean and elegant and I have never sculpt or whatever you wanna call it so I was relieved that it turned out alright. And the most important thing is, she loves the cake and I hope her grandson does too!

Cakes for Dec

It was a busy-busy month...with Christmas and my birthday just a week after ;)....and also job searching (still). I had a good Christmas, and I hoped everyone did too. I managed to get a few cakes out in Dec but by my birthday time, I thought I will just go simple...with cupcakes. Hubby got me a cupcake recipes book for Christmas and of cos I have to try the recipes out!


giftbox cake with snowmen and penguins



cake for our family dr

all buttercream cake with fondant decor

a last minute cake for a 3yo girl

 

this cake was for the Inpatient dept in Haldimand War Memorial

and this was for the ER dept - penguin in distressed

 









Emily's Girly-Monkey Cake

This is a 6" vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream covered with pink fondant.

Baked Pistachio cake with Honey buttercream

I baked this just because I want to try out the recipe and we have someone over for the weekend. It was pretty expensive and a lot of work. For me, shelling the pistachios and grinding them to powder is a bit too much work ;p

Well anyway, I iced the cake, tied a ribbon around it..and attached my 1st Anemone and voila!

Halloween birthday cake and...

... my first cake disaster!!! I have not been blogging for a while - Just been busy with drs, housework (yucks) and party-planning for the holidays! I did my 1st Halloween cake, which was also a birthday cake. My dr's only requirement was "scary" and so I baked some witch fingers for a test-run...like it a lot and voila - here is my halloween birthday cake.

 Everything else was made of fondant and the spider webs were piped with royal icing.

And my first cake disaster pic...sigh. It was supposed to be a 2 tiers cake decorated with calla lilies. It wasn't for anyone....just for my cake class but did want to bring it to my friend's Halloween party that night. Oh well, learnt something new from this disaster...but I did managed to salvage the top!

Thankgiving Day birthday cake

I almost forgot about this cake. It was done together on the Thanksgiving weekend and my favourite cake so far. It was for someone who loves pink, dogs and shopping. It is a very rich chocolate cake with chocolate ganache.

Thanksgiving Cakes

These are the cakes I have done for the Thanksgiving weekend. I was busy with appts and what not, thus the late posting. Enjoy!!

Fondant turkey with acorns, apples, pumpkins and maple leaves

Cornucopia with more acorns, apples, pumpkins and maple leaves

"Save a turkey, eat pork" cake

Hello Kitty Birthday cake

My MIL wanted a Hello Kitty (HK) cake for her birthday. I wanted something that is original in design, not the usual HK head cake..so I thought what about HK in a garden, since my MIL loves gardening. And voila, here you go...

And the inside of the cake looks like this ...Vanilla with lemon curd and covered with buttercream

Thanks for looking ;)

Indonesian layer cake

This cake is also known as Dutch layer cake due to Indonesia used to be colonized by them. But I have yet to find the Dutch recipe for comparison.

This cake involves 25 egg yolks and hours of grilling, layer by layer. The first layer was baked and subsequently the rest were grilled. So if you do not have 2-3 hours to spare, and lotsa patience sitting by the oven, then this is not the cake to bake. Now I know why they charge so much for this cake.My husband asked what is with the beeping every few minutes ;)

But if you do bake it, you will know the time you spent in the kitchen is well worth it. It is sooo good..my mum-in-law who is part Irish/Scottish said she never had anything like this before. We were both gobbling it down in front of the tv.

If you want to try to bake it yourself, the recipe can be found here

Gift Box cake

This is my first fondant covered cake. It is a 3 layers cake with buttercream filling covered with chocolate ganache.

Basketweave cake

3 layers of vanilla cake with strawberry puree. Decorated with Italian Buttercream and the flowers are made of Royal Icing. Flowers:- roses, apple blossoms, primroses

Boston Cream Pie Cake

Boston Cream Pie is one of my favourite cake - 2 layers cake with a rich creamy vanilla custard, covered by chocolate. The cake is usually decorated with icing sugar but this time, I thought I will decorate it with flowers done with quilling technique. The flowers are made of fondant so they are all edible!

Summer Cake

Well, I don't think the only time we can have cake is when there is a special occasion. So since summer is approaching, I think I will make something light. Is a 7.5" by 9" chocolate sponge with strawberry mousse and fresh strawberries. My husband who is not really a fan of strawberry complained that me and my mum-in-law finished the cake when he only had a slice. Well, have to be faster next time!

Rainbow cake

9" rainbow coloured cake (inside) with Buttercream icing and fondant rainbow and plane