Friday, October 19, 2007

Eid Cakes!

Eid was slightly different this year because I opted not to make any cookies. I baked cakes instead.

This was the coffee sponge cake I made the day before Eid. The cake was torted into two and I layered them with coffee buttercream in between. The outer part is also coffee buttercream and I plastered some chunky peanuts onto it sides. The piled up truffles were simply Ferrero Rocher, The white truffles are actually coffee flavoured truffles which I made earlier in the morning and were then covered with melted white chocolate and left to set in the fridge. The coffee buttercream was wonderful, I have to say. Eheh..
And this one is my Oreo cheesecake. This was easy to whipped up. Doesn't require any baking and i got it all done in less than half an hour. Easy peasy. It doesn't taste too cheesy (which is perfect to me.., I don't like cheesecake that is too cheesy to the throat) because I used gelatine powder to make it firm instead of just cheese.
So that's for Eid. I'll have birthdays to deal with next month and I hope I'll be able to make more whole cakes.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Here I Go Again...

Last week, I had another quest of making three types of cupcakes in a day. They were Carrot Cupcakes, Lemon and Coconut Cupcakes and the Strawberry Swirl, again.

My sister insisted on me doing this lucky ball theme for the Lemon and Coconut Cupcakes. So, yatta! I did it..

The Carrot Cupcakes went with the standard garnishing for any carrot cakes globally. The frosting was cream cheese and the tiny carrots were made from sugarpaste.

Here's the Strawberry Swirl with a different look.

Another Addition

I received a request for some strawberry swirl cupcakes and peanut butter-filled cupcakes not too long ago. As usual I was busy with daily work and so I ended up with more simple finishing for my cupcakes.

This one here is the Strawberry Swirl... I had some extras so I decided to gave some to my ex-Human Resources Director. Hope she enjoyed them.

And this is the usual, made those fondant flowers quickly. It was indeed the easiest garnishing I could think of at that time. Not so attractive, but super easy.

An Experiment

This was an experiment of Peanut Butter cupcakes. For this I mixed the peanut butter into the batter and not filled the cakes up like I always did.

After that coffee frosting attempt, I made the frosting for this one by adding some peanut butter into the frosting mixture.

I've made the chocolate triangles many weeks ago when I was bored and I decided to use them here.

I kinda prefer this one more than those vanilla cupcakes with peanut butter fillings.

Not So Recent

I have not posted anything new for quite some time. I've had a number of cake projects but I haven't got much time to dispose in front of the computer. I can't remember when I made this one, two months ago, I think. I made them for a girlfriend dedicating the cakes to her boyfriend. I resorted for simple frosting with skewed chocolate ganache effects on the cakes. The words on the cakes were suppose to have some %^&*# meaning which I shall not reveal for the sake of the couple. Heheh..

I flavoured the frosting with coffee and white chocoloate. My first attempt of flavouring frosting this one, but nevertheless, it's delicious!!

Here's putting in the truffles into the hollowed chocolate cupcakes.