Last Minute Birthday Cupcakes

I received sudden invitation for a birthday party & was not prepared for any gift, hence, the 'best gift I could think of is:... using my limited resources in my store!!

Can you see mine among the many Elmos & Cookie Monsters??

Choco Sponge Cake with Ganache!

Pressent for Ning

Today is Hui Ning's birthday & once again, I wanted to make her birthday cake a special one. So I let her choose the design! After showing her some simple butter cream design, nothing satisfy her until she saw fondant pressent desing! I dragged making fondant cake as I always have difficulty making a smooth surface on the whole cake! However, since... it's her birthday, I have to oblige & it took me the full 4 hrs just to make a simple fondant design cake! I pre-bake the cake last night, so today will focus on designing the cake.

Today is Hui Ning's birthday & once again, I wanted to make her birthday cake a special one. So I let her choose the design! After showing her some simple butter cream design, nothing satisfy her until she saw fondant pressent desing! I dragged making fondant cake as I always have difficulty making a smooth surface on the whole cake! However, since... it's her birthday, I have to oblige & it took me the full 4 hrs just to make a simple fondant design cake!

Happy Birthday, Ryan!

Ryan is my nephew and his birthday celebration will have to carry forward to this sunday as some of my sis are going on holiday during his birthday. Hence, the mommy has requested a Racing Car cake for him as he is a big fan of CARS, just like my son!! I think boys are usually fancinated by all types of transportations relating with wheels!!

Here's what I got for him:
I think I have forgotten the logo!! Oh gosh!! The name is spelled wrongly, only notice after I brought the cake out!

Strawberry Chiffon Cake

Another Birthday cake for my mom? Yeah.. the previous was made last saturday, and was eaten without her cutting as we wanted to give mom a surprise celebration on today (which is the Actual day)

All goes according to plan as mom was kept in the dark until the caterior set up the food at her place.

How can such celebration goes without a proper cake?

Hence, I have made this cake last night.. without the top design as my highest container can only carry up to this height (abt 7")

Here's the design made in hurry as I was 1 hours late (I travelled from Suntec to Jurong, by bus)! I had asked my hubby to fetch the kids and the cake from home, together with my pre-prepared ingredients and tools.

This is the most successful cake I have made so far!

Here's how I made the cake:

Ingredients:

1. 180gm cake flour
2. 1.2tsp vanilla extract
3. 50gm raw sugar
4. 1.2tsp baking powder
5. 1/8 tsp salt
6. 7 egg yolks
7. 108gm strawberry low fat fresh milk
8. 84gm vegetable oil
9. 7 egg white
10. 50gm raw sugar
11. 1/8 tsp cream of tartar

Fillings:

1. Whipping cream
2. Srawberries

Method:

• Prepare oven to 1750C, Greas and flour 2 X 9" round pan.
• Sift cake flour, baking powder and salt, set aside
• beat egg yolks until ribbon stage, add sugar and continue to beat till sugar dissolves.
• Add vanilla extract, oil, milk and beat till combine, add flour in 2 portion and beat in medium speed till incorporated.
• In a clean bowl, beat egg white, tartar and sugar until soft peaks form.
• Fold in egg white into the yolk mixture in 3 portion.
• Pour the mixture into the prepared pan and bake for 20mins.
• Remove and leave to cool.
• Frost with whipped cream.

Happy Birthday to Mom!

Mom's birthday falls on 22nd and I will not be seeing her, hance, made this well in advance for her.

She is not a chocolate lover, so, I used Vanilla Angel Cake to create this cake for her. I really would like to leave the cake plain, but, how can birthday cake be birthday cake with no decoration?

See the colours of the interior?

Happy Birthday, Ning

Happie Birthday to Caleb!

Race Car Cake (Lightning Mcqueen Reprica)

It's my boy's birthday and he is a big fan of CARs, Trains, Bus, anything to do with wheels.
Hence, search the internet for designs of Cars, managed to find Lightning Mcqueen, including the piping of the design.

Here I go, head to Phoon Huat on monday, so disappointed that the car pan is sold out, however, managed to reserve one and transferred it to the branch near my vanity.

It was Wednesday, went to get the pan. I was so disappointed again! The race car pan is Not Lightning Mcqueen. But...

Nevertheless, bake this cake this morning with the car pan. I had only filled the pan upto half full, and had the balance bake in the Bunt pan.

I thought, this is too thin for slicing into 2 layer. And somehow feel that the cake will not taste nice.
This is the balance batter that I put them in the bunt pan.
Disarster!.. The cake is not to my expetation!

So, I quickly search my recipe for another easy to make recipe: Tradition Sponge Chocolate Cake. This is perfect except for some flour that is trapped and not fully mixed!

Since the cake is done, I make the buttercream icing while waiting for it to cool down. Here's my tools!

It was difficult to get the correct red for the original Mcqueen and here is mine!

Happy 3rd Birthday to my boy, hope his classmate will like the cake tomorrow when I bring it to his school!