Cookies for an Assignment!

2 birthday cake order

I have an last minute order for 2 cakes to be delivered tmr, for a 4 yr old boy's birthday and I spent the whole of today's evening fullfilling it (it takes me from 7.30pm to 12.30am).

As they have no idea what cake for the school, I have suggested this 13 by 9" (2.5kg) cake. I have used the Chocolate Layer cake recipe but, multiply all ingredients by 2.

This is the simpliest & easiest design that I can come out with, covering the whole cake with the Chocolate frosting left, using whipped cream plus drops of colours on the wording. Yet, I know, I need to polish up my writing skill with the piping bag. Hope the boy will like it.

This is the 2nd cake that the mommy chose. It's Japanese cheesecake which will be use to celebrate the little man's birthday with his family, I thought, it will be too plain without any decorations. So, I drew a simple boy face since I have some chocolate frosting left over from my previous bake!

A little tip: If you use turning out method for cheesecake, you can sprinkle some icing sugar on the rack, then turn over, the top will not 'peel' off.

Another Brownie

This is my 1st attempt to write wordings on a cake. Tell me what you think!

Milo Doggie Cookies

My girl has been pestering me to make these lovely cookies when she saw it when I was browsing Happy Homebaker's blog.

Brownie

This is the best brownie I have made so far. The texture is moist, soft, yet not too sweet. With tips from expertise, I modify the original recipe as follows:

Ingredients
250gm Butter
200gm semi-sweet chocolate block
5 medium eggs, room temperature
1/4 tsp salt
1 cups raw sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup walnuts pecans, chopped (optional)

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 175 degree celcus
2. Grease a 13 X 9 inch baking pan
3. In a double boiler, melt butter and chocolate. Remove from heat.
4. Cool chocolate for 5 minutes
5. Using an electric mixer, beat eggs and salt in a large bowl until lemon colored and foamy.
6. Add sugar and continue beating until mixture is well blended.
7. Stir in vanilla.
8. Add cooled chocolate to mixture.
9. Fold in flour. Do not over mix.
10. Gently fold nuts into batter.
11. Pour batter into prepared pan.
12. Bake for 20 to 25mins until a wooden stick inserted into the center comes out clean.
13. Cool in baking pan.

Serve with Chocolate syrup to add sweetness to the brownie as shown below.

Chocolate Cookies

Another batch of chocolate cookies, done with the help of my darling girl.

Bailey's Tiramisu (no egg)

This cake is for my kid's Teachers in their childcare centre.

This Bailey's Tiramisu is made with rich Bailey's Irish Cream and some Coffee liqour. I have modify the original recipe as follows:

Ingredients

• 2tsp INSTANT ESPRESSO COFFEE POWDER
• 1 cup HOT WATER
  
• BAILEY'S IRISH CREAM, 2/3 cup
• MASCARPONE CHEESE, 500gm
• FAT-FREE CREAM CHEESE, 8 ounces, softened
• BROWN SUGAR, 1/3 cup, packed
• LADYFINGERS, 24
• UNSWEETENED COCOA POWDER, 2 teaspoons

Directions

1. Make coffee by dissolving the coffee powder in the hot water.
   
2. Transfer coffee to a shallow dish.
3. Add 2 tablespoons Baileys' Irish Cream.
4. Set aside and allow to cool.
5. In a large bowl, combine Mascarpone and cream cheese.
6. Beat at high speed until smooth.
7. Add brown and granulated sugar and remaining Baileys' Irish Cream.
8. Beat until well-blended.
9. Have a 9-inch square baking dish ready.
10. Briefly dip sugar side of ladyfinger in coffee mixture, abt 3secs.
11. Place (flat side down) ladyfinger on bottom of baking dish (you should use half of the ladyfingers).
12. Spread half of cream cheese mixture over ladyfingers.
13. Sprinkle with half of the cocoa powder.
14. Repeat with remaining ladyfinger (dip the flat side with the coffee mixture), cream cheese mixture, and cocoa powder.
15. Chill 2 hours.

Chocolate Cookies

Bought this cookie cutter for quite some time, finally put them into use. I had hard time molding the cookies as the recipe I have used is quite soft. So, we actually mold the dough on the baking tray itself and take out excess dough using a stick, hence, you can see that there are so much mess in between the cookies.

Here's the recipe:

175g Powdered sugar
135g Butter
1/4 tsp Salt
1 egg
[200g cake flour
A-[30g cocoa powder
[1/2 tsp baking powder

1. Preheat Oven to 170deg C. Grease a baking sheet. Mix and shift A.
2. Soften the butter at room tempertature. Cream butter and sugar in an electric mixer until fluffy and pale. Add the egg and mix well. Fold in A and salt then mix into a smooth dough. Divide the dough into 40 small balls and place them on a greased baking sheet. I used hand to flatten the ball and use cookie cutter to press them into shapes and decorate as desire.
3. Bake for 10minutes.

Chocolate Tiramisu (without Alcohol)

My girl has been requesting for a Tiramisu for her birthday this year, however, the one she likes is the original Tiramisu with alcohol, hence, not suitable for School party. After much consideration, I made this Chocolate Tirmisu without Alcohol for her.

She was so delighted when she sees it and her friends finishes the whole cake within minutes and asked for 2nd helpings. I think this is the 1st Tiramisu cake that her friends have eaten and they even request that I make for them during their birthday.