Chôux Pastry with Chicken and Cheese

Soes Ayam Keju

Having passion for trying new recipes will always end up with me craving for wanting to bake cakes or cook dishes, like this one. I had been wanting to make this simple yet filling and yummy dish. Since there were too many on the "list to bake & cook", it only got its turn yesterday.

You may think what is in the list until this took me so long to put my hands on... The answer is "hundreds!", because you won't believe it if I tell you the list has a thousand waiting items for me to bake or cook :)

Kitchen activities does not stop at one recipe. Even from one you can create so many varieties. It's your hands and mind creativity...

Back to the chôux, it turned out beautifully with its light brown colour. However, because prior to baking this I had made some Tom Yam Fried Rice for dinner, when I finally put this on the table, my 'troop' was already surrendering...can't take anything else for the evening ^_^

Very well, that means I will have the chance to wait till sunshine and make more lively picture with its help. Meanwhile, I had put the dish in an airtight container and put it in the fridge. That'll do for the night till breakfast time.....

Cupcakes with Fondant

5 December 2010

My (Very) 1st Affair with Fondant



Aren't they so cute...??? I have been holding back to use fondant as a decorating media. Because...people here are very much health conscious that they could not afford to have it because of the sugar content. But there was one fine day I read on facebook that someone is giving a crash course on making basic figurines with fondant. What the...I just jumped in to register and taraaaa...these are the results. I am ready to take the challenge for cakes with fondant orders. Pour 'em in, baby!

Fruity Sponge Cake

I was planning to bake either Opera Cake or Black Forest for Aidil Adha yesterday. Somehow, I gave up the idea because I was asked to make a birthday cake for Philo's birthday on the same day. And Philo's mummy chose Vanilla Sponge Cake as the base cake.

Not to complicate the process, I decided to go along with the cake choice and put in a similar filling with a twist of mandarin orange. Cut it in pieces, and...voila! Nice, soft n fresh Petit Four for the Hari Raya... Enjoy!

Philo and His Flag Cake

I just did another Flag Cake. This time round the order came from a bubbly young chap who's celebrating birthday together with the Aidil Qurban today. This sweet little chap had asked his mother if he could have an Indonesian Flag on his cake. Well, it shouldn't be a problem at all. The only reservation the mother had was the sugar level of the cake. I don't have a sweet tooth anyway so I had encountered sugar alteration most of the time.

Syerli (the mother) chose to have Vanilla Sponge Cake with Blueberry filling and whipped cream covering instead of buttercream. No problem. Customers' request is my command :D. So, there I went to the kitchen and had the cake done. Not much time to think though, just trying to pull off my creativity to its place.

Happy 5th Birthday Philo! May you bloom and groom together with your age. Thanks Syerli for trusting the birthday cake to me. ^_^

Uruguay Flag for Hady

This special request was for yesterday's delivery. A special request from seven-year old Hady, determined his cake should come with an Uruguayan Flag. He is one type of a young man with a strong will and quite critical in analysing things though. That should be including how's the colour of the flag turns up on the cake, I suppose. So, I should be really careful in mixing the colour for the flag. And it was quite a challenging job to get the strong colour of the flag from a buttercream.

I used Frozen Buttercream Transfer technique to make the flag. It would be easier if I had used melted chocolate for outlining instead of buttercream. Unfortunately, I only remembered about it when I was done. Using melted chocolate would make the line more stable since it hardens after a while, and when you fill in the colours the outline wouldn't move anywhere. Now, you can imagine how the outline being pushed here and there a little bit whilst I filled in the other colours. Because this is a flag that should have a straight line, the end result looks a bit shaky on the lines here and there. Well, why not just imagine that flags should be waving on the sky...hehehhh...

However, Hady's mother, whom repeated order this FBC style cake (the first one was for her youngest daughter, Hala : see October's Charlie & Lola Cake), was quite happy to see the result. Eventhough the sun's outline smudged (again because I forgot to use melted choc instead of BC). It was quite a relief. I see that the colour of the cake is a bit dull, so I put a bonus of triple colour flavoured chocolate wafer surrrounding the cake, and voila...it's done!

The cake, as per the birthday boy's request, is Vanilla Sponge Cake. Filled with Blueberry in Light Syrup and covered with buttercream. Such a clever combination that he picked. Yummy! :)

Happy Birthday Hady, may you become a winner in whatever you wish for!


PS: Mind me, the pic above is the cake without cream borders that's supposed to cover the gap between the cake top and the FBC...I just realised that I hadn't put the borders after I did the shoot. Afterwards I didn't have time to re-shoot the cake and have to make do with the one you see here. That is: under a dull kitchen light. :(