Cake Decorating

Mommy bakes a lot nowadays and the most frequent cake she baked was cupcakes.
Mommy usually decorates with fondant.

Today after mommy made her cupcakes and deco, she planned for her friend's farewell.
There are still few cupcakes and fondant left over.
This is the best opportunity to ask mommy to let me play with them! Normally mommy won't allow me and 弟弟 to touch.

At first, mommy agreed to let me deco the cupcakes myself. However, 弟弟 saw me playing with the fondant, he also requested to join. No choice, mommy has to let him do his cupcake as well.

弟弟 is rolling a ball

Well, this is our "art work". I made a burger and a red doughnut.

The other three are from 弟弟. He claimed that he made a remote control (the one with red color), a snowman (the one with brown color) and a cake.

We brought these cupcakes back to Ah Mah house. 弟弟 so happy to carry the cake.

At Ah Mah's house, 弟弟 requested to light up a candle and sing the birthday song.

To him every cake need to blow candle and sing birthday song  : )

May Celebration

As usual, May always be a busy month for us.
Mother's Day and Ah Mah's birthday are in May.
This year, 曾祖母 birthday celebration also falls in May, is just one day before Mother's Day.

This year mommy helped to bake cake for 曾祖母 birthday party as 大姑婆 asking if mommy wants to bake the cake.

Flowers and 寿桃 as the main cake

Add on with alphabet and number 

All together there are 68 cupcakes and one big cake

Photo with 曾祖母. Papa and 弟弟 are not attending the dinner because 弟弟 is sick.

 After the cake cutting ceremony, I helped to distribute cupcakes to the guests.

After a week, is Ah Mah's birthday. This time mommy didn't bake any cake as Ah Mah does not like fondant cake. Mommy bought a crepe cake for Ah Mah since she never tried crepe cake before.

Hazelnut crepe cake

more than 20 layers of crepe

叔叔 BB One Year Old Birthday

End of November is 叔叔 BB's birthday. He turned one on his birthday and there will be a party for him.

So happened that we already planned our holiday on that weekend and we were not able to attend his birthday party.

Mommy baked him some cupcakes. Yes, nowadays mommy is busy in baking especially on cupcakes.

This is just an additional for his party, for sure his parents already ordered a big cake for him.

4x4 cupcakes for the BB one year old birthday party

Twinkle star and bear

Bear bear holding the letter "ONE"

We back to 奶奶 house on Friday's night to pass the cakes and present to BB.

BB still yet to sleep and we able to play with him for a while.

The birthday boy is carried by Mommy

Cute Cookies - Little Bear

Mommy bought this book from bookstore few weeks ago. 

It has many recipe about cookies and all those cookies are very cute. It's meant for the kids, occasion, party...that's the reason mommy bought the book.

You also can visit her blog at this link.

Mommy first try on the cookies - Little Bear.

For mommy, it's kind of hard to made the bear's face shape, but the result turned out to be ok : ) 

Another try on icing sugar cookies. The icing is not well drawn. Still need improvement.

Cake Pop

Last weekend mommy tried to make some cake pop.

This is her first attempt on cake pop. Well, the result is good to see but not really good to eat :p

The cake

Mommy change the recipe, she changed to use butter cake as the base.

After baked the cake, crumbled, frosting and rolled into the desired shape / pattern.

Mommy made cupcake cake pop, the shape is just like a mini cupcake.

Cake pop...ready for chocolate coating & decoration

Coating with dark chocolate for the base

Top surface coated with orange & pink chocolate.

Top up with sparkle and heart shape candy.

See where pop poke the cake pop? It's on the small butter cake that baked for me and 弟弟.

At first mommy can't find a container to make the cake pop stand straight after chocolate coating. I was the one suggested to mommy to poke the cake pop on top of the butter cake.

Just like candle. Good idea, it worked and the cake can be hold straight up after the coating.

However, the cake inside is too oily. I think mommy didn't follow the recipe in the book and she just based on her feeling to put in the frosting. Frosting will made the cake moist but I think mommy put in too much frosting.

After packing...

Cartoon Butter Cookies

Mommy baked some butter cookies for us last weekend.

Those cookies are cute as it was cut into cartoon shape.

There are Piglet, Minnie, Mickey, Pooh and Hello Kitty.

Those cartoon cookies are for the kids.

Mommy also prepared some for adults as below.

Strawberry Butter Cookies with star & heart shape.

The butter cookies recipe as below:

Ingredients:

150g butter at room temperature

100g icing sugar

1 egg

250g rising flour

Method:

1) Beat well butter and sugar till butter change to lighter color.

2) Add egg and continue to beat well.

3) Add in flour and mix well.

4) Wrap in plastic and keep the dough in fridge for at least 1 hour.

5) Roll the dough to 3mm thickness and cut into the shape you like.

6) Bake in oven at 180’C for 12-15min till golden brown.

This recipe not really give a good hardness on the dough to roll out and cut into desired cookies shape. It's too soft even mommy kept in fridge for more than an hour. This recipe is more appropriate for piping cookies. Mommy have to use a lot of flour to prevent it stick on the rolling pin and table. Mommy still try to find a better recipe for molding butter cookies.

Ah Mah Birthday 2011

Ah Mah birthday is on May.

This year Mommy baked Ah Mah a cake and I did help on the decoration.

The original sponge cake after baked.

Mommy also made it as cupcake for me.

I help to put the flower & heart shape candy.

Tada....this is the cake looks like.

We put longan & peach on the cake and also in between layer.

弟弟& I blow the candle together with Ah Mah.

Sponge Cake ingredients:

200g sponge cake premix flour

4tbsp water

4tbsp melted butter or corn oil

4 eggs

Simple, right? If you wish to know the method, do leave mommy a message.

At night, we brought Ah Mah to Charlie Brown Cafe for dinner, the same restaurant as 弟弟birthday celebration.

Mommy's Butter Icing Cupcakes

It has been a long long time mommy didn't turn on her oven.

Finally, today she baked something -- Butter Icing Cupcakes.

Those are chocolate cupcakes with butter icing as topping& decoration.

I helped mommy to do some of the decoration as I like to play with those Hundred & Thousand and Heart Shape Sugar.

Mommy said the butter icing didn't beat well as it started to collapse after a while. Can't maintain the shape for long.

This is the good one, the shape still maintain.

This is special baked for me as I requested to have strawberry cupcakes.

Mommy put some strawberry jam into the ingredients to fulfill my request :)

This will be my breakfast tomorrow.

Pancake

Last Sunday was Father's Day.

We only had a very simple celebration as too many occasions since Apr.

Sorry ya, papa, Father's Day comes too late.

Mommy decided to make a cake for papa but she was kind of lazy and doesn't want to clean a lots of stuff after bake as well. So, she chose this recipe -- Pancake.

This is quite simple & easy recipe. No oven needed.

Mommy make this cake with 5 pieces of pancake, stacked them on top of each others.

Apply whipped cream on the cake, decorates with chocolate chips & fruits...finished!

Mommy done all this within 2 hours, pretty fast, right?

Mommy started when I went to my music class and when I came home, the cake ready and kept in the fridge already.

See the side wall of the cake. I think mommy still need some improvement here.

Perhaps she should go to attend some bakery class.