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Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Make Fondant Animals and Fondant Creations

Though I took up the PME Diploma in Sugar Flowers, I have not had any formal training on how to make figures with fondant.  Suddenly had a craze last week to start using fondant and churning out some fondant creations.  Here are some of the fondant figures that I came up with...

Was fortunate to be able to make some fondant animals as well such as the fondant bear, monkey and giraffe.  The ducks and frogs were done last year when I had an order for a 1st Birthday cupcakes.

Fondant bear

Friends forever... 

Baby & bears

haha.. supposed to be a baby but guess the fondant figure does not look like one...

Fondant baby before the stars

Fondant ducks

Fondant frogs

Little fondant giraffes

One of the fondant giraffes

Fondant figure of a monkey... not very well done and still lots to improve
It was a very fun and exciting week for me as I played about making some of the fondant creations.  If you have the patience and the passion, there is  nothing that you cannot do...  :)




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Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Homemade Cheesecake

Used to make no bake cheesecakes years ago but had basically forgotten how I did it.  Recently, as I wanted to try making cheesecakes again, I went to buy the cream cheese to make the cheesecakes.  However, if I had bought a 250g slab, it would have cost quite a bit.  Was looking to get a 1kg slab, but as it was out of stock, ended up with a 2kg slab instead.  Thus, it was cheesecakes galore over the next 1 - 2 weeks!

Started off with the easiest:-  this is what I call the easy no bake cheesecake

No bake pineapple cheesecake
Next was the orange mascarpone cheesecake.  This was the only cheesecake that used two types of cheeses - cream cheese and mascarpone cheese.
Orange Mascarpone Cheesecake
















This feather light marble cheesecake tastes a little like a normal light sponge cake.

Feather light marble cheesecake



Devil's cheesecake
Found the devil's cheesecake a little too rich for my liking.

Next I tried the chocolate marble cheesecake.  The chocolate covering was what gave this cheesecake its chocolate taste.
Chocolate marble cheesecake




Mango cheesecake










Tried something slightly different with the mango cheeesecake.  Placed real mango slices on top of the cake and hundreds and thousands at the side to make it colourful. Not too good an idea of the hundreds and thousands as the colours tend to run...
Whole mango cheesecake
Chocolate chip cheesecake

                                                                          

















The chocolate chip cheesecake was one of the hot favourites as well as the mango cheesecake and orange mascarpone cheesecake. For an easy no bake cheesecake, the pineapple cheesecake is a great homemade cheesecake to start with.








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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Snow Coffee Cookies Recipe

Owe a friend of mine this Snow Coffee Cookies recipe for some time now.  Due to the very hectic Chinese New Year period and after a break, am putting up the Snow Coffee Cookie recipe now as promised.

Pretty easy to make, these dainty little snow coffee cookies are great not only for coffee lovers but for individuals like myself who do not drink coffee but just love any cakes or cookies with that special coffee flavour.

Snow Coffee Cookies Recipe

Ingredients
A
200 gm butter
100 gm castor sugar
1 - 2 tsp coffee paste (depending on your preference)
15 gm mocha powder


B
220 gm plain flour
1 tsp baking powder


C
60 gm ground almonds
60 gm semolina


D
Some snow sugar for dusting


Method
1.  Cream A till light and fluffy
2.  Beat in B & C
3.  Refrigerate for 30 minutes
4.  Shape into rounds, flatten a little and place on baking tray lined with greaseproof paper
5.  Bake in preheated 170 degrees Celsius oven for 12 - 15 minutes till golden brown
6.  Decorate with D on the top




Snow Coffee Cookies 


And there you have it!  The Snow Coffee Cookies recipe should not be too difficult to follow and the coffee cookies are great for tea breaks...





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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Chinese New Year Cookies and Fondant Cake Decor

Was terribly busy during the weeks running up to Chinese New Year with the various baking of Chinese New Year Cookies.  It was a fun time churning out all these cookies.

Chinese New Year Cookies
 Also had an order for some cakes to be delivered before Chinese New Year.  And since it was the Lunar New Year of the Rabbit, came up with this simple CNY cake decor.
For the edible cake decor:-   Fondant rabbit signifying the zodiac rabbit year.  Fondant plum blossom flowers signifying luck.  A red fondant background representing joy, virtue, truth and sincerity since red is an auspicious colour.  And all things gold for prosperity.



The CNY cake decor on the cake

Simple and nothing too elaborate for the fondant cake decor...  Yet bringing out the significance of the Chinese New Year festival.




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Friday, January 14, 2011

CNY Cookies 2011



Chinese New Year is here once again...

Personally though I love the traditional CNY cookies, I do yearn for something different as well. This year, I have come up with a few new varieties including some for the chocolate and coffee lovers as well as some traditional cookies.


Here are the CNY cookies available for 2011:-


Hot Favourite  
Mocha Squares  (mocha flavoured cookies with chocolate drizzle)
  

Almond Rocher (for the almond lovers - almond strips in chocolate)


Chocolate Rocher (mixture of nuts, raisins & cornflakes in choc)





    Chocolate Cornflakes (a hit with the kids)




Snow Coffee (coffee cookies sprinkled with a dash of 'snow')











All time favourite:-  Pineapple Tarts


Love Letters

Kuih Bangkit

Kuih Lapis - Prune
Also available in Original, Coffee, Pandan and Chocolate



Oh!  And not forgetting prawn rolls.

Do check with us for the latest prices...


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Thursday, January 06, 2011

Christmas Chocolate Cupcakes

Was away in the weeks before Christmas and touched down on home soil only on Christmas Day. Since we were having a family Christmas lunch on Boxing Day, decided to make some Christmas chocolate cupcakes at the very last minute.

Christmas season

Used my basic chocolate cupcake recipe, topped it with chocolate butter cream and added some Christmas decorations and voila! here comes the very easy-to-make Christmas chocolate cupcakes.

Christmas chocolate cupcakes - one of my friends said that they looked very 'pro' :)

Another set of Christmas chocolate cupcakes but with vanilla icing.







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Monday, October 11, 2010

Tiffany Blue Cupcakes With Fondant Butterfly

A special request for tiffany blue cupcakes with lavender butterfly.

Chocolate cupcakes with tiffany blue icing and lavender fondant butterflies

These chocolate cupcakes are packed in boxes of 6

Top view of the tiffany blue cupcakes with fondant butterflies

As per Cherilyn:- My friends love the cupcakes. They found it very pretty and too delicate to eat. As for me, I found the flower and leaf very crunchy, butterfly marzipan a bit too sweet and cos the butterfly was too big for the cupcake and 1/2 of the butterfly broke. The colours are very sweet and the mint green did have a tinge of mint in it, right? The mint flavour went very well with the chocolate cupcakes... :)







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Tiffany Blue Cupcakes


And since I had some extra chocolate cupcakes as well as tiffany blue icing and fondant butterflies, I decorated the balance with whatever I had.

Little garden

Colourful stars

Jelly tots and chocolates for the flowers

Colourful chocolate flowers

Chocolate balls

A mixture of decorations

Another box for a good friend




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Sunday, October 03, 2010

1st Birthday Cupcakes


Here's the actual image for the 1st birthday cupcakes for the vanilla cupcakes as it was served to guests.

And here's the message from Siew Chen who came up with the idea of the yellow ducks and green frogs for the cupcake birthday cake.

Hi Veronica

No worries. Thank you for doing such a good work for my cupcakes. My guests love them and said that they are not just pretty but yummy too. My baby also likes the ducks and frogs a lot, she keeps pointing to the cupcakes wanting us to let her have the cupcakes. J

Here are the pictures of the cupcakes. Hope they are helpful.

Will order from you again.

Thanks & Regards

Siew Chen







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