Classic Baked cheese cake and Chocolate cream cake

Xin 5th birthday cake and Hwee's company christmas celebration cake

It is Xin birthday today but as usual since it's our family gathering on each Monday of the week, naturally we celebrated her birthday early. This was the cake I made her. Am really new in piping cartoon picture with piping gel.

Made yet another mango blueberry cake for hwee's office christmas celebration.

4th Anniversary of our togetherness...

Firstly would like to wish my hubby happy 4th anniversary and thanks for the great support, understanding and contribution to me n the family. We really love you.

I had made a new cake today. One that I had never tried before and eaten before coz I'm just not a puding and mousse person. But thought that I gave it a try and wau la... It was quite nice... Really a recipe tat i'll keep but will try to reduce the sugar abit as most of it is chocolate..

Orange Butter Cake

This was another bake that I had made last week which I had forgotten all about. This was another try on Amy Heng's cake recipe as I had no idea of what to bake so this was what I chose to try on.

The recipe was quite simple and my oldest son really loved it. It was not too dry and at first thought it was a bit oily. But by night time, it was just nice.

Non-baked Mango Cheese cake

Was left with 3 extra mango, so decided to try out a non baked mango cheesecake recipe from the Amy Heng. Her cake was a bit complicated with the side baked cake and the mango pudding. I just decided to go for a simple one as it had been quite long time since I made a mango cheesecake and so got a bit of craving for it.

I had used marie biscuit for this and 2 mangoes - 1 for puree & 1 as mango cubes in the mango cheesecake. The cake taste quite refreshing and a bit of soury taste maybe due to the mango and the orange juice used.

I liked it..

Strawberry Mashmallow cake & I got order for another 2 cake

Well, today I got another two order of cake: Mango Blueberry and Hazelnut Coffee Cake. Hope my friends like it and will help spread the virus and get others ppl to try.

Back to this post, I also wanna try in another new cake : strawberry Mashmallow cake. I haven't try it yet as wan to wait for hubby to come back tomorrow and try with him. overall it's just strawberry and mashmallow filling. I guess it might be a bit lacking in taste coz I didn't add in a "Kirsch" not sure what's tat. But I think it should be the strawberry flavour or something.. Will update once I try it out..

Classic Baked Cheesecake

Yes this cheesecake was a bit burn coz the temperature in my small oven is very high eventhough i put it as 100 degree celsius. This is my first try of the cake. The baking time took more than 2 hours then stated in the Delicious Cake book by AMy Heng.

I think it took me 3 hours to bake it scare if I put temperature of 180Degree it will burn the top but if low temp it won't cook in the middle. But taste wise it was good. But the bottom bisuit was a bit burnt coz the water bath dry up..

But will try to made it again.

Princess Cake

Made this cake for my two sweet nieces

Marble Cake

Am still on my search for a nice tasting marble cake and therefore decided to try the recipe from Agnes CHang's marble cake recipe. My findings the cake is not as tasty as I wanted and there is nothing special about it. Maybe I'm picky but yet we are always searching for the one things that will give us the "On my gods!!" expression.. ha ha.. so it didn't really meet my expectation..

Hazelnut Cream Cake For Jay Wee

This is just a cake that I had whipped up together with the cake for my brother in law but this was made specially for my elder son. Coz the cake for my brother in law is covered with coffee cream and kahlua is added so I purposely made another one for him so that he also can eat a slice of the cake.

So this is a Hazelnut Cake covered with hazelnut cream with a simple design. I think the texture of the cake is a bit rough due to the grounded hazelnut added. And yes the hazelnut cream is also a bit too sweet for my taste. My son dun like sweet things as well as he only ate half the slice of cake which I had given him. So next time I won't use so much of the hazelnut in the cream.

Light soft Yummy Cheese cake

Had been busy with chasing sales and taking care of the two boys. So by the time I'm free already too tired to think of baking. However, recently saw a blog pal sharing on a light cheese cake recipe so decided to put it to trial.

Years ago I had eaten a very nice yummy fluffy cheese cake and ever since that had been wanting to make one myself but fail to get a nice recipe for making it. By thanks to Little Teochew's cotton japanese cheese cake recipe, I get the chance to try it again.. For the recipe pls refer to Little Teochew's blog.

Yes the cake was like what she had shared.. light, fluffy and cheesy. Her tips was nice as well but coz we were going out so I had taken the cake out from the oven straight after it was baked. It was fluffy and full but as u see from the picture when the cake was let to cool on a wire rack the top just sink in. So this is to tell u better to hear what other advice ha ha.. I didn't have a 8 or 9 inch cake pan as I only got those that is loose pan one. I didn't use as this recipe call for baking a in water bath. So i used a square pan -not sure wat size is it. SO when I pour in the batter it was almost 90% full..

So at first, I had try to put a aluminium foil on top to cover but coz the batter was too full it was touching the foil so I decided to take it out. Scare that I overbaked the cake so I lowered the oven temp to 150 degree celsius and extended the baking time to 1 hour 30 min. when it was baking for almost 40 min I lowered the temp again to 140-130 degree so it cook slow and with a nice golden colour on top.

But the cake is just very nice. ANd my son being very picky had eaten a few more pieces than usual and this was the same to my in laws. I must say if u are looking for a light spongy cheese cake this is a cake recipe that u must try..

Chocolate Banana Cake again!!

My Brother in law was having a gathering for his office collegue yesterday so invited us to go their house. There was bouncer for the kids and foods for the adult ha ha.. We weren't expected to bring anything but I thought that I can made a Chocolate Banana Cake for them to try.

Making the cake was not difficult. I think the challenge I have with this cake is how to put it on a wire rack after icing and transfering the cake onto a cake board once I had pour the chocolate ganache on top. I had friends sharing how they had to lift up the cake and then slowing sliding the cake so that it can be transfer to the cake board.

I try it but it didn't work for me. It was really a big mess. Not sure how to do it better. hmm.. Will try to see what is a better option to transfer the cake next time.

Boy... I made a real mess on transfering the cake with chocolate everyway- on the table, the board, my hand n my t-shirt. I try sliding the cake but it didn't slide at all. If you see from the picture i took, i accidently cut the side of the cake when trying to transfer it.

Butter Cake

It had been quite some time already since I last made some cake. Partly coz of work and partly coz of my sons. Wee had been very "manja" lately and it's making it kind of hard for me to spend some time on my baking. So I had to temporarily put down my passion and try to made him at ease and secure coz he is always looking for me and making it very hard for me to leave home for work or even spend some time doing other things.

Today I just thought that I had to made something up so after work I straight away go to the kitchen and made a butter cake which the recipe I got it from Kevin Chai's Book - Butter Cake. The recipe seem very simple and i got all the ingredients in my kitchen.

Well, eventhough it's plain old butter cake but I find it that I had so far not yet got one that look nice, come with nice texture and taste nice as well. All the recipe that I got were all nice to eat but when cut it's got a lot of crumbs - not like those sold in the bakery which is nice and got good textures.

As I only got small egg so I decide to put in an extra egg as the original recipe call for 5 egg only. I find that most recipe books dun state the size of the egg they use which might also affect the texture of the cake. When the cake was out, It sure taste nice but still I didn't get the nice texture cake which I was looking for and the crust was a bit over baked so it was hard. Guess I better start looking for other better recipes..

Vanilla Blueberry Chiffon Cake & Scones

Wee wee had been quite picky on his food recently and becoz i was quite busy I just instruct my maid to cook noodles, cereal etc for his breakfast. So on wednesday after work I decided to made some scones a day ahead so that he can have it for his breakfast the next day.

At the same while waiting for the scones ( as it need to be fridged for 1/2 hour so that the butter dun melt), I decided to try to made the vanilla chiffon cake which I had failed to made the other day. So was busy for almost 2 hours in the kitchen as making both the scones and the cake at the same time.

The scones turn out quite nice and fluffy. This time the vanilla chiffon was a success, it turn out quite soft. I didn't know what actually went wrong the other day.. was it the ingredient, was it me or my skill.. Something to think about ha ha.

I left the cake overnight not knowing what to put for filling and how to decorate. And being lazy to go to the bakery to get new ingredient I just went to my fridge and see what I got. Well luckily, I still got some blueberry, non-dairy whip cream and dairy whip cream. Frankly speaking I dun really know the difference between the two type of whip cream expect that one is dairy and the other is non-dairy. Maybe I should do a research in which is better and more stable for cake decoration.

Since I still got some blueberry filling, so decide to put it to use. Coz it was not enough to made the blueberry torte so I just use it as it is. Didn't have any idea on how to decorate the cake, so just simply put some chocolate rice I have in the fridge on the side. And since still got some much of cream left I decide to try on my skill or piping the cream.. It was tough to do it right but very interesting as well. Tough in the sense that firstly, i have no piping background and secondly the dairy whip cream was very soft - seem like it's melting maybe due to the hot air in the kitchen. SO just trying my luck to made the best out of it.

But surprisingly the icing pattern was there he he.. just need more practice. It was a good try but i really think I must improve my piping skill by either going to classes to get some hand on or learn from books as well as get more decorating ideas he he.. I think this time it's not so attractive. Really admire the cake designed by a lot of home bakers wonder where their insiprations come from.

Chocolate Banana Cake

Two weeks had passed and were very stressed at work so had not made any cake. Had been planning to made this cake since my last visit to KK. What inspired me to made it ?? Well I had tasted the nice Chocolate Banana Cake at Secret Recipe - It's very Chocolatic, rich yet not sweet.

So decided to give it a try to made my own Chocolate Banana Cake. It was quite challenging coz firstly I couldn't find chocolate whip cream in Brunei - Luckily Brenda shared with me that we do make our own chocolate whip cream by just adding cocoa powder to the normal whip cream. Secondly, was having difficult in making the side of the cake smooth with the whip cream. Because of not being able to made it smooth so when the chocolate ganache dry it dun look smooth on the side. Lastly, I didn't wait for the whip cream to set for enough time before I pour the chocolate ganache. The result was that the whip cream also slide off abit from the side. There was also the issue of taking the cake out from the tray after the chocolate dry. I just wonder how it was done.

The cake turn out very good - not sweet, yet rich and chocolatic and well the banana match in so nicely. Definitely a good try and Yeah I did it !!

Happy Birthday Cake for My father-in-law

Last week we celebrated my father-in-law's birthday on 30th sept 2009 (It's his Lunar's Birthday) and since he liked to eat yam so I put a challenge to myself to make a yam layered cake for his birthday.

I had previously bought the cake recipe book by AMy Beh and saw this nice Yam layered cake recipe. There was a few steps involved - most importantly need to go buy a nice yam which was a challenge for me as I have never bought any yam before and so am not sure which type to go for, what is nice and will give a better taste to the cake. So the first i did was ask my father in law what type of yam is nice and went out to shop for the yam. And I found out yam really is expensive ha ha almost B$4 per kg.

And on top of that I also thought about how to decorate the cake as am good in decorating with icing as got no experience on it. So I just followed the cake decoration from the book with fresh fruits as the main decoration which is also good in presentation and I had putted almond flakes on the side instead of white chocolate as they dun really like cakes that is sweet.

I had tried the chiffon cake recipe given in the book but it turn out dry and hard. Am not sure what had went wrong - is it my technique ? which I am yet to discover. So I had to use Kevin Chai's sponge cake recipe as I'm sure that it will turn out better- due to shortage of time.

The result - well the cake decoration was nice, Sponge cake - i think was not so spongy - have to improve again and lastly yam fudge - i think it's a bit too dry - unless the yam fudge i try outside which is a smooth, creamy one - am not sure is it I put too much of the agar-agar powder.

But one good thing is my in laws like it as it's not sweet.. at least got motivation for me to try again.. ha ha..

Mango Cheese Cake

I had made mango cheese cake last week but have no time to upload the picture therefore did not post anything up. Thought I'll just write some thing here first and remind me to load the picture. ha ha..

Since there was some over ripe mango in the fridge I decide to go for a mango cheese cake. I got the recipe from Momster's cuppie corner. The recipe was easy and since i only have 250gm of cream cheese at hand therefore i only used that and not the 300gm as recommended in the recipe. But the cake still turn out nice only thing is mayb not so much of the cream cheese in there. Since my husband is not a really great fan of cheese cake and cheese, so the recipe was quite ok. But with regards to the sugar side, I think mayb next time i'll try to reduce a bit if my mango is very sweet. coz the cheese cake was a bit on the sweet side.

But overall the recipe was nice and the mango smell of the cheese cake was very tempting for me ha ha.. will try to made it again when there are tons of mango in the fridge ha ha..

Chocolate Rice Butter Cake

Today is my first time blogging here. Woke up very early today by my younger son, Jay Ee and can't seem to go back to sleep. So decide to made full use of the time and bake a cake. Today instead of the normal marble butter cake, I decide to be a bit creative he he.. and put the chocolate rice which i just bought into the plain old butter cake recipe and we got a new cake being invented.. ha ha.. and it's a chocolate rice butter cake.

The cake turn out quite nice and with the chocolate rice added, it therefore have a bit of chocolate taste to it but not too much. Simple yet yummy Cake...