My first LV bag

Had been busy with work lately so no time to blog. But would like to post this up as I got a new LV bag - Neverfull MM as a gift from hubby. SO very happy. It all started with my old bag looking old and dirty ha ha.. coz it a white bag.. so had been roaming around to look for a new bag but unfortunately all the bag was not up to my standard ha ha...



Was thinking of getting a new bag that look nice and can last long.. ask a few opinion here and there and some how or the other hubby who just came back from outstation inform tat he will buy me a bag.. LV. And so happen my sister in law and mother in law was going to singapore. So got my LV just early of the week..



Thanks to hubby for the nice gift and sister in law& mother in law for going all the way to help me get it...

Hazelnut Coffee Cake for Brother in Law's Birthday

Yes this was the actual cake which I intended to made and beside making this cake I also made another cake for My son and also a cupcake. This cake was made for my brother in law who is celebrating his birthday today.

The cake is a hazelnut cake and for the cream - it's coffee cream with kahlua added in. Haven't had a taste of the cake... hope it's not too sweet..

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.

Chocolate chip Hazelnut cupcake

As tomorrow is my brother in law's birthday, so hubby asked me to bake a cake for him. And he asked me to bake something that's different for a change and not so sweet. So saw this recipe from Kevin Chai's book - Hazelnut coffee cake (which I'll post tomorrow after the decoration).

So as normal will bake the cake first and do the decoration tomorrow. But while I was mixing the batter an idea pop into my mind.. It's Cupcake.. ha ha.. so I took some of the batter of the cake and mix some chocolate chips and wa la... there is a new cupcake invented ha ha..

It's quite nice but maybe coz I only added ground hazelnut the smell of hazelnut is not strong. Will try putting in hazelnut essence next time. But the cupcake sure taste nice ha ha.. This goes to show that there is creativity in everyone so when u have the idea do take the action and act on it.. ha ha..

1st gathering of 2010 & Happy New Year!!

Wow time had really passed so fast and now we are in the year of 2010.. A new year.. a new beginning.. ha ha.. Last month was really a very tiring month and really stay home time for me as my maid was on a one month holiday. So there wasn't much time to bake or even shop coz I had to take care of the two boys.

Hubby had decided to have a small gathering @ home to welcome 2010 and to had a few cool drink and since it was a saturday what better to do then have friends to spend some times together. So i had just made prata sausage for the gathering as it's the fastest. And yes this was a finger food gathering meaning that we are serving only finger food and drinks.. ha ha.. It was good that our friends brought some food over to share as well so decide to share with you all what we had..

And Would like wish all the beloved bloggers a happy 2010!!

Chocolate Cream Cake - Birthday cake for my niece Xin Xin

Wow.. two weeks had passed since my maid had gone on a month leave. It had been hectic looking after my two boys coz both are very attached to me and wish that they can be hold by me all the time. So I had not had time to do anything except to play with them, wash them and feed them.

Both am glad tat hubby finally took time off for a few day to help me and my niece's birthday is tomorrow so decided to made a birthday cake for her.. my excuse to bake a cake so can try a different and new flavour cake.

Had been trying to decide what cake to bake and hubby finally say that it's best that I check with my brother on what cake his baby girl like .. Xin is turing 5 yrs old. So today the chose of cake is a "Chocolate Cake".

So check my cake book and look for a chocolate and yahoo.. got a simple recipe from Kevin Chai book on a chocolate cream cake and decide to put it to the trial ha ha.. It was quite a simple recipe and I got most of the ingredients.

However, I find that the chocolate cream is so little so not sure whether the cake is creamy enough ha ha as it's a cake for kids and kids just love cream right?? Since it's a cake for a kid and time is short so decided to put a simple design for it.. So the cake topped with fresh whipped cream with M&M chocolate on top and is cover at the bottom with flowery mashmallow..

A Happy Birthday to you Xin, hope you like the cake yee yee made for u...

Giant Oreo Cupcake

Been thinking of making something different which is nice and easy to made. Finally decided to make cupcakes for this time round. I particularly saw this simple looking recipe and spotted this nice picture of a Oreo & Raisin Cupcakes from Aunty Yochana.

The ingredient was so simple and only few ingredients was required to made it. As I only have a simple small desktop electric oven so was going through my cupcake mould to see how many can fit it and my gosh... I can only fit in 9 cupcake mould and this is a big size one as well.

Had not done any cupcake before and the recipe did not state how many cupcake i can made. So i decided to just use the 9 big size cupcake mould and throw in all the batter.. ha ha .. and i think i overfilled the cupcakes almost to 90% coz I dun wan to leave any batter behind. And it was really a mistake as the batter start to rise, rise and rise and overflowed out from the cupcake mould. And so it was another mess that I had made he he..

I think maybe some one can help me out on this as to whether i can just leave the batter and put it in after the 1st tray of cupcake is done. coz for most cakes it's best that once u mix everything together u must straight away put the cake batter into the oven to start baking or else the cake will be deflatted.

This is the biggest problem with a small oven. How I wish I can get a bigger oven to made life more simpler ha ha.. so I can bake with more fun and not going around worrying whether the cake pan can fit.. So Santa pls help me send out this msg for a new oven.. ha ha n thank you..

Ok ok coming back to the cupcake, beside having cake batter flowing out everywhere in the oven, my giant cupcakes turn out alright. Ya i forgot to mention that I didn't add in raisin as I'm not a great fan of it and for the oreo part I just put in 80g instead of the 100g mentioned and yes it was just alright for me.

When I try the cupcake the top was a big harder ( coz i overbaked i think) but surprisingly the texture inside was just soft and nice. It was a bit sweeter becoz of the oreo cookies added in so if u are not a person with sweet tooth then maybe u can reduce the cookies or reduce the sugar in the ingredient.

Another thing I would like to mention as well was the oreo cookies - I had chopped it into small pieces but not till it all crumbs. I think it taste better as u can taste the oreo and it become soften when u it baked.

So my 1st experience for the first cupcake baking was great he he.. except for the oven complaint part. Thanks to Aunty Yochana for her great recipe and here is the link (recipe) if u wish to try it for yourself. Do try it...