Apple Pies

Prepared three apple pies today. They will be baked and sold at our in-school bakery tomorrow :)

Here's a picture of a pre-bake pie. As a long-time Mac user, I had to make this signature decoration!

Pumpkin Pies For Sale :)

Here are the pumpkin pies that I made at school. They went on sale at our in-school bakery today!

The very first pie(s) I made from start (pie dough) to finish (decoration). For the first time in my life - not just at school.

Enjoyed every step of the way but I gotta say I reeeeally loved the finishing/decorating part :)

updated on October 12: A picture of 46 mini pumpkin tarts. Thanks Nikki for sharing your picture!

Honey Lemon Cupcakes w/Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting

Initials of my friend UW's baby girl... Wilton's color flow icing (full strength) with a hint of green. Great practice.

Used my fave chiffon cake recipe. Found this frosting recipe on the freebie 2005 calendar from Kraft Canada.

updated on October 5: A couple of much better looking pictures of the cupcakes at the baby shower, by courtesy of my friend MT. Thanks, Ms. M!

Chocolate Cake

Chocolate cake with banana-rum puree, covered with chocolate ganache. I love the recipe for this chocolate cake. It's an old, old magazine clipping.

My digital camera is broken :( so I had to use my camera phone this time. I gotta have my camera fixed, or gotta get a new one.

Very chocolate-y Pac-Man :)

How to Cool a (mini) Chiffon Cake

I love my chiffon cake pans from Daiso (C$2 each!) but they are so small (approx. 4 inches diameter) that a regular stick-a-bottleneck-up method doesn't work. One chopstick, one Wilton #5 piping tip and a cork trivet are used here instead.

It tilts... The cake part is almost touching the cork trivet.

This one somewhat balances well...

They kinda look like two spinning tops...

And here comes the rescue!

This is the one-of-a-kind, custom-made Chiffon Cake Cooling Stand by my friend GP. G stands for "genius" and P stands for "pretty" as in "not just a pretty face" ;)

Look how beautifully-built this is.

The cooling stand is in action!

It's cooling two Honey & Lemon chiffon cakes at a time!