Monday, 7 September 2009

Green Tea Chiffon cake

This is the first chiffon cake I baked in almost 12 months, and probably it'll be the last chiffon cake made in this teeny tiny kitchen...


I used the instant green tea powder from Itoen.

Sunday, 23 August 2009

Avocado Coconut Ice Cream

When it comes to avocado, it was all about savoury application for me, such as california roll and guacamole... until my friend Eli introduced me to the sweet side of avocado, and now I'm totally hooked! (The recipe is from YumSugar. I added some coconut flakes to the mixture for extra flavour and crunchiness.)

Friday, 24 July 2009

Mini Cake for Yoyo

On the last day of my work experience (practicum) at Luscious Creations, my classmate and I got to design and decorate mini 4" cakes... on the spot à la Food Network Challenge :) We decided to make ones for each other, which made this assignment even more like FNC where you have to design a cake for a client you'll meet just before the challenge begins!


This is the one I made for my classmate Yoyo. I wish I could have made a Transformer cake for her but there's no way I could make it without some reference to look at :( So I combined her favourite colours: pink & black, one of her favourite decorations on cakes: a bow, and "Frog Prince" :)

Friday, 10 July 2009

Lime-themed Cake

I had an opportunity to work on a "free reign" dummy cake during my work experience (practicum) at Luscious Creations. It was meant for some charity event and their theme colours include lime green. I took the word 'lime' literally and designed this very lime-ful cake.


Each tier is 'double-height' (approx. 6"-7" tall) and I had a hard time covering those with rolled fondant :(

Thursday, 9 July 2009

"Revenge Of The Sushi" Threadless Cake

Here's my second entry into Threadcakes. This time I chose "Revenge Of The Sushi". Check out my entry here :)



The cupcake batter recipe is from シンプルスポンジケーキ (Simple Sponge Cakes) published by Daiso.



I added cocoa powder to the 'nori' (black) frosting to avoid using too much black gel food colour.



Rolled fondant was used only to make 'Gari' and the weapons (a knife and a pair of chopsticks).


Chopsticks to eat a cupcake...?