simple heart shape cake deco

This is the second time I decorate a cake. I love it! This time I managed to smooth the edge of cake pretty perfect. But still needs long time just to make it perfect. Then I piped stars at the top and bottom edge, and finally a pale pink heart shape, also using star nozzle.

I just love simple deco that creates big impact. Maybe next time I can make the heart shape larger.

Another shot. (Coz I just love the cake so I keep taking pictures LOL)

My son's birthday cake

Finally my son has reached 5. I mean, finally I managed to make a birthday cake for my son! And the date was very special: 12/12/12. That is why I decided to make him a cake, because of the special date. Although we just eat it and not celebrating it. So I let my son browsed a list of cakes on internet and he decided a rocket cake. So I took an idea from the internet and simply copied it.

Moist chocolate cake

Moist choc cake with vanilla buttercream

When I finished, I just realized that I didn't even record any 12/12/12 mark on the cake. At least I should've wrote it on those 3 blue buttons, don't u think so? (btw the buttons are Oreos)

Rainbow cake

I think I am obsessed with rainbow cakes now. I made rainbow cake again, and I think everything was beautiful, even the dirty dishes look beautiful.

So i went to gather with my siblings in Malacca and brought the undecorated rainbow cake. I planned to frost it when i reached there, afraid the frosting will melt on the way. Suddenly my cute little niece Damiya who came home away from Sarawak, brought her Barbie doll and begged me to make a doll cake, in her own way(She showed her begging face and I was melted by her cuteness). Hehe. So with help of my brother in law who suggested I use skewers to stand the doll up on the cake, and another brother in law who helped me to smoothen the doll's dress and put the colorful vermicelli, we managed to make Damiya(and other nieces) happy. :)

Love-shaped cookies

Dear, I have reinvented my mom's cookies to new look. The original looks like this:

And then I was bored and play with pink color a bit:

And then I was bored again, and while I was browsing, I found love-shaped cookies, so I reinvented a bit:

So I make more,

And the cocoa version too:

But, the cocoa version looks like wood's surface, don't you think?

Hmm, I am not sure if this is good idea, please tell me your opinion.And tell me if you want the recipe. This is super soft cookies, you have to be careful when touching it. Very fragile.

my first decorated cake

Yes, finally I got to decorate my very first cake (actually 2nd time, but the 1st one I consider a disaster). I watched youtube a lot on how to smooth a cake. So I ran to buy essential tools like turn table, offset spatula, scrapper, piping bag and nozzle tips. This time I made a rainbow cake.

yeay smooth!

Err... the edges not so smooth after I added flowers and leafs.... hmmm.. But I must congratulate myself for being a fantastic beginner, right? hahaha.

the precious cut..

I am obsessed with the rainbow colors

my first sponge cake

I was super excited when I browse a simple recipe and method to make a sponge cake. As a newbie, I just discover that there are many types of cakes. I have only baked butter vanilla cake and moist(oil) chocolate cake before. Now that I learned as I browsed, I found that sponge cake is called sponge because of the method is different, thus produce spongy textured cake. For butter cake, the core process is creaming the butter + sugar until light and fluffy. But for sponge cake, the core process is to beat the eggs until fluffy. But most sponge cake recipe I found on internet called for separating the whites and the yolks, to beat the whites alone before folding into flour mixture. But hey, as I told you in the beginning, I saw this recipe on youtube by BakeLikeAPro which doesn't need the eggs to be separated! Yeeeeha! Because I can't imagine handling the mess to beat yolks, then wash the bowl, beat whites. You know, you have to really clean the bowl and the whisk so that the egg whites beaten won't fail to form meringue. So, this recipe is kinda hero for my situation(or preference).

Ingredients

• 6 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup flour
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla

 Method

1. Beat eggs 5 minutes until light n fluffy, while adding the vanilla and salt, and sugar
2. Sift in flour
3. Fold the mixture
4. Pour the mixture into baking pan, tap to release air bubbles
5. Bake at 170degree

folding

my first sponge cake

alphabetical cookie cutters

When I was looking for the biscuit pump set, I stumbled upon these guys: alphabetical cookie cutters. OMG I was super excited to bake this! Good news is, it comes along with the cookie recipe behind the package. Awesome!

Rainbow cake maniac

So since I know rainbow cake, it has attracted me to bake again. I mean, I haven't bake any real cake before, only cupcakes, and very few cupcakes. Why am i so attracted to rainbow? Is it because my life is dull? There, there.. start to think too much again...
Ok, what I mean is, who is the inventor of this brilliant cake? It is a surprise cake. White outside, only plain cake. Oh. just a cake. But not until you CUT a slice and see the rainbow layers...oh lovely! What a nice, lovely surprise (though nowadays cake decorators have improved the outer design to be colorful, but the original idea is still the best).
So here it is, my first rainbow cake, after searching tons of recipes across the blogs on internet...

really love the color-before icing

layers with buttercream frosting
 

after frosted- this is my first time icing a whole cake, I don't have turn table and spatula/scrapper, which i found out to be necessary for smoothing the frosting

after being cut - oh wow, i was so amazed at myself. Did I really make this? Oh my God, beautiful! And tasted good too! 

a piece of rainbow cake

Oh i have to get the turntable and the offset spatula, and the scrapper too. House of Ingredients, wait for me! Someday.

Cookies using Biscuit pump set

So one day I went to an ordinary grocery shop in Penang, on the way back to Kuala Lumpur. I know the upstairs part was where they put all baking essentials, and I remember old biscuit pump that looks like my mother's. So there I went there again trying to search for that antique fellow. But to my surprise they have rearrange the stocks and i couldn't find the thing. I kept searching and finally found a 'gang' of cookie cutters, at the corner of the wall, covered with dust, looking unwanted. (Hey betul ke English aku ni, dah teruk beno dah). So there I found several unwanted things, but treasures for me. introducing, old fashioned (not so old, because my mum's version was made of metal, and had to be ordered) biscuit pump:

And what excites me more, it comes in set: wire cutter and 8 shapes. I remember my mum's biscuit pump can only produce round biscuit, and had to cut the dough with thread. Do you wonder how this works? Let see the result first:

Do you still wonder how it works? Simply make 2 strips of cookie dough(one is colored), put side by side and make it one stripe, stuff it inside the pump, press, cut, press, cut, press cut, until the dough finished.... simple....

Entah dan keentahan

English o Malay? How am i supposed to write in MY blog? I know, it's MY blog, but it will be read by many. So I can't regard MY blog as MY own diary, because it's kinda media. People read. If I expect people to read, then this is not a diary. This is what you want people read, and see. See, I have been changing blogs, keep creating new blogs, but none of them successful, in sense of 'have something meaningful' to be shared. Now I am in dilemma what language to use. Dear, Just write, share, post, and don't think too much. This is because I am afraid people will judge me when my English is poor in vocabs n grammar n etc. Well, don't write anything at all then, if you are afraid to be judged. Hey, can you just focus n share whatever u wanna share? Don't think too much! Aishhhh......

So, good luck, blog. And me.