Strawberry and chocolate mousse cake

I miss my baking so much, since moving to my new house I don't have the time like I use to have. Because I am now so busy, I can only bake something easy and less time consuming.

Although my plan was to make a simple mousse cake, I somehow made a two layer mousse cake to then bake a chocolate sponge for it and made a chocolate mirror glaze!! Phew!
Did I make it easy for myself? Well, not when you see the washing up I had after!

Anyway I felt amazing, despite all the washing up cos my kids were both super impressed!
Mummy have done it again!
 

I had this vision in my head how I want this cake to look.
I realised I had nothing to decorate it with so I rushed out to buy more strawberries but only to find that the strawberries the supermarkets had were way too big for my cake, so I ended up using raspberries instead.

Which is why so many people thought I have accidentally typed in strawberries mousse instead of raspberries!
I should have said it's a Strawberry mousse cake topped with fresh raspberries.
When you make this cake feel free to use raspberries or strawberries.

Kuromi birthday cake

 

My first chocolate art, piping Kuromi onto acetate sheet and placing on a cream cake.
This cake was requested by my brother for his girlfriends birthday. Ivy loves the character Kuromi and I never heard of it until today. I sketched the character on to paper and place an acetate sheet over the sketch and piped chocolate to draw the face out.  First time making this and I'm very excited and the results was good. I can actually draw!! haha.
I know where I get my artistic side from, my dad.
Whipped cream with a few drops of red gel colour and pipe rosettes using Wilton 1M nozzle.
And that's how simple it is.
Now I can draw other characters for cakes, can't wait to make another one soon.

 

Candle cake

My first fondant cake! This is really fun to make and I call it my edible Play-doh cake.

Though it is not perfect but I pretty happy with the outcome.

It tastes really yummy, chocolate cake with mocha spread as filling.

 

 

Halloween 2014

 

 My Halloween cake 2014, have been too busy to update this post and I'm over 5 weeks behind.

Here is a 5" and 7 1/2" 2 tier cake.

Chocolate cake with Black cherry filling.

 

 

My Wedding Anniversary cake

 

This year it is me and my hubby's 19th Wedding Anniversary.

I wanted to try a naked cake as it's the latest trend for Weddings and Anniversary's but hubby say they look terrible. Stuck with ideas, I saw a photos of a cake with flowers. I thought it would be nice to keep it a romantic theme. I wanted to add ruffles and made white modelling chocolates to wrap around a pink sponge layered cake.  Though the cake is a bit small, it was perfect size for me and my little family. I think this cake would look amazing if it had a bottom tier.  Maybe I will make something similar or a 3 tier cake next year for our 20th Anniversary.

 

Please be very careful when using fresh flowers on your cakes, I wrapped the stem with foil before I put it in.  Have been advise that using fresh flowers isn't safe and I have taken these out afte the photos were taken.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



My late Birthday cake post

 

 

 Have been looking back at some of my cake photos and happen to realise I haven't blogged about my birthday cake on here.  I must have been carried away with thoughts for being another year older.

 

Yes, it's scary to say I've reached my 40th Birthday already!! Ekkk!!

 

Summer is almost over and today is the last day of August.

But it reminds me that my Wedding Anniversary is only round the corner.

With preparing the kids for going back to school, I haven't had time to think about what cake I'll be making this year.

 

My hubby loves Black Forest,  I have made one for him on Valentine's Day. I guess I can make one again as it's been over 6 months since we've had one.

 

Time have been flying by. Soon my baby boy will be 4 in October, he wants a Spider-Man cake!

How am I going to make a Spider-man cake using fresh cream and fruits?

I think I'll  have to start expanding my cake knowledge and brave myself  into making fondant cakes.

At least they won't melt and I can make them in a few days in advance.

 

But at the moment, I still enjoy eating as well as making fresh cream cakes.

Lemon Olive oil cake

 

Looking for something light and fluffy and don't want to bake with butter or veg oil?

Then you should try this. The fragrant from fresh lemons are so refreshing, this cake is so light it crumbles and melts in the mouth.

It also makes me feel better for baking this as it's healthier than using butter.

So for those who are also in love with cooking with olive oil, you can also use it to bake a cake.

 

 

Ingredients:

4 eggs

160g caster sugar
125ml extra virgin olive oil
Juice of 2 lemons (85g)
Zest of one lemon
150g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
Icing sugar for dusting

 

Method:

 Line a 9 inch round spring form tin.
Preheat oven at 180c.

Measure out the olive oil and lemon juice.

 

In a separate bowl sieve flour, baking powder and salt.

Add the lemon zest to the flour.

 

 Whisk eggs and sugar together until light and fluffy.

 





 

Add the olive oil and lemon juice to the egg mixture and whisk.
 

 

  Fold in the flour until combined.

 



 

Pour batter into the lined baking tin.

 

 

Tap on the work top a couple of time to release large air bubbles.

 

Bake in a preheat oven 180c for 40-45 minutes.

The top of this cake will be nice and flat.

Test center of the cake with a wooden skewer at 40 mins.

 

 

 When it is done take out to cool on a wire rack and wait a few minutes before you release from the cake tin.

 Once cooled, dust with icing sugar.

 

 

 Even my son enjoyed it, he clean the plate in minutes.

 

 

 



Raspberry Friands

 

Have you had lots of egg whites left over after making custard or egg tarts?

Wonder what to do with it other than baking a pavlova or meringue nests!

Well, let me introduce to you these little beauties, Raspberry Friands.

 

Usually baked in oval moulds, this French cake is sometimes mistaken for a muffins. Texture is similar to a madeleine and it only uses egg whites, butter, icing sugar, ground almond and very little flour. This is very simple to make and ready in under an hour!

Would you like to try this too?

 

I only have a muffin tin so that is what I will be using, you can use silicon tart cases.

Friands can be baked with any other fruits, nuts or even chocolates.

Add fruit zests or desiccated coconuts.

It's endless of what you can add to it.

 

 

Mandarin Orange cream cheese cake

 

This is something I put together after a reader have private messaged me to see if I could make a cake she tried at a café.  The cake she had was a Tangerine cream cheese triangle, it looked simple and I was confident that I can copy it.  But after making my cake, I put the two together to compare, it looks nothing like it! Ha-ha! I think mines were a little too over decorated!

 

 

So this is the recipe you have all been waiting to try at home.  I would say it's a little complex to make but if you're feeling adventurous then this would be the one to try!

Lemon Drizzle cake

Low calorie Lemon drizzle cake

 

 

Orange Madeleines

Orange madeleine's

 

You will need a Madeleine cake tin, grease and dust with flour.
You can get 12-14 small madeleine's with this recipe. I have got my tin from Daiso in Malaysia.

Apple and Strawberry cinnamon cake

 

 

This recipe is from my Apple crumble muffin recipe.

You can try this muffin recipe with the crumble here.

 

I wanted to bake a cake and use up my 2 apples that's been sitting in my fruit bowl for ages.

They were too soft and my kids don't like their apples soft.

I was going to bake a butter cake using the apples but I'm not a huge fan of butter cakes.

But I love my muffins and thought I try to bake this in a cake tin.

Who would have thought it was going to be this easy and it tastes so good.

I'm so going to be doing this again and try it with all my muffin recipes.

Two tiered Forest fruit cake

 

I made this two tiered Forest fruit cake for a very special friend of mine.

Her husband have arranged a surprise birthday party for her so I offered to make the cake.

My friend have no idea about the party or the cake.

And on the day, it went really well even the cake went down well too.

I have the pleasure of making this cake for her and it was one of the best cake I have made so far.

The whole process was very successful until the next day when I went to check on it, the cream on the top have cracked!!  I was panicking as I only had 2 hours to get my self ready and be at the venue before she arrives. I was lucky to have some marzipan on hand and I made a template and piped the message with chocolate icing.

 

This cake is made using  a 7 1/2 inch round and 9 inch square sponge.

Chocolate mirror glaze (I used a vegetarian gelatine)

Whipped cream

Tinned fruits & fresh chopped strawberries for filling

Lots of fresh Strawberries, raspberries and blueberries for deco.

 

A smaller version of this cake recipe is here

 

 

 

Here is a short video to show you how to make the dripping effects.

 

Disaster!! THE Cake cracked!!!

 

Marzipan saved the day!

Phew!

 

 

You wouldn't even know if I didn't tell you!  Hee hee...

 

 

 Click here for a step by step clip.