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 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.

Modelling chocolates

 

 

Modelling chocolates, it's very delicious and so versatile that you can make anything out of it like fondant. I decide to learn how to make this as I am a cream cake hobby maker. Other than fresh fruits, I wanted to make something different to decorate my cakes with.

Here is the recipe broken down into smaller batches easier for me to work with.

Ingredients:
113g dark chocolate
50g golden syrup (original recipe calls for light corn syrup but I haven't been able to find them in the shops)

Method:
Melt the chocolate over a double boiler, warm up the syrup in a jug.
Pour syrup into the melted chocolate and then fold gently. Keep folding until it comes together. The mixture will be stiff and like sugar paste. Once it's all combined, wrap with cling film and leave overnight to firm up.
When you're ready to use it, knead until smooth so you can start moulding it.

Here's the original recipe link for modelling chocolate http://cakesdecor.com/entries/10-modelling-chocolate-uk-recipe-and-tutorial

Here is the tutorial for the chocolate roses I made http://youtu.be/D48SIvhYH8o

Hope you will give this a go and it's not too hard just need a little patient.