Fresh Mix Fruit Cream Cake

This is a 1.5kg cake for a 72 year old granpa. As usual 3 layers of sponge with 2 layers of filling. E has requested for fresh fruit filling. I've used a mixture of mango, kiwi & strawberry. They are sandwiched between layers of whipped dairy cream.

Rocket Cake

Little Austin turns 4 today !
He wanted a rocket cake for his party this afternoon. I went through my pile of decorating books, found a similar cake of a space shuttle. This cake is a vanilla sponge filled & frosted with whipped vanilla cream, with a hint of cream cheese in it. The top of the cake is adorned with smarties.

Wedding Cupcakes

While I was uploading the pictures of the cupcakes, I realized that this is my 100th post !!

I have the pleasure of baking a total of 470 cupcakes for Jeri, who got married on September 11. This is a memorable day, my Dad's birthday falls on the same day too.

After a weekend of baking cream cakes, I spent another day with my helper, Tina, weighing & sifting flour & icing sugar in preparation of baking the cupcakes. After weighing & sifting, we packed few batches of cupcake portion into a bag & put it aside. I find sifting icing sugar tough, so I've used Nigella's method, whiz it with a food processor, it was indeed very fast & convenient, you get lump-free icing sugar in seconds ! My girls were amazed by the number of eggs I have in the kitchen too.......

I spent 2 days baking & frosting the cupcakes. I think it's all about organizing your time. Hubby had been very kind, sending & fetching the girls to & fro from school that 2 days I was baking. I didn't cook, just packed lunch for the girls in the morning. Hubby bought lunch for me both days & dinner we just ate out after the girls went to bed on the 1st night, . I was so busy baking that I didn't have time to prepare the girls' dinner, so I have to feed them with cereal one night !!

It was indeed tiring but a challenge for me too, I'm now in my Ganache's world record !! hahaha
It was DOM that kept me going, not Dom Perignon, but the DOM that we used to take during confinement ! Until these days, I still take it occasionally, it really keeps me going.

Oh, the cupcakes are vanilla cupcakes piped with buttercream & sprinkled with tiny silver cachous.

My Kitchen Aid & Its Lookalike !

My Precious KA

It's China made counterpart

Look at the size difference !


I've always dream of a Kitchen Aid mixer since I started baking for fun few years ago ! Each time I watch Nigella on TV using her KA, I'll be thinking when am I going to have my own ??
Hubby must have know that I'm desperate for one, he got me my KA 2 years ago. We got it from Singapore & brought it all the way back to KK, a 15kg gadget ! I got myself a food grinder attachment too, have only used once to mince meat. It was fun but was a hassle clearing up so I gave up, it's now hiding somewhere in my cabinet.

Ever since I started my little bakery, I found that it was too much of a strain for my KA so I started looking around for an alternative. Some time last year at a trade fair, I saw this company, Sin Yuan Machinery, diplaying their Orimas brand of mixers but they are all too heavy to be on a countertop. Coincidently, they are bringing in another batch of mixers which are more suitable for home use. After a month of anticipating, I got a call from them that the mixers have arrived !

Hubby & I went to their shop at Kolombong. The moment we saw the mixer, we were looking at each other thinking OMG, this is a KA imitation ! Well, for a 8L capacity mixer with 2 bowls, it's really a good buy, so we bought it without second thoughts ! I would say you pay for what you get, the bowls are very rough made & I've got cut by the sharp edges several time, the one downside is that the warranty period is only 3 months, thats China made quality ! Right after the warranty period is over, the mixer refused to move, I got to bring it back to the shop for greasing but I refused to pay for it & got away with it !
I would say this mixer is useful for my daily baking but the performance is not that good. I've been using it for almost a year, sometimes it will stop by itself, give it a twist & turn, it'll work again. Nevertheless, this mixer has helped me cope with many cake orders. Oh something good about it, the capacity enables me to knead bread dough up to 1kg of flour whereas my KA only allows 400g as the capacity is only 5 Quart !

I think this mixer is working more than my KA now. Frankly, I don't know how long this mixer is going to last so I better make full use of it. So the pretty KA just sits at a corner in my kitchen, whipping cream & occasionally whipping up a batch of cupcake batter......

Cream Cakes

Vanilla Cake

Mango Cake


Yam Cake


I have been into a baking frenzy since last Friday. Besides these cream cakes, I was also making swissrolls & lots of cheese & cranberry buns. I had a call from E last Friday night for an order of a 2kg vanilla cake. So I paired my vanilla sponge with layers of vanilla flavoured whipped cream. It was a perfect combination, so spongy & light ! All thanks to E, I had a few new orders for the same cake.

The mango cake was made for a 1 year old girl, it's a 1.5kg. Her mum requested for the cake to be filled with just 1 layer of mango & whipped cream so I made it bigger for her, a 10" cake.

The yam cake was also ordered by E, it's a 2kg cake. I was lucky this time, the yam that I got from the market was so moist & yummy , they must have been just harvested !

Green Tea Cake

I'm a great fan of green tea, I fancy most goodies made with green tea, especially ice-cream & cakes but not mousse though. I've never fancy mousse because it's usually whipped separated raw eggs with some sugar.
I find that green tea cake is not that popular here in KK, usually only the ladies fancy it, maybe due to the slight bitter aftertaste that it leaves. Green tea cake has been in my list of cakes more than a year ago, I do have a group of green tea fans.
The sponge is flavoured with just green tea powder, no colouring has been used. As usual it's filled with 2 layers of whipped dairy cream, it's also studded with sweetened adzuki red beans & the top layer of whipped cream has a dash of green tea powder added to it.
This cake is for 1kg but oops, I've made the sponge too high today, It's a +/-1.3kg !
Maggie just collected the cake an hour ago, it's a surprise for her colleague tomorrow, how sweet.....

Ham, Pineapple & Cheese Pizza Scrolls

This is a great lunch box idea, adapted from Australia'a Good Taste magazine. I like to look for new recipes in magazines & cookbooks so the girls will get more food choices for their lunch box.
Found this recipe while browsing through & it seemed easy to
prepare so I tried it.
The girls had these scrolls for lunch yesterday & they loved it. I asked JF if she liked it, she told me " Mummy, they were disgusting. " OMG, I got a big shock, actually she wanted to say " Mummy, they were delicious " but just a slip of tongue !!!

The ham, pineapple & cheese pizza scrolls recipe can also be found at this website which carries thousands of recipes. I find many great recipes here. As some items are not readily available here in KK, I'll usually look at the ingredients first when browsing through recipes, the next thing will be the rating given by viewers, of course 5 stars will top my list !

I followed the recipe & made 12 scrolls. I've used the Primo brand of very thinly sliced honey cured ham that i got from Tong Hing. I found this healthier, lower in fat & less salty. Hubby tried 1 & I gave some to a friend for her boy to try, the girls requested for these scrolls again for tomorrow's lunch, of course I obliged, just pop them into the oven to warm up before packing into their lunch box. Well, at least this week's lunch has been well taken care off......