I made this Playstation PS3 Cake for Nadia! 😉 This was an order for Nadia who had planned to surprise her boyfriend Adam on his birthday with this cake. She spent a lot of effort designing the cake for her boyfriend who likes games and came up with the idea of a playstaion cake with zombies.… Read More
I have watched some videos of how cake decorators make beautiful stacked cakes – some extraordinary show-stoppers with the height of a person, some topsy turvy ones with sophisticated architectural support in the middle, and some wedding cakes with skillfully hand-crafted prefect little details. I spent my whole weekend learning and making a 3-Tiered Open Stacked Cake… Read More
London has been quite gloomy and wet, someone passed a cold to me last week and was busy going out to events, drinks, mid-autumn festival celebrates 😛 I didnt have much chance to bake/cook 🙁 this week I have been catching up with my oven 😛 and was thinking of pudding and custard :-d This… Read More
The bakers were asked to make teacake in last week’s The Great British Bake Off, my mouth was totally watering when I saw them making the fluffy melty marshmallow filling!I couldnt wait to make some melty marshmallow :-p melted marshmallow is not too too sweet and it is just scrumptious..! the aroma from the vanilla cupcake and… Read More
Rohit’s brother had a baby boy last Friday, his whole family was really looking forward to his arrival. Rohit was working from home on the baby’s birthday, waiting for the baby to be born and go to the hopital; I was talking to him online and got very excited as well (I felt like it… Read More
When I made the crème pâtissière for the Éclair, I had made some more so I could use up some egg yolks; this newly bought rectangular tart tin was waiting for me to use it; British strawberries were also on offer, three good reasons to make a strawberry tart, and the last one – I… Read More
When I was in Paris, I saw Éclair in every pâtisserie window, I didnt realize they were actually very popular until I read a book about different varieties of French pastry. They are sold in big profiterole rather than oblong shape in Japan and Hong Kong, while filling and icing are quite similar, my favourite flavours are… Read More
Apart from wedding cakes, I always wanted to make baby shower cakes. I was thinking maybe I could just decorate a dummy one (a cake-shaped foam for display use) just for fun, but it would be a bit of a waste. Then a few weeks ago, Kristina came to me and asked if she could… Read More