Longevity Shou Tao birthday cake
(Longevity Peach bun cake)

Celebrated my father's birthday with this Shou Tao longevity cake. He was very pleased with it. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!



Base cake -Carrot cake
Recipe taken from Martha Stewart, this carrot cake is moist and fragrant with ginger,orange zest and cinnamon.

Putting all the ingredients together

I baked the cake in a square tin so that it is easier to sculpt the peach shape.

The cake was then frosted with cream cheese frosting.

 

After chilling for an hour, the cake was covered with fondant and sprayed with red dye to complete the peach bun or shou tao appearance.

Two fondant leaves with a stem were added to the peach.
A pink fondant was used to cover the base.

My completed Longevity Shou Tao birthday cake.

 

Strawberry and kiwi fruit jam


Korean strawberries with their bright red colour will go well with Australian grown golden kiwi fruits; making a good combination for a deliciously sweet jam.
Adapted Recipe from Jamie Oliver's homemade strawberry jam

Stewing two fruits together:

Yummy sweet strawberry and kiwi fruit jam.

Strawberry jam

Korean strawberries are great. With their bright red colour and sweetness, they make excellent jam.Recipe: Jamie Oliver's homemade strawberry jam

Juicy and sweet; great!

Stewing the fruits with sugar

Jam for breakfast.

Food and Hotel Asia 2014
(8th-11th April, Singapore)

Food and Hotel Asia (FHA) in Singapore is the largest international food tradeshow in Asia and is held every two years.

 My favourite halls are the Bakery and Pastry and FoodAsia.


Exhibits from Bakery and Pastry section.

Ready made pastry cases.

Beautiful pastries

Cake displays

Cake decorators

More pastries...

Chocolates,sweets..

and biscuits.

Beautiful edible artwork

Bread Galore