Kueh Lapis Petits fours:
Kueh Lapis for Chinese New Year
(in the style of petits fours)


I have made the traditional kueh lapis for dessert for my family early reunion dinner.
Instead of serving the usual thin slices, I made them into petitsfours; bite size kueh lapis.
I prepared the layers of batter to just about half height of  a 8"x8"x3"square tin.
After baking, I cut them into shapes with the petitsfours cutters.

Kueh lapis petits fours

Kueh lapis petits fours of different shapes

Pizza fun step by step

                                   

Ready; On your marks; Get set; Start.....

Step 1-Get ready base dough

Step 2- Spread pizza sauce .

Step 3- Add fresh onion rings

Step 4- Add Capsicum strips

Step 5- Add Parmesan cheese

Step 6- Add chopped olives

Step 7-Add pepperoni

Step 8- Add strips of ham

Step 9- Add mozzarella balls

Step 10- Add extra shredded mozarella cheese

Step 11- For herbs, fresh tarragon from the garden

Step 12- Baked in oven

 Bon appetit!

Cherry Clafoutis

Cherry Clafoutis is a French baked dessert.
The recipe used is taken from this wonderful book called French Food Safari .
It is also a SBS TV show(of the same name)hosted by Maeve O'Meara with chef Guillaume Brahimi.
In this recipe,chef Guillaume added almond meal in the batter.

Fresh from oven

I sprinkled the top with fine grains of sugar instead of
dusting with icing sugar.

Merry Christmas

 

 

In Taiwan, gingerbread houses made from real gingerbread seem to be the most popular decorations for Christmas.
They are seen in most hotels I visited; and they smell wonderful too.

Charlotte Tiramisu

Classic Tiramisu with a border of sponge ladyfingers.

Fondant Figurines

Worked on two figurines; a man and a girl.

Man sitting with legs stretched.

Man sitting on edge of cake.

Prayer pose.

Side view of girl in prayer.

The Fault In Our Stars Fondant cake

The fault in our stars is a book written by John Green, an American author.
This is my daughter's favourite book, so I decided to make a fondant replica of this book for her birthday.

Her other interests are also incorporated in this cake and she helped in making these items.

Canon camera and YouTube

Her favourite instrument;the violin

Banana Pecan Loaf

Adapted from the banana bread recipe taken from this site, Simply Recipes.
It is a simple recipe that required no mixer.
I just worked with only a mixing bowl and the loaf tasted great.
I added pecans and a dash of rum.
Great with a cup of coffee.

Rectangular shape pizza for lunch

Ham and mushroom pizza (with lots of cheese!)

Red velvet cupcakes 

Recipe is taken from this lovely book from the Hummingbird bakery:Cake days

Red velvet cupcakes topped with cream cheese frosting.

Daisy Fondant cake

A fondant birthday cake-carrot cake with daisies.

Chef Fondant cake

Worked with my daughter to put together this chocolate cake for her friend's birthday.
The cake is a table filled with food specially for an aspiring chef.

    

I covered the cake with blue fondant and bordered with balls of similar colour.
I made a red&white checkered fondant for the table cloth.

My daughter and I then worked on all the items using fondant and gumpaste.

Sunflower, sunflower

I covered a cupcake with baby blue fondant and decorated with sunflowers.
Pebbles of chocolate lined the border of the cupcake.

Happy Birthday, Big sister.

Baked a lemon pound cake and decorated with fondant for my dear sister's birthday.

Rose Fondant cake :I covered my mini cake (4 inch diameter) with white fondant.

Topped with 3 roses and leaves.

And  a pink scalloped border with sugar pearls.