Champagne bottle fondant cake

Happy Birthday.......Cheers! Dad !

To celebrate my dad's 89th year old birthday, I prepared a Champagne bottle fondant cake.
The most challenging part of the preparation is to create the glass-like bottle. I mixed green lustre with gel and alcohol and painted the bottle layer by layer.
When the alcohol evaporates, it will leave a layer of glossy shine on the surface of the bottle.

新年快乐！
Happy Lunar New Year
Time for pineapple tarts and....Kueh lapis

19 layer lapis

新年快乐
Happy Lunar New year
Time for pineapple tarts...


                                     Pineapple tarts without egg wash

                                     Pineapple tarts with egg wash

                                     Pineapple tarts with floral base

                                     Big pineapple tarts with cloves

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