Mahjong Cake

I made a Mahjong cake for my father's birthday because he enjoys playing Mahjong whenever we have a  family gathering.

The winning combination of  Thirteen Wonders(十三么) is shown on a mahjong table with chips and dice.

 

The cake
The base cake is a square cheese poundcake.

 The square base is then covered with green and brown fondant to create a mahjong table top.

The tiles
Made with 2 layers of fondant and cut out using a cookie cutter.

Painting  of tiles

One bamboo is depicted as a bird.

Tiles are painted free hand with edible food colouring.

The Wind tiles

The dice
(made with fondant)

The chips
(Made with fondant)

Assembly of the Mahjong set

The winning combination tiles....

Stack of playing tiles...

And the dice and chips.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY...MY DEAREST FATHER

Linzer Cookies
They are  two almond  cookies sandwiched  together with a layer of strawberry  jam.  

 

Linzer cookies

After the bake

Complete with dusting of icing sugar

Cookies Cookies Cookies

French Earl Grey Tea cookies

Everyone in my family loves French Earl Grey Tea so I decided to bake cookies using our favourite tea.
This recipe is adapted from Martha Stewart's Earl grey tea cookies.
The cookies tasted delicious and so I started making variations from this basic recipe.
Using this recipe, I have also made Chai cookies and strawberry cookies.
I used freeze dried strawberries in my strawberry cookies.

French Earl Grey Tea cookies

Chai cookies

Strawberry Cookies

Mary Berry's White Chocolate  
Raspberry Cheesecake

This is adapted from Mary Berry's recipe.
It has a chocolate biscuit base.
The filling is a combination of white chocolate and cream cheese which makes it so delicious.
It is then topped with fresh whole raspberries and glazed with raspberry jam.

Torri Gate Birthday Cake

Baked this cake for my son's birthday.
My daughter and I put this cake together to celebrate this special occasion.

The base cake is chocolate cake with dark cherries and covered with cream cheese frosting.
The main feature of the cake is the Japanese Torri gate.
It is made with fondant and gum paste.

The Torri gate is standing on the path of crushed graham biscuits and lined by
piped grass using green colour frosting.

Pink cherry blossoms made by fondant spread all over the white cake base.

My Christmas Bakes 2014

Christmas Fruit Loaf

This year, still using the same Mary Berry's fruitcake recipe, I baked a fruit loaf.

After Bake

Merry Christmas

My Christmas Bakes 2014


Chocolate Log Cake

My Christmas Bakes 2014

Traditional Panettone
This specialty loaf is loaded with raisins,sultanas and candied fruits.

Ready for Christmas

Hung upside down to prevent cave-in

Well shaped panettone

Puff pastry

Puff pastries with vanilla crème pâtissière and  topped with raspberries.

Puff pastries with crème pâtissière, topped with raspberries and a light dust of icing sugar

 Baked these pretty pastry shells in muffin tins with puff pastry 
dough.

Mille-feuille

This pastry is also known as the Napoleon.
My mille-feuille is made up of three layers of puff pastry and alternating with two layers of  pastry cream. The top layer is glazed with icing and chocolate.

My "wallet size"  Napoleon.

Glazed icing on top layer

Pastry cream between layers

Chocolate tart

This recipe came from Martha Stewart and made with delicious Valrhona Dark chocolate
Guanaja 70%-Bittersweet and Elegant.

Strawberry cheesecake in a jar

The layers:
Bottom Layer#4:Mascerated strawberries with vanilla sugar
             Layer#3:Cream cheese with mascapone, icing sugar and Bailey's cream.
             Layer#2:Homemade strawberry jam
             Layer#1 Fresh strawberries

                           Fresh strawberries topping

                                  Cheesecake in a jar :)