Orange walnut sour cream cake

Moist sour cream cake with chopped walnuts, dark chocolate and orange peel and topped with grand marnier orange glaze.(Adapted from Cooks.com)

Food&HotelAsia2012 

I visited the FHA2012 last week and I was particularly interested in the Bakery n Pastry 2012 and FoodAsia2012. The exhibits were fantastic:

Beautiful Chocolate Creations

LV inspired art piece

Gorgeous creations

Pastries in a showcase
 

Nice Canelé

FHA Culinary Challenge 

Attractive cookie boxes from Walkers

Bread galore

Baker in action

Bread tasting

Cocao pods

Roasted Cocao beans

Gourmet chocolates

Tasting time!

Petit  fours with a Japanese theme

My petit fours are make of chocolate cake with chocolate chips and orange candied peels.
They were then covered with fondant and decorated.
The words written were 誕生日おめでとう which meant HappyBirthday.
They were for my nephew celebrating his birthday.
My daughter helped in designing and making the cute bottom row.

 

Happy Birthday !

J'adore des pâtisseries françaises

Pâtisserie Francis - Rambouillet - kewego
Pâtisserie Francis situé à Rambouillet vous propose ses pâtissieries. Chocolatier, traiteur, glacier, pièces montées. Pâtisserie Francis

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Jour macaron heureux !!
Happy macaron day!

Happy Birthday , Dad.

For my dad's birthday, I baked this Devil's Food Cake with Chocolate Ganache from Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook.
I decorated it with my favourite ribbon roses, rosettes and shell border.

Rosettes, pearls and a shell border.

Ribbon roses on top

More Decorating Practice...

Three white ribbon roses forming a heart shape in the middle , surrounded by pink rosettes and leaves.
Violets dots and shell border.
Violet lettering.

With White Icing...

Wilton Method of Cake Decorating Course

Enjoyed this interesting course at BIY :
I learnt basic techniques from preparation of icing, method of icing the cake to decorating the cake.
For decorations, I learnt to create icing drop flowers, rosettes, shells, pompom flowers, leaves, shaggy mums, and the ribbon rose. We also decorated cookies and cupcakes.

My first cake with icing

My Final Cake-Graduation Cake

My Decorations-Ribbon Roses with leaves, shell border and violet dots.

       

    Top view of roses

Gâteau Opéra

Baked this cake for my son's birthday. It is made up of layers of almond sponge cake (Joconde in French),
coffee buttercream, chocolate ganache and topped with chocolate glaze.

Sponge cake

The layers

My Opéra Cake

 

Gong Xi Fa Cai ! 

恭喜發財  萬事如意  
身体健康  出入平安

For this year of the dragon, my husband decided to bake his favourite- pineapple tarts. My daughter and I enjoyed helping out too.

Moulding and assembling

Fresh from the oven

Vintage tart cutter

As my oven broke down, I tried baking my kueh lapis using a Turbo Broiler.It turned out quite satisfactory except for the initial layers.

My kueh lapis