Track and field fondant cake

This mini cake is for my niece who is good at track and field in her school.The base cake is chocolate cake with oreo cookies.

The cake is covered with green fondant to resemble the field and
 is also adorned with a gold medal;indicating victory.

Enlarged view of medal

The running tracks cover the top of the cake.

Guitar Fondant cake

This mini cake is for my nephew who loves to play the electric guitar.
The base cake is chocolate cake with oreo cookies.

The cake is covered with blue fondant.
Side of the cake is adorned with stars.
 

Two fondant electric guitars formed the center piece on the cake.

Rainbow cake

Rainbow is such a beautiful creation and making it into a cake is such a wonderful experience as well.

The preparation may be tedious with many steps, but the layers of the rainbow cake is so enchanting and colourful that it makes the whole baking enjoyable.
First the cake batter is divided into 6 equal portions and dyed with all six rainbow colours.(six colours are typically used for cakes instead of seven).

Each portion is then baked and cooled before assembly;

Purple

Blue

Green

Yellow

Orange

Red

The cake is then put togeher, layer by layer ; starting with purple at the bottom and followed by blue, green,yellow,orange and finally red. Each layer of cake is sandwiched with cream cheese frosting.
The whole cake is then covered with cream cheese frosting and embellished with tiny silver balls.

This cake is a birthday cake for my nephew .

The beautiful rainbow layers were revealed when cut.

                            HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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