Blueberry  Bake#4 -
Blueberry Jam

Adapted recipe from Jamie Oliver's homemade strawberry jam.

Ingredients are only blueberries, sugar and lemon.

 Cook them all in a pot until the right consistency is reached.

This jam can be used as tart filling as well.
 

Blueberry  Bake#3 - 
Blueberry and Lemon Bundt Cake

Adapted from Martha Stewart's recipe; I made a very light lemon glace with very much lesser icing sugar :)

Blueberry  Bake#2 - 
Blueberry and Lemon Tart

This french tart recipe (tarte aux myrtilles citronnées) is from this delightful book by pastry chef Murielle Valette.

Sweet shortcrust pastry is first made and line the tin.

Fresh blueberries are baked directly in the tart shell.......

As well as sugar too...

When the tart is almost done, a lemon cream consisting of egg,sugar,lemon zest and juice is spread on top of the tart and bake for another 10 minutes.

Et voilà..Blueberry and lemon tart...

Blueberry season is here again.. so are all my blueberry desserts...

Blueberry Bake#1 -
Muffins
Breakfast  blueberry muffins made two ways:

Adapted from Martha Stewart's recipes, I have made Berry avalanche blueberry muffins and crusty sweet top blueberry muffins.

Berry avalanche blueberry muffins
These muffins were stuffed with almost doubled the amount of berries so that berries will burst and avalanched when baked and filled the muffin cups:

Crusty sweet top blueberry muffins
To make crusty top; flavoured sugar, like cinnamon sugar was sprinkled generously on top of muffins just before baking.

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.