Some random food that I made...



Chocolate Hazelnut brownies for Easter




Smoked salmon with salad-dle: it is made out of thinly sliced vegetables that is almost like noodles, that's why it is called salad-dle. I served it with special wasabi mayo!






Chocolate pizza with banana, strawberries and marshmallow. It is pity that I don't have homemade peanut butter jelly ice-cream to go with it :(

 



Something really random.... but may be I will call it the Berries cake

 



Profiteroles giant cake

Vanessa's birthday again. I made the flourless chocolate cake with profiteroles!!!!

The reason behind this giant cake is because it is actually for two! For Vanessa and her partner, Santi. Santi's birthday is very close to Vanessa's, and he complained a few times that I only make cakes for Vanessa and not for him.... argh....hmmm.... well, I know that both Vanessa and Santi love profiteroles, so I decided to make this cake for them!!

For the profiteroles, I usually make fresh custard cream. Since I was making tiramisu on the other side of the kitchen. So I decided to use marscapone cream to fill the profiterols this time.

I think the mascapone cream is slightly lighter than the custard cream. It was yummy either way! :)

Italiano!!!!!

I made something that is not sweet this time!!!
We had special guests coming over for dinner. So, for the special guests I decided to have special food that I would prepare with my special asssistant, Dennis :)

We decided to make homemade pizza. It was fun. It was Dennis' first time making homemade pizza. He was a great assistant!! He chopped everything for me, included the onion!!! A few tears, but we had a lot of laughs in the kitchen!!
 

Ummm... coming to Mandy's kitchen to have dinner without dessert... that's sounds soooooo wrong... how about a tiramisu to finish off the dinner????



How to make a monster cake

This is how... Monster, here I come...
For a 5-year old boy, who wants a monster cake. It is kinda difficult, because I don't know how scary I can make the cake to look. I guess the sharp teeth, big nose, blood shot eyes are ok... may be adding a little bit of boy factor to it to make it fun?

So I made the teeth and nose out of gum paste. The cake itself was bright green with strawberry whipped cream. I wanted the cake to look like there is blood dripping out when they cut the cake. For a little boy, I thought bright green is quite cool as well XD.

The blood shot eyes: it was like a cake pop. I mixed some leftover cake with white chocolate icing. Rolled it in a ball, pipe some red icing all over it.

To add the boy factor: I added a green snot to the 3-nostril nose.

It was really fun to make this cake!!! I love the hair

Happy BIrthday

Happy Birthday Cath!!!
It is ANAZC day again, so it is Cath's birthday.

As usual, we had breakfast in bed and opening pressies. Breakfast was bacon and egg on soy and linseed bread. It was yum - so high in cholesterol that we just can't afford to have it everyday (from a pharmacist prospective...)

I made this flourless chocolate cake a few times, but for Cath, I decorated it slightly different to the others. I think with this design, it does not look as massive, the strawberries were lined up perfectly with the white chocolate instead of dark chocolate panels. It looks slightly more sophisticated and classy - just like Cath!! We wrote happy birthday in 3 different languages on the side as well. Everyone enjoy it - the dark chocolate ganache, the cake, the strawberries - all are good antioxidants. I think everyone should try this one!!! 

Wedding Anniversary

Happy 50th Wedding AnniversaryA Friend asked me to make a cake for her sister's 50th Wedding Anniversary. It s SOOOOO special!!!

When she asked me, I was really excited. She told me that the couple have kept the ornament that was used to decorate their wedding cake and they would like to use it on this anniversary cake. How romantic!!!

Since it is a 50th anniversary, so the theme was gold. I decided to have some patterns on the side of the cake. I used white chocolate and painted it in gold. Sprinkled the top with gold dust and glitters. It was simple but great!

Relikkuma bear cakeRilikkumma is a combination of the Japanese pronunciation of relax and the Japanese word for bear.