This is how you make a swimming pool cake

A swimming pool cake...

Hmmm... This week's challenge was to make a swimming pool cake for a birthday party. After browsing the internet and done a few sketches, I started making my boys. I wanted this cake to be fun, exciting, energetic and colourful, so water slides, pool noodles, palm tree, water pistols, lifesaver, beach balls, crazy boys' hairstyle, swimming pool signs etc would be what I aimed for!



Also, it is because the cake is for a boy's birthday party, I wanted a lot of chocolate and lollies on it!

The cake is made out of vanilla sponge, then covered it with white chocolate ganache. The ground is made out of white chocolate and chocolate rocks. Instead of sculping a lifesaver, I used the Lifesaver lollies instead. The fence of course is made out of KitKat - I think the kids will go nuts with that!!!

Happy Birthday!

Chocolate cake with chocolate panels

I made this cake for my pastor's birthday. There was a lot of goodness in this baby!!!

The cake was a flourless chocolate cake with freshly grounded hazelnut meal. I covered the cake with ganache and decorated with chocolate panels on the outside. To top it up, I filled it with strawberries and blueberries.

I would consider this is a very healthy cake, because it has all the good antioxidants that you need!!

Turning Japanese again, I really think so....

We love Japanese food!!!

To celebrate Cath's 20 years in Queensland, we organised a special lunch for her...

This is only a sample of what we had. We bought 2kg of salmon - it was fresh, delicious, and yummy!!!! I was salmon overloaded... we had it with sushi, sashimi, grilled, diced and mixed with rice etc... I pan fried the skin with olive oil, salt and pepper. The crispy skin was awesome.

Shisei made the tempura - with prawns, beans, eggplants and sweet potato... the eggplants just melt in your mouth - Oishii Oishii Oishii Oishii

My first barbie doll

Princess cake

This was amazing, consider I never had a barbie doll before... It was a great cake to practice my piping skills!!

Be my Valentine!

Happy Valentine's Day

"Be my Valentine 2012"

Few years ago, I decided to create something special on valentine's day. I decided that I would like to do that every year and called them "Be my Valentine". I did not have a valentine, so I thought I would do something special for the people around me. I just wanted to make something special that can represent my love and thoughts for them.

Before I show you what I did in the previous years. I want to show you what I created this year. It was a heart made with profiteroles. I wrote love all over it and painted them with gold and silver. To finish it off, I sprinkled it with red glitters. Those profiteroles were filled with homemade custard cream. I can tell you, everyone was filled with love!! Who wants to "be my valentine" LOL???


"Be my Valentine 2011"

This cake was inspired by the traditional "gateau concorde". This is basically made out of layers of chocolate meringue. I filled it with chocolate cream and fresh strawberries. The acidity of the strawberries just cut nicely through the bitterness of the dark chocolate and the sweetness from the meringue. "c'est delicieux"


"Be my Valentine 2010"

This looks quite amateur compared to the other two... well this was made about 2 years ago... so when I eventually find my special one, it will be perfect ^O^

Ariel Cake

Happy 21st Birthday Jackie!

A friend's sister's 21st is coming up. She asked if I could make her a cake. The party is gonna have a cartoon character theme and she would like an Ariel Cake. How could I resist this challenge??

I did a few sketches and I thought the cake is gonna looked amazing and difficult at the same time. First, I have never sculpted anything with gum paste before. Second, this is a huge cake, it is gonna fed 60 people... I will need a lot of elements to fill the cake, so it will not look empty.

I was a bit ambitious. I wanted the cake to look very colourful, corals, chocolate seashells and starfishs made from scratch, waves, sand, rocks made out of honeycomb etc... Well, I think I achieved it :)

Improvement

Poh's cake with a twist..

Earlier in this blog I made the Orange Chiffon Cake that was presented in one of the ABC shows - the Poh's kitchen. I made it and everyone loved it. Someone asked me to make it this week for her birthday. I twisted it a little with the recipe and added some extra decorations!! I think the cake looked really effective!