Baby Shower Cupcakes

These cupcakes are adorable and sure to raise eyebrows.

They look difficult but really they are very simple.

I used the cupcake recipe from the family cupcakes i made.



MMF (marshmallow fondant) is just below

Ingredients -

- 230 g of white marshmallows
 - 1 tbs of water
- 350 g of icing sugar

Method -

- place the marshmallows and water in the microwave and heat until melted.
- mix in half of the icing sugar and slowly add the remaining till a dough is formed
 - make sure its not too stiff other wise it will be hard to work with and also not too sticky.



Its great fun to play fondant. You color it with different colors and make all sorts of stuff. Find the creative side of you and have fun.



I made this for my aunty. :)

ENJOY :)

Chocolate Fudge Faces

I bake because it gives me a time out from the everyday boring and sometimes stressful life. I also bake because it gives me the pleasure that I crave.
Also it is fun and adventurous every time. Not to mention all the delicious smells that fill the entire house and the happy and excited faces of the people who you bake for.

AH!! This is all the pleasure you can ask for.

Baking these cuppies were FUN FUN from start to finish. Starting with the simple action of beating the butter and the sugar and sifting of the flour and mixing everything together, to the coloring and shaping of the fondant. And best of all letting your imagination run wild. :)

Mum and Dad :)

brother, currently going through hormonal changes. so the pimples :P

Chocolate Fudge cupcakes (Homestyle magazine)

Broken dark chocolate - 50g
butter - 85g
milk - 1tbs
self-raising flour - 200g
bicarb soda - 1/2 tsp
brown sugar - 85g
caster sugar - 50g
egg - 1
sour cream - 142ml

- preheat oven to 180
- heat the chocolate, butter and milk until melted-cool
- mix the flour, soda, brown sugar and caster sugar
- in separate bowl beat the egg and sour cream and pour it into the flour mixture and and add the cooled chocolate mixture
- spoon into the cases and bake for 20 min until done

* These cupcakes are chocolatey and perfect on their own but to make them extra special top with chocolate ganache.
And if you are planning to have some fun with 'em, go ahead and roll yourself some fondant and play around :)

ME:)

Surprise cake (Banana cake with cream cheese frosting)

A few days ago my auntie gave birth to the most beautiful baby girl. It was my first time experiencing the whole process of seeing someone give birth first hand. They say it is the most beautiful moment, Its not! May be it is for the mum, may be there is some sort of natural strength that keeps them from not giving up or its just the angelic face of the baby.

Anyway, as for me, I think Ill store this memory deep in my long term memory and cherish it by keeping it there untouched. :D

Well, unlike the experience, this cake was fun to make and I enjoyed the whole process even though it took a lot of time to complete.

Everything you can see in the picture is edible except for the cake board of course :P I made the fondant figurines beforehand so to save a bit of time and they also need some time to dry out.

The inspiration for this cake is from various cakes I saw online with a touch of me :)

For the cake I used banana cake with cream cheese frosting. I made double the batch as the lid of the box is also a cake.

It was a fun and yummy cake to make. Even though it took half of my day it was absolutely worth it, and when I saw the look on my aunties face I thought "Can't wait till Zoha (aunties baby) turns one :)).




Here is the recipe for the cake I used.

Banana cake (adapted from Good Food magazine)

self-raising flour - 350g
bicarb soda - 1tsp
mixed spice - 2tsp
brown sugar - 175g
eggs - 4
oil - 200ml
mashed banana - 2
chopped pineapple - 100g
rind and juice of 1 orange
chopped walnuts - 100g

- preheat oven to 180c, grease and line baking tins
- whisk the eggs, oil and sugar
- sift the flour in the egg mixture, add in the mixed spice and bicarb soda
- add in the bananas, pineapple, orange juice and rind and the walnuts, mix well
- bake for 45 min or until done

Cream cheese frosting -

cream cheese - 2 x 200g
icing sugar - 200g

- beat the cheese until smooth
- add in the icing sugar and beat until fluffy.

* can add vanilla or any other flavor if preferred. I kept mine simple :)

I crumb coated the cake with the same butter cream frosting I used for my mocha cake but omitted the cocoa powder.

Carrot Book Cake

This is a book cake that i made for my dad a couple of months ago. so in saying that i don't have very detailed photos of this cake.

However, I had heapz of fun with this cake, despite the fact that it took almost all my day to get it finished.

The whole book was edible, covered with MMF (marshmallow fondant) and all the details on the cake was fondant as well.

The cake itself was carrot cake (possibly the best carrot cake recipe out there) and the filling was, surprise surprise CREAM CHEESE ICING. YUMMM

The cake was also crumb coated with cream cheese icing.

MMF - working with mmf is fairly easy and it tastes better than other fondants. i personally prefer mmf over other fondants.

Before covering with fondant, you have to crumb coat the cake with frosting (butter cream or cream cheese or any other) so that the fondant stays on the cake.



before the piping


MAKING THE BOOK
- I made one cake of 14 by 9" and cut it to the right size, I then filled and crumb coated the cake.
- Made mmf and colored half of it green and brown and various other colors for the flowers.
- I then rolled out the fondant to approximately 1/8" (both the green color and the plain mmf)
I measured the height and length of the sides of my book (cake) and cut the white (plain) fondant accordingly
- Covered the 3 sides (2 widths and 1 length) and made marks on it with knife to resemble pages.
- Measured the top of the cake and cut the fondant 1/4 inch bigger than the cake from all the sides and cut 1" from the length(back of the book) of the fondant. placed the fondant leaving 1" of space on the cake (for the back side of the book).
- Then rolled and cut the brown fondant according to measurement (cutting 1/4" bigger than cake for the top and bottom of the book to level up with the rest of the fondant). placed it on the cake (used water to help bind together).
- For the bottom cover of the book, rolled out fondant (green and brown) and cut 1/4" and placed it around the book (cake) resembling the book cover.
- Made the bookmark and made a cut in the cake and inserted the book mark and secured with water.
The decorations were made using cutter and some were hand piped.

I know it looks all too confusing, but its not really. Its fairly easy, it was my fist time making a book cake and it didnt turn out too bad :):)




OH! and here is the recipe for the carrot cake that i used for this cake.

Carrot Cake

Ingredients

Eggs - 5
Sugar - 2 c
Oil - 375ml
Vanilla - 1 1/2 tsp
Plain Flour - 2 1/2 c
Cinnamon - 2 tbs
Baking soda - 1 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1tsp
Baking powder 2tsp
Pineapple crushed - drained to semi dry - 1c
Walnut chopped - 1c
Carrot grated - 2c

Method

- Whisk eggs until frothy

- Add sugar, oil and vanilla and mix
- Add the flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, baking powder and mix well
- Add the pineapple, walnut and carrot and give it a good mix.
- pour into greased and lined baking tin and bake for 45 on 180c or until done.

This cake turns out DELICIOUS, my family wouldn't want anything else for cake (which is annoying, because it gets boring after awhile). Do give it a try, i am sure youll love it.



Get Frosting :)