Chocolate cakes weekend

Apart from the 2 chocolate cakes that I baked last week, I also baked a few more chocolate cakes:

1. a stacked cake for my anniversary, my sister-in-law's anniversary and my father-in-law's birthday;
2. a 6 inch chocolate cake for our tea time treat; and 
3. another 6 inch cake to bring to my office. 

All in all, I actually baked 6 cakes (all chocolate!!) last weekend. I even told my husband that the next cake that I'm gonna bake won't be a chocolate cake (hopefully - my kids loves chocolate cake though).

This was my very first stacked cake - chocolate cake, decorated with white chocolate:

And this was the picture of our 6 inch tea time cake:

I didn't take any picture of the other 6 inch cake that I brought to my office. It's the same chocolate cake, with cookies and cream filling and chocolate ganache icing.

Gathering @ Marriot

Last Sunday, we went to Marriott Putrajaya for dim sum brunch. Seronok sangat sebab dapat jumpa kawan2 dari office lama. Dah lama sangat tak jumpa diorang. If I'm not mistaken, it's been more than a year since we last met.



I brought chocolate cake for the gathering, decorated with white chocolate stars. Anak2 seronok sangat masa tengah buat chocolate star tu, asyik nak makan jer. Nasib baik dapat save sikit for the cake.

Here are some pictures from the gathering:

Lepas makan dim sum kitorang gi ambil gambar ramai ramai. The kids were all excited tengok "snow".

Potluck kat rumah Che Nitt

Yesterday, we had potluck cum gathering at my friend's house near Sunway. Best sangat sebab memang dah lama tak jumpa kawan2 lama.

I brought chocolate cake decorated with smarties for the potluck, freshly baked yesterday morning.

Ni gambar gathering semalam:

Last night, both my kids told me that they enjoyed the evening dan ajak pergi lagi. Diorang suka sebab ramai sangat kawan2, seronok main. Bila balik rumah, dalam kereta lagi dah tido, malam baru jaga :)

3 tiered cakes

A few months back, when I first started to decorate my cakes, my sister-in-law had requested me to bake a wedding cake for her sister's wedding. The wedding is scheduled for Dec 09, so at that point of time, I still have plenty of times to decide.

I have not decided actually, until the matter was brought up again when we met at my grandma's house last month. I then agreed to bake the cake.

After a lot of thinking, and since my sister-in-law did not specify the type / flavour of the cake or the design required, but had only informed me of the colour theme, purple, I have decided to make chocolate cake with cookies and cream filling, covered with chocolate ganache icing.


So, here's the cakes:

the top tier

the middle tier

the bottom tier

Swiss buttercream butter cake with strawberries

Whilst browsing through the internet, I found this entry @ smittenkitchen.com on swiss buttercream.

Since I'm still in the process of experimenting buttercream recipes to search for a suitable ones to keep and use and had never tried swiss buttercream before, I've decided to give it a try.

So, I baked a small 6 inch butter cake and proceeded to prepare the buttercream.

I would say that the process is much more easier that preparing the italian meringue buttercream, and it tasted quite similar too. Not too sweat and I actually love the taste. The instructions given on the website is very clear and straightforward.

My 2 children helped me with the decoration. I iced the cake with buttercream and they both had fun decorating the cake with strawberries.

Blueberry muffins with streusel topping

First time sebenarnya buat muffin dengan streusel topping nih, dulu2 adalah juga buat blueberry muffin, tapi tak pernah terfikir nak letak topping kat atas dia.

Blueberry muffin tu kat bahagian bawah, letak 3/4 batter dalam muffin cups, pastu tabur streusel topping kat atas dia. Then bake macam biasa.

One of the ingredient for streusel topping nih ialah cinnamon powder, so ada rasa cinnamon kat atas muffin, and rasa blueberry kat bahagian bawah muffin.

I bawak muffin nih balik rumah nenek. Semua kata sedap, sekejap jer dah abis :)