Nice simple cakes

I've been slightly under the weather these couple of days so have been slacking with cake photo uploading. Anyway, here are some simple orders I took during the week.

[Dark Temptation for Edah]

Dark Temptation is an absolutely rich and moist chocolate cake made with real good quality chocolate with a generous spread of chocolate ganache filling between cake layers and then covered with more ganache all over! A must-try for those chocolate sinners!

[Caramel Apple Cheesecake for Sara]

A plain cheesecake sitting on a lemon sponge base and top with fresh apple pie filling. It's then drizzled/top with a generous amount of caramel sauce and more fresh apples!!

A Cheesecake for the Don

Cappuccino Velvet Cheesecake is a creamy cheesecake with a lovely velvet texture that is bursting with the richness of coffee. Sitting on a vanilla-lemon sponge base, *quoting customers* "it's a melt-in-the mouth cheesecake to die for"!

I baked my husband's all time favourite, the Cappuccino Velvet, for Jay's dad. It was meant as a belated birthday gift as well as a father's day gift. Happy father's day to all loving fathers! =)

[perfectly baked, crack-free cheesecaek]

The Diver and his Boat Cappuccino Velvet Cheesecake

It was my husband's, Kim's, '23rd' birthday yesterday. We had an initial plan to go up to Cherating and have some sort of BBQ with friends. However, Kim's mum and aunt wanted to make Sarawak Laksa for the birthday, so we canceled Cherating and did like a small gathering amongst family at home.

I last minutely baked Kim's all time favourite cake, the Cappuccino Velvet Cheesecake with a sail boat topper. Since we just got out diving license, I decided to put a diver's flag and name the boat Kim's Divers just for fun =)

I also made some Inside-Out-Profiteroles. I must ad mit that I didn't enjoy the profiteroles a single bit as I changed the type of chocolate to this new one that I found in PJ. It really made a huge difference in taste! I'll go back to using the beautifully rich and dark chocolate I'm used to (even though it's slightly more expensive). Anyway, here are some photos of the cake and pastries and my boat which looked like it belongs to a dive centre in Perhentian Kecil LOL.

[the cake and our daughter, Emille in the background mixing ice-cream!]

[my not so satisfying Inside-Out-Profiteroles. Lesson: Do not substitute good quality chocolate for inferior ones]

[the birthday Papa and his daughter =)]

Patricia's Caramel Apple Cheesecake Birthday Cake gift

I managed to get hold of photos of the Caramel Apple Cheesecake ordered by my friend Patricia for her friend's birthday, Kay. Since Pat didn't wanted a message on the cake, I changed the caramel apple pie topping as the filling and topped the cake with caramel sticks instead. I found it a bit difficult to write nicely on the rough surface though. Nevertheless, Patricia and friends enjoyed the cake, which was the most important thing =)

[I have no idea why this photo refuses to be rotated!]

[Patricia and friends]

Caramel Apple Cheesecake

This cake was baked for a friend of mine, Jay, for her younger sister's, Rin's, 18th birthday. We didn't quite know what she'd (Rin) would like as a cake so Jay decided to give this cheesecake a try since Rin's a huge fan of Caramel.

The Caramel Apple Cheesecake consists of a plain cheesecake sitting on a lemon sponge base and top with fresh apple pie filling. It's then drizzled/top with a generous amount of caramel sauce and more fresh apples!! Let's hope the birthday girl likes the cake! =)

[the finished cheesecake..honestly, I felt like pinching a tiny bit of the cake!!!]

[Happy Birthday Moinks!...the script was not as clear as I wanted it to be on a very rough appley surface!)

[The blue bird nestling nicely among all the apples, flowers and leaves]

[the birthday girl is a fan of birds]

A Sunday thought

I'm slowly..gradually..going down with flu =( I promised Kim that I'll bake some of those divine Cheese Cuppies as I like to call them tomorrow. They're not on the menu because I don't know whether or not people are prepared to pay about RM3-RM3.50 per cuppy...a VERY DIVINE, full of goodness, cheese cuppy. So I only make them if throw parties/BBQs or simply as presents to family & friends. Since Kim has been craving for it, I'll bake some tomorrow. I might give some away (if Kim lets me!) to friends I'll meet within the next few days. I'll post photos of those beautiful little cuppies soon (decorated if I feel up for it).

Oh, Jay has decided that she wants the App-mel Cheesecake for her sister's birthday this coming 3rd April. I'll get that sorted on Wednesday =) Have a beautiful Sunday my dear readers!

[Cappuccino Cheese Cuppies topped with softly whipped Vanilla cream]

[I took out three cuppies which we had for breakfast!]

[please excuse my over-exposed photo]

[my loyal cake critique]

Baby Alya's Choc Cheese Wave Birthday Cake

This is a Grand (2kg) Choc Cheese Wave Birthday Cake for a two-year old Alya. I covered it with chocolate buttercream and decorated with lots sugar flowers + Apek the monkey & Miss Elephant. Enjoy!

[Chocolate Buttercream iced Wave]

[Apek the monkey]

[Miss Elephant]

Brownie Bites Cheesecake

I've finally finished decorating the Brownie Bites Cheesecake this morning with a potential headache feeling in my head. A sign that I musn't overwork myself! Brownie Bites Cheesecake consists of dark chocolate brownie base with more brownies squares arranged in a plain cream cheese filling. Anyway, here are the photos. I got my Mum to have the first taste.






I plan to offer this cake in two sizes. The one I baked was a Petite (apologies for forgetting to weigh the cake before cutting!). I think one adjustment ought to be made especially for the Petite version. That the proportion of Brownie:Cheesecake should be adjusted. I feel that the Brownie Bites in the cake should be smaller in size for the same amount of cheese filling. What do you think? Judging from the photos, any comments how to make this a better cake?

Strictly-No-Icing Choc Cheese Wave Birthday Cake

This was Reen's order as a gift for a friend on her birthday. She particularly insisted that she didn't want any icing at all. Just the writing, plus I thought of adding some tiny flowers just to soften the bareness.




Caledonia offers the Wave in two sizes. Grand (2kg) for RM80 and Petite (950g) for RM55. Caledonia's BEST SELLER by far!

Aliah's Choc Cheese Wave Birthday Cake gift

This is my proudly produced Choc Cheese Wave birthday cake for Aliah's special someone. Everything was decided (type of cake, by Aliah)/bought cake supplies/baked/decorated/delivered (11km away) within 8 hours! I started as early as 9am and was done by 4.30pm the same day. I suddenly realised something, I think when I don't give too much thought about the decoration, then will it be produced nicely. Yes, I ALWAYS over-think things and keep changing them at the 11th hour.

This cake was ordered by my sister's friend, Aliah, who is in Leeds with Mimi (my sister), for someone who means a lot to her. Aliah gave me one single clue "lovey-dovey". So I decided to play around with those sugar hearts and coincidentally found a suitable butterfly to go with the cake. The cake is iced with yummy softly whipped Vanilla cream all over. I was glad that Emille (my mischievous 2 yr old daughter) was asleep throughtout the entire duration I was decorating the cake. Suddenly having a random object thrown onto an iced cake would set me on flames! (yes it HAS happened before!)

I managed to deliver the cake without problems and reached home as a happy baker =) Aliah, if you're reading this, I hope you like the cake presentation as much as his Mum does =) Enjoy!

My revised Choc Cheese Wave birthday cake

Choc Cheese Wave consists of a centre layer creamy cheesecake, sandwiched with two layers of melt in the mouth chocolate brownie-cake

I woke up at 6.20am this morning with my full intention of demolishing the decor of Wani's husband's birthday cake as in my previous blog. I looked at the cake and thought "I wouldn't be happy to receive this as my birthday cake!", hence carefully lifting all the white chocolate patterns/writing on the cake.

I stuck to the hearts-idea since Valentine's day is less than 2 weeks away. I obviously could not remove the large candles off the cake without cracking the Wave, so working around them, I carefully drew mini hearts with white chocolate, close to each other, to fill up the entire cake surface. I was done at about 8am with the dark cholate writing to finish off with. I then decided to outline the text with micro bead-sprinklers to make the dark chocolate writing stand out...that took me a good 2.5 hours. My neck took the strain the most. But at least I was happy enough to pass the cake on to Wani, so it's worth it.

After being busy for the last 24 hours, I only managed to check my mail tonight after I got back from spending time with my Dad in Parkroyal Hotel. I received a birthday cake order for tomorrow, 5th February, from my sister's, Mimi's, friend. I might be able to just squeeze baking & decorating the cake tomorrow and get it delivered the end of the day. It all depends on which cake the person orders. Let's just hope that I get enough time to think & dream of the decoration since I'm the most undecisive baker who exists on planet Earth when it comes to decorating! I'll update on that after it's over and done with! For the time being, here's my revised 4th February 2009 birthday cake for Wani's husband, Chor.



Caledonia offers the Wave in two sizes. Grand (2kg) for RM80 and Petite (950g) for RM55. Caledonia's BEST SELLER by far!

Choc Cheese Wave

[a petite - 950g Choc Cheese Wave consisting of a centre layer of creamy cheesecake, sandwiched with two layers of melt in the mouth chocolate brownie-cake ]

I just finished decorating Wani's cake for her husband's 30th birthday. She ordered a petite Choc Cheese Wave cake with the writing "Happy 30th Birthday Chor". My initial plan was to cover the cake in dark chocolate ganache and drizzle white chocolate over. However, after I turned the cake out of its tin last night, I decided to leave the cake bare for a change - no ganache, just to give the cake more character as the chocolate and cheese layers are visible. So I marked overlapping heart shapes using a cookie cutter around the cake edges and traced them with melted white chocolate. The writing was meant to be RED but I forgot that WHITE (from the white chocolate) + RED = PINK. So I had to make do. I finished the cake off by tying a black and white ribbon around the cake and stuck two huge number '3' and '0' candles. I hope Wani & her husband like the cake.

Caledonia offers the Wave in two sizes. Grand (2kg) for RM80 and Petite (950g) for RM55. Caledonia's BEST SELLER by far!

New Year's Eve Projects 2

These were the cakes/pastries I made for our new year's eve BBQ dinner =)

Kims calls them the inside-out profiteroles. I didn't have the correct flour, hence the not so puffed up profiteroles. Nevertheless, they disappeared in the fridge! I didn't get the chance to take them out!

This was Hidayah's birthday cake. It hasn't got a name yet. But it's basically the Dark Temptation with an extra layer of dark chocolate mousse in between sponges. Beautiful!

This is the Cheese Fluff made into another birthday cake for Bang Bad's son. It's a sponge-cheese cake, with a soft, creamy melt-in-the-mouth texture.