Another Chocolate Devil Cake

This order came from my colleague and he ordered this cake since last year...Finally, here it is...a chocolate devil cake for his lovely wife :-)

To make it nice as it's a gift from husband to wife...I put 3 white roses made from whipped cream. Thanks for your order Babe, hope your wife will love it.

Cheddar Cheese Butter Cake

It's been queit some times I didn't bake for my family. Last night I decided to make something for them. Something that they would love with a bit more calories as my husband and kids are in the process of recovery from common cold.

This recipe came out just in the last minute when I was confused deciding which recipe that I should use. I wanted to make marble cake from my mom's old recipe but I wanted to add more milk in it so I did a little experiment with a believe that the cake would be turned out okay as the base recipe taken from butter cake recipe.

Yes, the cake turned out just what I expected. It's very moist and every one loves it! My husband had 3 slices for breakfast this morning and kids already had more than 2 slices each last night when the cake was fresh from the oven.

Cheedar Cheese Butter Cake

Ingredients :

6 egg yolks
3 egg whites
225 gr sugar
200 gr all purpose flour
25 gr maizena
150 gr butter
150 gr margarine
150 ml milk
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp vanilla powder
100 gr shreded cheddar cheese

Directions :

1. Preheat oven to 170 degrees C, and butter a 25cm tube pan.

2. Sift together flour, maizena dan baking powder. Set aside.

3. In bowl of electric mixer, cream the butter, margarine, sugar and vanilla powder until smooth. Add egg yolks, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.

4. Alternately add the flour mixture and the milk to the batter, beginning and ending with the flour, mix well using spatula. Set aside.

5. In another bowl, beat the 3 egg whites until stiff peaks form then pour the egg whites mixture to the batter gently folding into blend.

6. Place the batter into prepared pan and sprinkle with shredded cheddar cheese.

7. Bake for about 50 mins to one hour, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Mini Mocca Cup Cake

Mini Mocca Cup Cake

very easy to make, moist and yummy :-)



Ingredients :

80 gr margarine
40 gr butter
200 gr castor sugar
175 gr flour
25 gr maizena
3 egg yolks
2 white eggs
150 ml buttermilk or you may substitute with plain yoghurt
1 tsp vanilla powder
1 tsp mocca pasta (I used Toeffico)
1/2 tsb baking powder

some almond slices



Directions :

1. Preheat the oven to 350 F. Line 12 cup muffins pans with mini paper liners.

2. Sift together the flour, maizena, and baking powder.

3. In a large mixing bowl cream margarine, butter, vanilla powder and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

4. Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk/plain yogurt, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Beat well after each addition.

5. Divided batter evently among the muffin cups, filling each about 2/3 full add some slice of almonds on the top.

6. Bake, rotating pans halfway through, until a cake tester inserted in the center of a cupcake come out clean, 20 - 25 minutes.

Cakes of March 3rd - 9th

Dinar's mom birthday cake



Again, Dinar ordered a birthday cake for her mom whose birthday was on 6th March. Basic cake was surabaya layer cake aka lapis surabaya, covered full with heavy ganache and chocolate decorating.




Muffin Brownie





It's been queit some times I didn't make muffins. So on last Thursday when I took one day leave I made this muffin brownie for family snack and a friend's gift.


Barbie Birthday Cake for Jemima

Jemima's mother, Rini, is my good friend since childhood. 2 weeks ago I was surprised by her email that asked me to make a special birthday for her lovely daughter, Jemima. Jemima likes Barbie so much and everytime they go browsing to my website Jemi just loves the barbie cake I made. So...here it is....a pink and purple barbie birthday cake for lovely Jemima.

Happy 4th Birthday dear Jemima!

Jemima's pink and purple birthday cup cakes

Rini also ordered 4 dozens chocolate cup cakes still with pink and purple theme using Jemi's edible image.

And another one dozen of cup cakes for Rini's friends.

I am glad that Rini and Adib satisfied with the cakes they orderes. Here are sms I received from Rini (sorry they are in bahasa) :-)

First sms from Rini, received on 10 March 2008 at 06:20am

"Wah keren banget jeunk....muah2 makaci bgt yah...wanginya jg lekker....btw cara motong kuene piye hihihihi..., si barbie mesti diangkat dulu ya hiks2 kesian abis cantik banget ni..."

Second sms from Rini, received on 11 March 2008 at 06:49am

"Wi, thanks ya, chocolate devilnya uenak dan kemarin langsung abis dalam sekejab, btw sedih deh motong si pinky barbie yang cantik itu. Ada yang simpe cupcakesnya gara2 sayang buat dimakan hehehehehe"

Cakes of the Week

These are cakes I made during the week of 18 - 24 February 2008. I though I would love to close my kitchen for a little rest....I couldn't. So I would say I wasn't in good mood and stamina when doing it.

Double chocolate cake with cocoa dust and cherries

Chocolate slice cake white white chocolate topping & springkles

Purple and white

Yellow

Pink basket flowers (again...)

Flowery cup cakes

Barbie Cake for Mia

Mia, my best friend since college ordered barbie cake for her niece. She is absolutely a great aunty for her nieces and nephews hehehehehe...previously she ordered birthday cake for her nephes and now another birthday cake for her niece, what a lovely aunty!

Mia wanted the barbie cake wearing yellow dress and to make it more attractive I combined yellow with pink and it's turned out prettier I think.

Thank you Mia, glad to know that everyone in your family loves the cake!

Pink basket flowers for Nia

Evi, a friend from NCC mailing list contacted me and asked me to bake a special birthday cake for her best friend, Nia.

The theme was pink as Nia's birthday on 15th Feb is still close to Valentine and base cake requested was chocolate devil cake, yummmy......so..here it is...pinky basket flower for Nia. Happy Birthday Day Nia!!.....and thank you Evi for the order :-)

Valentine's day orders

Winda whose birthday on 14th February, same as Valentine's day, ordered 200 slices of mini cakes to share with friends at work. As requested I made 100 strawberry cakes and 100 chocolate cakes.







Indy would like to give something special for her loves ones on this special day. She ordered cup cakes and I made new taste for the cup cakes that is beef filling cup cakes. Indy said it's delicious!

Birthday Cake for Ari

This cake was ordered by Dinar for her sister, Ari. As Jakarta and surrounding areas becoming more humid these very recent days, so it was absolutely like a pain using plastic icing or fondant for cake decorating.

Last night I did the decoration in my bed room that's airconed. But then the plastic icing got dry very quick also...oh well...finally everything was done.

Color theme is pink as requested by Dinar and I've just received message thru YM from Dinar saying that she loves the birthday cake. Glad to know that! Thank you Dinar and happy birthday for your lovely sister, Ari!

BC Decorating Class - Session 2

I was pretty much impressed with session 2 on my BC decorating class. New technics and tips I got were very useful. And I was happy with my own result.

Making flower basket was absolutely fun. I love girly things so I was more than happy learning and doing it.









Second cake was decorated with cornelis. It's easy one but also tricky...when you do it yo won't think any beauty of it at all, but when they're done...yup they are pretty! :-)

When I done doing those 2 cakes I said to myself...well...today I think I love orange!! :-)

Barbie Cake for Citta

Asih, Citta's mom was surfing the internet and found Joris' Kitchen. Attracted by Barbie cake I made before, Asih ordered barbie cake for Citta's first birthday on 10 February.

Basic cake was chocolate sponge cake with blueberry & chocolate butter cream. The barbie' skirt was also made from chocolate sponge cake. Color theme was pink and butter cream decoration.

Happy 1st birthday, Citta!

Gong Xi Fat Chai

For Chinese New Year I received some orders for cup cakes, steam brownies and baked brownies. There was nothing special on the brownie that's why I didn't take any picture of them.

The cute things are the people who ordered cup cakes didn't want fancy decoration. Chocolate decor please...they said, because we just want to enjoy the cup cakes not only to look at them...no butter cream also. Liem Tjien even sent me a sample of decoration and yes it's a simple one...ehm...that would help me a lot to finish everything quicker then :-)

Besides doing Lim Tjien and Yeni orders I also made some for my boss who also celebrates Chinese New Year.

GONG XI FAT CHAI!!!

Big Project at the Weekend

This is one of my biggest project at weekend for 2008. Doing 3 birthday cakes, 250 mini slices cakes and savory snack (risoles). I am glad, Mbak Sri came to help so I could give the savory snack project to her 100% and I just focused on cakes.

First birthday cake was dedicated for Ruth & Jonathan's pediatric, Doctor Purnamawati whose birthday on last Saturday, 2nd February. Together with Ruth and Jonathan we decorated the cake, it was so much fun , and we made it with full of love and respect to Bunda Wati (the way we call her).

Second birthday cake was ordered by Mom Risti, a friend from We Are Mommies mailing list who ordered 7 1/2 dozens of cup cakes last year. 4th birthday cake for Rashad with Ultraman theme. Actually Mom Risti orderd for Ultraman and Power Rangers them but I was missunderstood I though it was Naruto and Ultraman, hiks....so we just left Naruto and put the Ultraman on the cake. I am glad to hear that Rashad loves the cake & everyone on the party also.

The third birthday cake was for Petrina. Petrina's Mom, Evi, found Joris' Kitchen from browsing in the internet. The theme was Winnie the Pooh and friends and basic cake was lapis surabaya covered full with chocolate ganache.

Last order was to make 250 mini slices of cakes & chicken rogout risoles. For the cakes I combine chocolate, cheese, lemon and strawberry flavor.

cheese

lemon

strawberry

chocolate

chicken rogout risoles

I felt so good when all was done on time. Tired...but happy :-) Thank you everyone for orders and thanks a bunch for my family who always in full support.