Hello everyone! (And hello blog! Sorry for neglecting you for quite some time!) Taking step-by-step photos in the kitchen these days is getting a bit difficult because the driver for the LED lights that lit up my countertop exploded blew recently. Not to mention my camera’s a little cranky too – it’s not able to…
Cake: Celebration
Piña Colada Cake (Egg Yolk Cake + Pineapple Filling + Rum Swiss Meringue Buttercream)
Woo hoo~ Today 10 July is National Piña Colada Day! Piña Colada is a famous cocktail originating from Puerto Rico, made with rum, coconut cream/coconut milk and pineapple juice. It was claimed that the bartender of Caribe Hilton Hotel’s Beachcomber Bar, Ramón “Monchito” Marrero Pérez, was the creator of this cocktail in 1954. Another restaurant…
Opera Cake
Hello! Today I’m sharing an Opera Cake recipe, which is a French cake made with layers of joconde (a type of almond sponge cake) soaked in coffee syrup, layered with ganache and coffee-flavoured buttercream and covered in a chocolate glaze. This kind of cake is also known as an entremet because of the many components, complexity and…
Matcha Mousse Cake
If you are a fan of matcha, you will love this Matcha Mousse Cake – easy matcha sponge cake filled with creamy and light matcha mousse, adorned with caramel-y, crunchy and nutty sesame brittle – I wonder why I haven’t made this sooner?! The sponge cake recipe is very similar to the one I used in my…
Japanese Strawberry Shortcake
Taking a break from Chinese New Year baking and diving into Valentine’s Day baking – Japanese Strawberry Shortcake! Okay not really because I don’t even celebrate this day in the first place… oops! The reason why I’m baking this cake is because the theme of Bake-Along’s this time round is Strawberry Shortcake and since strawberry is…
Baileys Tiramisu Cake {Christmas Version}
I saw a chocolate Christmas Tree decoration on a white cake on Pinterest recently and I really wanted to try it out because it’s simple and so classy looking! But the problem is I cannot decide what cake to make. In the end I settled with my favourite cake – the Tiramisu Cake.
Pandan-Coconut Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting + Happy 50th Birthday Singapore!
A fragrant and moist pandan-coconut cake filled and frosted with a delicious and creamy cream cheese frosting, with the sides covered with toasted dessicated coconut and the top decorated into the flag of the country that I grew up in – my way of wishing Singapore a happy 50th birthday!
Molten Coffee-Vanilla Cake
I was so excited when Raymund from Ang Sarap invited me to do a guest post on his blog – it’s such an honour! I brainstormed high and low for recipes and in the end decided on a dessert as it’s how Foodie Baker (previously known as Food Is My Life) started, a site to chronicle my…
Peach Layered Cake with Peach-Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
Happy Mother’s Day! How is everyone celebrating this wondrous occasion? To be honest, we don’t celebrate Mother’s Day (I hate going to restaurants who are out to rip us off), and now that we are 8,000 km apart, I won’t be able to bring my mom out for dinner. So I called her yesterday and we had a really…
Chocolate Kahlua Crêpe Cake
Crêpe cake has been something on my to-make list for a very, very long time – the seemingly tons of layers look so attractive and I’ve always wondered how it tastes like. So when my friend’s birthday drew near, I decided to give it a try! Given the fact that I have only one chance…
Sundae Bubble Crown
I first saw this amazing ice cream cake on Louise’s site (Months of Edible Celebrations) and I knew I had to make it for the Choux Party I’m hosting! This cake features choux pastry acting as the cake base and it first appeared in a Betty Crocker’s recipe card library back in 1971. Yup you…
Chocolate and Strawberry Bavarian Cream Layer Cake
Chocolate collar was not very well done… :/ Just blogged about a layer cake recently and I’m back blogging about another one! This cake was made also for an early birthday celebration for a friend. I decided on a strawberry cake as Korean strawberries were on sale, so I bought 2 punnets and used 1…
Devil’s Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter & Jam
I’ve always have a soft spot for layer cakes because: 1) They look absolutely gorgeous – be it round, square, triangle, rectangle or whatever odd shape it is, layer cakes will always, in my personal opinion, look a lot more pretty than cupcakes. They look more sophisticated and a lot more classy than cupcakes, don’t…
Kueh Lapis Legit
Kueh Lapis Legit / Spekkoek Disclaimer: This is not a cake for the faint-hearted, not for those who are watching their weight and worrying about their waist/hip lines – this cake’s fatty contents is bound to make your jaws drop and you will need to run God-knows-how-many-kilometres before you can get rid of the calories…
Chocolate Log Cake with Varlhona Chocolate Mousse (A Healthier Version)
Everyone loves to celebrate Christmas with log cakes (aka yule logs), and I am no exception. Last year was my first attempt in making a log cake – a chocolate genoise with peanut butter buttercream frosting, covered with a layer of chocolate meringue buttercream, which looks like this: Food Advertising by This year, I decided…
Cuteness~ Rilakkuma Mini Cakes
I baked this cake for a friend’s farewell present quite some time ago. As she’s a fan of this bear called Rilakkuma, I decided to try my hand on baking and assemble a bear cake. The basic recipe is very manageable – chocolate genoise with an Oreo filling, covered with chocolate frosting – however, the…
Celebrating 200th with Baileys Tiramisu (Re-make)
Here’s the 200th post! I can’t believe it… I finally made it to 200 posts! It really took an incredible long time for me to reach this milestone – I started this way back in 2008 and I know there are many people who actually managed to post 100 recipes in just 1 year, so…
Oreo Ice Cream Chocolate Cake
Happy birthday Bake-Along! Bake-Along, just like its name suggests, is a twice-a-month bake-along session started by these lovely ladies: Joyce from Kitchen Flavours, Lena from Frozen Wings and Zoe from Bake for Happy Kids. I joined Bake-Along halfway and got to know so many other new bloggers. It was a lovely journey and I’m sure…
Oreos and Chocolate Mousse Layered Cake
Here is the cake I promised! It’s a chocolate genoise layered cake with chocolate mousse and Oreo filling, coated with a delicious and creamy layer of vanilla filling and covered all over with Oreo crumbs. No wonder I’m growing… horizontally – I have been eating way too many cakes lately *cries* (check out the culprits:…
Chocolate, Mousse, Meringue and Blueberry Curd Layered Cake
A Varlhona dark chocolate cake with Varlhona-Ghiradelli semi-sweet chocolate mousse and blueberry curd with a vanilla meringue center, coated with a Varlhona dark chocolate ganache glaze. Upon knowing that the theme of Aspiring Bakers this month is Layered Cakes, I’ve been dreaming about what kind of layered cake I should make… And one day I…
Merry Christmas – Chocolate Log Cake with Peanut Butter Buttercream Filling and Chocolate Meringue Buttercream
I’m here for a really quick post! Want to share this really delicious log cake recipe that was well-received by all my friends (: Some of my verdict regarding the different components of the cake: Chocolate Sponge Food Advertising by A really light, moist and chocolatey sponge. It’s not overly sweet, and the Varlhona cocoa…
Yellow Cake with Instant Fudge Frosting
“A best friend always helps herself at your house.” My best buddy literally does just that. Each time she arrives at my house, the first thing she will always do is to open up my cupboards and my refrigerator to see if there’s anything to eat. And when she found something to eat, she’ll simply…
Mocha Birthday Cake
When a friend’s birthday is coming, it gives me a reason to browse through all the cookbooks and recipes that I have on hand to select a birthday cake recipe; it gives me a reason to ogle and drool over all the lovely pictures of chocolate cakes posted on websites; and the best of all:…
Strawberry Shortcake… Cake… Cupcake?
Are there times when you saw/read/heard a dish that makes you crave for it so much that you’re just dying to whip it up right then and now but you can’t because you don’t have the ingredients at hand and can only get them tomorrow? And you know that you have to make them tomorrow…
Let the Battle Begin! Chocolate Cream vs. Coffee Cream…
Well, first cake (or cakes*) of this year 2009! =) This isn’t a battle between cakes, it’s a battle between the creams! After watching a video on how to make a chocolate genoise, I knew I have to bake this cake. I’ve not yet made a successful sponge cake before – either it didn’t rise…
Real Fruits Strawberry Cake
I know I said I’m going on a break. But I seriously cannot resist the urge anymore. Besides, I was conveniently baking another cake for an occasion (which you’ll know what it is very soon), so I might as well bake one more since the strawberries were on sale. Doesn’t hurt to have more cake…