22 July, 2008

My little Angel's Birthday

Shannea is 2!!!







There are 2 important persons in my life who were born in the month of July. My little darling Shannea is 2 years old on the 16th and hubby's birthday is on the 21st.

Helen gave me 4 trays of fresh blue berries, more than enough to make this blueberry cheese cake. My husband always asks why I don't make a "normal" looking cake. So I must comply to his request on his birthday. I cooked the blueberry into syrup and added some gelatin to help it set on the top of baked and chilled cheese cake.




Although I'm quite happy with the look of the cake, I must practise more using chocolate to pipe wordings. It is quite tough coz I let the moist get into the melted chocolate and it became hard for piping. I discarded 1/2 packet of the white chocolate to get these result. The names are barely readable. They kinda ruin the cake, my hubby says... Also the wordings are too big. Wanted to write "Shannea 2, + Daddy" but ended up "Shannea 2 Daddy" humm...



I make the cake with "LOVE" and here I wish them "Happy Birthday".

Oh, I also have some extra cream cheese to make these beautiful blueberry cheese tart.

19 July, 2008

Crazy about Durian

This time round, I was crazy enough to haul 1 big basket of durians home all by myself. I think there were at least 20 over durians in it - small ones though. To make durian paste, I had to open them one by one and removed the seeds. Luckily my helper likes durian and we together completed this tedious task.

The durian paste is more than enough to make 50 durian puffs. I could even make another durian cake - shown in the photo below. It is meant for Joshua's birthday on 13th Jul and for my youngest angel on 16th Jul. I volunteered to make this cake which was unveiled when Joshua's family was having a house warming gathering in their newly renovated home on Friday.






Quite fun to make the ducklings and the hippo head. The texture of the durian puff looks like real muddy pond and it matched the theme well. It is fun to make this cake.




P.S My hubby tells me stop buying durians for a while. He has developed in the past weeks a phobia of eating durians.

16 July, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRANCINE
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