Little Teddy Bear

Here's the teddy bear. Hopefully I'll be able to make one that's as cute as Forever Friends teddy soon. Full story at the TeaRoom blog.

An Extreme Strawberry Cheesecake

Another birthday celebration in the office. I love this cake, I knew it's going to be very delicious when I was making it. Too bad, there was not enough cake, so I only took a few bites from 4 different people. If you like strawberries and cheese, this cake is simply heaven. It consist 3 boxes of strawberries. Yummy...

I always enjoy bringing indulgences and surprises to the office, to the people I love working with. But lately, there has been people I don't like in the office and the thought of them (now only one person left lah) sharing this piece of passionately made cake upsets me most of the time.

Oh well, I'd say she won't last long. Mwah hahaha...

Chilled cheesecake which appears to be pink because of the mashed strawberries inside the cake mix. This was my first attempt. I find the cake a bit too soft, more gelatin is definitely required. It has a smooth and creamy texture, every bite is full of strawberries. Very indulging :)

Cupcake meeting new people!

Got this order from a very nice customer. Have bee so considerate since the day she added me on MSN to inquire for a birthday cake for her friend's one year old boy. She finally settled with cupcakes. I just delivered this to her and she even apologized for being just perhaps 1 minute late. And her daughter who were with her in the car was soooo cute.

Birthday Cake for A Pretty Mum

This is a mango cheesecake with oreo dark chocolate base. Surrounded with sponge finger and decorated with little pink hearts made from fondant. The special message was written on a specially made chocolate plaque.



The message is so cute right? Only creative customer would be able to send in such request :). But TTB nearly messed it up because her mind was else where when she wrote those wordings, and the first version read like this...

OMG! Totally different message. Luckily I checked my notes before packing up the cakes. Haha...

Thanks for ordering dear. I hope you and your mum liked the cake. And hope you've had a great celebration. :)

To auntie: May you live pretty forever! Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday SSB!

Happy birthday and hope you've had a great celebration. It was such a delight that the cupcakes can make an appearance on your birthday and glad they've also accompanied you throughout the year.

May your year be eventful and colourful, always cheerful and successful!

寿桃 for birthday cupcake

This was an order by my colleague. This was originally a full box of 16 medium cupcakes but she wanted more at the last minute. Since I couldn't bake more, but she needed to give a few to her client, I actually took out 5 of them from the big box. So it was sort of difficult to design and very difficult to arrange the cupcakes. Not to mention not having box of the correct size.

This was the best I can do. And on the cupcakes was my new 寿桃 design. I think there is a better way of making them actually.

Here is the making, with ready to roll icing:

Two Tier Cake

Here are the cakes! The top layer is a sponge cake sandwiched with longan custard. Coated with agar-agar milk pudding (which MC said should taste better with fresh milk instead of full cream milk - agreed). Topped with fruit and jelly (I feel that the cake will be tastier with a thicker layer of jelly).

In order to hold the pillars for the tier-ing, the bottom part has to be cake with dense and stronger texture.

I've made 2 butter cakes, into 4 layers sandwiched with custard - to form a 3 inches base.

Topped with fruits and decorated with the fishes. The fishes are a bit melted because I wanted to have the fishes swimming in water (jelly) but it cannot be done.

The 2-tier cake.

Kahlua Chocolate Cheesecake

The last time I made this cake, I used rum and chocolate glazing. That was because I didn't have any Kahlua and I didn't have any Creme Fraiche supply.

This trip to Hong Kong, I got my Kahlua from the duty free. It only cost about RM70 and it's delicious, I can drink it on it's own. This time I got Creme Fraiche for the topping and more Kahlua was mixed into the topping. The cake was decorated with strawberries (the Korean strawberries are delicious by the way).

The result was a dense, rich and indulging cake with a tinge of coffee flavour.

White Chocolate Lychee Cheesecake

I was at the supermarket shopping for the cake ingredients to bake a birthday cake. Since it was near Chinese New Year, one big section of the shelf was taken over by can lychee display. I thought lychee could very well go with the cheese, hence this white chocolate lychee cheesecake.

The base of the cheesecake was the standard white chocolate cheesecake, the one with Mascaporne cheese. I love the taste and it was really well received. Got some marks for being some what creative too. And of course the best was when someone special requested for a second helping :)

The base was still oreo biscuit which is delicious and it is an all time favorite.

Decorated with some fruits. I would have to work on a more creative decoration in the future. And too bad I only managed to have two tiny pieces.

Cupcake Birthday Message

Cheeky Gal said birthday boy favorite colour is blue. Got her cupcake message and she said, not too cute. Haha... I suppose that left me with chocolates and marshmallows (non flower shaped)?

I'm sure raisins go very well with the cupcakes, just that they are not exactly decorative.

Anyways, Happy birthday Simon. Hope you guys had have a great celebration.

Best wishes from The TeaRoom Baker.

Chocolate Fruit Cake

An early presentation of a Christmas cake, which was actually for a birthday. The choice of this birthday cake as requested by the birthday gal.

The ingredients: Since I don't like mix peel, I've chosen this recipe where you can pick and match the type of dried fruit to include. So I had plums, dates (though okay but the taste did not blend in that perfectly), cherries and raisins. In addition, chocolate chips had been added to intensify the chocolate aroma of this already chocolate based cake. Ground almond was also added hence giving a very solid texture.

The decoration: With brandy butter icing (though originally I planned to get the ready to roll icing, but didn't have time and more inclined to the butter icing taste than fondant icing) and a few Christmasy ornaments.