Eid 2018 feastaa.

so it was Syawal 1439H (or 2018) the past week.

my kitchen, of course, was one helluva mess like a tongkang pecah (broken sampan).

the number of Raya cookies and snacks i have in my house.
i only bought some. others, were given by my neighbors, my mom and bought by abz. i didnt even put out all the cookies. im just thinking how can my household finish these snacks.
ahh, rezeki, Alhamdulillah.

i had wanted to make four dishes for Raya 2018. four! who was i kidding. ahahahh. i managed to do three, and that is good enough.

made Ayam Masak Merah, Sayur Lodeh and Kuah Satay. these alone, made my kitchen a mess. so pleased that Eid is once a year. hahahh.

ultimately, we had more than three dishes. Alhamdulillah, neighbors came to give more food and these were our meal for the Syawal morning.

pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake

a belated birthday cake for a momfriend, whose friendship doesnt change despite our busy lives of adulting and mummying hahahh

a 7" round three-layered vanilla sponge cake, 

layered and topped with vanilla buttercream and fresh strawberries

the name cake

what was a tease order turned out to be real when my school mate requested an alphabet cake for her sister's birthday.

such a sweet gesture that the cake is a surprise for the birthday lady.

of vanilla sponge cake with chocolate ganache, decorated with Hershey's Cookies & Cream, M&M's Peabuts, Whopper Maltesers and Kinder Schoko-bons Crispy.

roll roll over the kitchen.

people may think i loveeee chocolate like chocolate is life. well, it is. but i dont fancy too sweet stuffs and messy cakes. i like my cakes neat.

i did a trial nutella marble cake for my family's consumption.

thank god for cake leveller! hahahhah. i can slice my cakes neatly and easily. i bought my cake leveller at Sia Huat. and the nutella spread was just nice. hehhh. 

so there, nutella marble cake. already five orders for this. lol.

and then i very mentel. attempted a neapolitan marble cake for fun.

why does it smell so goooooood~
of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ripples! perfect combinations in a cake!

yay to no need to buy cakes for Raya!

marbled.

it started with my friend encouraging me to open orders for marble cake. its Hari Raya season, people are bound to place orders for the cake. its a Hari Raya cake. she even drafted the post for me to copy and paste. thought i would put the idea on the shelf.

a few days later, another friend asked if im going to make Nutella Marble cake. told her no, but i can try.

and that was exactly what i did.

bakesperiment marble cake, and here are the results!

i used to make this cake with my mum when i was young. to be able to do this cake without her assistance, and see the marbling effect, its just satisfying. i hope i made her proud.

so did i open slots for Nutella marble cake? yes i did. and all slots were taken within half an hour. no kidding.

syukur Alhamdulillah :)

got brownies. got cake.

if anything, i'd say no two brownies cake are the same.

i tried to replicate the one i did for my office for two family iftars, and i couldnt. cant decide its a good thing or not. lol.

so far ive only used berries as decorations.

looking forward to try other decoratives!

stack em up!

So it was Mother's Day on Sunday 13 May 2018.

nothing fancy for me, no wishes, no dinner, no presents, no appreciations. zilch. not even a kiss.
really? am i that unimportant? is my role that insignificant? after all that i've put in and given?
no, i'm not being calculative. not with my children.

but really? wow.
its simply my duty to fulfill all these, huh.

just any other day.
so much for my day, indeed.








happy thoughts!
made mini brownies tower for my neighbor-mummies, and a whole brownies cake for the office mummies. unfortunately couldn't deliver it on Monday due to girl fallen ill. so the office had a belated mummies' cake.

top: side view of chocolatey fudgey brownies tower/stack consisting of 9-12 pieces of brownies, with pieces of strawberries.

below: top view of the mini tower.

as for the brownie cake, its four layers tall of cut chocolatey fudgey brownies, with Hershey's chocolate sauce and strawberries. so sinful, so heavenly.. pretty somewhat majestic. suited for all working mummies out there.

nothing cures heart pain better than chocolates, yes?
happy mom's day to all :)

do i take orders for this?
yes i do :)

one of my #cakegoals, achieved!

one of my light-hearted and best class evuhhh!
monogram cake!

when i first saw Adi Klinghofer's instagram on monogram cakes, i was in love. naked layered cake, no need for crumb coat or cake coat, no over the top decorations.. oh the new #caketrend!
and I dont recall Singapore having such cake trends.
so when Zanstreats opened this slot, hellyeah i signed up for it!

it wasnt as easy as it seemed.
from making the cake, to slicing it, to cutting it into the template (more complicated cuts with more designs).. even the piping needed to be counted and precise.

the fun part is the decorating part!
or so i thought.
because the decorations needed to be colorful yet do not cover parts of the cream, yet not over the top nor too cluttered. quite an amount of thoughts go into the decorations too.

lo and behold, my own monogram cake. the completed piece. 

of strawberry sponge cake layered with vanilla Italian meringe buttercream, 

decorated with chocolate macs and fruits.

yay to me!

introduction to (new) cakes

one of the many cake-making and decorating class by Zanstreats.

An introduction to Cakes.
well, not quite for me. but its definitely an introduction to the sponge cake, butter cake and chocolate ganache! all that I wanted to learn.

of baking, cooling, layering, coating and piping cakes. 

end result #1 - vanilla sponge cake layered and coated with vanilla smbc and raspberries fillings 

end result #2 - chocolate butter cake layered and coated with chocolate ganache

all in a day's work

layer by layer.

so i brought le mummy out on a baking class of one of her favourite cakes evuhhh - Kek Lapis Prune & Rempah conducted by Zanstreats.

Mum was excited and on the ball! i was like, relax Mak.. but she was enthusiastic! asking about this ingedients, that baking tin size, this method, that oven temperature. haha my mother so cute.
its not even her first time baking, but so cute to see her as a student for a change. lol.

we did 6x6 square cakes, times two because well, different houses.
and i personally was pleased with the outcome.

 

and now she is pumped up to keep practising the cakes, because #semangat. hehehhh. which is good, because DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH KEK LAPIS COSTS DURING HARI RAYA!! the cheapest so far was SGD50.00! madddddnesssss!

told Mak that if we could succeed this cake, and its other flavours, i would actually quit my job and do kek lapis for orders. she concurred.

now she's buying the baking stuffs to make the cakes,
and asked me about other traditional cake classes that she could attend.

Mak oh Makkk.
why you so cute.