Chocolate & Vanilla Cake with Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream

Foodies by ai reverts back to pink! How do you like it? The banner was actually drawn by my little sister. I asked her to draw that picture for my blog, and she did. I thought it was quite alright, although she needed to improve more on perspective.

Anyway, I made this Chocolate and Vanilla Cake with Strawberry Swiss Meringue for my brother's birthday. He turned 26 this year! Congratulation!

But, I couldn't decide between Vanilla or Chocolate. So, I made both for him. I thought I wanted to experiment on the checkered cake, once more. 

Yes, I made the checkered cake years ago. It was Vanilla and Chocolate with Coffee butter cream. I remember making them for my parent's anniversary :)

And the good thing about making a checkered cake is that, you'll get two cakes instead of one :) So, I make one for my family, and the other one for my brother to bring them to his office. It's part of my giveaway plan. But, the first cake turned out like this. It doesn't look as appetizing as I'm out of butter cream. And, it was too late to went out to buy more ingredients to make one.

I bought more ingredients and prepare more butter cream the next morning.  And this is how the cake looks like after decorated. I think it looks quite alright. What do you think about it?

• Vanilla Cake Recipe
• Chocolate Cake Recipe
• Swiss Meringue Butter cream Recipe (add in 1 cup of strawberry puree to make a Strawberry Swiss Meringue Butter cream.

Cake Pops: Cats

I made this cake pops for Aimi from burp! le festin avec moi. She's well known as Mama Meow during our diploma and I can't remember why... Maybe it's because she likes cat too much?

It's her birthday, and I decided to make something for her. I browsed through my bakerella's cake pops book, and found a tutorial to make this. Bakerella's cats is a bit different though... I can't follow the tutorial 100% because it's hard to find the sprinkles used.

This one is chocolate cake with cream cheese filling. Coated with chocolate. I used mini chocolate chips for the ear, some sprinkle for eyes and nose and chocolate rice for the mustache.

It's a bit awkward, don't you think?

Birthday Cake

I made this two tiers for Jah's birthday :) Chocolate cake with vanilla frosting on the top, and chocolate cake with chocolate ganache for the bottom part. The cake was covered with vanilla fondant. My work seemed messy. Rolling those fondant make my body ached.

Fondant Practicing

Today's Aimi from burp! le festin avec moi birthday. I made her a birthday cake, while practicing my fondant. They were lemon sponge cake with strawberry Swiss meringue buttercream and covered with vanilla fondant. This fondant was definitely hard to roll as compared to the marshmallow fondant. I think my body's begin to sore from rolling them. XD The cake wasn't exactly how I planned the it to look like, but I think it was pretty good too... Maybe I should take a cake decorating class?

Anyway...

Happy Birthday Aimi~

Teddy Cake

Teddy Cake

There is a few stories behind this awkward looking teddy cake. 

First: it was my friend's birthday. I was thinking of giving her a cake as a birthday present. I was thinking of something big.  My friend, Ina lives 20 minutes away from me. You see, last year, I told her that I made her some cakes for her birthday. She then told me she would come to pick up the cake. She wanted to come by with a motorcycle. But then, her mother told her to use the car, thinking that it might be a big cake. When she arrived, I handed her this:

Chocolate Cupcakes

9 pieces of mini chocolate cupcakes! Somehow, I feel like I should give her a bigger cakes this year.

Second: When my cousin visited my house, she gave me this:

A present form my faraway cousin :)

Yes, that teddy cake mould, and a decorating set! My mother and I thought that we should definitely bake some cakes using this mould, and show some picture of the cake to her.

Third: I was thinking of covering the cake with some butter cream. I've seen some picture, and I thought that I should give it a try. Then, I remembered that I told my brother I'm going to make some fondant cake, and post some picture here. I didn't have enough ingredients to make some fondant, so I opt for marshmallow fondant. 

Fourth: I was thinking of making my own marshmallow. So, I put in some sugar, corn syrup, and honey into the pot, and start boiling them. However, I've forgotten about them for a bit, and the syrup hardened in the pot. I have to add in some hot boiling water to get them out.

What on earth is that?

Yes, that thing is the hardened syrup that I managed to scoop out from the pot. It looks like some broken plates. At this point, I was thinking that maybe I should learn sugar molding~

Anyway, I've managed to prepare my marshmallow fondant, and covered the cake.

Teddy Cake without decoration

I was thinking that I wanted to draw the teddy eyes, and write down 'Happy Birthday' using the edible pen marker.

Food Writer

My  mother brought me these to encourage me to bake. However, as I started to write 'H', it didn't came out as I wanted it to be. So, I had to change my plan, and began to make some royal icing.

Final product

And this is how it looks like~ The piping process with royal icing didn't go as smooth as I expected. But hey, this looks pretty okay for a first timer, right? I delivered this cake to my friend yesterday, and she was surprised to see such a big cake! Perhaps she was expecting something small like what I gave her last year XD

Cupcakes with roses

I had some extra cakes batter, and I made them into cupcakes!

P.S/ Thank you Kak Faridah for that teddy cake mould, and the decorating set X)

Chocolate Cake

My brother sent me an e-mail to me. Actually, it was forwarded. It was from his friend, asking if I could make a birthday cakes. He opt for a chocolate cake. This cake was frosted with chocolate glaze. Well, I always like chocolate glaze as compared to chocolate fudge. It was easier to pour and it looks neat. I decorate the cake with some strawberry and chocolate pocky, strawberry, sprinkles and Oreo's truffle.

Order: Birthday Cake Pops

 Happy Birthday Ayah & Ibu <3

This is some of the birthday cake pops for Jajah's parents birthday~ I definitely need a larger platform.

Order: Cake Pops

My first order of pop cakes!! (*≧▽≦) My neighbor ordered these Cake Pops for her grand daughter's birthday. I made them chocolate cake. The cake was coated with dark chocolate and strawberry chocolate. Some was sprinkled with rainbow jimmies, and some was drizzled with strawberry and chocolate.

What do you think?