Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake - Jaylan is 3 Years Old

Another wheels on the bus (Happy Birthday Ashlyn)

Happy Birthday Ashlyn







Ashlyn : Oh my favouite "Wheel on the bus" and it goes round and round the town!!!

Ashlyn's mummy : I like the chocolate orange mousse that is rich in chocolate flavor but not too sweet.

Shira: Let's try to combine the look and the tasty cake together...

Happy Birthday Jordan - Ben 10 Cupcakes

Jordan turned 5 yesterday. Although he likes Ben 10 very much, his mummy still cannot entice him to have a bite on the cupcakes. His mummy knows him well, hence she didn't order a cake for him. For the school celebration, she asked me to make some cupcakes for him instead. We wish you "Happy Birthday" Jordan!

Happy Birthday Daniel

Happy Birthday, Daniel!!!

This cake is for Daniel who just turned 1 year old. He fancies Wheels on the bus rhymes VCD, so his mummy, Pauline, wanna give him a surprise by giving him a wheels on the bus birthday cake. Quite happy with the results as it looks 99% like the one on the VCD.

It was a big challenge as I not only made this cake but also cooked 5 dishes for Pauline to serve 18 people. I almost chicken out last week because I had flu and was quite sick. Thank God that I recovered in time to complete this task. Thank Pauline also for giving me this opportunity to stretch myself for another challenge.

Congratulation Jia Ying & Christopher (Slide Show)

I have more photos of this wedding cake so click onto the slide show and enjoy!

Pistachio Butter Cookies

My Humble Garden

Wagyu Striploin

This piece of steak cost us a bomb... Some times back, I bought a wagyu beef trimmings and I simply stir fried it with salt and pepper. It tasted heavenly. The marble of fat was evenly distributed. It just melt in the mouth. So this time I bought more and picked a better one. Surely we had very high expectation especially because this piece cost more. It turns out having lots of tendon in the meat and it's tough, although the meat taste great but I am really disappointed ;(

Thank You Teachers

Sea Food Feast

The sea food feast we had last Sat was the blog of the month. All thanks to God Ma Diana who generously paid me to cook for her to celebrate her coming birthday. She invited our Pastors, SH and our family to enjoy the occasion - total 8 adults and 4 kids. She emphasized that I must play with ingredients that I rarely tried before and the dishes had to be fanciful and of hotel standard ... ha ha, she has exquisite taste bud...

Some special requests from her : lobsters, crabs... of course seafood feast will be the best choice. I was busy the past week digging through my collection of cook books to look for the right recipes and work out the shopping list and process flow. The main challenge is to stay within budget, cook and be ready within very tight timeframe and serve them hot and be with the guests to have a good time.

Most of the dishes were new to me but I guess 1 of the tricks of cooking seafood is blanch the ingredients in hot oil before the actual cooking. This would seal up the flavour and the meat remain moist and juicy.

Menu:

1) Broccoli fried with Scallop

2) Fresh Oyster fried with Soya Sauce

3) Steamed Soo Hock Fish

4) Baked Chicken Breast with Palma Ham and cheese

5) Lobster baked with cheese

6) Fried Clam with black beans, chili and garlic

7) Black Pepper Crab

8) Meshed Potato

9) Fruit Pie

Shannea's Birthday

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Thanks Louise from Cake Journal for the advise and the cake recipe from Baking Mum

Shannea's Birthday Cup Cake

Baked Alaska for "Daddy" (With Video)

"NEW ADDED VIDEO BELOW"

My husband is not a "cake" person so I was not sure if baking him a cake for father's day was a good idea. I always watch "Chef at Home" by Michael Smith. He showed how to make Baked Alaska once. I am really impressed by the way the dessert is presented. Pour some hard liquor on it and set the "cake" on fire... yeah u heard me right - set it "ON FIRE".

You shouldn't really call it a cake because the center of this dessert is ice cream, topped with flavoured whipped egg white, lightly baked in the oven for, say, 10 min. Then pour some hard liquor on it and set it on fire.

No harm trying it out because I had lots of left over egg white as a result of making so much ice cream. I chose mango ice cream because it is more refreshing compared to other flavour. I also did some special effect of some frozen diced mangos placed in the center.

My hubby was quite troubled and worried by the way I was going to play with the cake as I told him I'd set it on fire in the middle of our dinning table... After some explanation on how I intended to do it and with some fire safety precaution like standing by a few wet kitchen rugs and a bucket of water. We all had fun and he was pleased.

Here I wish all the fathers a "Happy Belated Father's Day".

Home Made Icecream (Part 2)

Weather is super warm this month, very good excuse to make lots of ice cream and forget about the diet...

As usual, my girls like the strawberry ice cream best. The parent choice will be a grown up flavour... Rum and Raisin, it is really a perfect match with rum soaking raisins in it, oh can't wait to make more.

Have few ripe bananas, no harm mixing them into the vanilla ice cream... it taste surprisingly good.