Mini Croquembouche Tower

Mini Croquembouche tower made from stack of Profiteroles

Finally i got the chance to make some profiteroles or also known as cream puffs which is a type of choux pastry. Profiterole is a term that refers to a filling of ice cream. For profiterole, various type of fillings can be use, like ice cream, whipped cream or pastry cream. It can be presented single of it can be assemble into a type of presentation called Croquembouche which is French for "crunch in the mouth"

all this details are courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profiterole 

And today i made them, stacked them up and drizzled with strawberry flavored chocolate. Yumm!

Profiteroles are a kind of treats that is always serve at weddings, gatherings as it is so easy for the guest to enjoy. It is less messy than cupcakes where you have to peel off the cupcake case, yet it can be a centrepiece which you can eat! How great is that? Less mess and you do not have to clean up after the guests!

There are a lot of fillings that you can choose from.My personal favorite are vanilla ice cream and cream pastry. This will then follow with the drizzled chocolate or even caramel. Oh gosh the thought of it makes me drool. Imagine the filling melts in your mouth **salivating**

I am going to enjoy my share of the profiteroles now! Be back for more people!

Cupcakes

I just do not make cupcakes as good as any other cupcake makers
I mean i can bake them, and have baked for my friends on several occassions, but as for the deco i can tell you i really suck at it.
This is because i dont have the patience to decorate something so miniscule.

Imagine this, i have a 1 year old daughter who constantly demands for my attention. Imagine me decorating and then hear my daughter scream because her father pick on her. Mental stress

I tried decorate them when she is sleeping, but babies are like sharks. Once they cannot smell you, they will hunt you down, literally. Hahaha

But i can try to upgrade my cupcake decorating skills. However at the moment i just wont promote something that i am not good at.

It will be so wrong. Same goes if you can decorate a cupcake beautifully but it tastes like feet. That will be wrong, wrong and wrong.....!!

I can win on the taste, but i rate myself on a scale of 5 out of 10 for decorations. However first impression do matter. However if you dont mind on the decorations, feel free to contact me :)

Furthermore i personally think all those cupcake making hype is a one off phase/trend. It will be better if i try to master more than 1 kind of treat, but i do promise that, i will upgrade my cake decorating skills.

Wedding Anniversary Cake

Choc Fudge Cake with Choc Ganache...from MYR 35/kg

Made this cake for my hubby's colleague at work for his wedding anniversary. He wanted the cake to be shaped like a heart and weigh around 2kg.

When i was making the cake, i thought to myself, what a romantic husband. I never made a heart shaped cake before but i just give it a try.

It came out perfect, and i top it off with some fresh chocolate ganache with strawberries and chocolate shavings. Pure chocoholic delight! And he was smiling ear to ear when he came to my house to collect the cake. I was too. Nothing makes me feel happier seeing others happy.

Gosh that reminds me, i need to give names for all my cakes...How about Choco Loco? I think it has been taken...hmm...hahaha

Barbie theme birthday cake

Received a request to make a Barbie theme sponge cake for a colleagues daughter second year old birthday.
Hmm...sponge cake. Not really specialty. Last time i made a sponge cake, it looked god awful. Furthermore i made it for my mother's birthday. Can you imagine how humiliating that was?

So i browse around for the recipes and came upon a few. Decided to give each one a fair trial and the best one did prevailed! We managed to bake the cake and for the filling we put in some fresh handmade strawberry jams and then for the fondant we made it pink as per birthday girl's demand.

The moment the cake was done, we hand delivered it to our client's house at Setia Indah, and I have received on of the best compliments yet; which was;

"Ibu, nak sudu nak makan kek"
loosely translated: Mummy give me spoon i want eat cake

Coming from a two year old, it was one of the best compliment ever. Thanks Kak Murni for the oppurtunity given, I enjoyed making the cake and trying out a new recipe.

There will be more to come

cheesecake and choc fudge cake

 

Baked these for my nephew's akikah..as a product tester

In short all my cousins liked them very very much...hence the birth of crazycousinscreations..

Please wipe your drool people...hahaha

Choc fudge cake from MYR34.99/kg

cheesecake from MYR 45.99/kg

Cheesecake Anyone?

                                          Chocolate Baked Cheesecake - from RM49.99 23 inch

Cheesecake
My favourite kind of cake, all time
How it melts in your mouth, really tempting and make me drool everytime i think of it
But alas....a cheesecake will costs me about RM 6+ plus tax at Secret Recipe
One whole load of cheesecake itself will costs me more than RM60++...with that amount of money I can get two packs of large size baby diapers.
So I decided to make my own cheesecake, and i successfully made it!
By making cheesecake i learnt a new word which is steam baked. One more new word in my dictionary...hahaha
And i have a cheaper alternative from the Secret Recipe cheesecake, i didnt burn a hole in my pocket and i have the whole load of cheesecake all by myself. Furthermore the cheesecake still taste oven fresh even after i had left in it the fridge for 4 days (i strictly forbade my husband from stealing my slice of cake or the will be hell to pay...and it worked..hahaha!)
If you want cheesecake...just let me know and i will bake for you...
Enjoy salivating people!

Red Velvet Cake

Red Velvet Cake

Red Velvet Cake - the origin

The cake which originated from the American South..is definitely without a doubt is very very RED looking cake. it is also known as Devil's Food Cake with red coloring (loosely translated: Makanan Setan Berwarna Merah). It is a Southern specialty and rarely being baked here. Try walk into a bakery and ask for a Red Velvet Cake. I did. In return i got mouth gawking baker looking at me as if i am drugged or tak cukup tidur, or worse, been possessed by devil itself.

So went and search for the recipe. High and Low..but when i look at the list of the ingredients, i was left speechless. Most were unfamiliar to me. Did a little bit of research and honestly the first time i baked the cake, it look awful. Like my cat threw up a ball of yarn on it. A huge red bowl of yarn...sheeshhhh.....!!

It kind off rubbed me the wrong way, until my husband told me to give another try. I am sure glad i listened to him as for the second attempt the cake turn out well. I do know what was the error made for the first attempt, and managed to correct it.

As a result, the cake has been safely eaten by my colleagues at work during a farewell party. Yummy!

The beginning

Choc Fudge Cake with Choc Ganache

This is how it started

I was stressed out and stumbled into a recipe for chocolate fudge cake and i decided to give it a try, to ease my stress level and maybe, just maybe for my daughter's first birthday i can make her a homemade birthday cake instead of buying from the store.

And man, how it worked...the cake turned out well but i was sceptic. I have a history of baking things which can they turn out either lumpy or stone cold hard. So i decided to give a sample of the cake and post it on my Facebook account. Just for fun. Just to proof that the cake wasnt really that good, and people just ate it and say good things about it, because the love me.

I was wrong. The people DID LOVED the cake. For real!

Then we started to receive orders little by little, and my husband told me to experiment on more recipes. I did. I experimented on the recipes that some are unheard, like the red velvet cake. Return trips were made to numerous cake suppliers, and purchases were made for the baking equipments. My mum started to scold me for making the kitchen a mess, which is a good sign because i rarely use the kitchen as i rarely cook.

And this is how the third batch of my chocolate fudge cake turned out. I gave this cake to one of my friend as a sample as he saw my previous cake on my Facebook account and he wanted to order a wedding cake from me. Me? A wedding cake? that's a new challenge and i accepted it. Wanna know how the cake turn out?

Stay tuned