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

next on the list

next on the list of treats to try making is

CROQUEMBOUCHE

Lets try and pronounce it

CROOOO- KUUU- EMMM--BOOUUSSHHHHH...

what is it? its French (duhh)

wait for it people....wait for it :P

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

The Oven

I always wanted a new oven

Something that is big enough so that i can stuff in a turkey as i will attempt to make a TurDucKen for this years' Thanksgiving with my buddy Zaza.

A convection oven with microwavable function may cost you about MYR1500++. A normal electric oven may cost you around MYR500 for a 40 litre oven. That said, you really must be an expert in controlling the temperature so that the food will not be undercooked or overcooked, or worse, burnt.
Then one day my hubby and i went to Tesco and saw this oven at a second hand store.It was a second hand gas oven and i just fell in love with it the moment i saw it.

The previous owner was a Singaporean who has moved away and i just couldnt resist the luring temptation that the oven has. Bravely, i asked for the price, and to my surprise, after much haggling i managed to get the oven for less than MYR 500! Freaking schteal! hahahaha

So ladies and gentlemen...TurDucKen will be making its debut in 2010! Insya-Allah

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