Domed Cupcakes with rich butter frosting

Swiss Meringue Buttercream Swirls


The whole set




1-m custard mousseline swirl with Wilton Choc heart spirnkles


1-min SMBC flower




DOME! Yay!

A Grand Cheesecake for Granny

I was surprised when I asked Mama what cake she wanted for her birthday to receive the reply, "Cheesecake lah... cheesecake is nice"

I decorated it... started simply with some strawberries, white choc piped out with a parchment bag cut to shape, and then topped with choc curls... didn't even plan it... just did it... somehow i'm the kind that has NO idea what my cake will look like when I start, just trying out new techniques and then blending them togather in the end. Sometimes it works... sometimes it's not as nice as I like... i'm pretty happy with this one!

Sushi... sushi,... sushi??

Cute? This was my next order from lady who ordered my first cake. She requested for the sushi deco to be packaged seperately so she could place them on the cake with some banner or something.

All these sushies as made out of chocolate plastic, rolled buttercream and fondant, so naturally they don't look EXACTLY like real sushi.



What do these look like? Fish eyeballs? Chocolate stuffed with green tea jelly?


Calamari ring with crabmeat and wasabi?



Rolled two colors of choc plastic togather. CHoc plastic with just a hint of black gel coloring is pure black! SO this is supposed to be jerky with wasabi

Sorry for the blurness... soy bean sushi with wasabi wrapped in seaweed?

My favorite - and, according to my aunt, the only one who actually looks like sushi! The crabstick is made with rolled buttercream rolled up and painted!

A Chocolate Fiddler

Hi all...
Another quick update - here's a choc figurine I did for fun, to knead and soften my choc plastic a bit... as I play the violin and love Little House on the Prarie and Fiddler on the roof, I created a plump little fiddler that sat on a rock, poised erect.
Btw here's me and my precious cello.... And violin... next time maybe I'll make a chocolate cellist?

Microwave Strawberry Jam

Homemade Super-Easy Microwave Strawberry Jam!

After having good results with the super apple jam from The cook's collection, I wanted to try out strawberry, and it so happened some strawberries were on the bargain counter that day, so I took some home, let them sit in the fridge a few days, then used a recipe from a very good microwave cookbook (where i got my cheese and choc chip recipes)

The results were not as "jelly-firm" and not colored like the storebought ones, and I stored them in St Dalfour's bottle. Sam is a great consumer of strawberry jam and we have lots of empty bottles

Here it is:
500gm strawberries
1/4 cup lemon juice
2 cups sugar.
1) Wash hull and cut strawberries in half
2) Cook with lemon juice in a big casserole dish uncovered for 4 minutes on high.
3) Mix in sugar well. Cook uncovered for 17-20 minutes until jam jells when tested on a cold saucer. Stir occasionally.
4) Pour into hot sterilized jars, seal well and label. (Omit this step if you have a brother in the house who will finish it in a week)