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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Italian Roast Chicken

I know I prob will have no time to cook.. no energy too.. and I am right... So it makes good cow sense that I buy the chicken from the mart and baked it for dinner.
Right after I came back from the airport.. I sprinkled some oregano on the bird... chucked the whole thg into the oven... .. half way I switch it to fan mode to give it a nice colour, and in between I added some baby potatoes to bake.. and lastly some cubed zuchinni I got in the fridge... After an hour and a half...
Heres what I got...
Italian Roast Chicken
I added some fresh yellow cherry tomatoes to make it a balance diet.. of cos the zuchinni helps too...
I am surprised tat my chicken turns out evenly browned today... in fact it looks more than perfect... at least to me... and it taste great...
With the leftovers... I am anticipating I will make some grilled chicken wrap/sandwiches next =)

Monday, September 08, 2008

Happy Anniversary

Finally its D day... I panick when I realised I need to do more than I thought... and I even tot of not doing this cake altogether... but no.. no way.... last yr the same thing happen.. and I miss making the cake, I dont think I want to miss it again. Moreover I haven got any gift and so this cake shall be the gift from me...

No inspirations of what to design the cake with until I chanced upon Su's blog. She did a very pretty cake and after much consideration.. I try to copy the flowers she did.. not much luck thou... So I touch up the flowers according to what I think it will turn out to be..

Heres my Lovely
cake.



The flowers was my imagined sakura aka cherry blossom... whether it looks liek the real thing anot.. I dun care haa.. cos this the best I could get..
I would have love to put more flowers... but my lethagic mood been hanging ard for the longest time.. and with the earlier cakes to do.. I onli manage so far...

A close up of some flowers...


I try to make the petals as thin as possible and it seems very fragile... I keep my finger cross while waiting for them to dry... thankfully.. non broke! haa

Meddling with my edible dust for the pollen in the middle.. then some gold n pearl dust for shimmer..

Again this is a black forest cake... somethg both of us like and also I use the remaining of half a cake from the previous cake to put the heart together... I cant wait to eat it... but... I must go for my French food 1st... hee

Happy 6th Anniversary to Us...
May our dreams come true....

Thank you Dear for the lovely Nikon D60 lens kit. ... Muackz

Sunday, September 07, 2008

For a Mummy again

At the same time of Shaun's order.. I had this order as well.. its another 1 of my regular's request. I couldnt turn her down... Luckily she decided to have a sweet sweet theme... and since its for mummy... I tot I will do sth similar to Serene's cake...

R have tasted all my cakes. I think the next will be durian haha... this time round.. she req for my ever popular black forest cake.
It a huge cake... more than 1.5kg. I use 1 1/2 10 inch cake in all and near 2 big can of cherry.

I was at Sunlik the other day and I thought since Im doing such a big cake I can give the other brand of whipping cream a try.. of cos I bought my usual P&W...
It seems like its a right choice to try this new cream... its super duper easy to spread... with no fuss or mess.. unlike P&W that needs quite a bit of attention... and its very white in colour.. not off white.. Looks like I will b stocking more of this cream in future...

Its a rectangular cake.. initialy i wanted to do it as landscape.. then I thought a portrait one will be good.. and thus..


Black Forest Cake

Saturday, September 06, 2008

S for Shaun

Some weeks back. Mei from States got me to do another cake for her. I was kind of held up with orders n programs for the week she wanted the cake that I gotto reject her. But she was willign to accomodate my timing.. so very well =) I accepted the order. Its for her nephew Shaun.
She haven got any idea what design she wants. Shaun plays the violin. But since time is tight.. I can never get a violin out for her.... and so.. she asked for a letter "S" cake.

To cut out the cake into an "S" shape will means thr is alot of wastage of cakes from the sculpting So.. the other alternative will be drawing the letter "S"...

A very simple cake...


Chocolate Fudge cake