Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Swiss Roll


Made these yummy & easy Roll cake yesterday
Recipe adapted from here , thanks to MamaFami

Swiss Roll(10" square pan)
(A)
3 nos eggs
2 oz castor sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1/2 tablespoon ovallette
1.5 oz flour
1/2 tablespoon milk powder
(B)
2 oz butter ~ melted
(C)
a few drops of red food coloring  
(D)
Buttercream icing & Blueberry Filling
Method :
1. Place ingredients A in a mixing bowl. Beat on high speed for 5 to 7 minutes.
2. Set aside 2 tablespoon of the batter and put into 1 piping bag with a few drops red food coloring. Mix well.
3. Spread the batter onto the tray layered with greaseproof paper.
4. Pipe lines using the red colored batter onto the white batter.  Using a toothpick, make lines across the red batter to create batik effect
5. Bake in a preheated oven at 170 C for 20 minutes. (I baked for 12 mins coz I'm using 12" cake pan)
6. Once baked, remove the cake from the tray onto a wire rack. Let it cool.
7. Turn the cake onto another piece of paper(I used Kitchen Towel) and spread the buttercream & blueberry filling
8. Slowly and carefully, roll the cake. Wrap in a clingfilm and keep in the refrigerator for the buttercream to set before slicing it.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Happy Birthday Tg Nur Mia Iman

Made this cake for my beloved Mia
How fast time flies she's now 5 years already.
It seem like yesterday that I'm holding her in my arm and now she has growing up to a beutiful child......no matter how she will always be my baby
Ok back to the cake, had promised her that I will make cake for her and last week my project begins....
The cake was red velvet recipe and I modified a little bit just to accommodate the rainbow theme colour and because this the first time I tried making a skirt with this recipe ,the cake was not high enough to essemble it and Alhamdullilah my good baking friend,Zarina has some leftover buttercake and she was kind enough to give to me so that I can stack it on top of my rainbow cake.
I make 2 size cake layer.Bake 4 layers of 7 inch cake and 3 layers of 6 inchs cake and the filling is blueberry and buttercream.Then to secure the cake I had inserted the dowel rod.
 
This is how I carved the cake to make the doll skirt.After that just decorate it with buttercream.....
My way of decorate the dool skirt is:
1- fill up the buttercream into the piping bag then snip end of the bag.
2-begin from the bottom of the cake board press the icing bag by circling around the cake until it covered the entire cake.
3-then using a small spatula by running edge of spatula from bottom to the top to form folds.
4-insert the doll pick in the cake(the doll may be decorate by using fondant or buttercream) ...for this cake I used fondant to make the bodice.
5-then just use your imiginations to complete the decorations.

Recipe for Rainbow Cake(adaptation from Red Velvet cake)
Red Velvet CupcakesIngredients:
(A)
300g plain flour
2 tbsp corn flour
2 tspn baking powder
1 tspn salt

(B)
125g unsalted butter( I used Tatura unsalted butter)
260g castor sugar

(C)
2 eggs(A grade)

(D)
1tspn vanilla essence

(E)
1 tspn white vinegar
1 tspn bicarbonate of soda

(F)
240ml Buttermilk (if you can't find the buttermilk just use 240ml evoporated milk & add 1 tspn of lemon juice or white vinegar & let it stands for 15 mins)
colours of the rainbow-red,pink,orange,yellow,green blue & violet
Methods:
1-Preheat oven to 180C
2-Sift (A) & set aside
3-Cream (B) until light & fluffy.Add (C) one at time,mixing well after each addition.
4-Blend in (D)
5-Altenately add flour mixture & buttermilk and beat until batter is smooth.
6-then add the vinegar & soda bicarbonate let it fizz and fold it into the batter.
7-divide the batter into 7 colours of rainbow(I used 4 colours with 7" cake pan and 3 colours with 6" cake pan
8-Bake for 20 - 25 mins.

I was pleased to know that Mia loved the cake very much....hilang penat terkejar-kejar kat dapur and attending my little baby at the same time.

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Tiramisu

Assalamualaikum.... & hi to everyone....

Yeay my 60  days confinement period end today...phew...
My hand start itchy to bake something delectable & sweet thing just to satisfy my cravings..ha..ha..
And to begin with... I made this simple Tiramisu ....

I used chocolate sponge cake...cut into 3 layers & soaked it with nescafe .
For the cream ,I used cream cheese,icing sugar ,whipping cream & vanilla essence-beat the cream cheese till smooth then add all the ingredients and beat again till it become soft peak.
To assemble it take 1 layer of sponge cake then spread the cream cheese & repeat the process till the end.Chill in the fridge for several hours
The recipe..well I source the recipe from here ,Thanks to kak Ummie


Yummy....I love it...finish half of it hu..hu..
Abang Umar is taking care of his little sister ,Aishah.....