Yess I did it again....and still far from perfect...2nd attempts

Haissh....I made it again but this time its better from before ...the shell didn't crack and rise nicely but it didn't have a perfect feet hu..hu..hu..

 Yess crispy at the outside and chewy in the inside....peanut butter and choc ganached filling....
The recipe is courtesy of my SIL...thanks Syai... I will update the recipe once I get the perfect macarons....will make again and again...

My little cupcake girl.... thanks Aunty Zarina for the lovely shirt...

My SIL's day

The  above cake was made for my SIL 's hantaran(dowry gift)....the wedding receptions was held on 28th of May ,the cake was baked and covered with fondant by my baking friend Kak Nina ...my part just decorate the cake with my homemade sugarflowers.I didn't bring much of my decorating tools and I think this is the best that I can come with....

For the wedding favor I just made these simple vanilla cookies...550 pieces cookie altogether,its took me 2 days to bake the cookies and 1 day to decorate it with simple outline RI(royal icing) and for the packaging I should have thanked my beloved Hubby and my baking friend, Zarina 

Sicilian Orange Cake

When not updating blog for a few weeks,I feel lazy to update a new post...yess I'm still bake but the MALAS version of me had made me hang in the air for a while..he..he..
Anyway,I'm back again with this buttery,moist of aroma orange cake....
What I love about this cake is simply because of its simple ingredients which has a superb taste...
You can see that my cake sank in the middle ... muhaha...blame it to my little hero....He so eager to help and impress me and guess what? He has switched off the oven without my knowledge hu..hu.. but luckily it has been cooked properly....

Sicilian Orange Cake (adapted and modified from Kitchen Guardian )

Ingredients
250g unsalted butter, softened
180g caster sugar
4 medium eggs
1 1/2 tbsp grated orange zest
250g self raising flour
85ml freshly squeezed orange juice

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180C. Grease and line a cake pan.
2. Using an electrical beater, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Beat in the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition, if necessary adding a spoonful of flour with the last egg to prevent the mixture from curdling. Beat in the orange zest . Add the flour all at once and mix well, then slowly mix in the orange juice.
4.Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and bake in preheated oven for 45-50mins or until a skewer inserted into the center of the cake, comes out clean. If it starts to brown too quickly, cover loosely with a sheet of lightly greased aluminum foil.
5.Leave the cake, in the pan, to cool on a wire rack, then unmold and serve.

Doraemon Cookies

Umar loves cookies and snacks .... but I didn't want him have to much sugary in his diet so the choice is to make my own junk food but in healthier version...alhamdullilah so far he loves my version of cookies and junk food a.k.a snacks ....

Actually he's not a big fan to this character and just recently knew about this cartoon when back to my parents' house as my youngest brother love to read the Doraemon's comics and that is how Umar discovered this gadget cat from the future .....

I've bought Cartoon Cookies's Y3K book by Coco Kong   and I show the book to him to let he choose the cartoon design and surprisingly he chooses Doraemon.......

Doraemon Cookies
credits to :Coco Kong
ingredients:
(A)
100g butter (at room temperature)
80g  icing sugar
1 egg yolk
60g cream cheese

(B)
140g rose flour(I used plain flour)
120g cornflour
20g rice flour

(C)
1/2 tsp red colouring

(D)
(soaked together,squeezed dry,expressed blue juice)
3g dried bunga telang
22ml water
I omit this step...don't know how to find the dry bunga telang

(E)
1/2 tsp blue colouring(I used sky blue gel food colour)

(F)
(mixed together,spoon into piping bag to make the eyes)
10g egg white
70g icing sugar
1 tsp cornflour
(G)
some black sesame

method:
1.combine ingredient (A) into a bowl,mix well.Add in ingredient (B),mix again.pour on table top,knead with  your palm to form a dough(since I omit step (D) I mix (B) or the flour mixture bit by bit to form a dough).
2.Take 40g  of dough,keep it natural .Divide to 45 pieces,shape round then fatten
3.Take 10g of dough add in red colour...knead well
4.the remaining dough,add in blue colour..knead well and divide into 10g each .
5.shape a piece of no.(4) into round,stick a piece of no.(2).Shape out whiskers,stick some no .(3) to act as a nose and mouth,arrange on baking tray...repeat the process
6.bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 130'C for 35 mins(I bake for 40 mins)

The making process is easy, but time consuming...it took me a very good 2 hours from mixing to shaping it nicely just to get the 45 pieces only...the taste...not too sweet and simply delicious..

He ate 10 of it and I can hear audible hmmmm when he munch the cookies....hilang penat menguli....he..he..

Girl's Cookies

Made these Vanilla cookies for Babycuppycakes's client....100 pcs altogether....

Double Celebrations part 2 - Pirate theme

Ahoy mateys!!! I't a pirate's theme birthday..he..he...I've been commissioned by my next door neighbour to make cakes for her 1 year old son and her 4 years old nephew....and the theme is pirates....

 I've made Red Velvet  and oreo cake......the ship was RV.....at this stage after finished frosting the cakes I really out of ideas to decorate it...and masa ni jam dah pukul 11mlm...

 Then after good 3 hours......and yet still not complete ...huarwgg...so sleepy and the time was 2.30am....tak pe esok sambung..

 The finish product.....

 can you spot  the differences of these two pictures...yesss....the lights...it seems that I've to invest buy DLSR he..he......Hubby please buy one for me..muahaha...

 Here are the cookies that went with the cakes....and yes you are right I've made multi racial pirates keh..keh..keh..

Thanks Nana....and the event was held on 29th April and too bad I could't join the party as my Aishah not feeling well .....

Double celebrations part 1-Tom N Jerry

Made 2 cakes for my friend, Nor.....she is having double birthday celebrations which she has shared with her twin's son.... I made a Rainbow cake with cream cheese frosting and just decorated the cake with Tom N Jerry decorated sugar cookies ...simple and nice....
What I absolutely love about this cake is the element of surprise and the wow-factor, when the first piece is cut and served.There was literally some audible gasps at the table when they saw the rainbow inside.....Sorry I forgot to snap picture of a cake itself...sangat2 terlupa...dah sampai kat rumah Nor...kanak-kanak ribena dah menyerbu so mmg tak sempat nak snap a decent picture of the cake..he..he..

 My munchkin stays close near to the cake and it's like his birthday pulak...He so excited when the twin blows the candles...he..he..

and for Nor...I've made the Devil's food chocolate cake with cream cheese filling and chocolate ganached topping...ermmm it so delicious..I sorced the recipe from  here ...thanks again to Kak Yani (my Idol..he..he..)

 Tom...did u notice that something is missing on Tom appearances...keh..keh..yess...I forgot to put his eyebrows

And Jerry....he will always becomes Tom's favourite nemesis....