Strawberry Mousse Cake

This cake was an experiment for me. It was made when strawberries were in season and they were considerably cheap. By the way was a few months back. I made a 5" mousse cake with a layer of chocolate sponge cake as the base and then a layer of strawberry mousse and the top was fresh strawberries with jelly poured over it. It then was placed in the fridge to set overnight. 

My experiment was a success! and I decided to use this recipe again for a friend's birthday. But this time, I made a chocolate topping with Lindt chocolate and had huge strawberries on the cake. The strawberries made the cake look really small. I dipped the strawberries with some white chocolate and drizzled some milk chocolate to give it a nicer look. 

Oh! There were some raspberries hidden inside the mousse cake. As you can see, the raspberries were bleeding out some juices. It kept the sponge cake moist though, so it was good. 

Overall, we all enjoyed the cake very much and now will have to wait till it is strawberry season again before I can remake it. But it also depends if there is a demand for it. 

M Dot Birthday Cake

 This cake was ordered for a birthday boy for the office. I made him an "M Dot" cake. What is M Dot? Well, Andrew (the birthday boy) did his first Ironman triathlon in Melbourne on 24th March 2013. The Ironman triathlon starts with 3.8km swim in the sea, 180km bike ride and ends with 42.2km of running. Yes! absolutely crazy! oops! I mean absolutely amazing! It was a lifetime goal of his and he did it in less than 12 hours! Congratulations!! You did so well!!

M Dot is the logo for the Ironman, so I thought maybe it would be nice to celebrate his birthday with a note of Congratulations on his great achievement. 

Just out of oven

I baked a rich chocolate cake in a square tin and 2 small round tins. The cake was filled with chocolate ganache and chocolate glaze over the cake. Very chocolatey cake. I tried a small piece from the cut out of the "M". I had to try a little to make sure the quality of the cake was good, right? hehehe... that is my justification. 

 Party Ironman logo

M Dot Cake

Happy Birthday Andrew!

 Hope he and his colleagues enjoyed the cake as much as I did making it. Below is a photo he sent me with half the M gone. 

Coffee & Walnut Cupcakes

Coffee Walnut Cupcakes

I thought I should bake my brother his birthday cake yesterday as a little gift for him. It was a simple Coffee and Walnut Cupcake with coffee cream topping. The cake baking didn't take long, the decoration was rather simple too. I made his initials and 2 little badminton racquets and shuttlecocks. He is good at badminton, so is his wife and son! So I thought that racquets would be something he will like. 

Initials on cake

You know how people always say "It is the thought that counts"? Well.... this will have to be the case here because I am in Melbourne and he is in Malaysia. So I cant really post him the cupcakes so he could only see pictures of the cakes. I will have to eat it for him! Ha Ha Ha....

Initials on cakes

Happy Birthday Bro!!! May your dreams come true. Oh! by the way, the cake was YUM! Hehe..  Will bake for you when I return.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRO!