Recent Posts Tagged With 'cake recipes'

• Inspired Confection: The last cake in Croatia

  Posted on Sunday August 23rd, 2009 at 10:43 in croatia, cake recipes, my creations, seasonal delights

  This is probably the last cake I'll bake here. So I decided to stick to Cheesecake which is our favourite. And since berries are still in season, we happily bought a punnet of fresh raspberries from the supermarket for this cake.Don't be mistaken. Th...

• Cheesecake madness

  Posted on Tuesday July 28th, 2009 at 05:51 in cake recipes

  My dear readers, do you recall how much I LOVE cheesecake? Oh then you have to read this earlier post of mine and my search for the ultimate cheesecake.So for my own birthday and my favourite type of cheesecake being unavailable in Croatia, I had to ...

• An Inspired Creation: Pineapple Jam Cake

  Posted on Wednesday July 8th, 2009 at 06:31 in cake recipes, my creations, cooking tip

  I found the pack of frozen canned pineapple cubes and I thought of cooking them into a jam as usual. When the jam was finally cooked, I just couldn't be bothered to get on with making the pastry dough for Pineapple Tarts. Adapting my Pound Cake recip...

• Fresh Fruit Cake

  Posted on Friday June 19th, 2009 at 05:06 in cake recipes, cake decoration, cooking tip, chef job

  I always thought making a Fruit Cake cannot be any easier till I had to make at least one a day for work. Let me explain the complications..First, the cake base. All right. You can always use a Sponge. But I really hate using Sponges due to the natur...

• An Inspired Creation: Peach and Lemon Curd Cake

  Posted on Tuesday June 2nd, 2009 at 10:49 in cake recipes, my creations

  This cake was made up from a little bit of everything that were left sitting in my fridge. I had a cup of Lemon Curd frozen and leftover peaches from the previous cake order (see Fresh Fruit Cake post!). So I decided to combine these two ingredients ...

• Freakish Friday: Cheesecake

  Posted on Friday April 10th, 2009 at 10:06 in cake recipes

  It's been a long time since I last made my New York Cheesecake. Yes, I should say Baked. Since I insist that only Baked Cheesecake owns the lovely flavour due to the baking process. And of course, you wouldn't have to worry about raw eggs (Salmonella...

• When I have a Chocolate Craving...

  Posted on Wednesday April 1st, 2009 at 06:23 in chocolates, cake recipes

  All right, this doesn't count as a post. Haha.. just a filler. I was being lazy for a while .. and no inspiration to blog. (Sorry peeps!) Got addicted to new Restaurant game on Facebook and that took most of my time.Yesterday, me and Mr M had a huge ...

• An Inspired Confection - Lemon & Clementine Cake

  Posted on Tuesday February 3rd, 2009 at 09:27 in cake recipes

  It is Chinese New Year and I had plans to make something to celebrate this joyous annual festival. The first pastry that came to my mind is Pineapple Tarts (not exactly a tart but more of a cookie) which I have managed to make after one week into the...

• Seasonal delight - Chestnut Cake

  Posted on Tuesday December 2nd, 2008 at 03:14 in cake recipes

  Chestnut cake is an absolute delight in Autumn. In almost every Slasticarna in Croatia, one can get Chestnut cake in any form (roulade, squares or even in an ice cream cup..Kesten Pire!). It's a real wonderful treat for us. Though in my opinion, the ...

• An Inspired Confection: (Kai xin) Happy Petits Fours!

  Posted on Friday November 14th, 2008 at 04:40 in cake recipes, my creations

  This is a creation that I made for my cousin's wedding. It was a rushed job (baking and assembling till midnight the day before the wedding!) as you can see from the bad piping of the Chocolate Ganache. The Banana Cake could be thicker. We did try sa...

• Going Conkers over Chestnuts!

  Posted on Wednesday October 1st, 2008 at 06:15 in cake recipes, food ingredients

  Revealing the Chestnut fruit...Yes! This is a Food Blog! And that picture is indeed part of the Chestnut fruit. Never seen it before? Well, then you should try hanging around the Chestnut tree around this time of the year. Yeah.. it raised one of tho...

• An Inspired Confection: Lemon & Lavender

  Posted on Friday August 22nd, 2008 at 12:01 in lavender, cake recipes

  You thought I've stopped creating new Lavender confectionery? You are wrong. Before I start getting lazy for the weekend, here is the post about more Lavender!This is an extension of the idea of incorporating Lavender in confectionery. Do take note t...

• An Inspired Confection: Lime Cake

  Posted on Tuesday August 12th, 2008 at 14:15 in cake recipes

  This is not exactly an original idea but it was inspired by my fiance's love for citrus. He likes all confectionery with limes, lemons or oranges. So I have two limes left in my fridge. And usually Limes only pair off with White Chocolate. So I hesit...

• What do you do with lots of fresh Blueberries?

  Posted on Saturday July 26th, 2008 at 08:18 in cake recipes, my creations

  Thank goodness my in laws went to Gorski Kotar and brought home loads of fresh vegetables ranging from Swiss Chard to Potatoes. Lo and behold when we saw the big tub of Blueberries!!! Wow! It's the size of one baby's bathtub! I've never seen so much ...

• Blue Monday?

  Posted on Monday June 9th, 2008 at 05:36 in cake recipes

  Have a Muffin! Yeah! I call this the Monday Blues Blueberry Muffins. I made more than 6 of them with this recipe which is supposed to yield only 6! I have bought the most humongous blueberries that I've ever seen in my whole life. Are they GM?? Got ...