I know the photos aren't that good but I was shooting at night and didn't have much light :( Anyways these cupcakes are one vanilla cupcake filled with strawberry jam and the other a chocolate cupcake filled with chocolate ganache and both decorated with fondant/sugarpaste. Since these cupcakes were for a Wedding Anniversary I decided to make a romantic decoration.
One of my cupcake orders was something light and not very sweet. These carrot cupcakes fitted the description perfectly. Half of them were spicy with walnut pieces (above) and the other half were almond and carrot cupcakes (below). I decorated them with a sugarpaste/ fondant carrot. cute eh ? :)
I liked both version but i have to say that the almond carrot cupcakes are my favourites. I love almonds. The recipe for the spicy cupcakes is the same I used for the carrot cake featured previously. The recipe for the almond carrot cupcakes is from an Italian blog. Here's the link
As obvious as it can be this is a chocolate cake :) The little boy was so determined how he wanted his birthday cake. He wanted a dark and moist chocolate cake with four red cars on it, no icing or other decorations. His mum told me that he really liked it and that's what matters after all :)
Carrot cake!! I cannot resist it especially when it's full of walnuts and raisins like this one. It's spicy, moist and so good :)
oh what a busy week ! I had 5 cakes to bake this weekend and this is not one of them :) I made this cake some time ago. It's my usual chocolate cake however I wanted to get more creative and camouflaged it in a swiss roll :). I think it's nice although I did have some problems with the rolling. This is filled and decorated with chocolate ganache and some fondant flowers and silver balls.
This is my last cake order. It's for a Manchester fan. This cake is filled with chocolate bliss :)
While browsing on the net I cam across this wonderful blog. I was drooling so much that I had to try these delicious muffins. However I made some substitutions. I uses blackberries instead of blueberries. Since I couldn't find any here and I made a coconut crumb topping instead of the walnut crumb topping. I really enjoyed these muffins. Here's the original recipe
I didn't have much time to work on these. The cake and cupcakes are both vanilla with white chocolate ganache. and decorated with fondant. I really loves the balloons. I think they're so cute :)
Here's one of my twins featured in my previous post. This is one of my favourite cakes. I think she's so cute! I was really happy with this cake. This is a vanilla cake with a layer of white chocolate ganache and covered with sugarpaste/fondant.
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I'm trying my hand at fondant figures. These are my latest creations. They're my twins. Since I'm a twin I decided to make twins too :) Aren't they cute! I'm really happy with how they turned out. They're not perfect but I like them. Pity they'll be seerated shortly since I ll be using one of them on a cake :( in my next post..JPG)
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Summer is here! Summer brings a lot of delicious fruit, like peaches and cherry plums. I used these to make these turnovers. The recipe comes from here There is also different fruit varaitions. I modified slightly the recipe, Here is my version. 
Fresh peach turnovers
Sour Cream Dough:
Fruit Filling:
Glaze: (optional)
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F/218 degrees C.Lightly grease and flour a large baking sheet.
Sour Cream Dough: Mix the cream with the lemon juice. Place the flour, salt, and butter in a bowl. Cut the butter into the flour until the mixture resembles coarse bread crumbs. Add the cream, and mix with a fork. Stir in the milk. Gather the dough together in your hand, it will be very smooth, and if it holds together without crumbling, it is ready to roll out. If the dough brakes up and does not hold together when pressed, add a few drops of milk, stirring with a fork to distribute them. The dough should be quite soft, but not sticky. Place the dough, on a lightly floured surface and roll out to a thickness of about one-eighth inch, as thick, as you would roll pie dough. With a round cutter about four and one-half inches in diameter, cut out as many rounds of dough as you can (you'll probably get 7 from this first cutting). Gather up the scraps of dough, press them together, and reroll them to cut the remaining 3 rounds.
Fruit Filling: Place 2 tablespoons of the peaches on each round of dough, and sprinkle each mound of fruit with 2 teaspoons of sugar. With your finger tips, moisten the edges of the dough with water. Fold each round of dough over, to form a half moon shape. Press the edges gently with your fingers, then press them together with the tines of a fork. Brush the turnovers with cream and sprinkle each one, with 1/2 teaspoon of the remaining sugar. Place the turnovers on the baking sheet, leaving at least 1-inch between each. Bake turnovers for about 20 minutes, until they are lightly browned. Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack. If desired, drizzle while warm with glaze. Serve turnovers warm or at room temperature.
Glaze: (optional) In a small bowl combine confectioners' sugar and milk. Drizzle over warm turnovers. Makes 10 (4 1/2-inch x 2-inch) turnovers.
This is my usual chocolate cake but with a different look :) It consists of a moist chocolate cake filled with chocolate ganache and covered with cake crumbs. I liked the look though a bit unusual.
The order for this cake was a princess cake . Hope the 5 year old was happy with this cake. Again it's a chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and decorations are made by homemade sugarpaste.
