Today attended my final lesson with Judy on cake decorating class. She demostrated to us how to draw cartoon characters using chocolate, filling in the colours and applying the piping techniques we have learned from the previous lesson. This Garfield cake is done by Judy.
This Winnie the Pooh cartoon is done by me. Actually it is not difficult to draw the cartoon once you know the trick. I find it very fun actually. Judy says the decorating can be done on cupcakes also. Maybe I will start small by doing on cupcakes as practice.
Finally my chiffon is tall, spongy and airy! This is the texture I have been trying to achieve! My efforts and determination after so many failures finally paid off! Maybe this is no big deal for others, but I am really happy with my achievement. =)
Went to Judy's cake decorating class on Sunday and she taught us piping. We practice on a board and it was fun. This is the clown she piped as demonstration. 
This is kueh sarlat, the backlight was yellow hence resulted in this picture. But I don't fancy glutinous rice so if I were to make this again, I will have lesser rice and have more topping. The topping is fragrant and soft.
It's soft and fragrant due to the molasses added.
This is a butter texture cake. I quite like it as it is rather light and not too sweet. Maybe the prunes neutralise the sweetness a little. But I think I will try making again with cranberry.
He gave us a bonus recipe by filling the other half of the tart shells with blueberry jam, topped with whipping cream. I have never like sour stuff so was rather skeptical until I tasted it. Yummy! The jam is not sour and goes very well with the tart pastry and whipping cream. Even my mum and brother who don't like blueberry says it is nice. I bought a tub of the blueberry jam and will definitely make this again! I might even make some blueberry muffin or cheesecake with it since this jam is rather nice.
Ate a slice to try the taste after taking out of the oven not too long, it is still rather wet, but hopefully the texture will be drier tomorrow. But the citrus taste is rather refreshing as lemon zest is added to it. Maybe next time I will try making marble cheesecake since I like this texture.
Attended my second class with Judy today on chiffon cakes. We made a banana chiffon, golden citrus chiffon and pandan chiffon cake. I hope I am able to master the skills and be able to make a successful chiffon all on my own.
I did this, they are supposed to be roses, but I know they don't look anything like a rose, so they are simply "flowers". Haha! 
This is my cake after decorating. Its quite tiring rolling the fondant and marzipan, and we have to make sure the decoratives are done up before it dries up. It's a race against time in the air-conditioned room. Anyway, I don't think my mum will fancy this cake since it is too sweet.
This is a basic butter cake but we made it into a marble cake by adding some cocoa powder to a portion of the batter. This is baked in a pyramid-shaped silicon mold.
This is a chocolate cake, which we made into cupcake size and to be decorated later into a sunflower.
My piping skills definitely needs more polishing. See my sunflowers? Definitely can be better.
Initially I am wondering what is coconut juice cake before I got the recipe. I was thinking if we will be taught how to bake a cake using coconut juice from the fruit itself. Turn out that it is actually coconut milk that we are using...
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