Saturday, July 18, 2009

Bake Bitter Sweet Chocolate Tart with Pears and Butter Loaf Bread with Yam Filling

Made these two items at Patrick's class today. The chocolate tarts is something sinfully tasty. We had excess dough from the chocolate tart which I intend to try making chocolate custard tarts over the weekends. 

The yam filling of the bread reminds me of the teochew "orr nee" but less sweet. 

Monday, July 13, 2009

Royal Charlotte Cake and Lemon Sour Cream Cake

Richard taught the Royal Charlotte Cake and Lemon Sour Cream Cake during today's class. The lemon sour cream cake is a butter-type cake but done using a chiffon method. This method is suppose to make the cake lighter and softer.As for the royal charlotte cake, the difficult part is putting the swiss roll as closely as possible so that the mousse will not seep out too much. But the end results is not too bad.

I think it will look prettier with strawberry jam due to the colour but Richard run out of it so he used chocolate cream instead and filled with mango mousse. Think I will make a sinful one with durian swiss roll and durian mousse when I have the time!

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Cream Sponge Cake and Chocolate Rum Balls

At Richard's lesson yesterday, he taught us Cream Sponge Cake and Chocolate Rum Balls. This is the rum balls before we coat it with almond flakes.For the cream sponge cake, he made strawberry flavour sponge cake and applied buttercream and fresh cream on it. He even showed us how to create the cartoon character.

Monday, July 6, 2009

Durian Butter Cake and Durian Mousse Cake

Since it is the durian season, Richard taught us the durian butter cake and durian mousse cake today. The durian butter cake is light and fragrant  even though it is a butter type cake.

Richard showed us the different designs we can create for the toppings.

Here's the end result.

Coffee Roti and Hotdog Bun

Yesterday attended the coffee roti and hotdog bun class by Valerie. Been looking forward to this class since I love Rotiboy and it is no longer available in Singapore. Those replicates by bakery shops are nowhere close to the real thing. I love the nice aroma of the  coffee and buttery smell during the baking. Using the same bread dough but less the fillings and toppings, it can be made into any buns with fillings of your choice or even a plain sweet bun or loaf. 

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Apple Pie and Blueberry Cream Cake

Richard taught us apple pie and blueberry cream cake today.  He sprinkled some almond flakes to make it more fragrant.The excess dough for the pie is made into a few smaller ones.

Richard decorated the blueberry cream cake with a few variations.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

White Fruit Cake and Mocha Fudge Cake

Richard taught the white fruit cake and mocha fudge cake in yesterday's class. He made the white fruit cake into muffin size for easy distribution.

Basically the mocha cake uses a basic coffee flavoured sponge cake and applying mocha fudge as fillings, similar to the pandan fudge cake.
The mocha fudge cake with simple decoration.
I do not see myself making these 2 cakes actually. Firstly, my family do not like coffee flavour cake, so no point making since no one will be eating. Secondly, I don't like raisins. Maybe I will try making the white fruit cake but replacing with cranberry or chocolate chips. Maybe...