Posts Tagged ‘cakes’
{ August 16, 2008 @ 5:00 pm }
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{ Birthdays, Desserts, Friends, Italian, Recipe, halal }
{ Tags: Birthdays, cakes, easy, Friends, halal, non-alcoholic, Recipe, tiramisu }
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Daren's birthday cake for his 25th birthday
A simple non-alcoholic pick-me-up, pretty easy and simple to do which I make for my friends and family. Some people go clubbing, drinking or what not during college, I spent my time on the dancefloor, the lecture theater or the kitchen baking.
Ingredients:
3 egg yolks
1/3 cup icing sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
250 gm mascarpone cheese
24 ladyfingers/spongefingers
1 cup coffee (Nescafe works)
Unsweetened cocoa powder
Cadbury Velvet (Or get a bar of dark chocolate and use an peeler/knife and make curls of chocolate)
Directions:
Beat yolks with sugar and vanilla until smooth and light yellow. Fold mascarpone into yolk mixture. Set aside.
Soak spongefingers in coffee and arrange 6 of them in the bottom of a dish(whatever, I dunno what size, something similar to Sara Lee pound cake packaging or if you’re making a birthday cake, the spring release ones would be ideal). Make sure the spongefingers are not too soggy. Spread half the mascarpone mixture over the spongefingers. Repeat with remaining spongefingers and mascarpone. Sprinkle with cocoa and Cadbury Velvet or the chocolate curls .Cover and chill 1 hour.
{ August 13, 2008 @ 4:22 pm }
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{ Desserts, Family, Tea }
{ Tags: Bakery, cakes, Novena, pandan chocolate chiffon, Tea }
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At Little Jerry’s finally I got to purchase some pandan and chocolate chiffon cake, for the past few times I went there it was forever sold out. I bought six slices for tea. The slice was dual coloured/flavoured. In the inner part of the slice it was flavoured with chocolate whilst the outer part was pandan flavoured. The cake was light and airy just what a chiffon cake supposed to be like. Pandan cakes remind me of afternoon tea with my late grandmother when I was child. At 4pm, mummy would usually prepare some teatime treats, it maybe apple pie, banana fritters, pandan cake or marble cake. I miss those times, so when I bit into a slice of the cake, it reminded me of the memories I had with my grandmother as we watched Mexican telenovelas on Indonesian tv channels 
Pandan chocolate chiffon
Adik enjoying a slice
{ August 11, 2008 @ 5:29 pm }
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{ Desserts, Family, halal }
{ Tags: cakes, halal, pie }
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I haven’t made pie in a long while. I used to make pecan pies, cherry pies and apple pies whilst in college. Watching Pushing Daisies has been making me crave for pie! As usual if I had a craving I must have it! So after sending Adik off to school for his Marketing Management exam, we drove back to the east side to buy pies. I haven’t been to The Royal’s cafe in a long time well since Ariff started uni, the place has changed alot, they serve breakfast there now and I guess a whole lot more on the menu to dine in. I was looking forward to the larger sized pies, but they hadn’t arrive that Sunday morning. Instead, we purchased 6 mini Chicken Mushroom pies, 6 mini black pepper chicken pies and 6 mini bbq chicken pies. I used to love the chicken mushroom pies, but now I believe I’m more partial to the bbq ones instead. Royal pies remind me of my late greatgrandmother, I was supposed to pick up a pie on the day she passed away. Instead I collected it on the day she was buried instead to share with the family, that was 23rd October 2005. We also bought a bar of blackforest cake which I shared with daddy. Really good, the cherries were plentiful and the cream so good with the chocolate. The sponge wasn’t dry, but instead moist and delightful. Daddy and I were pretty happy after finishing the cake :) The pies were warm and yummy and full of ingredients whilst the crust was flaky. I guess next time I should call ahead and reserve the larger pies.
Pies glorious pies
Black forest cake
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