GOOOOOD DAY BAKERS!

I made a dessert using the recipe I bookmarked very recently, Blueberry Crumb Cake, at FoodNetwork.com! I was simply craving for something sweet and fruity but I didn't want to play with strawberries because the supermarket does not have the reddest and prettiest strawberries at this time of the year. I will be waiting for summer to arrive in the North patiently :)

Anyhow, the Blueberry Crumb Cake I baked today was really fantastic. Soft, tender cake topped with browned crumbly streusel. Exactly what I was looking for in a g-r-e-a-t crumb cake! It is so delicious, I'm sure I have to make this again :)

Now, watch me make the most satisfying Blueberry Crumb Cake, step-by-step!!

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As a child, I was always fascinated by colours :)

I still do and even now that I'm already a teen, any objects of my favourite colours draw my attention to them. I would eat vegetables & salads because I love green! I would buy Hello Kitty accessories because I like pink! & I'd tan myself nicely brown just to match beautiful white dresses :)

Yeah, colours are very happy stuffs and they do magic to little things in life. Hence, I baked this cake for my teammate's birthday, Z. She is definitely the most outstanding player in our basketball team who had contributed a lot during competitions. We play the same position and I'd always feel safe during the game with her around!

Although the graduation from high school meant that we were all going separate ways, she's one of those I still meet up with very very often :) Basketball is our language and I'm glad this common interest has glued us pretty well!

I rushed home immediately after school to get this done, AND more importantly, to take enough shots before the sky turns dark! I don't have photoshop and I cannot do much to edit the pictures =\

This Rainbow Cake sponge (bottom) is strongly reccommended if you are looking for a white cake recipe. It is extremely soft, crumbly and moist, very very tender even if you used plain flour instead of cake flour! The only thing you might want to take note is that the cake is quite fragile, so please be gentle when you lift each layer.

I spread nutella over the cake, followed whipped cream in between every layer. Finally when it is chilled, I frosted the cake with Cream cheese and pressed oreo crumbs on it gently :)

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It's been real long since I last updated & I am truly, truly sorry for my absence ever since college has began! Schoolwork might have been crazy but seriouslyyy, I am the student who never mugs until I know I have to LOL! Furthermore, the most attractive part about my college's that it is located quite near town. (which also means far away from home!)

Therefore, I've been spending most of my afternoons enjoying lunch out of school & catching a few movies. Yay! I really think I have a life. HAHAHAHA. If you read about me, you'd also know that I used to play basketball. I stopped in college so this extreme increase in leisure time has made my schedule even more exciting. I love freedom :D

So today, I spent my afternoon whipping up the best chocolate mousse I've ever eaten using Francois Payard's recipe! I also managed to bake Dorie Greenspan's Perfect Party Cake which I have bookmarked for super long!! Do not be intimidated by the steps that may seem a little long-winded because they are really easy :) Both turned out great but my cake did not appear as pretty as I wanted it to be as I don't have a small springfoam cake pan...

I had troubles layering the cake and mousse without a cake ring. Also, my decision to add some texture to the cake by filling the mousse with a little jelly made the filling heavier =\ The mousse ended up spreading alot and it didn't have the NICEEEE, smooth surface. However, if you are going to bake this too, I'd strongly recommend you to add jellies too. It does magic to the cake and give a little chew when eaten!

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Hello Bakers, it's New Year! Happy 2010 and here wishing you guys a great year filled with fun and happiness ahead :)

As much as I'm enjoying every moment of my holidays, I still have to face the anxiety most 16-years-old are experiencing now: O'levels results will be releasing in another 10 days. Gosh..... There's this huge part of me really afraid that I've screwed my results, especially English. Because.. I wrote a crap essay that was incomplete and I usually depend on my essay to do moderately well for this subject. (By saying moderately well, I already mean a low B!)

But of course I don't intend to live in fear and worries every day till the very second I hold my results slip..! So, here I baked a cake for. ermm.. nobody? HAHAHA. It is cute anyway, right? It is certainly one of the funniest cake I've baked. Not that it is funny, but what I've done stupidly that are funny. Especially when my brother saw the mess I made.............

I was really embarrassed. and trying to control my laughters (which I failed. which WE both failed)..... I started slapping his arms - for being there to witness all my stupidity!! AND for laughing at me!

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Classic, homely, sweet. My Strawberry Shortcake with Creme Chantilly.

It's summer in Singapore everyday!

This is probably my 15th time making a layer cake (or even more). But each and  every time I bake a layer cake, there is nothing I worry more than the sponge. Intially, I intended to layer it with chiffon but my yolk mixture was extremely rubbery and doughy! Thinking that it might have been me instead of the recipe, I decided to try again - and still failed T_T I was quite upset because I don't like wastage. Sighs.

So the third time I made, I used a basic sponge cake (cause I thought it was stupid it do again and waste more ingredients if I hadn't any idea what went wrong) and *PHEW* nice, soft and light cake. Just what I was looking for =) (that's why you should never give up!)

And I finish them off with apricot glaze :D It makes them shinee~~

(look at my cream T.T I really don't know why this happened, so I covered them with some raisins? It's good to have raisins at home. They're sooo great even in yogurt -LAUGHS-)

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