The cake caddy that could.

I love this Wilton cake caddy that allows me to carry goodies around in a convenient and stable way.

Valrhona Manjari cupcakes in tiny dessert cups.

What could be more psychedelic than rainbow poppy seed and yuzu cake?

Caramel Fleur de Sel

After an hour of stirring, a goldeny brown salted caramel that would go extremely well with vanilla ice cream or tequila shots.

Red Velvet and the secret all good bakers know

Made red velvet as a taster for a wedding cake.

Now the secret to a red velvet that has depth, character and intensity is this: a sprinkling of good cocoa. In this case Valrhona.

 

Congratulations Ageless Theatre and Theatre Cell

Ageless Theatre and Theatre Cell had a showing of (When I'm) Sixty Four. A play about transits and the happenings of the bus. A good friend (LT) who was the director of the piece, suggested that I could help them with the cake. Well, admittedly, I was supposed to have made a cake in the shape of a bus, but I thought it might be more fun if I modelled the cake on one of the characters in the script - an old woman carrying a bomb up the bus.

This was a perilous enterprise of architecture. You can't see them, but there are candy rods holding up the entire old woman. Well, I am proud to say that no wires were used this time and the entire cake was edible, with the exception of the toothpicks I used to mimic the hairpins in her hair. I had immense fun making this cake and by the grace of God, the weather was cool and not humid at all. The bomb was a black jawbreaker I found in a candy store :) and the fondant, made from scratch. I finally found a way to make rice krispee structures and those I used to build the head. All in all, an ambitious, but very enjoyable project.

a simple old-fashioned chocolate cake and some piratey yo ho ho

Things have been insanely busy these days - in the midst of adjustment to a new job, graduation (again), weddings and an entire slew of events. Amidst these things there was baking to be done.

This is a simple old-fashioned chocolate cake with a hidden surprise - I put pop rocks in the Valrhona Jivara Lactee ganache. :)

If baking is to be done then only the best ingredients are to be used. Always.

These cupcakes were done at a crazy time - the weekend of a friend's wedding and amidst intense rehearsals for a production I was involved with.

Chocolate cupcakes being slathered lavishly with Valrhona Jivara Lactee

Finally the pirates awaiting to head one by one onto the plank. Wedding day. Finished these at 4:30am. Marzipan faces, Fruit roll bandana and licourice cut into eye patches and kawaii anime eyes.

of poppy seeds and yuzu

Poppy Seed and Yuzu Cake for a lazy morning. A definite keeper and full of winsome yum!