It's A Boy Baby Shower!

It's a boy. Baby Shower set for boy. 2 Tier Cake, Cookies & Cake Pops
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Hello Kitty Waffles

Thanks to my dear friend Queena for giving me the iron molding to do this
Recipe coming soon
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Cake Pops

This is my second time making cake pops.
I did my research before I start making them.
Turn out great!
Here is a few things to pay attention on:
1- Portion of the cake pop has to be right, not too big, not too small
2- Dip the stick with a bit of chocolate before insert to the cake pop
3- Chocolate cannot be over heat
4- Adding a little of shortening to reduce the thicken chocolate
5- Work with 6-8 cake pops at a time while dipping process and leave the rest in the fridge
6- Leave cake pops in room temperature to let dry
7- Give them away to friends and family!
Cake pops order is available.
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Not-so-sweet Chocolate Mousse Tart

Not-so-sweet Chocolate Mousse Tart are perfect to give away. Everybody loves them with their light fluffy mousse topped with strawberry and a drizzle of white chocolate!
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Chocolate Ganache Tart

These Sexy Chocolate Ganache Tart are filled with cocoa from bottom to top! Chocolate tart shell, Rich cream, Pure semi-sweet chocolate, White chocolate...hmmm
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Mille-feuille

Freshly made Mille-feuille! "The mille-feuille (French pronunciation: [mil fœj], "thousand sheets"),[1] vanilla slice, cream slice, custard slice, also known as the Napoleon, is a pastry originating in France.
Traditionally, a mille-feuille is made up of three layers of puff pastry (pâte feuilletée), alternating with two layers of pastry cream (crème pâtissière), but sometimes whipped cream, or jam are substituted. The top pastry layer is dusted with confectioner's sugar, and sometimes cocoa, or pulverized nuts..."
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Orange creamcheese puff pastry

Orange cream cheese puff pastry
Very light and puffy, it is a very important guest for afternoon tea

Recipe:
Puff pasty, defrosted
Cream cheese 300g
Sugar 2 Tsp
Orange Jam 2 Tsp
Vanilla Extra 1/2 tsp
Orange zest 1 tsp
Egg wash 1
Icing sugar 1Tsp

How to
1- roll and cut the puff pasty in to 2"X2" squares
2- Beat cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and orange zest till fluffy
3- Add Jam to the cream cheese mixture
4- Using 1 Tsp filling per pasty square, fold into triangle
5- Use egg wash and a fork to secure the two opening sides
5- Poke holes on the pastries, brush egg wash
6- Bake 350'F, 15-18mins
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Falls Afternoon tea party

Felt like baking once again.
This time I did not prepare much.
I did not have a menu; I did not plan for decoration; I did not remember I invited my friends over till the morning.
After I got up, I spent one hour in grocery store,
grabbed all the key ingredients for a tea party.

I realized people actually prefer to have more savory than sweet in the afternoon.
So I got puff pastry, filos, asparagus, Italian aged prosciutto, a baguette and fresh Cali strawberries.


All time cake
Something I always have at home are sugar, egg and flour
First thing I made, was to make the sponge cake batter,
pour half in one mold (6")
and then add 2 Tsp of cocoa powder to the other half to create another chocolate flavour sponge cake (6").
Bake!
When they are done, let cool
Use whip cream and strawberry to decorate

Asparagus filo pie
In the meanwhile, I cook 4 mini potatoes in microwave for 3 mins
Very easy, wash the potatoes, cover them and set your microwave timer.
Smashed them with 1/3 cup of cheese and 1/4 of 35% cream,
I like the skin so I just leave them inside
Oh! I secretly added 1 egg too
Give it a magical pinch of salt and pepper.

Next, butter down some filo on a pie mold (I used about 3Tsp of melted butter and 6 layers of filo)
spread your yummy smashed potato inside.
One last step, lay the beautiful asparagus on the potato bed
Bake 360'F until its golden.
Let cool for 30min before removing from the mold
tare prosciutto on top before serving

Turkey salad sandwich, in French style!
Next thing I did, was to cut up 1/2 a cup of cooked turkey breast with SCISSORS(Thanksgiving was only a few days ago, Why not using them!?)
save your time cleaning a knife and cutting board, wink wink!
To season them, use 1/2 Tsp of whole grain Dijon mustard, 1.5 Tsp of mayo
I just made a quick turkey salad
let the turkey salad, roman lettuce and tomato to dance inside the baguette
(You could use some butter on the bread, they are best friend forever!)

Raspberry cheesecake mini pastries
By this time, my two cakes and asparagus pie are done,
I took half a brick of cream cheese (125g) and mix with 2 Tsp of homemade raspberry jam
Some lemon juicy if you like
Cut the puff pastry into squares( about 3"X3"),
fill them with the brilliant cheese cake-like-filling
I made triangles with them
Use the fork to close all sides,
poke a few holes on top to allow the steam to escape
Brush egg wash on top, sprinkle a little sugar to make them pretty
360'F Bake until golden.

I was done within 3.5 hours.
All my friends had a great time!
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Afternoon Tea Party

So after I finished my cake decorate class,
I decided to throw a afternoon tea party with my dear friends


I don't know where I should start with,
I really made a lot of things that day and the night before =)
Recipes are coming soon!

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Creampuffs

Our chef showed us of how to make swan before,
but we did not have time to try it in class,
yesterday I made my very first swan,
they are kind of easy to make..


Recipe:
Bread Flour 150g
Eggs 4
Milk 20ml
Water 200ml
Shortening 100g
Salt a pinch

1- Boil milk, water and shortening
2- Add bread flour and salt, stir with a wooden spoon, when the dough starts to form and the bottom of the pot show, remove from heat
3- Use a eggbeater to cool down the mixture to about 65'C
4- Add egg one at a time
5- Ready to pipe, Bake 400'F 20-25min

For Swan piping, the body will be a shell, the neck will be a question mark, be sure the neck take shorter time to bake, around 15min

To assemble the Swan, cut off the top of the shell, and divide the top part into 2 small pieces as wings

Filling:
Whipping Cream 250ml
Sugar 2 Tsp
Vanilla 2 drops
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Cream Caramel

A friend requested this Cream Caramel recipe,
hope you can enjoy it too =)



Recipe: (12-3")
Caramel:
Sugar 400g
-Place the pot on high heat
-When the pot is very hot, turn to medium heat and add 1/4 of sugar, let it melt, then add the rest of them gradually
-Pour small amount in to each small ramekin, allow them cool (takes about 10min in room temperature

Filling:
Eggs 8
Sugar 200g
Whole milk 1L
Vanilla 1Tsp
-Mix egg and sugar with a egg beater
-Add milk and vanilla, mix untill blended
-Strain the custard into a measure cup (easier to pour)
-Bake in a water bath 350'F for 35-40 mins
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Cream Puffs!!

I am taking a baking course at George Brown Collage,
we made these gourmet cream puff this week,
After class I went to the beach for volley.
Good things got to share,
so I brought a box of this yummy delight to share with my friends,
cold - crispy - light
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