Death by Chocolate

Ribbon, heart, leaf and rose are made from white chocolate

The cupcakes were a choclately going away present made for a friend.  There's a rocky road, chocolate glaze and chocolate fondant.  I took the opportunity to road test a couple of recipes I hadn't tried beore.  Think the results are pretty good, though practice makes perfect.

Creamy Peanut Buttercream Cupcakes

Compose

I have been wanting to try making peanut buttercream cupcakes. Peanut butter is definitely one of my favourite and this frosting is to die for, it was smooth and creamy. Made in Heaven.

Daisy sugarflowers

Made this Daisy, it was very easy to make. The basket weave was made of sugarpaste. Like the blue and white, very bright contrast.

Strawberry Cream Roll

Soft chiffon roll with special cream and fresh strawberry. Flakes almonds on the sides. Serve on a vintage plates, I love collecting all these vintage looking plates.

Beef bourguignon

What a comfort food!

Heart shaped Cake

My first time attempting to carve a cake into a heart shaped. Get to learn from Lindy Smith herself. It was really interesting even though it didn't look anything like Lindy's -Flora lHeart cake . Well, there is always the first time to everything right?

I don't really like the recipe of this cake. It was Medeira which I find it rather heavy and dense. Also, it has to be baked inside the oven for quite some time. The cake is supposed to be densed as apposed to light, soft and fluffy; this is for the purpose of easy carving.

I will have to tweak the recipe or find another good cake recipe such as sponge cake or anything but madeira for carving in the future.

Making sugar Roses the first time

The basket was hand piped with royal icing. Sugar roses were handmade.