31st Oct 2010: Happy Halloween!!!

This is a really last minute Halloween thing that I wanted to do before the day ends. There isn't an actual recipe for this. I guess it all draws down to what you fancy and how you allow your baking imaginations to flow. I stumbled upon a blog which adapted this idea for Halloween and i thought to myself - "Hey, that would be fun!" 

So I did. I only manage to come up with 5 eyeballs with leftover scratch. Instead of using the white chocolate to cover the balls - I used white chocolate glaze. For the red veins - you can use some red gel coloring and draw the lines with a toothpick. I used my leftover wild fruit coulis for the veins and pile of blood. Taste much yummier with the wild summer fruits! 

Happy Halloween my dear friends! 

28th Oct 2010: Chocolate Royale

This is one of a fun cake! Really chocolaty. With two layers of Sacher biscuit and chocolate mousse all over.

Sideways

The cake is not very prominent in this picture due to the color of the chocolate mousse 

Just if you're wondering why the cake come in half .. well it's actually presented in two forms of a cake. One parts heavenly glazed with chocolate and the other half graciously sprayed with chocolate.

27th Oct 2010: Cocktail Sausage Feuilletée

 Need I say more? *nom nom nom* Puff pastry with white sesame on the top wrapping the sausage! Perfect snack! It's an awesome snack especially when you have left over rognures!

26th Oct 2010: Mille Feuille Mabre

The all time favorite puff pastry with Diplomat cream.

Top glazed with white fondant & caramel fondant.

25th Oct 2010: Muscadine

Dark chocolate infused with Cointreau and magically dusted with icing sugar!

16th Oct 2010: Animal Fiesta

Animal Fiesta!

Pink the Dove

Po the Panda (Male)

Skimpy the Lion

Pin the Panda (Female)

Bubble the Cat

Ola Ola the Pig 

Pouty the Duck

Spot the Doggie

Tiny the Doggie

17th Oct 2010: Plaisir (Joconde Biscuit)

13th Oct 2010: Rocher Chocolate Boule

Home made Rocher Chocolate balls

12th Oct 2010: Milky Loaf

11th Oct 2010: Mini Pleasure (Joconde Biscuit)

A mini treat with dark chocolate mousse + vanilla supreme mousse with a layer of caramelized cake.

10th Oct 2010: Almond Vanilla Chocolate Banana

I fancy a mini loaf shaped cake for lazy days when you don't want anything fancy under your sleeves. Just something light and fruity with a cup of Earl Grey tea. 

4th Oct 2010: Passionata Perfect!

I am so proud of myself this time! Not only i managed to complete the cake with self satisfaction - this time there's no land slide or whatsoever. All perfect to me. Although i must say it is quite hectic because this cake requires 5 components to come in as one. For people who digs raspberry and don't fancy something too sweet. This is one yummy choice. P/S: Nothing happened to my finger. It's the spatula that looked like a bandage on my finger. 

After removing the mold - this is how the cake looks like

A touch of raspberry for decoration sprinkled with icing sugar - unfortunately, the icing sugar would melt like caramel in matter of minutes. The next time I should probably use snow sugar instead. 

View from the top

Passionata - rimmed with Joconde biscuit, two layers of coconut dacquoise on the bottom and middle. Bottom mousse - passionfruit. Top mousse - raspberry. Glaze - raspberry. Deco - fresh raspberries!

1st Oct 2010: Tart Chocolate Praline

Chabloner the tart. Sealing the picquer with the chocolate keeps the ganache from seeping away!

Filling the tart with ganache

The final product

The very chocolaty praline tart. The nut decoration made from caramelized hazelnuts and almond.