Last minute Mother's Day cake

Someone called up to request at the very last moment for 2 simple Mother's day cake. She wanted fresh cream instead of icing as the elders have not acquired the taste of icing.

With short notice, the best I could come up with was butter cake with blueberry filling. Manage to create a few pink roses for decortion with fresh cream and as the request was simple, added a marzipan piece of well wishes.

Giant Sable Cookie

Finally got my hands onto some dough for baking. Had to create 2 different texture dough. Hard cookie base dough for base and pipping soft butter cookie dough for making the top designs. Cut the dough to required shape and baked it till it's ready.

Added in strawberry mousse and jam (with bits of crushed strawberry) in the centre for contrast and taste. Glazed the top front of the cookie and it's done. Pretty straightforward.

Triple flavour mousse cake for Mother's Day

As mentioned last, am still deciding between an icing cake or a mousse cake for Mother’s day this weekend. Tried my hand on a mousse cake with a twist yesterday. Created a mousse cake with three flavours – kirsch cherry, mango and sour sop. The last flavour was an unusual choice as I wanted something special since mango mousse is rather common in the market place.

The kirsch cherry mousse was the only one created with mousse powder which I got from the food and hotel asia exhibition. This is currently not on sale in the market as yet. It smelled heavenly and has bits of cherry in the mixture. Produced a nice shade of pink. I added some glaze it to give it a shine before putting it on the top of the cake as part of the decoration.

The mango and sour sop mousse is made using real fruit puree.

Taste wise, it has a complimentary contrast – sweetness of mango and marginalized tartness of sour sop. Texture is smooth and sponge filling is just adequate so one does not feel like one is consuming pure cream. Don't get to taste the soursop much but the mild flavour of the mango goes down well.

Decorated the cake with chocolate lady bugs, sticks and shavings.

Still feeling dissatisfied somehow. Would like to consider perhaps a cookie since I have been doing cakes for Mother’s Day for the last few decades! Perhaps a giant cookie? This might be my next project.

Flora Theme Cakes

Have always thought to try my hand at cake decorating but have never gotten around to it despite baking cakes for years. The inspirational push to do so came after the twins came along. Realised it is hard for children to share and thus the urge to learn cupcake making came. With that, the need to decorate those little crowns became unbearable. The birth of my cake decorating attempt came.


I first tried my hand at butter cream icing before proceeding to royal icing. Started with the easier attempt of piping stars and borders before moving to roses as seen on left. Had lots of fun and the kids love it.

The hard part came from trying to create flowers from royal icing as those are really time consuming and not for the faint hearted. Royal icing dries faster than butter cream and require more "strength" to push it out of the piping bag, at least for the novice that I am. With practice came close to perfection and it gets easier as more attempts are made.


The flowers above took me 2 hrs to create in a full air conditioned room so that they dry faster. They could only be attached to the cake after they have dried completely. Was planning to do this for Mother's day this Sunday for my mummy dearest but we shall see if time permits for that many flowers. Final output as seen on left.



In the next few weeks, I will try to make some cakes that are not conventionally round to see just how far I can go for the children's up coming second birthday in June. May just end up sticking to cupcakes as they have a long celebratory weekend up to their actual birthday party with play group and sunday school celebrations.