Pandan Chiffon Cake

I made this pandan chiffon cake for Wyatt.  I made the minion figurine out of marshmallow fondant.

Lemon Chiffon Cake

I made this lemon chiffon cake for Ethan.  I made the minion figurine out of marshmallow fondant. 

Coffee Chiffon Cake

I made this coffee chiffon cake for Justin.  This was the first time I tried to make frozen butter cream topper.  I didn't lay it flat, so it didn't come out as nice.  I made minion figurine with marshmallow fondant.  

Orange Madeleines

So I did try to bake Madeleines for 8 minutes and they turned out nice and light brown color.

I followed the recipe which came with the pan.

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon orange zest
• 1/2 teaspoon orange extract
• 1 cup of confectioners' sugar (powder sugar)
• 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 cup of butter

Direction

1. preheat oven at 350
2. melt butter and put aside
3. mix 2 eggs, orange zest, orange extract at high speed for 5 min (I actually do about 10 min)
4. gradually add sugar into egg mixture and mix at high speed for 5 min (I actually do about 10 min)
5. add flour and baking powder into the egg and sugar mixture and fold 
6. add butter and fold until smooth
7. bake for 8 minutes or until edge turns slightly brown

Madeleines

After I received Madeleine pan ordered by Eric, I tried to make some.

I followed the recipe from allrecipes.com .  

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup butter

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375
2. melt butter
3. mix eggs, vanilla extract, and salt together for 10 min
4. gradually add sugar into the egg mixture and mix for 10 min
5. gradually fold flour into the egg and sugar mixer
6. add butter into egg, sugar, flour mixture and fold until smooth
7. scoop batter into the Madeleine pan 3/4 full
8. bake for 14-17 minutes

I took them out at 14 minutes, but they were burnt!  I tried 2nd batch at 350 and at 14 minutes, still burnt.  I tried 3rd batch at 350 and moving the rack up 1 level and at 13 minutes, but still came out a little dark.  So Eric told me to try 8 minutes.  

Checkerboard Cake

I made two cakes; one for my friend Romalyn and one for my husband. They are French Vanilla and Devil's Food cakes. I usually use Betty Crocker Super Moist cake mix.

Ingredients:

• 1 box of Betty Crocker Super Moist French Vanilla cake mix
• 1 box of Betty Crocker Super Moist Devil's Food cake mix
• eggs
• milk
• butter
• heavy whipping cream
• vanilla extract
• sugar powder
• fresh strawberries
• canned peach and pineapple

Directions:

I used milk instead of water, I used butter instead of oil

Two Flavors Cake

I made two cakes for my nieces Cathy and Vicky. They are 1/2 French Vanilla and 1/2 strawberry with two fillings, taro and canned fruit.

sorry for my ugly writing ... hehehe

French Vanilla Cake 2

I baked a cake to celebrate Wyatt turned 1 month old.

Ingredients

• 1 box of Betty Crocker Super Moist French Vanilla cake mix (instead of using water, I used milk; instead of using oil, I used butter)
  
• 1 bottle of Target's Market Pantry heavy whipping cream
  
• sugar powder
  
• vanilla extract
  
• 1 canned of mixed fruit
  
• blue food coloring for the whipping cream
  
• blue sugar for decoration

I used two 9" cake pans as usual.

Chocolate Cake

I felt like baking a cake tonight.

Ingredients

• 1 box of Betty Crocker Super Moist Devil's Food cake mix (instead of using water, I used milk; instead of using oil, I used butter)
• 2 cartons of heavy whipping cream
• hot cocoa powder
• sugar powder
• vanilla extract
• fresh strawberries as filling
  
• Oreo cookies
• Whoppers
• candies (1 tiny Reese's peanut butter cup, 1 miniature Hersey's chocolate with rice crispy)

I used two 9" cake pans. This time I used a cake leveler to cut the cakes, so they are flat (easier to work with).

I don't know how to pipe, so they don't look even (but I was having fun) :P .

I don't know what to put on the cake, so I just crushed few Whoppers, 1 tiny Reese's peanut butter cup, and 1 miniature Hersey's chocolate with rice crispy and put them on the top.

After that the cake still looked boring, so I added 6 Oreo cookies.

When Ethan saw the cake, he kept saying "Wow!". You can see his arm in the picture.

French Vanilla Cake

After reading Pink's blog, I really wanted to make my own cake too. I went to Trader Joe's last night but they didn't have cake mix. Today, we went to Food 4 Less and I just bought a box of Betty Crocker Super Moist French Vanilla cake mix. I also got fresh strawberries for the topping and filling. They have two 9" cake pans for sale so I grabbed that too.

Instead of water, I used milk and instead of using oil, I used butter. One of my cake was lop sided and it's a little burnt on the bottom. While cake was cooling down, I made whipping cream by using heavy whipping cream. I added about 4 teaspoons of sugar powder. I forgot to buy vanilla extract so I used French vanilla syrup instead :P I added a bag of unflavored gelatin to my whipping cream.

I had a hard time putting the whipping cream on the cake evenly. I guess I'll need to buy tools next time. But over all, I think my cake turned out good. It taste decent, not dry and not too sweet.