honey drizzle

Thursday, May 22, 2008

I've got alot of baking to do for the weekend. Mini-cupcakes for a party(:



MATCHA ice cream! I'm in love with matcha. And this green tea ice cream. Managed to get good quality matcha green tea powder from Japan. I wanted to make a dark chocolate green tea mousse cake for my mum, but I decided it was too precious(:



Vanilla bean strawberry mille-feuille, or "A thousand layers". Puff pastry layers with sliced strawberries and vanilla bean pastry cream. This is one of the rare things I make that my sister would eat.



Chocolate raspberry macarons. A few weeks ago I had alot of problems with macarons. I never achieved the result I had when I first tried macarons with french meringue. This must have been the third/forth batch of shells I made before I could actually fill them. Chocolate macaron shells, and raspberry macaron shells, filled with dark chocolate raspberry ganache.





Vanilla raspberry swirl cupcakes. Andrea says vanilla and raspberry are my favourite flavours. I think this is my favourite cupcake recipe. I had thought I had lost my vanilla bean cupcake recipe, but I adapted another one(: I thought the raspberry puree swirls were over-swirled before I baked them, but after coming out of the oven it looked even more dramatic.


Melting chocolate meringues. This is like eating a baked chocolate mousse in cookie form, with a thin crisp exterior. Very fragile meringues, very bittersweet, and nothing like I've ever tasted before. I love their rustic appearance(:


(azalea)

Fifth time. I need to start writing out the compiled recipe proper. I didnt have enough time is its just garnished with grated chocolate curls. Buttermilk chocolate cake base, sliced strawberries, white chocolate mousse.


6:43 AM