#46 : Croquembouche

Croquembouche is actually just profiteroles assembled as a cone. I've done profiteroles before but I had never assembled them. I really wanted to make this so here it is :) Last week I tried to make them but everything turned out to be just so wrong. The choux pastries wouldn't rise well and I messed up the filling cream. I was so sad that I threw everything away. Well this time I asked my sister to assist me during the whole thing. I used her recipe too which was actually quite the same with the profiteroles that I've done before. This time I didn't make them in a hurry. I took as much time as I needed. I gave enough time for the cream to cool and I baked the profiteroles just well. The only problem with these profiteroles was that they were not as crunchy as I thought they would be. I used melted chocolate as the "glue" to hold the profiteroles together.

Today, which is May 15th is my friend's birthday : Gonk. So I might as well dedicate this croquembouche to her. Happy birthday, Gonk!

#45 : Homer Cake

It was not my first time working with fondant but it was still not perfect :( I tried hard to smooth the surface but as you can see it was still ugly. Well I really hope that practice makes perfect for I will try to do better. It's Homer on a doughnut enjoying a doughnut and drinking Duff.

#44 : Coffee Liquor Cheesecake

For my friend's going away party, I was planning to make a croquembouche : a pile of choux pastries assembled as a cone and the plan couldn't go more wrong. Everything was ruined so the only thing that I got in the fridge is this coffee cheesecake that I made the day before. After that choux pastry disaster, I attempted to decorate the cake. Everything was okay but when I tried to write on the cake using the writing gel, I accidentally wrote "FARWELL BIORKA". I misspelled "FAREWELL". I felt so stupid. 

But in the end I was happy with the cake though. The recipe is good and can be found here

#43 : Tea Party Cake

I baked the cake and my friend made the cake toppers. They were too cute that I could stare at them all day! Working with fondant still intimidates me. I had troubles in just making the table cloth. I did it five times and it wasn't perfect :( Thanks to my friend who did the damage control. The cake is just a basic sponge cake. I didn't bother to layer the cake.