A Triple Celebration

For a last-minute double-birthday celebration over the Chinese New Year festival,Wei whipped up a classic chocolate cake with dark chocolate ganache glaze. Thank goodness, the ingredients for chocolate cake are almost a staple in the pantry. But due to the lack of time, the usual decoration was lacking. 

Not to worry, her resourceful friends grabbed a bunch of crunchy cashew nuts, a Chinese new year goodie, and started to lay them around the cake. Creative eh?! Tasted good too! The savoury nuts added a crunch and enhanced the taste of the chocolate with a bit of saltiness. 

Sounds like we found a new cake flavour! :)

What we made:

• Chocolate whole cake
• Decorated with crunchy cashew nuts and frosted with dark chocolate ganache

Superman, Two Ways

For two consecutive years, our friend asked us to make a superman cake for her partner's birthday cake.

We tried two different ways - both seem to work well and taste good too! :)

Which one do you think is better? 

Birthday Cupcakes

Running out of ideas what to gift a friend on his/her birthday? Why not send a box of cupcakes? That seems like a good idea to some of our friends. We made their day with some beautiful and yummilicious cupcakes! Check them out in the photos below:

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Our colleague's daughter had colourful polka dotted chocolate cuties for her 12th birthday party while Stephanie had hers with her name written on them (it was a surprise delivery!).

Another friend was treated to a dark chocolate cupcakes, our signature now, and vanilla cupcakes with italian meringue buttercream. That buttercream was quite major work but it was soooooo good.

What we made:

• Dark Chocolate Cupcakes, decorated with Dark Chocolate Ganache and colourful Sprinkles
• Dark Chocolate Cupcakes, decorated with Piped Buttercream Lettering 
• Dark Chocolate Cupcakes, decorated with Italian Meringue Buttercream 
• Vanilla Cupcakes, decorated with Italian Meringue Buttercream

Cheery Chocolate Cupcakes

Our colleague wanted to surprise her boyfriend with a birthday party (we'll post pics of the Superman cake at a later date!), and requested us to make some cupcakes for everyone to eat too, using M&Ms too, since they're a favoured snack of his.

We were at the party too, and thought that the chocolate cupcakes turned out pretty well! This recipe is going to be a keeper; it's moist, produces fluffy yet satisfying cupcakes and isn't too sweet. It also has a strong chocolate flavour, probably helped by the higher levels of cocoa powder we used. All in all, it was a happy event - and the birthday boy was pleasantly surprised!

What we made:

• Dark Chocolate Cupcakes
• Decorated with Buttercream and M&Ms