Birthday Cakes for Daughter's Friend

"Mummy, can you bake 2 birthday cakes for my friend?" Daughter asked.

"OK." I replied.

"I want a Monkey cake and Elephant cake" she happily said.

"???..What!!" Thinking your mum is super mum? She really

think so highly of me, can do whatever she requested....

'OK, I try.' Not confident if I can do it, but just try....

So this is the two birthday cakes that I produce...

Cotton Cheese Cake

A simple cotton cheese cake to serve my friends when they were
at my new home. I transformed it to a simple birthday cake with
some oreo biscuits decor when knowing one of the girls turning
11 that week. This came a surprise birthday treat to her and
hope she has a simple but memorable birthday.
Happy Birthday, Cheryl...

Cake recipe can be found in hearty-bakes.

Serikaya Cake (steam)

Another very soft and moist steam cake. Original cake recipe
can be found in y3k . Try it out...
Below recipe I did some slight changes to suit my taste.

Ingredients

A: 230g butter
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
5 eggs

B: (sieved together)175g plain flour
1 1/2 tsps double-action baking powder

C: 140g condensed milk
150g kaya
125g Horlicks
80g black treacle (replaced by Gula Hitam Browning)
200ml evaporated milk
some macadamia nuts (chopped)

Method:
1. Line and grease a 9" round cake tin. Heat up steamer.
2. Beat butter and vanilla essence in a mixing bowl
until creamy. Add in eggs one at a time.
Gradually add in ingredient (B) and ingredient (C)
alternately until well-combined. Pour into prepared tin
and sprinkle with nuts.
3. Steam for 1.15hr to 1.30hr or until skewer comes out
clean when inserted into cake's centre.

Steam Moist Chocolate Cake

The weather has been very warm, but it does not stop me

from baking chocolatery cake. Instead of baking it in

oven, this cake call for steaming. I guess steaming cake

will not be as 'heaty' as oven baked cake?

This cake was indeed moist and soft. It was recommended

to me by one of my baking friend, Yew Yen. Thank you

for sharing this great recipe :)

Ingredients:

185g butter

250g fine sugar

200ml evaporated milk

2 eggs

125g plain flour

70g cocoa powder

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

Methods:

1. combine sugar, evaporated milk, vanilla essence and butter in a saucepan.

Stir over low heat till sugar dissolved and butter has melted. Remove from heat.

2. Add the beaten eggs into the slightly cooled mixture and stir till well mixed.

3. Sift flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and soda into a large bowl.

4. Add eggs mixture over the flour. Stir till well mixed.

(Batter should be runny).

5. Lined and greased a 9 inch baking tin

6. Pour batter into baking tin and place into a steamer.

7. Cover the top of tin with a piece of aluminum foil.

8. Steam over medium heat for 45 mins.

9. Cool the cake in pan before turning out.

Recipe by Anita Khaw

Blueberry Scones

Make scones using Richard's recipe and replace cheese with

fresh blueberry. Too bad, my girls do not like scones, poor

mummy here has to swallow about 24 scones.....Luckily

managed to get rid some by giving colleagues and friends :)

Old Fashion Butter Marble Cake

This suppose to be a butter cake, but I find it too plain, so
decided to add some coco powder to some batter and mix
it. And it become marble cake!

Chocolate Gateau Cake

My initial plan was to bake Tiramisu cake without alcohol for my elder darling girl 13th birthday. But due to tide schedule I had, I changed to this Chocolate Gateau Cake last minutes. She liked it so much that she had this cake almost all by herself (of course not at one go). The only thing that I felt bad was not decorate and present this cake better..