1st Wedding Cake

sorry for the long silent.. i've been super busy!!!

recently me, the not-chef got an opportunity to do a 2-tiers wedding cake.. for someone who doesn't even have any basics on cake decoration at all i think i did ok...

after doing this.. i feel i wanted to learn cake decoration with fondant more.. maybe figurines classes too.. :)

Baking: Carrot Cake

i got the recipe from one of the cooking website when i first started baking. i think it was http://www.myresipi.com/.
after few tries i changed the recipe slightly to get a better texture and taste. :)


Ingredients
1 cup vegetable oils
1 1/2cup castor sugar
4 medium size eggs
2 1/4 cups multipurpose flour or cake flour
1 tsp bicarbonate soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon powder
1 tsp salt
1 cup chopped toasted walnut
2.5 cups grated carrot
2 tbsp vanilla extract
you can put some raisin if you like.. maybe 1/2 cup. i don't really like raisin in my foods.. so i never put them in my cake unless if it's an order.

Steps
the best thing about the recipe you don't need a mixer for it! u can just use you whisk..
1. Preheat oven to 185c
2. Beat egg and sugar together, then add oil and beat it again.
3. Mix flour, all the powders, and salt then add it in you egg mix.
4. Put it your carrot and mix it with your batter and lastly add in the walnut.
5. I usually use a 10" square pan. Generouly greased your pan with butter then put in you batter. Bake for about 40 - 50 minutes.

*i made the cake in cups for my best friend's engagement.. this is how it turn out..
my 2nd try on fondant decoration..

cream cheese is the best topping for carrot cake.. but you can also use chocolate topping... it's really good.. :)

my cream cheese recipe is very simple..

just mix all these ingredients together. beat it until sugar dissolve in the cream..

1 block Philadelphia Cream Cheese
1/2 cup butter
2 1/2 cup icing sugar ( u can put more if you want it sweeter)
1 tbsp vanilla extract

Batik Cake

first of all, if you don't live in Malaysia u might not know what Batik cake is.. i guess when u cut the cake the texture looks like batik painting.. that's why the name is like that..

it is a non-bake cake.. so you don't have to worry if u don't have any oven..

i've written the recipe before on snazzynsuch.com.. here's english translation for the recipe..

Ingredients
1 packet marie biscuits
1 1/2 – 2 cups water
3/4 cups cocoa powder
2 cups milo
1 cup sugar
125grams butter
1 1/2 cup chopped groudnuts
2 eggs

Steps
1. Put water into big pot and put it on your stove.
2. Once it's warm enough (u don't have to wait till it really hot) put in cocoa, milo, dan sugar – stir until it dissolve.
3. Add groundnuts – stir.
4. Lower your heat, add in eggs. Stir quickly till thick and turn of your stove.
5. (I use 10" baking tin.) Put the clean wrap plastic on your bakin tin. Make sure the plastic is big and some allowance on sides.
6. Put the first layer of marie biscuits on your baking tin.
7. Slowly, put your chocolate mix on the biscuits.
8. Repeat the process 3 or 4 times.
9. Cover your cake with the plastic allowance. Then put your cake in the fridge for 2 - 3 hours.

then it's ready to be served.