Foodelicious!

Irvin's favorite for the time being is Pocoyo! It always amazes me to see them grow from the day they are born.. all helpless and small to a robust busy boy who can run and play! Hahahaha.. I made Irvin's full moon cake and today, I made his 1st first birthday cake. I hope there will more to come! Hehehehe..

This is an orange with a swirl of chocolate buttercake.

When I first saw this cake, I was rather apprehensive as watermelon always give me a "watery" impression but since I had no orders for the day, I thought I will try it. However, I made a few changes. I used sponge fingers instead of swiss roll for the side and add sponge cake layers inside instead of just leaving the cake all mousse.

The lime mousse was slightly complicated to make but I was very surprised that it actually set well. Not a wobbly squishy mousse but a rather airy and delicious mousse that is addictive. The addictive part is the tangy lime flavor....it just make you want to keep eating it. Dangerous cake to have around me. hahahaha..

Oh.. and there was the fun part of balling watermelon. Hehehhehee... I have this fascination of balling melons. It must be a fascination from childhood where such things was a stylo mylo thing to do but since I was a very young kid, I never got a chance to it until I attain adulthood. Anyway, back to the cake, once the balls of watermelon has been nicely arranged on top, the layer of jello to hold them was very tricky. A mojito jello that I need to make sure it set fast before all of it get soaked into the sponge fingers. Tricky

So, while the cake was getting some rest time in the fridge, I was praying hard that everything will turn out well. I, afterall, decided to be funky and change quite a few things about this cake. Hehehehe.. after a few hours, eager beaver me took the cake out and cut it up.. Yay.. it turned out and the taste test went very well. Everyone simply love it. Some was mesmerized by it.. hahahahhahaa... some asked for more pieces.. hehehehe...

So, this watermelon mojito cake is for sale.. This is quite a big cake.. do call for price.

This is Nat's other cake. Yes, Nat is a very lucky girl... hehehhee.. she usually have 2 cakes for her birthday, one for her school celebration which is this cake and another for her party at home. This marbled buttercake was fashioned like a gift box with Nat's favorite soft toy.. bluee the bunny. Hehehehe..

I was told that all her classmates were very thrilled by this cake and all wanted to have a piece of the bunny and stars! Hahahahaha... This 2kg cake was polished off by little 6 years old in a jiffy!

If there is any occasion where I have to bring something to a party and didnt have time, I will make this. I like it because for one, it's easy to make... and it's always impressive. For another, jelly always sells in a party due to our hot and humid, well, not so hot but still very humid weather these days. And if you have kids in the party, this is what they will go for.

The other reason why I love this is that I can split up the whole making process to suit my timing. I dont necessarily have to do everything at one go. I can split it up.. making the mosaic pieces first and when I have a window time of half hour, I can do the jelly to keep the mosaic in place. Terrific!

Oh yes, this jelly is open for ordering and a whole block can serve quite a few people during a party. Call to enquire!

One of my favorite food in this world. Hahahahahaha.. yes, I am a rice person and I must have my rice no matter where I am. Anyway, recently was craving for a home cooked chicken rice for the longest time. The last time I had a home cooked chicken rice was yonks ago and it was made by a hainanese woman and it was awesome.

Anyway, since my cravings was getting really bad and coincidentally, was having a dear friend over for dinner, I decided to make my hainanese chicken rice. Kampung chicken nicely steamed instead of boiled. I  like to give the chicken a bit of treatment of sesame oil and salt scrub before steaming. Hehehe..and of course, a must have, pestle and mortar pounded chili sauce and ginger sauce and added on a peanut and lotus root soup with a blanched kai lan. Oh yes! the rice, I cooked the rice like how the Hainanese woman did yonks ago.. with a slice or two of ginger, a dollop of butter, lots of good quality chicken stock and a small piece of pandan leave. Hehehehe.. the rice smell so good when it was cooking and that made me so hungry.

So, my dear friend came and we sat down to have our Hainanese chicken rice dinner which she enjoyed tremendously.. and without shame asked if she could take home some! Hahahahhaa.. with great pleasure! I always like the idea of my guests requesting to take home the food I cook.