Foodelicious!

Help!! I am overwhelmed by bananas! Remember my banana tree??? The many combs of bananas has ripen and eating it alone is not going to help finish it.. hence, I got creative. Heh! Heh! Heh!

As I am rather free resting away these days, I have decided to try my hands in making vol-au-vent.. initially, my intention was to fill these vol-au-vents with savory filling but my garden bananas were just screaming at me!! And I got creative..

Here, I use a chocolate cream tart filling to fill up these vol-au-vent and just arrange slices of bananas on top. I then put it in the oven to "crystalize" the bananas a bit to give it a crispy texture.... Heh! Heh! Heh!..

The result is... yuuuuummmmmmmssss! Very silky chocolate cream and sweet bananas do go hand in hand... like marriage...Will I be selling these... SURE! Each will be sold at RM4.50 with a minimum order of 15 pieces.

I have always spied these bunch of odd oblong looking citrus fruit call kumquat at supermarkets and never dare to buy and try...for one, it is very expensive and for another what if it is terribly sour?!! You know.. sour till your whole face bunch up like a ball of crushed paper??!!! OOO...

Anyway, decided to be brave and bought meself a punnet of kumquats and since I cant finish eating them, which by the way, is delicious and my face didnt bunch up like a ball of crushed paper, I did some more spying work on the net and found out that you can make these little cuties into jams/preserves. Hence, I got busy...

It is quite a bit of work to make kumquat preserves but I can tell you it is well worth it.. The taste is awesome and unlike other fruit jams/preserves, this is not too sweet and had that nice tingling "zingy" taste. I love it! Since my first attempt, I have made 2 extra batches and had venture into sterlizing and canning process.. It is very fun!!

Oh.. these kumquat preserves are great with toast or crackers or just like that! Hehehe.. it is not too sweet at all... Yes, if I can find more kumquats, I will continue to make some more preserves and perhaps sell them.. but for now, I am clinging to my 3 bottles preciously!

These are chocolate cuppies with chocolate ganache and lemon poppy seed cuppies with cream cheese lime frosting... all very yummy at RM5.00 each.

Little Hao Ze's mom decided to have a birthday party for him at the last minute and we had quite a fun time deciding on the cake! It was initially a conventional number 1 cake but I thought it doesnt reflect little Hao Ze.. he is such a sweet gusto boy! So, after much searching, we decided to have something very different...

2 layer in different shapes and since it is a small family affair, it is a challenge to limit the cake weight to nothing more than 2.5kg.... hehehehe!! and I did it.. exactly 2.5kg! This is a lemon butter cake and there are actually 2 layers each for the square and round cakes. These layers are made to stick to each other like glue with home made lemon curd. (the other reason is that Hao Ze's mom didnt want the cake to be sweet...so lemon curd was used to cut down the sweetness of the icing).

I enjoyed making this cake very much... hehehe.. This cake was sold for RM250 inclusive of Elmo toy.

Hehehehe... well, not really... Will be going away this weekend for some fun in sun.. but anyway, did a birthday cake for a boy during my break because he is so adorable, I just cannot resist.. Hehehe... ya, I am a sucker for small children..well, well behaved small children...

Oh yes...that's me! I am taking a break from all the baking and cooking non stop throughout Xmas and New Year. So.. while I go "hippo" around in my shorts and computer and books and drinks, you people go decide what you would like me to cook up for you.. Hehehe...

Yes, I have a few new cakes and cookies coming up and I need this break to trial run these new yummies and make them perfect... so, see you people in a jiffy!