Forest cake

Forest cake! It's messy decoration and the colors are just the same way as forest that we used to see...

Another Fresh Fruits cake. For Fruits lover like me, Fruit is a must! But, this cake is not for me... I made this cake for my brother's fiance birthday. She requested birthday cake♡(>◡<)♡

I put all her favorite fruits with lots of cream, so she can eat it happily... hehehehe

Thanks to her, I come up with this my new recipe cake! I'm very proud with it... New recipe again! yes!!!





Actually she is not fan of cream, what I'm trying to say is, she actually don't eat cream before. But now yes! She only eat my homemade cream.. I gotten her!

The fruits cake is a soft sponge cake and decorated with medium slices of fruits. I used soft fruits like black currents, kiwi fruits and blueberries.







 I think I can't really use harder fruits like apples and pears for obvious reasons that it will be impossible to cut them. Moreover apples and pears can oxidize and turn brownish. But, I like to try them next time with those fruits.

The fresh fruits cake is pleasing to the eyes and palate. what else could you think of using this?

The fresh fruits cake is very light and overly sweet. A great cake for almost any occasion.








Happy birthday sister. Enjoy your cake and have a nice day....

My brother also haven't seen the cake yet.. hehehehe

Hazelnut Chocolate cake with fresh strawberries

Dessert!!! Dessert!! Yes~ Another simple Chocolate Cake with Sprinkle of Hazelnut inside the cake.. For extra crunch! YUM!!

Hazelnut Chocolate Cake, Fresh strawberries, white frosting...... Enough said!

It is all because I'm staring the strawberries at the corner of the market today! (>_<)

Today is dessert, impress everyone with my new recipe. It's a big success again. It's perfect for hi-tea. The cake was moist, slightly, cold and had a similar flavour to a brownies.. 

I was hoping that my Hazelnut Chocolate Cake with Fresh Strawberries would receive a colorful kick (and a tasty flavor) from Strawberries. But with just simple decoration like this, It's really pretty! Good thing the taste more than made up for that. And few fresh Strawberries on top solved the color dilemma.

I love finding the natural ways to color my foods. I once made a Fruit Chocolate Cake with different types of fruits. It only seemed natural with fresh fruits, right?

With it's alternating light and dark layers, rich chocolate and fresh strawberries garnishes will be a hit for any occasion.

What little girl doesn't like Chocolate Cake? The kids is no exception. Really though, They'll eat a shoe if it's covered in chocolate! One of kids favorite fruits is strawberries, so it was a no-brainier to make them a Hazelnut Chocolate Cake with Fresh Strawberries for their Hi-Tea.

I won't lie, this cake really easy and fast to make! This made my life so much easier... I can be a good wife, mom and little girl with this cake.. hehehehe *^^*

I'm very proud with this cake!

This is my go-to chocolate cake recipe! I love pairing the sweet rich cake with the light whipped cream frosting. It's overpower the cake with lots of sugar either. The fluffiness of the frosting also allows your mouth to enjoy the feel of the spongy chocolate cake and Luscious strawberries inside.

Japanese Strawberry Shortcake

 Japanese strawberry shortcake is different from the kind usually eaten in the United State in that it's more like an angel food cake with whipped cream icing and slice strawberries. Among Japanese people, strawberry shortcake are considered a classic dessert. In Sugamo, Tokyo, is a bakery where it is said that the finest shortcake in Japan are produced. The French Pound House Bakery is found in a quiet residential district, only a five minute walk from JR Sugamo train station.

Because they have received a lot of media exposure, their strawberry shortcake is still their top selling item. Even though they try to keep up with demand , they often run completely out of sponge cake.



For such a good reputation, I felt that it was necessary to find out myself but I can't! (=_=;) yes, because they using liqueur!
  
So, I tried to make my own version of Japanese strawberry shortcake without any types liqueur, orange liqueur, cherry liqueur or whatever it is. Even, I know It won't be taste as good as The French Pound House Bakery.

If you like liqueur or can drink liqueurs go ahead. Some people like to use orange liqueur such as Cointreau or Grand Mariner with strawberry shortcake as their love the combination of strawberry and slight orange taste in the background and many people use Kirsch as well, but if you not particularly a fan of it, it's a matter of taste.

I don't drink any types of alcohol drink. I just do some researched of it, for my knowledge. So, It's best to just cut off the liqueur part in my cake. So, this is my experiment of Japanese strawberry shortcake. The strawberry is just sweet and smells so good... yum!

okeyyy! I'm in some sort of strawberry madness, as you can tell by all three layers of strawberry in one cake. When you see bright red color and big sizes of strawberries in the corner of your eyes, you just gotta look, and that's very dangerous as I can hardly contain myself from staring it and end up buying it. It happens everytime, classic. Same goes to blueberry and apple too! Does it happen to you too? Please tell me that I'm not weird (>_<;)




I have confession to make. I own some cookbooks (or dessert book), not so many, but there lots of them, but I rarely or almost never followed any recipe from them. I don't know, I've always been put off in trying one of their recipes because I'm afraid that I won't like them or the recipe is just too long lengthy. Most of cookbooks that I won (all of them) are the kinds that have a very long recipes page with multiple different components, a lot of them has some bizarre ingredients that I've never heard before or the ones that cost me a fortune. So, it's better for me to do some experiment for my own recipe book.