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happy first birthday, moby!

one-year-old                                                                                                                                                                 two-month-old

cake class...

I'll be teaching a new class, an ombre rose cake, at my kitchen on June 29th. You'll learn how to make a very moist chocolate layer cake with Italian meringue buttercream filling. A step by step on how to create an ombre rose effect frosting. A guideline on how to build your own flavor profile.

There're still a few spots available, sign up here http://classes.namthip.com/class_meetings/338.

cakepops...

chocolate ombre rose cake...

I was asked to make a chocolate cake for a birthday party. For a chocolate cake, nothing is better than a devil's food cake. So I made three layers of the cake brushed with coffee syrup, filled with salted milk chocolate caramel ganache, and frosted with Italian meringue buttercream.

I wanted to create an ombre effect with the different shades of frosting. Ombre is a simple graduation of color that shade into one another. Some people use cream cheese, some use buttercream, and some use ganache (as you can see from this post). For this particular one, I used three different buttercreams; dark chocolate, milk chocolate and white chocolate.

For the buttercream, I personally don't like American buttercream. It's easier to make, but it's really sweet and has grainy texture. Try Italian meringue buttercream, you'll never go back. Trust me!

ombre rose cake...

chocolate cake, layered with strawberry ganache, frosted with strawberry and yogurt ganache...

Traditionally, an ombre cake is a white cake with white frosting that has been dyed to create an ombre effect (color from dark to light). For this cake, instead of white cake and buttercream frosting. I made chocolate cake, layered and frosted with chocolate ganache. Then I covered the whole cake with white fondant, and created the ombre effect with fondant ruffles.

Believe it or not I was intimidated by making cakes from scratch. But I've learned that making a cake can be fun and simple when I follow these basic steps.
- Plan ahead what kind of cake I want to make.
- Know how to decorate it.
- Study the recipe and ingredient.
- Make sure I have all ingredients I need.
- Be calm and make it happen. :)

happy macaron day!

Top to bottom
- pineapple
- gianduja
- raspberry-rose
- blue cheese

happy st.patrick's day!

flower macaron...

chocolate earl grey cupcake...

Delicious, light, fluffy and moist cupcake is easy to make. It's all about a good recipe and technique. Learn all about baking cupcakes with baking tips and decorating techniques from me, check out my Cupcake Class!