Happy Sheep Birthday Cake

Happy Sheep Birthday Cake - Everyone loves cute and beautiful food and you are never too old to deserve a cute birthday cake. Soft and fluffy sponge cake frosted with fresh cream, it's light and delicious.

A simple Happy Sheep Cake that I have made for myself on my birthday. No fancy decoration, just make use of whatever available on the shelf:


Cake >> Perfect Sponge Cake >> tap to get recipe 

Frosting >> Fresh Cream

Facial Details >> Melted Chocolate

Sheep Hooves >> Chocolate Pretzel (I got it from my son's halloween treats box! :D )

Sheep Ears >> Rice Crackers (I got it from my son's halloween treats box, again! :D )


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No-Bake Lychee Cheesecake 免烤荔枝奶酪蛋糕

No-Bake Lychee Cheesecake 免烤荔枝奶酪蛋糕 - Pureed Lychee gives this cheesecake a light and soft texture with subtle tropical fruit flavour and it goes brilliantly with the buttery digestive biscuit base. This perfectly lite sweet melt-in-mouth creamy cheesecake is wonderfully delicious and sensational! 

I have been wanting to do this for the longest time and I'm happy that I finally made it for this special occasion - my husband's birthday. 

He is the guy who never appreciate fancy decorated cakes, so what I did was as simple as possible. Just placed some leftover lychees and lustred gooseberries on top and that's all for a simple yet elegant Lychee Cheesecake. 

The taste was absolutely good, both the husband and son loves it and gave 2 thumbs up! :)


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Ingredients:


Crust:

150g Digestive Biscuit, finely crushed

60g Butter, melted


Filling:

250g Cream Cheese

200g Whipping Cream

50g Plain Yoghurt 

125g Lychee Puree (blend canned lychee into puree)

1 tbsp (full) Gelatin Powder

50g Water

80g Icing Sugar (can be reduced to 65g for less sweet cheesecake)

1/2 tbsp Lemon Juice

Cake pan: 7 or 7.5" round removable base. 

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Method:

Crust:

1. Combine digestive biscuit and melted butter. 

2. Spread onto the cake pan and press down with the back of a spoon (or with cleaned hand). Refrigerate till set, at least 1 hour.

Filling:

3. Measure water into a bowl and sprinkle in the gelatin (without stirring with a spoon). Set aside for 10 minutes. 

4. Place bowl in a larger pot of hot water. Once the gelatin melts, remove from heat and set aside to cool to room temperature. 

5. Meanwhile, beat cream cheese and half of the icing sugar together until smooth and creamy. 

6. In another mixing bowl, beat whipping cream and the remaining icing sugar until stiff. 

7. Combine lemon juice and lychee puree. Stir in gelatin to lychee puree.

8. Add yoghurt into cream cheese mixture, mix well. Fold in lychee puree and whipped cream.

9. Pour the mixture into the chilled crust. Refrigerate overnight or until set. Remove cheesecake from the cake pan and serve chilled. Tap the link below and watch the video tutorial of how I remove my cheesecake from the pan, the easy and perfect way! If you like my recipe, click here, LIKE & follow Miki's Food Archives facebook page to receive more recipe updates. Don't forget to change the setting to 'SEE FIRST' if you wish to see my post on your Facebook news feed. Enjoy!

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Minions/ Despicable Me Theme Rainbow Birthday Cake 小黄人彩虹生日蛋糕制作过程

Happy 8th Birthday to my baby Louis!

This year, the boy didn't want to have birthday party with friends, he wanted a quiet and simple celebration at home. I have made 2 birthday cakes for him, one for Lunar birthday and one on the actual day.


This was the Minions Birthday Swiss Roll that I made for his Lunar birthday. 

Minions Birthday Swiss Roll<<Click here for recipe>>

The cake on the actual day, it's definitely a complicated and more time consuming compared to the swiss roll. He wished to have a Minions theme rainbow birthday cake. 

Minions fondant figurines
hand-shaped from scratch

Rainbow cake is time consuming because each layer is one cake. Theoretically I have to bake 7 cakes to achieve the 7 rainbow colours. However, accident always happened when I am short of time. Yes, I accidentally broke 3 cakes and no, I'm not going to tell you the details, so don't ask. :D 

To achieve the beautiful 7 colours rainbow cake, I have baked 10 cakes using my limited cake tin and limited oven space. I have baked 4 rounds to complete the baking.

In the past, I only make fondant cake for his birthday. This year, I used fresh cream frosting and fondant figurines. Does it looks plain to you? Well actually, there's no need much exterior decoration on a rainbow cake because the surprise is inside the cake. 

I want it to be simple and nice, just 3 Minions with a Felonious Gru shadow, a plain white frosting rainbow cake with the birthday boy's name on top. I am glad that it turned out fabulously beautiful...

Minions/ Despicable Me Theme Rainbow Birthday Cake
7 stunning colours soft and spongy cakes, frosted with light fresh cream.
Cute, beautiful and delicious! 

That's how it was made.....

Minions/ Despicable Me Theme Rainbow Birthday Cake - 7 stunning colours soft and spongy cakes, frosted with light fresh cream. Cute, beautiful and delicious! Rainbow cake recipe coming soon. Click here, LIKE & follow Miki's Food Archives facebook page to receive recipe updates. Don't forget to change the setting to 'SEE FIRST' if you wish to see my post on your Facebook news feed. Thank you! 

Cheshire Cat & Randall Boggs Disney Theme Birthday Cake

July 27, 2016

Cheshire Cat (Alice In Wonderland) & Randall Boggs (Monster University/ Monster Inc) Theme Birthday Cake that I made for my 7yo son. Cakes were homemade and every other decorations were hand shaped from scratch. 

My son's birthday cake is always unique because he chose the theme, I made the cake. 

"He chose the theme" , the theme never a simple and common one that one could find at any bakery or cake shop in Singapore. It has to be custom made, not by any bakers because mommy knows how..... :)

This year, he wanted a Cheshire Cat + Randall Boggs cake. Cheshire Cat from Alice In Wonderland and Randall Boggs from Monster University/ Monster Inc. 

Cheshire Cat

A close-up picture of my Cheshire Cat made of fondant.

Randall Boggs

A close-up picture of my Randall Boggs made of fondant.

These 2 Disney characters are not easy to shape from scratch especially with their smiling expression. The teeth were the hardest thing to do. 

Cheshire Cat in the making...

Randall Boggs in the making...

After the party, I removed all my fondant figurines from the cakes.
I'd keep these as long as I can. :)

He loves everything with Cheshire Cat colour, the purple and pink stripes. So all the cakes on his birthday this year were purple and pink. << Click here for cake recipe >>

I made some mini Nutella cupcakes for the kids. None left after the party. :) 
<< Click here for recipe >>

Here are some of the in-the-making photos:

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