It’s Ho’s aunt’s birthday and I offered to bake a cake for her. Well, they kind of expected it anyway since we haven’t bought a cake since Jennifer and I took up baking. After probing several times on what flavour the cake she would like, finally we decided on mango cream.
While my weekend try out was not so successful, I decided to change the fresh cream to half topping, half cream. Luckily I found alphonso mangoes from an Indian grocery store, that enhanced the flavour. Since I was still not confident enough with the cake, I added some white chocolate blades for decorations. Main purpose was to distract the audience. :-) As you can tell, those blades with holes were made first because I didn't know how much chocolate to put on the knife and how much pressure I needed to use to form the shape. With more practice, they were formed properly.
Ho volunteered to write the greetings so I melted some dark chocolate for him. He always has good handwriting. He did a good job too. Ho things the cake is not photogenic at all because the real thing looks better. I agree. Maybe it’s the lighting.
It was a time consuming cake. I didn't finish it until 1:40am this morning! Will post the recipe later.
The taste was quite good! Only the sponge cake was still a bit dry. So far out of all sponge cakes I had tried, I like Martha Stewart's Vanilla Sponge Cake the most.
That looks time consuming enough, no wonder you had to stay up that late!
ReplyDeleteI think using the back of the spoon might be easier than a knife for the chocolate decoration. But that looks so good already!
Actually once u have done a few, it's fast. doesn't take long at all. it's just i had to stop n tuck the kids in to bed as i was the only one with them that night.
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