Post #81

its sis birthday (yesterday now that its past midnight..) i've actually given up on baking her a cake as i didnt have time... not until i knew i could escape work early today - leaving at 5.30pm is an extreme rare occasion *thanks to bank's holiday, we had no clients to hassle us* - then i was tempted. but in hindsight, 2 hours is still stretching my baking capability...

and dumping some OFF coconut milk into the egg yolk mixture obviously didnt help with the tight time constraint!!!! as i basically had to start from scratch... then only to find that i ran out of caster sugar =.= so in the end, its cooking survival skills again *and next time i would prefer getting some spare pantry supply*, i used a mixture of brown sugar and icing sugar :(

baked poh's chiffon cake again cos i like the spongy and soft texture of the cake, but i ruined it this time as it came out a bit hard. i think its either because of the sugar or the tin i used (i didnt use a baba tin cos i dont want a hole in a bday cake...) and lucky its winter *and actually v windy today* i could take the cake out to the balcony to cool quickly! keke.

sis likes citrus fruits, so i made an orange flavoured cake again, but this time adding honey orange peels into the cream rather than vanilla extract. AND even attempted to ice the cake with chocolate ganache~! just for you sis!! ;)



the finished cake - decorated with chocolate ganache, small dollops of orange honey cream and candied almond:


-Orange birthday cake-

take a slice:



happy bday sis!! :)