RC’s Birthday Cupcake

Now I know why fondant cakes are expensive, it is just so damned hard to do without machinery. My arms and hands hurt after all the kneading. And it really needs some artistic touch to be able to create something.

See the pictures of the finished product: Cheese cupcakes topped with fondant icing for Hubby’s Birthday.

Migi's Jollibee Birthday Cake

Our son Migi really likes jollibee, his favorites includes spaghetti, palabok, and peach mango pie. As a two year old he would consumed one serving of jollibee spaghetti and would even raised his pointer finger to indicate that he wants more. He watches the Jollibee town show every Sunday. That's why for his 2nd birthday, we wanted to do something related to Jollibee. Due to time constraints in preparation and some budget considerations, we decided to just celebrate Migi's Second Birthday with family at my husband's parents house. We wanted to give him a Jollibee cake unfortunately Red ribbon bakeshop doesn't do Jollibee cake unless you acquired a Jollibee party package at a Jollibee store. After knowing that, I resigned to just ordering a regular birthday cake, but then I remember that a bakeshop wherein I had ordered Migi's First Birthday Cake do customized cakes. I contacted them and they happily agreed to do Migi's Jollibee Birthday cake.

Migi is real thrilled upon seeing Jollibee in his cake. Here's the picture of my son blowing the cake.

Extra Challenge: Baking my own birthday cake

I have turned xx years old today! (the age is a secret! haha). As an extra challenge for me I tried my hand in baking my very own birthday cake. Actually it is not a stroke of inspiration that I have decided to make a birthday cake, in reality my sister have some baking ingredients that are about to be expired next month. So in order to prevent wastage, I have decided to make use of them before it expires! 

I surfed the internet for a fool proof recipe and decided to make a chocolate chiffon cake.

Ingredients

2 cups sugar

1-1/2 cup cake flour

2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

2 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup vegetable oil

7 egg separated at room temperature

3/4 cup cold water

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar

1. Heat Oven to 350F

2. Combine 1-3/4 cup sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt in a large bowl

3. Add oil, egg yolks, water, vanilla then beat until smooth

4. Beat egg whites and cream of tartar until soft peaks. Add 1/4 cup sugar gradually until stiff peak forms

5. Pour chocolate batter into the beaten egg white, by folding using a spatula.

6. Pour into a ungreased 10" tube pan.

7. Bake 1 hour or until cake springs back.

8. Invert pan on heat proof funnel until completely cool. Remove cake from pan. Decorate as necessary.

I didn't try to make any more frosting, it is just plain difficult. I have decided to just dust it with confectioner sugar. There are some more ingredients left so I also made some cupcakes.

After 4 hours of baking, here is my birthday cake!