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The first proper cake

What you see here is the first proper cake I've ever baked. Proper as in the cake is a spongecake and it has cream! All the successful cakes I've baked previously were all butter cakes. I've attempted making chiffon cakes a few years back but they've never risen and I had to throw the whole cake away T.T Threw away 6 good eggs! (required to make the chiffon cake). And from then on, I avoided making any cakes other than butter cake.

But yesterday I conquered my fear (bleh) and made a spongecake... Complete with buttercream! To be exactly, a Checkerboard Cake.

It's supposed to turn out like this:

(google image)

BUT, it turned out like this:



HAHAHA. 

Eh but still got the checkerboard appearance la so I'm still pleased XD

And surprisingly, even my mom said this cake was nice =O Yay! But the buttercream was too sweet. Quote my dad: I got diabetes after I took my first bite. I forgot to halved the sugar from the recipe I found online. I found the recipe from an American website. I don't know how they can survive eating SO MUCH sugar >.< No wonder they are so many *ahem* obese Americans. Same goes to some people in Malaysia... =P

Recipe is from: http://wendyinkk.blogspot.com/2012/04/mocha-checkerboard-cake-caffeine-cakes.html

I didn't do the owner of the recipe justice... Hers are just so pretty...

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On a different matter, my mom has been crazy over handmade soaps recently. She saw a newspaper article on handmade soaps which is for people with eczema. She figured, why not try it? So she bought some from Kindersoaps.

And bought more...

And more...

And MORE.

I think my mom is addicted to the soap XD

Personally, I find them too expensive but my mom loves them so it's her choice =) And also too beautiful to use hahaha. There are loads of different flavours(?) and all of them smells great! Except for any soap with goat milk. But that's because they don't add artificial fragrance to it.

100% natural.

And they are great to photograph too! =D

Dark chocolate soap. You can see cocoa powder at the sides.

Summer fizz.

The prettiest of 'em all =D


Clarity.

Not really a fan of these stuff but just like to photograph pretty things =)

Comments

  1. Ying SzeJuly 18, 2012 at 9:05 AM

    your cake , haha ! would love to try yours ONE DAY !!! Keep baking ! I miss it too. =)

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