Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts

Thursday, September 6, 2012

A birthday Celebration - Fresh Fruity Cake

Birthday celebration for my sister today.
Make a simple sponge cake with fresh fruits for her.

Recipe adapted from sonia

4 egg yolks (large)
20g caster sugar
50g corn oil
60g milk
1/2tsp vanilla extract
90g cake flour

4 egg white (large)
1/4tsp lemon juices or 1/4tsp cream of tartar
60g caster sugar

Method
1. Lightly whisk egg yolk with sugar.
2. Add in corn oil and milk, stir to combine.
3. Add in cake flour, mix well, set aside.
4. Add lemon juices into egg white, beat till foamy.
5. Gradually add in sugar, beat till stiff peaks
6. Take 1/3 portion of egg white mixture and use hand whisk to mix with egg yolk mixture till light.
7. Fold the balance of egg white mixture into egg yolk mixture, combine well.
8. Pour batter into the pan (don’t line with paper), bake at pre-heated oven at 140c for 25mins (at lower rack), then increase to 170C (at lower rack) and continue to bake for 30mins.


For Decoration :-
400gm non-dairy whipping cream
1 canned halves peach
strawberry
golden kiwi

After the cake cooled, slice evenly to 3 slices.
 
Whip the non dairy whipping cream till stiff


Slice cake evenly

fillings

Do a crumb coat & fridge for 15 mins to set

After crumb coating. you may decorate as you wish. 
Best served cake when cooled.


Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Chilled Mango Cheese cake for My mother's Birthday on 12th September & Happy Mooncakes Day

This year mom's Birthday falled on the same day of Mooncakes Day.
I have make a chilled Mango Cheesecake for Mom's Birthday celebration







Recipe is from Sotong Cooks Blog.

Chilled Mango Cheese Cake

Sponge Cake Layer

5 egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla essence
100g caster sugar
1/4 tsp salt
125 ml milk
125 ml veg cooking oil
175g cake flour/superfine flour
2 tsp baking powder
5 egg whites
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
100g caster sugar

Method:

1) Prepare a 9 inch loose base cake tin. Preheat oven to 170 °C.
2) Sift cake flour and baking powder.  Then combine together with egg yolks, vanilla essence, caster sugar and salt. Gradually add in milk and oil and mix till smooth.
3) In a mixer bowl, whisk egg whites and cream of tartar till foamy.Gradually add in sugar and whisk till stiff peaks.
4) Fold 1/3 of the egg whites into the egg yolk batter to loosen. Fold in the rest of the egg whites till well combined.
5) Pour the cake batter into the tin and bake for 40-45 minutes or until skewer comes out clean when tested.
6) Invert the cake and let cool on wire rack. Once cooled, remove cake from the tin.
7) Trim and slice cake into 2 even layers. 


Mango Cheese Filling

500g Cream Cheese
80g  Caster Sugar
2 Tbs Lemon Juice
400g Mango Puree ( 1 use 200gm Mango Filings)
200g pouring cream ( 1 use Whip cream)
3 Tbs Gelatin
120g water
300g whipped cream
cubed Mango (from 2 medium sized Mangoes)


Mixed Fruits Topping

1 tin Mixed Fruits Cocktails
1T Instant Jelly
100ml water
1T Sugar




Method:

1) In a mixer bowl or a food processor, beat the cream cheese together with sugar until smooth and sugar has dissolved.
2) In another bowl, mix mango filings together with the lemon juice. Set aside. (Taste the puree and if it's too sour add more caster sugar 1 tablespoons at a time until the desired sweetness is obtained)
3) In a small bowl, sprinkle gelatin on water and let it bloom for a few minutes. Then zap in the micowave for a few seconds and stir to dissolve. When the gelatine powder is fully dissolved, add to mango puree. Then add in the pouring cream. Mix well.
4) Gradually pour the mango filings mixture into the beaten cream cheese. Blend well. Fold in whipped cream. Gently mix well till incorporated and smooth.
5) Use a round cake ring or a deep cake tin with removable base or springform tin, place a layer of cake and pour in mango cheese filling. Add half the mango cubes and cover them with some cheese filling. Lay another cake layer, add the remaing mango cubes and pour in the remaining cheese filling. Make sure the cheese filling covers the mango cubes. Let the cake chill for at least 3 hours to set before removing the cake ring
 6) Spread the fruit cocktail on top and whipped cream for star border.
 Put the cake in freezer for 10 mins. Boiled 100ml water and 1 T sugar till melted, add in 1/2 T instant jelly . Mixed well. Glazed on top of the cake

This cake was cheesy & cake is soft. Well received by all.