Hello Kitty found in the 'Black Forest' ?? 黑森林蛋糕

Our good friend, Karen's birthday falls on Christmas Day.  
Ling has baked a Black Forest Cake and piped the outline of Hello Kitty on the cake.
On Christmas Eve, after the Christmas gift exchange among the kids, we presented the Hello Kitty Black Forest Cake to her.  She was surprised with the 'unknown arrangement', and thanked Ling for the cake.

Candy Melts

We have done up some candy melts from Wilton Candy Melts this afternoon.  

Used the 'double boiled' method and added 'vegetable shortening' for easy melting.

This is the 1st trial and it will be the last we gonna make it!

The melts didn't turn out good and were extremely sweet! ~ unhealthy! 
No satisfaction while taking these few shots :(

Hello Kitty Rainbow Sponge Cake 吉蒂貓彩虹松糕

The popular fictional character Hello Kitty ~ ハローキティ is back in action!
Ling's baked this Hello Kitty cake and present to our good friend, Diana whose's celebrating her birthday today.

Tea Party Anyone?

Linda requested a small cake for little celebration at home as tomorrow is the exact birthday of her little 3yo princess ~ Megan.
Ling designed this Hello Kitty Tea Party Cake for the little one.
Everyone fell in love with the decoration and found it's a waste to have it cut and eat!

2nd "workshop" on Snow Skin Mooncake 冰皮月饼

After the 1st trial of making the snow skin mooncakes, Karen's colleague shared another recipe with her.
We made pandan flavour snowskin mooncakes today, using this new recipe.  The taste and texture were much better, nicer than the 1st trial we made. 

Most of us like this recipe best as the taste were nicer.
We bought some new "character prints" and they turned out great too, some prints were not visible ~ sigh!

 

We even tried in on "egg" & "konnyaku" moulds!   LOL ~ it works!

Click here for more images on flickr.com (some not too visible on its print)

Snow Skin Mooncake 冰皮月饼

Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节) is traditionally celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month and it's the 2nd most  important festival after Chinese Lunar New Year for Chinese people. 

Getting the traditional mooncakes or snow skin mooncakes are rather costly from the various bakeries.

Our good friend, Karen had an idea to hands on the snow skin mooncakes, so we went to Phoon Huat and get the necessary ingredients after browsing through several online recipes.

For the 1st trial, we referred to Amanda's recipe. Thanks Amanda, it's really easy with simple steps.  A friend of mine, Nicole made good mooncakes, she gave a tip to add a small drop of banana essence and it's really tasted good.  Thanks Nicole. 

We had a small workshop at Karen's place, it's fun!  We 'charaben' the traditional mooncakes using our bento tools and filled them with red bean & lotus paste.

Blooming Flowers wz Hello Kitty Sandwiches

This is another charabento submitted for http://www.hapabento.com/ May B.O.M.B contest.