Dancey Cake

Handmade fondant LOL doll with fondant lollies...

J be like 😲 for his surprise Doraemon cake.  I love his reaction!!  

Ahhh my Po Po Po Po PP Poker Cake (sung in the tune of Poker Face by Lady Gaga)..  It's a challenging one.  I was sweating bullets while I hand drew the King and Jack of Hearts.  I was saying to myself "why"  I should have just bought the molds for it.  But hey!  Look at it.  Doesn't it look more special this way.   What I did is:  Took a bit of white fondant and dip it in tylose. Kneaded it a bit to combine the tylose into the the fondant.  ***Tylose will allow the fondant to harden a bit so that you are able to color your images with edible markers.*** Roll out dough into about 1/8" thickness and cut them into two rectangles. Your rectangles should be proportional to the width of the cake.  For oversized cards make them 1/3 of the width (the shorter side) of the rectangle cake Printed an image of the King and Jack.  The images are too large so I ended up etching the images into the fondant with an etching tool.   Etch out the letter "K" on top left co

This month's #homecookbattle ingredient is #pumpkin.  I went with pavlova, meringue based desert and then I filled it with pumpkin mouse.  Recipe is down below.  Happy baking!

I joined #homecookbattle and #duck happens to be the theme ingredient this month. I'm for many challenges and this is THE most challenging because ducks creep me out (crying emoji). Siopao is a steamed bun stuffed with something savory or sweet. In this case it's stuffed with braised duck. It turned out better than I thought and it reminded me of the Filipino pork asado siopao. Pineapple Braised Duck Siopao (Bao) Filling: 1 young duck large pieces or duck breast is better about 1 teaspoon of olive oil for frying 1 medium sized onions chopped up in the food processor 2 tablespoons garlic 540 mL can of crushed pineapples 1/4 cup (or more) of oyster sauce 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce 1/4 cup or more dark soy sauce 1 cinnamon stick 2 tablespoons sugar salt and pepper to taste Dough: 300 g all purpose flour 60 g cornstarch 2 1/2 teaspoon instant yeast 75 g sugar 1 tablespoon cooking oil 150 mL water NOTE 1: If you buy a whole duck only cook the breast, duc

Hey there! This is my Tiger King cookie I turned a simple shortbread  into the Tiger King, Joe Exotic!   At a time like this I just want to do something fun and new.  Cooking decorating is new to me.  A little rusty but over all not bad.   I used shortbread as a base cookie.  It's buttery and not too sweet.  Perfect pair with the already sweet royal icing that I am using to decorate the cookie.   This shortbread recipe has only 3 ingredients: flour, butter and icing sugar.  Everything is whipped together on a stand mixer and then chilled for 15 to 30 minutes. Whipped Shortbread 1 cup butter, softened 2 cups cake & pastry flour or all purpose flour 1/2 cups icing sugar Preheat oven to 325 F.  Combine butter, sugar, and flour and mix with an electric mixer until light and fluffy (10 minutes or less).   Gather up dough into a circle,  then flatten with the palm of your hands.   Wrap in plastic wrap.   Chill in fridge for 15 to 30 minut