Thursday, September 25, 2008

Pre-Birthday Cake : Chocolate Layer Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting


Any excuse just to bake cakes! This time, since Y's birthday is coming soon, I thought of coming up with some pre-birthday cake before the real day.
Y, as you all know, celebrates his birthday in September. And since he has been a nice husband since the day I married him, he deserves to get more than just one cake for his birthday. So, I plan to have pre-birthday cake, birthday cake, and post-birthday cake just for him.
Oh yes, anything just to bake cakes!

Y loves chocolate cakes. Last year, I baked Sacher Torte for him. And this year, I was inspired by my dear friend, Sitha who kindly shared her special secret recipe, chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting. Doesn't it sound heavenly?
And it does taste so too! The special cream cheese frosting will definitely stay in my priceless recipe list!

Sitha, my apology for not following your recipe thoroughly. I did not follow your cake recipe, for very simple reason; I hate cup measurement! So I used another recipe that I always use for layered chocolate cake (the recipe is in metrics). But I followed your cream cheese frosting to a tee. And I just love it!

So, anyone who's interested in getting this recipe, please contact my friend, Sitha! She will gladly share this recipe to anyone who ask. Ya, kan, Sit?
For your information, Sitha is an experienced english teacher. So, do contact her if you need any english tutorial. If you ask very nicely, she will even give you one-to-one english tuition at discounted price *_*


Friday, September 12, 2008

Mid Autumn Festival means...

Mooncakes!

And lanterns too.
Yesterday, we went to visit the 2008 lantern festival in Chinese Garden. It was my first time visiting Chinese Garden. And it was perfect timing, as it was on weekdays, and it was not so crowded. We could leisurely walk and enjoy the lanterns.

This year's theme is Sanrio. And the characters from Sanrio were lanternized exquisitely.  The lanterns display were beautiful. The tickets we bought also entitled us to get small paper lantern with Sanrio characters design. Nice and cute!

While I have not got the time to blog on mooncakes, as I enjoyed eating mooncakes more than taking photos of them, I made sure I took the pictures of the lanterns.