White Vanilla Chai Cake

White Vanilla Chai Cake

Few, it's been a very long time since I've posted. I've been updating more frequently on the Baby Powder Baking Facebook page which can be found here 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Baby-Powder-Baking/372504936214856

On to the new a good stuff.

 

I spend a couple hours before baking the cake making sugar paste flowers. It was a long two days but I finally finished and am proud of my results. I'm almost there. Just a couple more cakes.

Brown Butter Cake

A brown butter cake base, with cream lemon zested cream cheese topping, Finished off with strawberry sauce.

Brown Butter Cake

Green Tea Cheescake

 Green Tea Cheesecake

 

I drew this picture some time ago, and since then I've decided to change the shape from one round cake to small individual squares. I only have about 15 items left to make in my baking experiments. Soon I'm going to re-arrange my menu and start my cake portfolio.

Earl Grey Chocolate Mousse Cake

The mousse is made with cream of earl grey tea. with a middle layer of white chocolate cream and cashews.

A dark chocolate brownie on the bottom.

This cake is very creamy and extremely decadent, and tastes sort of like a latte.

The whole cake is finished  off with dark chocolate medallions and white chocolate flowers.

Something a bit different 5

Earl Grey Mousse Cake

This tea inspired mousse cake is going to be my experiment for this week. I'm going for clean, even layers, starting with a rich chocolate brownie layer on the bottom, Vanilla and pecan cream filling, and velvety smooth earl grey mousse.

Durian Cake and Matcha Green Tea Cupcakes

 Durian Cream Cake with creamy whipped icing.

Not being a fan of durian myself I would have never attempted this cake unless someone ordered it specifically. The fruit itself has a such a strong odor that every time I opened the refrigerator, I could smell the cake through its container. But it seems like those who love it, really love it, and don't mind subjecting their friends to its pungent smell.

However the cake did turn out stunningly tall and sturdy, and the cream went on smoothly. I even started thinking I wanted to try a slice.

Along with the cake was an order for half a dozen chocolate, green tea cupcakes. These turned out pretty tasty. I made my regular chocolate cupcake recipe and put in a tablespoon of matcha powder into the batter. Then made a matcha  butter cream, by heating up the milk, sugar and matcha powder and  letting cool, before stirring in the butter. ( And a little food dye because it was sort of, "off brown")

 

I love the look of this cake. I'll defiantly have to try it again with a flavour I'm fond of.