阿爹的生日蛋糕 my dad's birthday cake

阿爹的58歲生日。My dad's 58yr old birthday.
第一次做給阿爹的生日蛋糕。First birthday cake for my dad.

5 個草莓圍繞 1個較大的草莓，代表着我們四姐妹和媽媽，時刻守護/仰望着阿爹。5 smaller strawberries surrounding 1 bigger one, representing me, mom and sisters, will always be there for our beloved daddy, no matter what.

蛋糕体做法和這Lemon Pudding Strawberry Cake一樣。中間也
是用草莓醬，上面換走lemon pudding, 用的是黃桃，和沾了apricot glaze 的草莓。蛋糕頂部也掃了一層apricot glaze.

Refer here for recipe of the cake. Instead of using lemon pudding, this time i have used peach slices (cut from peach halves), and strawberries (with apricot glaze). I have used the apricot glaze a layer on the cake top before arranging the peach flower.

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7 egg yolk

7 egg white

150g super fine flour

100g milk

100ml corn oil

Beaten egg white

Egg yolk mixture

The Batter (∩_∩)

In the baking

Preparation for deco

Cake out from oven (after inverted)

Half of the cake, with strawberry paste

Top with another half of the cake, with a layer of apricot glaze

Flower arrangement

The Flower

Lady fingers sticked-on

The Cake Y(^o^)Y

My Beloved 阿爹，my forever love ♥

Peach Chiffon

很喜愛peach, 也喜歡做chiffon cake帶來的滿足感 (當然是成功的chiffon cake才有滿足感), 所以就嘗試做个peach chiffon蛋糕。

其實一点都不難，但由於我只用了兩粒雞蛋，所以，蛋糕矮矮的。不過，蛋糕味道非常好喔，我放多了peach, 讓蛋糕更加moist.

**食譜我大多会用英文，方便不会看華語的朋友們**

Ingredients:
♡ egg x 2 (separate yolk and white) 
♡ 100g peach slices 
♡ 20ml peach syrup 
♡ 60g self raising flour
♡ 1tbsp caster sugar (for yolk mixture)
♡ 35g caster sugar (for egg white) 
♡ 2tbsp corn oil
♡ 1/4 tsp cream of tartar

Method:
1) For egg yolk mixture:  Blend 80gm peaches with syrup, and dice the rest of the peach slices. Combine with sugar, flour, and oil in a mixing bowl, mix well

2) For egg white : Beat egg whites until frothy,  add in cream of tartar and beat until soft peak formed, add in sugar gradually, beat at higher speed until stiff peak formed.

3) Gently fold egg white into egg yolk mixture, in 3 batches.

4) Pour batter into ungreased tube pan. Bake for 30 minutes or until cooked.

5) Invert the cake, and you may remove the cake after it is completely cool

Peach Pound Cake

After opened a can of peach slices which i used only half of the can for the dairy free white cake, i decided to bake a peach cake.

Googled quite a few peach cake recipe, finally decided to do this peach pound cake, base on the ingredients i have in my 香香厨房 ^_^

Lovely, moist, 真係好吃㗎,hahaha 

Ingredients:
- 1 cup butter, softened

- 2 cups white sugar

- 4 eggs

- 1 tsp vanilla extract

- 3 cups all-purpose flour

- 1 tsp baking powder

- 1/2 tsp salt

- 2 cups peaches, chopped

Method:
1) Preheat oven at 165 degrees C.
2) Butter a tube pan and coat with white sugar.
3) In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
4)  Add the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition, then stir in the vanilla.
5) Reserve 1/4 cup of flour for later, and sift together the remaining flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually stir into the creamed mixture.
6) Use the reserved flour to coat the chopped peaches, then fold the floured peaches into the batter.
7) Pour evenly into the prepared tube pan.
8) Bake for 60minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
9) Allow cake to cool in the pan for 10 minutes.

Dairy Free White Cake

Baked this for my mom-in-law, in celebration of mother's day.

Have been searching up and down for a dairy free cake, as my mom-in-law allergy to dairy products.

My friends told me to do chiffon, which has no milk no cream no cheese in it, yet i think a chiffon cake is too light for deco, nothing much can do, and the hole in the middle of the cake, for me, is somehow 怪怪地 if to deco.

Found this recipe in the end, the cake came out only around 3cm tall, same as the photo i saw from the recipe i followed. The cake taste nice of lemon, yet the outer ring became dry and hardened after fridged. 

Ingredients:

- 250 plain flour

- 250g caster sugar

- 1.5 tsp -bicarbonate soda

- 1 tsp salt250ml soy milk (or other dairy free milk)

-.60g coconut oil (or vegetable/rapeseed oil)

- 3 tbsp white wine vinegar (i use lemon juice) 

- 2 tsp vanilla extract

Method: 

1. Preheat oven to 160c with fan

2. Line a 20cm cake tin.

3. Combine all the dry ingredients and mix together with a whisk.

4. Mix together all the wet ingredients. 

5. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix well, then pour the batter into baking tin.

6. Bake for 25-30 minutes until the cake is golden color. 

7. Allow to cool in the baking tin for a while, before moving to a cooling rack.

For decoration, i have used peach slices to deco as a flower, and surround the cake with heart-shaped marshmallows ❤

Sunfl❁wer Cake

This was the first birthday cake i baked, to celebrate my bb Charlize first birthday ^_^

Its a baked cheesecake, top with peach slices to form the sunflower petals, the yellow one are famous amos chocolate balls and chocolate chip at the center, and 2 little beetle, haha...

Nice, very nice cheesecake (although the side shrinked as i didnt leave it in oven for awhile after baked, too rush), and really satisfied with my deco for the cake, i give myself 90%, heheh ;)