Watermelon Swiss Roll

Watermelon as cake??? Have you seen this before? Yes, indeed they are just swiss roll cake but look like watermelon!!

Hankerie came out of this idea - watermelon swiss roll. I will name it as "cakemelon". This creative idea inspired from the Australia Melon that I've seen in supermarket here. Most of the Australia watermelon melon are more pinkish, but suprisingly they're sweeter than what we have in Malaysia - red flesh watermelon. 

Well, I always like to bake special thing particularly those can be deceived by its look. A cake looks like watermelon, your taste bud will get totally confused but what you see before consumption. For the 1st bite, you tend to think this is juicy and sweet, but in the same time, it gives you the cake flavour - fluffy, soft and different sweetness from watermelon. 

Instead of using jam in between the layer, I decided to use my favourite fresh raspberries and blend into my fresh cream. It represents the pinkish white part in between the watermelon flesh and skin. Wondering about the seed imitation??? They are not the real watermelon seed, you can give a wild guess :)

Cut into slices, take closer look of the seed!

That's my favourite feature swiss roll thus far. 

Hankerie's Flower Cupcakes

Daisy + Rose = ? Both are flowers, they looks absolutely gorgeous when decorating on top of the cupcakes. Apply the fresh raspberries chocolate cream on top of basic vanilla cupcakes by using my mum's traditional recipe. Finishing the flower edge by using raspberries, cover the not-so-pretty part :)

The vibrant colour of this daisy makes the whole picture stunning. It's time to proceed my fondant flowers in next few weeks. Being too busy with work, time to relax and do what you really like.

Garfield Macarons

Garfield always voted as my most loved cartoon character and he has always been a favourite of mine, so Garfield Macarons, these are specially made for sure. If you see my Garfield swiss roll before, you will understand how my loves towards Garfield since young. In my opinion, garfield macarons are much easier to make than Garfield Swiss Roll.

In fact, when I brought these Garfield Macarons office that day, nobody believe these are macarons and especially made by me. They are totally stunned with these little cute thing. The 1st impression of theirs  -"Where did you buy this from? And I do not think that I ever see this kind of Macarons outside before?"

The flavour of this macaron is orange filling, with original Macarons flavour of its shell. Here you go, another cute thing to share with others. Everyone will put on their smile while eating every single bites of this.

Teddy Bear Macarons

Woo hoo, another of my macaron's idea - Teddy bear macarons. Teddy bear always is the best friend of all girls, the best ever gift for any events. I've lost count how many teddy bear soft toys that I've before. The fond of teddy bear has made me to draw without any reference, fully depends on my last memory towards teddy bear.

After getting so much compliments from Lazaro Cooks & Jill Colonna (a popular macaron French cookbook author), more new ideas to inspire me making more creative ideas on macarons. From there, I learnt various way to present macarons.

There is an interesting fact that I've learnt from one of my Canadian friend - Shyane. The gloomy bear is his most favourite and he claimed that it looks like the old traditional English bear which really looks that gloomy.

Hankerie's teddy bears- good friend :)

It is NOT burger! It's burger MACARONS!

I have been always obsessed with the idea of other bakes that looks like a burger. I finally got around to making some just in time to celebrate the April's fool event, a typical look burger macarons. Yes, they're macarons, not the burgers!!!

In fact, the macarons that I make always seem to look like little burgers. So instead of fighting my macaron's burger-like quality, I decided to embrace it fully with these whimsical "burger" macarons. I sprinkled some sesame seeds on my macaron shells before baking them so that they would look like burger buns.

These misiature burger macarons are specially make for Erica's baby shower last week. I'm so delighted that she loves this burger macarons the most our of my Garfield and Teddy Bear Macarons.

Hankerie's new adventure of macarons - Burger Macarons

Happy Family Birthday Cake

This is the most challenging order thus far. Finishing the whole cake with all the necessary decorations within 6 hours. The most stressful part is to deliver the cake on 25th April evening, and I have limited  time decorate it.

I named this birthday cake as "Happy Family Birthday Cake", as the husband who wanted to give his wife surprise on this, specially requested to have 3 of them on the cake. As such, I started to draw the sketches for the design, how to make the whole cake looks cute and delicate. In my principles, I always would like my cake looks good but also taste good as well. See the cake below, the combination of Mocha Cake on top, middle layer is the chocolate fudge, and the Milo layer cake at the bottom.



Mum & daughter are intrigued by the cake. Kaelyn was so happy to point each of the detail on the cake, spelled words by words, colour by colour. See the middle of the model, she is in there.

Of course with the house, there's should be a garden as well. Instead of plain edge, I pipe the lavenders by using the purple colour butter cream and green butter cream.

Hankerie's freehand drawing, surround the cake with lavenders

See this little girl Kaelyn requested her mum that she wants to "sit on the table" in order to sit nearer to the birthday cake. Laugh out loud but feel touched in the same time though..

Flower Bouquet Red Velvet Cake

Is it someone’s birthday/wedding today again? Tell them to blow out all the candles on this fabulous white Flower Bouquet Red Velvet Cake and all of their wishes will come true! This adorable cake is created entirely from red velvet cake, topped with piped roses from cream cheese. It’s a dream of a birthday gift or wedding gift as well.

Speaking of this cake's idea, it came from a rose bouquet candle that I seen before. The craft of that particular is so delicate and inspired to make into a cake. Of course the white roses must match something which is really delicious. There goes for my top of the list - cream cheese and red velvet cake. 

Normally, I love my cake to be "Round & Bulky" instead of traditional round and flat. Sometimes, it's really difficult to achieve this result.

Hankerie's new invention - Flower Bouquet Red Velvet Cake

Strawberry Vanilla Cake

"Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to my hubby, Happy Birthday to you!"  Specially sang this birthday song to my hubby. This was his 1st birthday that I did not manage to celebrate beside him this year.  Hence, I decided to make an birthday cake specially for him, blow for him and eat for him as he is too far to reach this cake. What I can do was only send the photo to him, and until I go back to KL one day, make another real one for him. Apart from the cake, luckily my birthday gift already delivered to him beforehand.

Speaking of this birthday cake, I was in a layer-cake kind of mood recently, both making and eating, of course. One of my favourite layer cakes is Hokkaido Vanilla Cake: layers of  soft and spongy Hokkaido vanilla cake, and fresh strawberry, layered with fresh whipped cream. The flavours really work so well together, and I personally find it really unique and quite appealing, clean and clear, once sliced. What’s interesting, is that most people intrigued by the fresh strawberries as the cake toppings.

I love when a cake looks pretty traditional, simple and clean on the outside, but has an unexpected layered appearance on the inside. No matter how many cakes I make, I’m always secretly excited and eager to slice it and see what it looks like inside–particularly when it’s a multi-layerd cake, like this one even are 3 layers only. Such anticipation! 

Hankerie's special birthday cake for my hubby - Strawberry Vanilla Cake (Hokkaido)

I love to see the contrast of layers, but most importantly (always), it is really, truly a delight to eat. For each of your bite, the fresh cream blends so well with the freshness of strawberries and makes the cake even more moist and yummy.

Raspberries Cream Chocolate Cake

Almost end of summer in Australia, I felt lucky the produce selection that Australia provided.  First strawberries, and blueberries, cherries, peaches, nectarine, grapes and now raspberries. During my last visit to farmer's market, believe it or not, I bought 7 punnet of fresh raspberries and decided to keep in the freezer for my cake bakes. I was able to snag a great deal on raspberries with the farmers :) 

This round, I decided to make mine into a fresh raspberry whipped cream frosting for my chocolate cake.  It is so moist and chocolaty (and not to mention easy) -- I absolutely love it, that's why is my all time favourite cake.

Instead of making a traditional buttercream frosting, I decided to make this raspberry whipped cream as a sort of "summer" variation. I couldn't be more happy with the results as the combination of raspberries cream and chocolate taste.  The sweet raspberry whipped cream perfectly offset the dense semi-sweet chocolate cake.  I just love the pale pink frosting peeking out between the deep chocolate layers too.  Definitely go grab some raspberries and make this cake.  I am just looking for an excuse to make this again because mine was gone too quickly!

Hankerie's new creation - Raspberries Cream Chocolate Cake. Enjoy a slice.

Angry Birds & Angry Pigs Macarons

Believe it or not? It's Angry Birds and Pigs on Macarons. All edible!!! They're so adorable until I could not eat them, at the end of the day, I gave away these set of macarons to one of my Singapore friend's granddaughter in Australia here.

Her granddaughter is in cloud nine when receiving this set of macarons, and to my surprise she was seeking her grandfather permission to share these wonderful things with her school mates. How sweet is she! Good thing always good to share, undeniably.

Since last Christmas, I've had a break from baking any Angry Birds related bakes lately. In fact, I was starting to get a little sick of it and I don't want to bake up boring Angry Birds cupcakes again. Hence, thinking of how to draw Angry Birds on top of Macaron, what kind of things can be their parts of the face on macarons. Here you go, after my first experience on Easter Bunny macarons, I made these Angry Birds Macarons on a whim, and was incredibly happy with the results. Everybody just love these piece of arts :)

See my Angry Pigs macaron, not easy to draw their detail expression.

The usual 3 Green Pigs in the row.