Pretty, Yummy, Fresh Jelly

It's been quite awhile not getting myself messy in the kitchen :p Yesterday I was like taking revenge, around 130 pretty, yummy and fresh jellies plus 2 spiegeleikuchen. By the time I finished, I was so exhausted and no more power left in me to fix myself for saturday night :( So, when my boyfriend came, I just simply took shower and got into my favorite loose short and t-shirt *hehehe*, ooh not to mention... in my natural beauty *hahaha* nothing covered my face. Can you imagine how awful was that? :p

The jelly or konyaku as I always named everything with jelly *hihihi* is the easiest to make. What took me so long cuz I don't have enough ice cream cups for all 10 packages of Nutrigel. That's took me long time to wait the jellies to set and took out from the cup and began to fill the cups again *hiks hiks hiks* I post the jelly first, for the spiegeleikuchen gotta be later on...don't know when for sure *giggle*

Pretty, Yummy, Fresh Jelly

All you need is:

Nutrigel of different flavours, follow the instruction for cooking. Cut less the sugar for less sweet if you want. That's what I did.

Fresh fruits cut in cubes. You can add in any fruits you like. I put in mango, kiwi, strawberry, canned mandarin, honeydew and nata de coco. For me those fruits have the perfect colour for jellies :) For those to have less huzzle can use canned mixed fruits but I think it won't be yummier than fresh ones.

Ice cream plastic cups

Direction:

It's easy! Just drop in few fruit cubes in the cup. Prepare the jelly and pour into each cups. Let cool and refrigerate. Now you can enjoy...... :)

Strawberry Shortcake for Birthday

Too many birthdays in August :p I had too much cake already and all fats stuck in me :( This cake was made under somekind of cooperation hahaha... me, my sis' and my mom. It was a success though. We arranged small party for the b'dae little girl "my niece", invited just family from my mom's side. My mom's side already can make full the house hahaha...

My sis' made the cake from "lapis surabaya", 3 layers. My mom scrapping the white buttercream as the base. I decorated the cake with pink buttercream and accessories. Tadda...... check it out :) the overall look.

Up close... it wasn't bad afterall, right ? Good job, girls :p

The cake was made from egg yolk only, so we had plenty of egg whites left on the table. What a waste. And I don't want to eat scrambled white egg everyday for the whole week :p So me and my sis' made Zebra Cake (Marbled Cake) and simply decorated with cherries and grated chedar cheese :) You can say we made use of everything hahaha... If you are asking for the recipes, I believe it is very easy to find and most of you already have it in mind :)

My Birthday

It was my birthday last saturday the 18th of August, just 1 day after the independence day. So, it's a nice long weekend for all of us. Last year we had BBQ at Puncak. This year we just enjoyed our long weekend at home. So, I had plenty of time to make my own birthday cake.

Inspired from the best chocolate cake recipe of last week (same source, you can refer to the link in my previous post), which I thought very easy to follow :p The cake was easy, but the ganache and buttercream were such a pain for a starter and not patient like me hehehe... I think you can tell just looking at my pictures :p

I was struggling with chocolate, cream, sugar and butter until 2am :( I was so sleepy and exausted by the time I finished it. Straight to the bed, and...Zzzz... just in seconds I was in the dreamland hahaha... having a slice of my cake :)

The appearance is just okay, but taste is dewicious hahaha... It is true the saying of "learning by doing". I took the lesson how to deal with chocolate ganache and chocolate buttercream after failing quite few times :p Next time, which is this coming saturday I got an order from my sister to make the same cake for my niece's birthday, I will melt the small diced chocolate with just a little of whipping cream first to get the consistency to spread. And for sure, I will prepare the ganache the night before since we must store it first at least 3 hours before using. That way, I will not loose my patient while waiting :)