| 113. Macaron Mania | 12:00 pm, April 23rd, 2011
Who doesn’t love macarons? I for one am addicted to them… I even tried making them a few weeks ago but failed horribly. They are incredibly hard to make!! One thing I love about them is the amount of different flavours you can get. Oh and how pretty they look of course!
| Most nom-able post of 2010 | 8:06 pm, December 27th, 2010
I LOVE admiring cake/pastry art. The amount of work and control that goes into it is just…amazing. So amazing you don’t even want to eat it! And I’m not even talking about those elaborately decorated wedding cakes or anything either…even a simple croissant or palmier can look absolutely DIVINE if they’re made right.
I just stumbled upon this gallery courtesy of one of my facebook friends- and don’t the cakes look amazing?!?:
Imperial Chocolat
It is a cake of chocolate mousse and dark chocolate.
Pumpkin Mont Blanc
Mild flavor of carefully pureed steamed pumpkin.
This seasonal cake using flowers of Izu cherry blossom and young leaves of Oshima cherry blossom is available during March and April.
And that’s only THE START!! The Fluffy Roll and Green Tea Chiffon cake look so utterly nom-able. The cakes look so perfect! So square! And the icing so delicious. The Cacoa Mint is my personal favourite.
AND THEN there’s the pies and cookies!!!
Using mountain milk from Tohoku area, it is a masterpiece of the West.
Fresh butter and flour are folded into 256 layers each by hand,it is shaped as a leaf. The crispiness of the pie and the texture of the sugar is the distinct characteristic of this pie.
Once baking the tart cookie with cake dough filling, it is baked again with frilled cookie dough with a specially arranged strawberry jam (using domestic strawberries). You can enjoy the combination of cookie pastry and cake pastry.It is the bestseller among the dry cake series.
Holy shit! HOW INTENSE DOES THE POLON SOUND??!?! I’d love to try and make some! The food photography is just amazing. I love Japanese pastries. I had some when I went to Malaysia last time and it was so so good. They have a way of making really delicious custard and pudding!
Anyway…as you can tell, food is really exciting to me. I’m actually meeting a Greek granny tomorrow for a new food show I’m doing with one of my friends. I hope it works out- even just one episode would be really cool!!
I’ve had way too much crap to eat these past few days though……..been feeling sick to my stomach the past two days! Hopefully it goes away soon.
I hope you had/are having some lovely time off stuffing yourselves silly too!!! Its nearly the end of year. Might as well go all out right? 
| Late night discoveries | 3:04 am, October 1st, 2010
I just came across these watercolour paintings by Eric Fortune- and don’t they look amazing?!
I just love the ethereal-likeness of the paintings. The dreamy texture is just amazing. Watercolour paintings incredibly hard to get right too – pretty amazing!
Also, I came across this on Bakerella:
Oh my god. Seriously.
LOOK AT IT.
IT’S A CUPCAKE MONSTROSITY.
I really want to try make them but they’ll probably turn out into a huge gooey mess …. I’m not that great at making icing haha. But omg. Does this picture not make you want to just eat a cupcake? Specifically, cupcakes with huge mounds of marshmallowy icing on top then dipped in chocolate?
I still need to make that red velvet cake which I haven’t gotten around to yet because it requires buttermilk which we usually never have. I’m definitely probably going to make it sometime next week though ^^
On the topic of cake….look at this amazingness:
Six rainbow coloured cakes, stacked on top of each other, covered in icing and hundreds and thousands AND fairy floss??
| O_O | 3:13 am, September 24th, 2010
Van Gough’s Starry Night in Cake form.
This is just too awesome for words.
