Frozen yoghurt

The other day, Jalna Yoghurt was on sale. Being thick and creamy, it's especially good for making frozen yoghurt.


Having some frozen cherries on hand also, I threw them together into my ice-cream machine and made vanilla cherry frozen yoghurt!


Very simple to make, and healthier than ice-cream! I love those frozen cherries!

Vanilla and cherry frozen yoghurt
Makes 1.5L or so.

1kg Jalna Premium Vanilla Yoghurt
300g frozen pitted cherries (I used the Creative Gourmet ones)

Freeze ice-cream canister over night or as per your ice-cream machine instructions.

Mix cherries into yoghurt.

Pour into ice-cream machine.
Churn until frozen or as specified by your machine.

Freeze overnight in a freezer safe container.

A lot of C's for a B

I purchased a giant cupcake silicone mould online. It got delivered within 2-3 days. Turns out, that it wasn't that great after all. More than a cupcake shape, it looked like a beehive. So, I covered it in custard flavoured rolled fondant and turned it into a beehive.
Chocolate chilli cherry cookie cake, covered in custard flavoured fondant. Lot's of words beginning with C, ey? Haha.


By the way, those things that look like stones, are chocolate stones. :P

Chocolate chilli cherry cookie cake, covered in custard fondant.
Makes about 10 servings

20g butter
100g Lindt Dark Chilli Chocolate
140g plain flour
45g corn flour
1 tsp baking powder
25g cocoa powder
3 (70g eggs), separated
100g sugar
400ml milk
65g choc cookie crumbs
250gm frozen cherries, thawed

custard flavoured rolled fondant

In a double boiler, melt butter and chocolate. Allow to cool.
Sift flours, baking powder and cocoa together in a bowl.Add milk and egg yolks. Mix.Add cooled chocolate. Mix.
Add in cookie crumbs and cherries. Mix.
Whisk egg whites until soft peaks. Add sugar gradually whilst beating until stiff peaks.
Gently fold in egg whites.
Grease cake pan. (I used my giant cupcake silicone casings) and gently pour cake mixture until 3/4 full.Bake in a preheated 155C oven for 1hr and 40mins or until cooked.
Allow to cool completely before covering with rolled fondant.


Don't ask me about the custard fondant. I ran out of icing sugar in the middle of the night. It was too sticky still so I used up all of my custard powder. -__-

Serve with cookies n cream icecream! To me, the fondant is purely decorative. I don't really eat it because it's just sugar.

Penguin Chocolate Cherry Cupcakes

Hello hello. I wanted to make some cupcakes for a friend. After thinking about what to make, I decided on chocolate cherry mudcake cupcakes decorated with fondant icing. I decided to try and make fondant myself as I've heard many un-delicious things about premade Orchard Fondant Icing. (Though, I've never tried it myself..)

Well here they are. My Penguin Chocolate Cherry Cupcakes! :) Hehe.


It was very fun to make and I'm so proud of myself. Haha.

If anyone would like custom made decorated cupcakes, I can be of service to you~ Pay me and I can make pretty much anything for you! :D
(Personal requests only. Only for friends or people I know. So long as I can meet up with you on delivery)

I dream of one day opening up a bakery..


One day..

one day.. :)

Chocolate cherry mudcake cupcakes
Makes about 7

125g frozen cherries, thawed
35g plain flour
35g self raising flour
1 tbsp (5g) cocoa powder
1 egg
1/4 cup (60ml) milk
52g dark chocolate
63g butter
100g sugar

In a saucepan, melt chocolate, butter milk and sugar on low heat until combined.
Leave to cool for 20minutes or so.
Whisk in flours and cocoa.
Then whisk in egg.
Add frozen cherries and any juice it comes with to the mixture.
Scoop into cupcake patties until 80% full.
Bake in a preheated 150C oven for 30mins or until cooked.

Allow to cool before decorating.

Okay. This one was the first penguin that I made. Pretty ugly huh? :(

Modelling fondant
Makes about 285g of white fondant

250g icing sugar
2 tsp light corn syrup or glucose (I used Karo Light Corn Syrup with Vanilla)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 tbsp warm water
2 tsp gelatine

Dissolve gelatine in water. Add vanilla extract and corn syrup/glucose.
Mix into sifted icing sugar until combined. A dough should form.
Wrap with clingwrap if not in use as it dries out and hardens.

Decorate as necessary using food dyes.


The fondant will harden over time, so be quick with modelling. Also, to help fondant stick to cake and eachother, simply brush with water.

It is a timely process, but I think it's worth it. If you don't have the time, pay me and I'll gladly do it for you! ;D

The cake I did not bake

My sister baked a cake. She wanted to try making a sponge cake because we had cream left over in the fridge... and my cherries from NYE cherry picking.


The cake looked okay. Was slightly dry, but had a nice crunch on the edges. The cream was.. well, let's just say it didn't look like cream. By the time I came downstairs to see what she was doing, it looked like.. ricotta cheese. Hahaha.


It was edible. And half the cake has been devoured by 3 people (mainly 2 people actually). So it must have been good right? Well.. my cherries are in it. The very last of it. Plus, there was no oil or butter added to the cake! So it was somewhat healthier.. though the cream would have evened it out.


Look at all the cherries! Yum yum! Plus, look at the size of those cherries! I picked the very best, I did. :)

Oh. And I was at work when she made the sponge, so I didn't see the process of her making it. But this was how she did it:

Sponge cake
4 eggs, separated
2/3 cup plain flour
1/3 cup corn flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp baking powder

Preheat oven to 180C.
Add vanilla to egg yolks.
Sift all dry ingredients twice.
Beat egg whites until stiff peaks. Gradually add sugar.
Beat in egg yolks.
Fold in sifted dry ingredients and pour into greased springform pan.
Bake for 40mins or until cooked. Cool cake on cooling rack before slicing into layers or decorating.

The cake was gigantic. It had 3 layers, with cream, fresh cherries (not that fresh as they were picked on NYE, but still fresh!) and sprinkled with icing sugar.


I'd like to make a sponge cake myself one day. I've never tried it. But one day.. :)

Now to drink lots and lots of hot jasmine tea to wash it all down. Gotta love my tea. I recommend drinking hot tea (it has to be hot, not luke warm or warm) after eating anything creamy/oily/sweet. It helps cleanse your insides. And I know, I'm a tea addict. :D