Completely Happy!

It's hard to find time blogging. One of my main reasons for this blog is to pay tributes to some important people. Well, I realized how much time I need to compose each post. Now, I have a few posts pending in my file folder, and I will get to them when I have time. 

Just want to post a few pictures of birthday cakes I made in the past 4 months. 

Friends are very good to me. They give me total freedom creating cakes for them. From the time they order, I start forming idea from the cake body, the flavor of the mousse, the layers, the frosting, to the decoration. Each cake is custom made and often different. It really challenges me, and I love it. 

The cake on the top is a chocolate chiffon cake with white chocolate whipped cream, of course layered with strawberry slices and topped with many strawberries.  The cake on the upper right is the green tea mousse with green tea sponge cake base. The one to the right is basically followed the Mascarpone and blueberry cake in Dorie Greenspan's book "Desserts by Pierre Herme", and obviously I used strawberries instead. The cake below is a chocolate mousse finished with ganache. 

My First Ever!!!

I can't believe I am doing this - I am blogging!!! Oh well, there is always the first time. I am no good at photographing; I am no good at English wording; I am no experienced at blogging. But I love baking. It can be a struggle deciding to bake or not to bake while there are work, house, family, piano, kids, husband, friends, and on and on. Finally, I decided that this is a place to record my on-going learning of baking and cooking and growing in many different ways.

I have learned from many bloggers who are far beyond me yet have shared so much with people like me, those who are Helen, Aran, April, and many more. My greatest appreciations go to them.

Thanks to dear friend P.-Y. for taking these pictures with her flowers. Oh yes, I am also no good at gardening, but she is. 

Like many others, I also have a bad habit of collection cook books. Dorie Greenspan's Desserts by Pierre Herme is my new love lately. I followed almost to the exact making this lemon tart. I also made some small tartlets but they were all gone to many happy stomachs before I could bring out the camera. I again need to thank Aran for pointing the right place to get those small tart rings. I love them. 

This will be it for the first shot. More later.