Time with Cynthia: Colouring whipping cream

So here's a video tutorial to show you how you can colour whipping cream to your desired colour.

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Time with Cynthia: Wrapping Rice Dumplings

Here's a video tutorial to show you how you can wrap a rice dumpling!

*Please forgive the 'slantedness' of the video! 

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Time with Cynthia: Whisking non-dairy whipping cream

Here's a video tutorial to show you what to look out for when whisking non-dairy whipping cream to stiff peaks.

I'd love to see the bakes or stuff you've cooked using the blog's recipe! Do share photos of stuff you've baked or cooked using the blog's recipe with me either via FB message to http://facebook.com/limcynthia OR http://facebook.com/thebakingbiatch OR via email at cynthia.lim.hl@gmail.com! I look forward to hearing from you! (: 

Time with Cynthia: Slicing Cake Layers

Here's a video tutorial to show you how you can slice sponge cake into layers (:

*Please forgive the chipped nail colours!

I'd love to see the bakes or stuff you've cooked using the blog's recipe! Do share photos of stuff you've baked or cooked using the blog's recipe with me either via FB message to http://facebook.com/limcynthia OR http://facebook.com/thebakingbiatch OR via email at cynthia.lim.hl@gmail.com! I look forward to hearing from you! (: 

Time with Cynthia: Poaching an egg

Love runny poached eggs? Then you're bound to love this method of poaching eggs that gets you a beautifully poached egg in under 5 minutes.

You'll only need fresh eggs, vinegar & hot water. It's that simple!

Here are the simple steps: 

1) Boil the water or use hot water from a kettle.

2) Bring the water to a simmering boil (small fire).

3) Crack your FRESH egg into a clean bowl. (Use fresh eggs as they poach better)

4) To the small pot of water, add a tablespoon of vinegar and stir well. 

5) Create a gentle whirlpool by stirring the water in the pot in one direction. 

6) Gently pour the egg into the pot. 

7) Allow egg to cook for 3 minutes.

8) Remove using a slotted spoon/sieve to drain away most of the water.

9) Place egg into a basin/bowl of iced water (This is optional. I did not do this step)

10) Drain egg on pieces of kitchen towel.

11) Pat dry with kitchen towel gently before serving.

Here's a video to help you visualise it better! (:

Enjoy your poached egg! (:

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Eggless Tiramisu

This is a simple yet great-tasting recipe for an Eggless Tiramisu. It omits the raw eggs but uses mascarpone cheese. Pretty smart move I must say! Having made this many times, I feel that canned Nescafe coffee works better than home-made coffee (: The recipe calls for Baileys but feel free to replace it with any liquor of your choice! (: 

*Updated 20 Nov 2013

The EGGLESS in this recipe refers to the omission of raw eggs unlike what most recipes call for. If you're looking at a totally egg free version for someone who's allergic to eggs or a vegetarian, may I suggest baking your own ladies' fingers. I have yet to try baking them so I shan't recommend any recipes. But do a quick google search, you'd be able to find a couple of them like I did! Alternatively, you may replace it with an eggless sponge cake. So there you go, a solution if you'd like to have a totally eggless rendition of a lovely Tiramisu!

Updated 31 December 2013

Check out this link for the video tutorial!

The quantity for the Tiramisu shown in this video tutorial is the same as what you see in this image tutorial, just that it is being made in a 5.5" square cake 'ring'.

This is a hit to those many friends and family I've shared this with! 

ppppst... here's another tub I made in early September 2013!

And another in Nov 2013...

It sure looks good packed in the container!

This recipe is really simple so I'm rating it a 2 out of 5 stars in terms of difficulty. It takes about 15 minutes to whip up the entire dish.

Chocolat Surprise

A rich Secret Recipe-alike Ganache covering a cake with luxurious chocolate cream and chocolate sponge cake. Within it hides fresh seasonal mango cubes. What's there not to like? This was baked for Adrian as a secret surprise birthday gift which I delivered to his office in church. 

This recipe takes about 3 hours in all to put together and I'd rate it a 3 out of 5 in terms of difficulty. 

Rainbow Cake II

This weekend marks the end of my first week in school. Its been great so far being back to where I feel I belong: being a teacher. It has been challenging in terms of time management as I struggle to sleep early and wake up at 5am to get ready for school. Being a night owl (with a family of owls who don't sleep early), I struggle to sleep early. Anything before 12 midnight is not the norm in my household! But no such late nights for me any more as it would mean very few hours of sleep every night! Adjusting is indeed tough.

Nevertheless, I'm thankful that God has granted me with a great working environment that is coincidentally that fav boy's primary school that he used to attend! God has indeed a great sense of humour! 

In any case, I baked a cake for Rui En's first birthday party which was held at Downtown East Resort. This place sure brings back loads of memories. It's like the place for 'birthdays and celebrations', Singapore style. The favourite boy and I attended the party and the place sure brings back loads of memories. Anyway, this is the second rendition of the Rainbow Cake with a different recipe from the first one. 

I made a Hello Kitty cake with this 10" square rainbow cake as a base with a 7" carved Hello Kitty cake on top. This tutorial & recipe will be for the rainbow cake layer below (: I did a total of 7 layers for this cake..

This cake will take about 2 - 3 hours to bake depending on your speed and I'd rate it a difficulty level 4 out of 5.