A Sinful Slice...

Deciding on a cake for my sister's birthday was pretty easy. She loves chocolate and cheesecakes so I think it was QUITE obvious that a chocolate cheesecake was the way to go...but it was going to be very very RICH(think tons of melted chocolate and cream cheese mixed together) and BOY WAS IT RICH..!!

The innocent chocolate cake...

Cheese, cream and sliced-up cake...

After the 'grand' unmoulding...not the best looking cake you've seen though...

I really liked the decoration and the best part is that its extremely easy to do! Very fuss-free.

It took about 2 days to turn it out but it would have been alot longer had my mum not helped me all along the way, that's for sure. Decorating a cake always leaves me clutching at straws but my mum is always full of ideas so that wasn't a problem this time.

Couldn't resist grabbing a picture of the table...my mum has a real good eye for presentation!

The morning after...hehehe =D

If this isn't sinful, I don't know what else is!

Jolly Green Thing

Success!! Look out your window RIGHT NOW! You might just see celebratory fireworks in the sky sprouting from my room!!!

Well not exactly...but its the most decent looking chiffon cake I've turned out in 4 attempts. Not sure why but chiffon cakes are the hardest for me to make - so I absolutely hate them. I think they might have come up in my nightmares once or twice...deflating dramatically when taken out of the oven (if for some reason I 'm having a nightmare and I'm making cakes in it?!)

But my sister loves these little slices of air (its so light and airy, it feels like eating a mouthful of COTTON WOOL.) so I think it wouldn't be a waste to try and get it right.

Getting presents for birthdays are never easy for me - I just don't know what to buy! It's going to be my sister's birthday in a few days time and I'm still racking my brains.

Boy wouldn't it be GREAT if I could read minds??

Then again...maybe not.