I nearly drove my mum up the wall with my incessant questioning about how to get the checkerboard pattern right...I thought I knew but after checking with her I realised that my method would have resulted in...disaster? Or something close to that.
Thinking in 3D gives me a headache 'coz its so ABSTRACT and confusing...but thankfully it was alot easier once I got down to making the cake!
Seemed to me that it was quite sometime since I did a mousse cake so I thought I'd do one...but I wanted something that was going to be a little different from the ones before.
Also decided to make a mousse that I haven't tried before so I went for a Chempedak mousse. It's one of my favourite fruits since I was a baby and the heady, almost perfume-like aroma of the fruit is rivaled only by His Highness, the Durian himself!
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| ARRGGHH. Stupid crinkles. |
The surface of the cake was kinda ruined as I forgot to smooth out the crinkles in the aluminium foil covering the base of the cake ring and the crinkles on the foil got transferred onto the cake once the mousse was set. The pattern also didn't come out as it was supposed to...one of the "squares" of mousse went missing amongst the cake pieces and it would have been nicer if there were more layers. =(
Guess it's back to the drawing board for this one.
