June was abit of a blur to be honest. Seemed like a lot of stuff went on - but looking back, it doesn't seem like much actually - and I finally got a break from my upside-down work schedule. Which is always cause for celebration!
Anyway.
June is the month where fathers get their turn in the limelight! Albeit a severely dimmed one in comparison to the rapturous adulation their spouses would have been showered with a month earlier...
Just as with Mother's Day, Father's Day is also celebrated with...............you guessed it, a cake, in my house. Dad requested for something coffee based this time so it didn't take too long for me to settle on one to make for the occasion, though I didn't want it to be just a regular old run of the mill coffee-cream-sponge combination. The man certainly deserves better!
A quick run through the recipe books and I stumbled upon one for a Tiramisu Cheesecake which seemingly ticked all the boxes I had in my head for the cake. Having recently decided to switch over from powdered gelatin to leaf ones, I had trouble estimating the conversion and ended up with a little too much gelatin in the rich mascarpone cheese mixture that enrobed the chocolate sponge interior.
That made for a pretty rubbery cheesecake which was abit of a let down for the perfectionist in me. But my dad didn't mind at all and happily tucked into his slice of the cake! Which kinda made all the scurrying around getting the ingredients and the hours spent assembling the cake worth it!
Next up was making wedding favours for my dear brother-in-law's brother which was a huge honour I must say! 100 Sugar Heart cookies with a Tiffany Blue icing seemed pretty daunting back when he first asked me but in the end, I was extremely glad I took it on.
It wasn't easy baking around a night shift schedule (as I've moaned about countless times before here =X) but I had a ton of help from my mum, without whom I would have been scrambling around till the last minute to get the whole thing decorated and packed up.
I also had the honour of making the desserts and a cake for the bride's hen party - a Thousand Roses Cake in the Tiffany Blue, a Nutella Brownie and Custard Cream Puff Swans! The Thousand Roses Cake was abit of a challenge as it has been some time since I'd made one while thankfully, the Swans and the Brownie came out alright...the swans were a real delight to make to be honest!
Always an awesome feeling to play a small part in these once-in-a-lifetime events! Great baking experience too I must say!
June and the tail end of May also saw some orders for cupcakes from my colleagues, with 2 lots of Red Velvets going out and some Hazelnut Chocolate and Mocha ones as well. Always a pleasure to bake for them!
