Strawberry Trifle

I'd been thinking of trifle for  a while now, with the abundant supply of strawberries around. So...trifle tonight! Huge bowl for the two of us. Bet Ani will be asking for some cream and cake...Actually she's already stolen a small piece of cake while I was putting it together! Such a cutie :)

All the ingredients before assembly...oh noes, I forgot! I put lots of lychee liquor in it, didn't have any brandy in the pantry. No trifle for kitty...

Clockwise from top, fresh whipped cream, fresh strawberries, freshly baked sponge and strawberry jelly

Till next time!

Lil Lemon Meringue Pies and Apple Pocket Pies

Made two dozen lil LMPs and a pocket apple pie each for dessert as the family were coming over for red wine lamb shanks dinner! Think the lil LMPs are great for tea parties...in fact ANY party! Good bite size for each person.

Baked the apple pocket pies a little too hot so the edges are slightly burnt :( Still, was good to try out my WS apple mould for the first time!

Got a pink cake stand in anticipation of Ani's (My little darling ragdoll Anarchy aka Kiwimagic Ice Angel) first birthday. We've got an amazing present for her! Tell you more on her birthday post. 

Would love some handmade Jeanette Zeis and Whitney Smith ceramic tiered cake stands, cake stands and cupcake stands at some point to have a collection to stage a beautiful tea party. Just don't like the cheap thin Made in China ones that Stevens sells. Also need some glass domed sets and antique looking tea & saucer & dessert plate sets! All sounds rather pricey...better build up slowly ;P 

Watermelon Cupcakes

Did a rush job Thursday night on a batch of watermelon cupcakes. I didn't sift the flour, mixed everything in a jiffy and got a couple of air bubbles and deflated cupcakes. hehehe!

Made watermelon flavored red cupcakes, used dark chocolate buttons as the 'seeds' and topped it with green vanilla buttercream. Didn't get the buttercream texture right so no cute dollops :(

Chocolate 'seeds'!

Here's the rest of the Williams Sonoma stuff, can't wait to try out the Apple Pocket Pies! :) And the decorating bottles are for icing christmas cookies, got them on sale. Next up I'd like to try some pandan cupcakes but I have to find some ingredients that are not readily available at the supermarket.