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Standard ingredient
Description: I have baked so many cheesecake, and Philadelphia is the only brand I would go for, and it has to be regular, no less fat version.
Standard base - graham cracker crumb
Description: Graham cracker crumb pressed into pan and baked.
Lots of batter!
Description: Five pack of creamcheese is a lot, the batter almost ready the top part of the beater attachment.
Let's fill the pan
Description: The batter almost fill to the top of the pan.
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Hmm.... flat
Description: The cheesecake it flat, but not as brown as I normally see.
It cracks!
Description: I should have put the cheesecake back to the oven when I see that big part of the center is still jiggle. Next time I would bake until the center 2 inches diameter jiggle.
Almost perfect
Description: The cheesecake has the right height, and look quite perfect except for the crack center.
Nice edge browning
Description: The side has nice browning as well, which mean it didn't stick too much to the side of the pan.
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Cover up
Description: New York cheesecake normally serve with strawberry topping. I have strawberry glaze in my freezer, so I decided to use it.
Oozzing glaze
Description: The glaze color is a bit too red, look kind of fake, but having part of the glaze ooz to the side make it looks good enough to eat regardless how red the glaze look!
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Finished cake - Baby boy shower cake
Description: The cake base is carrot cake with creamcheese frosting. I used orange and green color border to represent the carrot color.
Cake top - front
Description: Since the mone is having a baby boy, I thought a cute little boy dress in clown/pj shirt would be cute.
Cake top - side
Description: The proportion of the little figure seems just right.
Cake top - back
Description: The back is a bit hutch and straight because the figure was dry on its back to prevent further spreading and shortening because of the fondant medium
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Happy boy!
Description: My gumpaste dusting technique come in handy. On other thing I learn from this cake is frilling the collar.
Holly Cake
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Piped leaves
Description: The side of the cake required piped holly leaves
Piped holly leaves closeup
Description: I still have problem getting pointy leaves through piping!
Gumpaste holly leaves
Description: The leaves looks like plastics.
Gumpaste leave closeup
Description: Look closer and you can see the vein.
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Colored leaves
Description: The leaves are colored with dusting powder.
Finished leaves
Description: The steamed leaves has a gloss finish, looks pretty nice.
Holly cake!
Description: The first variety has only poinsettia on the cake.
More poinsettia
Description: Poinsettia flower added to the side too.
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Different variety
Description: The second variety has some berries scatter around. The berries doesn't make mush different, and it takes longer time to make small berries too.
Poinsettia center
Description: The color of the poinsettia looks nice, next time should try to learn gumpast poinsettia.
Some berries around
Description: For the second variety, berries were scatter on the side of the cake too.