Banana Cake

During the crazy weeks when the resort's occupancy was full and most weddings took place,  I had to juggle several tasks at the same time. No one does breakfast goods and turn down desserts  but me. Meeting the demands of the guests, making the wedding cakes and the wedding's cake selection were physically draining and exhausting. I was just thankful that the request for wedding's dessert selection was not  daunting or I would be working twice as much.

Here's a simple treat made for the wedding reception. It's a basic banana cake anyone can whip up. It was soft, light and fluffy, a far cry from   dense  banana cake I grew up eating. If I were not watching my diet, I would have eaten more than a slice. It was delicious.

Chocolate Ganache Swiss Roll

Apart from the wedding cake, I was also in- charge of dessert selection for the wedding dinner. One of the cakes I made was this Swiss roll  with chocolate ganache filling. I was making all the baked goodies,  turn down desserts and the wedding related stuff on a tight schedule. What I needed was a quick and easy Swiss roll recipe which would not jeopardize my time. I peeked into BBC and was thankful that it has the easy sponge recipe I was looking for.

Onion- Horseradish Sauce Quiche

When I got an email from my boss regarding  my role at the wedding, I hurriedly went online to look for  onion-horseradish sauce quiche recipe - the dish assigned to me. It was not easy. I browsed countless recipes but my search which took hours  was not fruitful.  I asked the head chef if he could give me a recipe I could follow but even he could not find one online. He gave me a different quiche recipe instead and asked me to modify it. So I made some calculations based from that, modified some ingredients called for and this onion-horseradish quiche was born.

White Chocolate Mud Cake

The April wedding season has finally come to an end. As I looked back at those hectic and exhausting weeks of planning, preparation and execution, I could not help but wonder how I managed to do all on my own. It drained me physically but the enormous compliments about my work made my heart melt.

I am back to my normal schedule. Well, at least for a week. While I have my precious free time, let me talk about this white chocolate mud cake I made for one of the weddings last week. The cake can be kept for a few days without chilling but since the  temperature in Thailand is soaring each day, I decided to keep it in the fridge to avoid spoilage. I didn't want to take a risk. It's a dense cake so I advised  that the cake be taken out of the fridge at least  an hour before serving as it is best eaten at room temperature.

Rustic Wedding Cake

A vanilla cake enhanced with fresh Thai orchid. Simple yet elegant. I was doubtful about the way it would look but after adding the flower accents the cake looked stunning. Funny how much time was spent making this cake. I was running late as I did more than a day's worth of work that day. Sabbath was approaching so I went ahead and stacked the top tier on the bottom cake without checking if the latter was firm enough to hold the weight of the top cake. In just a few minutes, the bottom cake began to sink. I hurriedly removed the top tier and redid everything. I had no choice but to let the cakes chill overnight (and that would mean me working Saturday night). So right after sunset the following day, I went to work  so I could continue where I left off. Everything went swiftly the second time. I was relieved! So relieved!