Baking Adventures

Being not such an accomplished baker, everytime I venture into the kitchen to attempt baking anything involving flour, raising agent, sugar and butter (or any other edible fats), I am apprehensive of results. It's incredible how one's moods can rise sky-high if baking concoction turns out nice (note, I haven't achieved perfection) or plummet to the depths of the earth if cake has sunk, cratered, cracked, turned into mud or worse a bouncing brick!

• SHF#9 - Tantalizing Titillating Tempting Tarts: Tropical Tarte Tatin - chopped pineapples on puff pastry a la mode tarte tatin
• Cupcake Heaven - cupcakes with strawberry white chocolate fudge topping
• IMBB#16 - Frutti Frittata - a sweet frittata topped with strawberries and blueberries
• SHF#10 - Honeyed Oranges with Baked Sweet Ricotta
• Strawberry Ice Cream Soda & Buttermilk Cake - lovely light buttermilk cake with raspberry sauce
• Durian Muffins
• My Quiet Time - chocolate chip oat cookies
• Chocolate Yearning - Pierre Herme's Apricot and Ginger Chocolate Cake
• A Plummy Deal - luscious Plum Blueberry Cake
• Not easy to get Smooth - Pierre Herme's Faubourg Pave (chocolate ganache layered cake)
• Marble Cake Like No Other - Alice Medrich's Tiger Cake, a marble cake made from olive oil with a touch of pepper
• Classic but not Boring - vanilla pound cake served with lavender syrup and champagne grapes
  
• For the Cookie Monster - Horlicks chocolate-flavored raisin oat cookes
  
• Eating my Curds - home-made lemon curd with wheat-germ raisin scones and lemon madeleines
• Morning Aromas - blueberry and bran muffins