How to make a 2D Buzz Lightyear figure

As I mentioned on Facebook, I'm gonna do a tutorial on how to make a 2D Buzz Lightyear figure! It's been a while since I made a tutorial. I hope you guys enjoy this. It's actually not that hard to make, but the thing is theres a lot of small pieces to cut which can strain your eyes after a while.

First, you need to print out 2 pictures of Buzz. I got these off the internet, fitted them on an A4 paper, and printed them out. Which means these are actually half an A4 size each. It really depends on how big your cake is and how you want to lay it on the cake. You can adjust the size accordingly.

After printing the picture, cut them as how I did in the picture above. The big piece you will use to cut the white base out, and the small pieces you will use to cut the different colours of pieces as how you see on Buzz.

After that, using a piece of polystyrene and a needle or a toothpick...

place the big picture of buzz on the polystyrene and..

Poke holes on the lines of the picture.

And you'll get this which later you'll be pressing onto the fondant.

Next, roll out the fondant until its not too thick nor too thin (too thick it wont look pretty, too thin it'll be harder to handle and easier to crack once it's dry), place it on a parchment paper, and place the big picture of buzz facing down on the fondant.

Then with a sharp knife or pen knife, cut the fondant according to the picture..

And don't forget to cut the arms out as well.

You'll get this. Now turn the fondant around on the parchment paper, nicely place the picture of buzz again, this time the right side up, and rub the picture down onto the fondant gently. The holes that you poked earlier will create and indent on the fondant and serve as your guideline. If the indent is to faint for your eyes, use the needle or toothpick and poke through the holes on the fondant.

Using the tool above (or any other blunt tool), you can now trace out the lines on the fondant by following the indent that you have made earlier.

Next, use the smaller pieces that you have cut out as moulds to cut out the different colour fondant and place them on the right spot. By this time, it would be easy for you to identify where each piece goes, according to the outline that you have made earlier.

And lastly for the face, you just need a little bit of imagination and just follow the picture of buzz, and form the small shapes from the fondant by hand. For the outline of the mouth and chin and the "lightyear" badge, I just used a toothpick and some black wilton food colouring. But you need to make sure that the fondant has completely dried before you can do this, otherwise the colourwill spread and it will look awful.

And now you have the handsome Buzz Lightyear!

"To infinity...and beyond!"

Red Velvet mmmmm...

Credits: google images

Hey everybody! I finally made a red velvet cake and now I'm gonna make a tutorial for you! Before that, I bet some of you haven't even heard of a red velvet cake. I didn't know what it is before either. But I kept seeing it on american baking blogs and I was so curious to know how it tasted. Now I think I know how it got that name. Because it's really red and it tastes so rich and smooth like velvet! So enough of babbling, here's the recipe (I got it from here):

RED VELVET CAKE

2 1/2 cups (250 grams) sifted cake flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons (15 grams) Dutch-processed cocoa powder
1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups (300 grams) granulated white sugar (castor sugar lah)
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup (240 ml) buttermilk (kalau takde, boleh buat sendiri. click here)
2 tablespoons liquid red food coloring
1 teaspoon white distilled vinegar
1 teaspoon baking soda

My recipe is colour coded so that its easy for you to see the steps and what goes together. So heres how you make it:

1. Preheat oven at 175c.
2. Sift blue items together in a mixing bowl and set aside
3. Next comes the orange part. In a mixer, beat butter until soft. Add sugar and beat until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time and beat well. Scrape sides of bowl. Then add vanilla extract and beat until combined.
4. Next, in a separate bowl, whisk red items.
   
5. In mixer (with the orange mixture), alternately add the blue and red mixture, in three additions, beginning and ending with the blue or flour mixture.
   
6. Lastly, combine green items together. Allow it to fizz for a while before quickly FOLDING it into the cake batter.
   
7. Butter a 9 inch pan and line the bottom with baking paper. pour the cake mix into the pan and bake in preheahted oven for 25-30mins. Maybe longer if you use the normal burner type of oven instead of a convection oven like i do.
   

When its done, cool it off on a rack, and cut across in half. Maybe the colour doesn't show that well in the picture, but its red okaayy..

How to make cream cheese frosting: Mix 250g of cream cheese with 5 tbsp butter, 2 tsp vanilla, and gradually add 2 cups of icing sugar. lesser sugar if you don't like it too sweet.

Put a dolop of the cream on the cake half...


..and spread.

I forgot to take a picture, but just place the 2nd half on top and smooth out more cream..Nice and smooth and ready to be eaten!

Cut cut cut! (that's my cousin and my mama blogger at the laptop.)

The red isn't that apparent on my cake since i reduced the coloring a bit. and because it half chocolate..

Happy baking!

P.S: Share the love by giving a piece of the cake to others! I gave a piece to my maksu and my maklong =)

Snowy Hazelnut Ball and other kuih raya..

Hey everybody! How is your raya so far? We surely had a lot of fun. I haven't updated my blog for quite a while. So for this entry, Im gonna show the kuih raya we made. Even better, Im gonna show you a tutorial of how to make Snowy Hazelnut Ball! I think its not too late if you wanna try and make this. This would be my first tutorial. Hope you guys like it!

So firstly, let me just give you the recipe:

200 gm Butter
50 gm Shortening
160 gm Sugar
1 Egg yolk
1 tsp vanilla
150 gm Ground hazelnut (you can also use ground almonds)
260 gm Flour
100 gm Corn flour

And for the decoration/presentation:

Paper cups
Sprinkles
250 gm White Chocolate
30 gm Cocoa butter/shortening

Here's how you make it:

1. Preheat oven at 170c
2. Mix butter, shortening and sugar until soft.
3. Add in egg yolk and vanilla and continue mixing
4. Add in ground hazelnut, flour and corn flour and mix until it becomes a nice even dough.
5. You can just roll them into balls or like what we did, add toasted hazelnut in the middle and roll them.
6. Place them on a buttered baking tray and bake in heated oven for 20 minutes.

7. Next, after cooling them, place in paper cups (it's suppose to look more golden brown than this).

8. Melt the white chocolate and cocoa butter together in a double boiler and dip/spoon them onto the balls.

9. Decorate with heart candy and colourful sprinkles

10. Ready to eat!

mmmm nyum nyum..

We also made Kuih sarang semut, Pineapple tarts & Semperit.

Happy Raya & happy baking!