Day 14 - Ksenja's Birthday Cake + Penguins!

22 July 2010

I'm not a cheesecake!

Today was Ksenja's birthday, she casually wheeled over in her chair to my desk on Wednesday afternoon and asked me to make her birthday cake in exchange for $50 donation towards my campaign... although it was SHORT NOTICE! 


I couldn't turn my back on a cake order!... Ksenja's a reknowned chocoholic so naturally her cake would be chocolate themed. 

Should've centered the white choc cream layer...

I thought I'd try making bitter sweet and white chocolate pastry cream layers sandwhiched between choc sponges with a choc crumb base... it was another nightmare making it last minute without planning or testing beforehand. 


I wanted to pour ganache over it all and make it all glossy but unfortunately I had to wake up at 5.30am to get to a breakfast talk.. ARGH!! only managed to squeeze in 3 hours of sleep last night... not to mention the added stress with cake orders... 

Birthday Girl with her CAKE!

There were a few stares when I carried the cake uncovered on the stand like this from the convention centre to work... I was paranoid about people wanting to deliberately trip me, or me tripping on my own, that would be epic...


I think people generally like chocolate anything, and they were gone pretty fast. Ange was already queuing in the kitchen at 10.05am with her donation money!!!!! and was delighted to find out cake was on Ksenja today! The rest vanished pretty soon after. Free cake is always popular!

I really wished I had more time to test recipes before diving straight into them half asleep. But Ksenja was happy, that's most important! Amount raised today was the $50 for the cake order. Thank you for supporting my campaign!











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PENGUINS FROM STRANGERS




Today, I also received some donations from "strangers". Sipen came by and said she found some sponsors for me! and gave me this envelope from her sister and brother in law! 


How cute is the card!!!!!!???!!!


Sipen said her sister used to cook for her church for fundraising and knows exactly what I'm going through. This is really nice of them I thought, really made my day!


Thank you so much if you're reading this!!!

So, I'm nearly through my third week! Time really flies after work...10pm already, groan... better fire up the oven now for all the stuff on the menu tomorrow!! 


P/S I've noticed there was an anonymous donation on my campaign page of $10... with no message or anything... wonder who the person is...