March 3rd is Girl's Day in Japan. it's a day when families celebrate their daughters' youth & pray for their health & happiness. traditionally, when a baby girl is born, she is gift'd with a set of ひな人形 Hina Dolls. i bought myself a non-traditional set last year, featuring none other but Hello Kitty & her beau Dear Daniel :)
i took the excuse of Girl's Day to bake a Hinamatsuri-themed cake. it was too exciting to miss out baking something pink, white & green! i remember all the beautiful Hinamatsuri cakes i saw in Japan when i was there in 2007 & 2010. the pink, white & green ones were the most memorable cos the colors were wayyyyy too pretty to miss! of course, i couldn't miss the "sparkling" strawberry cakes, Matcha green tea everything & all the Mont Blanc chestnut desserts!!! MMMMMMM!!! DROOL'n just think'n about them. can't wait to go back to Japan!!! SOOOOOOO look forward to pig'n out @ Sweets Paradise!!! (will write a post for this!)
back to my Hinamatsuri cake. I baked a souffle sponge from Okashi, the moistest sponge ever! i half'd the batter, add'd green tea to half & dehydrated strawberry powder & pink food coloring to the other half. the cakes were sandwich'd with strawberries & whip'd cream. for the peach tree, i piped the tree w/ melt'd chocolate, then dot'd the branches with pink whip'd cream to resemble peach blossoms :)
Who ate this one?
ReplyDeletethe basement fridge ate 85% of it, still in there...it also ate 50% of the soy chai cake, still in there too...it happens...either the table or the fridge ends up eat'n my stuff...i shall start deliver'n stuff one house down the hill to share w/ my neighbors ;)
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