Macarons, Ladyfingers and other sweet treats

ahhh this took longer than estimated. i re-did a whole batch of macarons specially for Joanne (she's so nice! and inspirational!) because i felt that i could do better.

the cherry coloured ones are filled with 'raspberry' filling, the mint ones with 'chocolate chip'....i know the pic doesn't really show the details, but it's midnight (took the pic just before mn) and i have a long day tomorrow.

just have to finish this up, and move on to the other items and we'll be all set!


i have some experimental towers to let go of for cheap, if anyone is interested, just drop me a mail at snowfern AT gmail DOT com. :)

Eva stole my ahma's heart

Eva stole my ahma's heart
Originally uploaded by Snowfern

This is the cutie pie who has been keeping me sooo busy!

ahma is really afraid of cats and dogs, she won't even dare touch them, but now, she's occasionally taken to patting Eva, secretly giving her treats of grapes (quartered) and other fruits!

she had a bath yesterday, and that's my clip ;)

edit: brought her to the vet yesterday where she threw up thrice due to carsickness :( anyway, found out grapes are actually poisonous to dogs!! especially wee ones like Eva!! poor girl, no more of her fave treats!!!

biscuit tower and usage of 'failures'

biscuit tower
Originally uploaded by Snowfern

i really like this! good thing i had some ladyfingers handy, they were laying around and as i was looking for a stray macaron (boy they roll around fast on the worktable) i saw my old experiments and TA-DAH!~

not perfect, but so what! i'm so pleased with it!

next up, pink and cherry macaron tower!

Have you ever eaten your miniatures?

was taking my morning meds, and i thought i'd dropped one of them on the table. so i opened my hand and realised that they were still in it, one of the stray macarons had me all confused!

have you ever accidentally eaten one of your minis?

i'm not happy with this tower

i'm not happy with this tower
Originally uploaded by Snowfern

i don't know how to assemble the macarons :(

i was thinking maybe it'll look better shorter, and with 'whole' macarons instead of half shells. these have 'fillings', but you can barely see them (my main grouse), but it's late and i'm tired, so we'll see how i can remedy this tomorrow.

it's a good thing i made extras (as you can see in the background)

Weekends and macarons

these are part of a commission, i don't ordinarily enjoy making 'full bloom' roses cos i don't like the shape, but i think they would probably look better than the tiny roses that i favour, i hope she likes them, if not i can always give her the smaller ones instead :P the yellow/orange roses were done to test out the colour and effect, i quite like the results!


i don't know if i should seal this with acrylic gloss. on the one hand, i'm afraid the glue is insufficient to keep the stuff on the board, on the other, i'm afraid the effect will not be as nice with the gloss. :( what a dilemma.

anyway, the pair on the left is for my cousin! she is very supportive of my hobbies and even got me cute little acrylic containers which i use to keep my 'fruits' in!


had to experiment with macarons, customer wants a macaron tower, but i'd only tried making macarons once since i've never even eaten a real one before...this is the result of the 3rd try (i'm not even gonna bother wasting anymore time posting pics of the failed ones)

more of my practice work (green) and macaron cream-ing going on!

sushi platter

sushi platter
Originally uploaded by Snowfern

oh wow! the little ebiko sushi photograph well, don't they!

i'm sooo happy with the results, i think imma make more later :E maybe even some handrolls....ARGH i'm making myself hungry again :( there goes the diet...

on other news, i finally put up items for sale on etsy! woohoO~!

i'll put more stuff up tomorrow, after i take some pics...i'm so lazy at taking pics....:(