Fun Moments with Cake Decoration
Celebrating birthdays, anniversaries, house-warmings or other festive occasions that require a cake? You might want to consider getting the plain mousse cakes from Petite Patisserie for the following benefits:
- Affordable (SGD20 nett) - Yes, if you are on tight budget, this is the option you can consider when compared to those crazily exorbitant fondant decorated cakes available in the market!
- Customisable - If you require a personal touch to your cake, give this a try and let your loved ones feel your love!
- Easily Available - You can either order it online (Website: http://www.petitepatisserie.com.sg) or at the NTUC Fairprice Finest outlet (refer: http://www.petitepatisserie.com.sg/pdf/NTUC_List.pdf) near you!
- Halal-Certified - Can be consumed by our Muslim friends :)
Giveaway Event (1 April 2014 to 30 April 2014)
Following our collaboration with Petite Patisserie, we are hosting an introductory Plain Mousse Cake Giveaway Event to our 10 lucky readers.
In order to qualify for this giveaway, you must first follow the below instructions carefully:
- Like our Facebook Page @ https://www.facebook.com/musingsofarabbit
- Like Petite Patisserie's Facebook Page @ https://www.facebook.com/petitepatisserie.sg
- If you have an Instagram Account, please follow me @ musings_of_a_rabbit (optional but you can mention under your Facebook comment that you have done so to increase your chances of winning)
- Leave a comment under our Facebook Post for this blog entry (embedded below!) and tell us what do you like about our blog - this is very important as we will review all comments and pick the winners from there and contact you via Facebook if you happen to be one of the winners too!
- Share our Facebook Post so that more of your friends can be aware of this giveaway event!
Post by Musings of a Rabbit.
Things to Note:
Please note that the closing date of the Giveaway Event is on 30 April 2014 (Wednesday).
The names of the winners will be announced on our Facebook Page on 1 May 2014 (Labour Day!!).
Winners will be contacted via Facebook for their preferred giveaway flavour and the necessary instructions for cake redemption.
Flavours Available for Giveaway
There are 3 Lip Smacking flavours available for giveaway with illustration as shown below.
Chocolate Dream
Mango Madness
Strawberry Delight
Introduction
Petite Patisserie is the diffusion brand of The Patissier, Singapore's renowned boutique patisserie that specialises in cakes and pastries handcrafted in traditional French style.
The Mousse Cakes by Petite Patisserie are produced with premium ingredients and do not contain any preservatives or artificial agents.
Petite Patisserie's range of products strive to bring more convenience to the consumers by having them readily available at supermarkets such as Fairprice Finest via the Snap Freeze Technology which preserves the cakes' freshness and hence prolong their shelf life.
Our Experience
It was very nice of Petite Patisserie to deliver 2 Mousse Cakes - Mango Madness and Chocolate Dream to Tracy's abode on a cheery Sunday afternoon.
We have decided to have some bonding time with the kids and to nurture their creativity by hosting this mini cake decoration contest since JJ's birthday is round the corner.
We headed off to NTUC Fairprice to grab some of the ingredients required to decorate the Mousse Cakes such as Whipped Cream, Rainbow Rice, Chocolate Chips and the Cherry Topping. The kids spent a good 20 minutes debating on what ingredients they should get because it seems that the boy wanted everything under the sun to appear on his cake. LOL.
The Mousse Cakes come in standard size of 500g, and hence we requested for 2 cakes to be delivered in view that we have approximately 10 people that will be present for the cake tasting...
Unboxing the Cake
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| Preparing for our Cake Decoration |
The cakes were delivered to us in very cute packaging sealed with a plastic wrap. We had fun unboxing it and we took "before" pictures with the Mousse Cakes prior to decorating them in order to compare the difference.
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| Eager Kids who cannot wait to start decorating their Mousse Cake! |
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| Iced Mousse Cakes in Mango Madness and Chocolate Dream |
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| Instructions on Consumption... |
Before Photos
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| JJ and Roxanne - see how excited they looked! |
Oh yes, in case you guys start to wonder why am I posing with the cake.. That was because this will be a contest between adults (Tracy and I) and the kids (JJ and Roxanne)!
Le' Strategy
The kids spent a good 10 minutes discussing on their design ideas and drafting a "blueprint" of how their final product should look like..
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| Brainstorming Session on how to decorate the Chocolate Dream Mousse Cake :) |
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| Le' Blueprint.. Hmm.. Looks very complex and not easily understood by adults.. |
For Tracy and I, we are minimalists (or you may term it lazy) and are pretty contented with eating just the mousse cake by itself to be honest.. Anyways, we strongly believe that less is more hence there is not much we can think of in decorating the cake.. LOL.
Le' Process
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| Grabbing Ingredients for Cake Decoration from the Fridge |
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| We opened up the can of Country Cherries for cake topping |
As we prefer eating Iced Mousse Cakes, we wilfully decided not to defrost the cakes and proceeded with the cake decoration although it was highly recommended that we defrost the cakes prior to decoration.
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| Spreading the Cherries on top of our Mango Madness |
The kids on the other hand were obsessed with having lots of whipped cream for their cake.. Tsk, how fattening!
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| Roxanne testing the nozzle whilst squeezing some whipped cream on the paper box. |
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| Roxanne commenced with her cake decoration with JJ watching beside... |
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| Hmmm.. It was supposed to look like a circle, but the results were far from ideal :( |
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| We decided to enhance our Mango Madness with a piece of biscuit purchased in Tokyo... |
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| The kids decided to spread the whipped cream across the surface of the Chocolate Dream instead |
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| Adding some Chocolate Chips as border.. We caught the kids eating whilst they did the decoration!!! |
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| Le' Chocolate Chips Border... |
Tracy and I were pretty done with our cake decoration and hence have started slacking and spying on our rivals' design...
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| Ooo.. They added Chocolate and Green Tea Kit-Kats as decoration! |
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| Tracy helped with the sprinkling of Rainbow Rice on the cake... |
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| Roxanne further finished the decor by framing their design with a border of Cherries! |
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| Amazing... Chopsticks Skills!!! |
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| Completing their final design :) |
Le' Final Product
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| Our completed Mango Madness!! We sprinkled some chocolate chips after seeing the kids use them... |
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| Tracy posing with our final product :) |
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| Needless to say.. The kids placed significantly more effort in decorating their Chocolate Dream cake... |
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| It was just so satisfying to pose with the fruit of their labour |
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| See how proud Roxanne looked! |
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| RAWRRR!! Can't wait to savour the cake!!! |
The results were pretty obvious - the story of "The Tortoise and the Hare" repeats itself and the kids have emerged as winners based on their brain and brawn. I think we should stop being so complacent as adults and should start to switch our brains on when it comes to creativity.. LOL..
Overall Review
The Mango Madness tasted really refreshing. We were glad that we did not defrost it because the cake tasted like mango ice-cream and it simply melted in our mouth!!
The Chocolate Dream on the other hand was a tad too sweet and chocolate-ty for adults. However, the kids enjoyed it very much.
We had much fun decorating the cakes - which is far more important than who won the contest ultimately... We were also amazed by the kids' creativity in the cake decoration and we strongly recommend families to incorporate this activity into their weekend Family Bonding time!
Doing activities together enables families to foster closer relationships and cake decoration is a fun way of spending time with each other in a very affordable way.
Special thanks to Petite Patisserie for the sponsorship and to Tracy's family for hosting this cake decoration event in her house :)
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Q: What do you do with the leftover whipped cream?
Answer from JJ: "You simply EAT them!!" Ewwwww :S |
