How to make Valentine Bon Bons and Love Lollies

Love is always in the air but this time of the year we love to highlight that fact:) 

It is also a wonderful time of the year to maximize  using Red, Pink and White on absolutely everything. Yes, as you can imagine I have been very happy in my Pinky world of sweet bliss. 

A regular of Complete Deelite since our early days I have known Amanda Strang from her visits to the store. I bumped into her recently as she was browsing through our Valentine products. 

We got talking about our chocolate molds & candy melts and decided to do an impromptu video on how to use create Valentine treats. As she is a trained Pastry Chef she thought it was so incredible how easy it was to use Candy Melts. No need for tempering etc, we were able to whip up some amazing goodies in a flash. In fact it was so easy we were able to also whip up some Valentine Bon Bons filled with ganache. 

Enjoy and we wish you a wonderful Chinese New Year and Valentines!

xoxo

How to Make Valentine Lollies- Candy Melts

How to Make Valentine Bon Bons with Ganache

XMAS YOUTH Cake CAMP!

December is zipping by and we have less than 2 weeks till Christmas!

Oh it goes by too fast doesn't it? Schools almost out and if you are in town, our ever so popular Kids Camp is here:)

As our Pinata Smash Cakes are so popular, this year we decided to get out kids into the action of not just smashing but making it. We also have a great Traditional GINGERBREAD COOKIE baking  and a sparkle colormist cake class. We have upped the ante on skill levels here and trust me your kids will be inspired to create some spectacular holiday creations. :)

For registration contact : cs@completedeelite.com or call 3167-7022 ext:1

YOUTH Xmas Full Day Kids Camp (age 8-14): FULL DAY Time: 10am-5:30pm 

Date : 18 Dec (Mon) or 21 Dec (Thur)

Individual class: $680

FULL DAY- 3 workshops : $ 1,880

Pinata Smash Snowman

 Create this chocolate candy pinata filled with surprise and treats!

Time : 10 am - 12nn   Price : HK$ 680

Gingerbread Boy Cookie Baking

Learn how to bake traditional gingerbread cookies from scratch!

Time : 1 pm - 3 pm  Price : HK$ 680

Colormist Holiday Sparkle Cake

Kids will learn to make this spectacular cake design with color mist and piping techniques.

Time : 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm    $ 680

The Amazing Wedding Cake!

A couple of months ago we were asked to do a spectacular wedding cake for a beautiful couple. They wanted a shower of Wisteria pouring out of their wedding cake. 

I had an amazing time doing this cake. It brought back so many memories of when I did my own wedding cake in 2010. 

Since then I have been asked to do many wedding cakes. It is one of my greatest joys to be apart of such monumental moments. A privilege indeed. 

Here is a video enjoy:)

xoxo

May All You Days be Filled with Deelite!

Tennis Pinata Smash Cake!

Check out our latest Pinata Smash Cake we made for HK Tennis Open!

Our smash cakes have been all the rage and we were so happy we got to share our smashing moment with some celebs and tennis stars:)

Hidden inside one of the balls is an autographed tennis ball by Venus Williams.
Guess who got it????

Even I got to go in and join the fun!

Great times xoxo

Your Dream Wedding Cake!

HI Everyone:)
Merry Christmas. Happy New Year and Kung Hei Fat Choy!!!!
Hope you all had a memorable 2016. We are well into 2017 and I can't believe January has gone and Valentines is upon us:)

We are feeling the love here in Deelite. We have been busy making  some beautiful Wedding cakes. We are love struck with all the love stories from our fab couples. I thought I'd share some tips on how to order your dream wedding cake. I hope y'all find this helpful and if you are already married go out and surprise your husband or wife with a cake. Bring back those wedding bell memories:) xoxo

5 Tips on picking your dream wedding cake design

Tip #1: Pick your color scheme and stick to it

Tip #2: After picking your color scheme: choose style of cakes  that interest you. Look at all of them as a whole then stream line them to 3-5 design finishes which you like. The more focused you are with your looks we will have of your desired look. If you like 50 looks your cake will look like a lot of different ideas put together. Kind of like putting all your favourite jewellery pieces all on. They are all pretty individually but all together may look like a garage sale. Allow each design to shine. 

Tip #3: No matter how big or small your budget is, Wedding cake designs are fluid and we will be able to create something to fit your budget. Ask us about our rental or fake cakes with a cake cutting area on the cake. This will cut the cost of your cake down substantially.  For floral cakes, handmade gumpaste flowers take time and is very pricey due to the time it takes to make each flower. Opt to use fresh flowers you are using for your venue. This will really coordinate your cake with the venue perfectly and also bring the price of your cake down substantially. Note: For fresh flowers give us the best quality and extra stems. The nicer your flowers the better your cake will look. 

Tip 4: Make sure your wedding planner / venue manager plans the location of the cake table. Especially for big cakes, it is very important that the cake has a place to put on immediately upon arrival to prevent any cake wrecks. 

Tip 5: Enjoy your cake! you are going to have a fabulous day filled with many many great memories. Don't forget to take a breather, cut your cake and enjoy your first taste of cake as Mr. & Mrs:)

xoxo

P.S.

Thank you HK Tatler for featuring 2 of our cakes in your latest wedding issue:)

Deelite Class in Action & Wine Barrel Cake!

Good morning:) Happy Friday!

We have been on a baking marathon with our classes.  Some of you may have heard that Penelope D'arcey Graham was in HK teaching her fab Dessert Table Treats Class. 

She taught 2 sessions of this course and both were fully booked. Our students spent 3 full days baking Macaroons, Fancies, Patisserie, Eclairs, shoe pastry, and aking pretty flowers too:) 

Here are some highlights. 

I wanna eat these now. 

As you can see these group of students baked and baked and baked! And they did an amazing job, learning and decorating too! YUMMY!

Thank you all for allowing us to be apart of your cake jouney. 

xoxo

Have a great weekend to you too. We will leave you with this GIANT gravity defying wine barrel cake. It was delivered to a very special guest and we heard from the grapevine he loved his Vino:) Cheers!

How to -Pumpkin Apple Spice Muffins

October is here and have I got an easy, DEELISH, healthy recipe for you. 

This is one of my son's fave muffins I've changed the original recipe up and replaced it with a few of my personal fave items to bake with. I guarantee not only the taste but the smell is absolutley unforgettable. 

Lets get started:

2 1/2 Cups All Purpose Flour

2 Cups Coconut Sugar

1 Tablespoon Pumpkin pie spice

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 eggs, lightly beaten

1 cup canned pumpkin puree

1/2 cup Olive Oil

2 cups peeled cored and chopped apples

Streusel Topping

2 Table Spoon APF + 1 Tablespoon Oatmeal

1/4 cup Coconut sugar

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

2 teaspoon butter

First set your oven at 170 degrees C then get your spices ready to make your very own Pumpkin Pie spice. If you have your own pre-made bottle then obviously you can skip this part. I love to make my own as it is super dooper easy. My son loves to make this for the recipe. I had every spice in powdered form except for the cloves so I zapped that up in my spice blender to complete my mix. 

When you make this mix the aroma is AMAZING!!! Your entire house will smell like thanksgiving:)

This recipe is from Better Crocker and it is a great recipe. I use it for my pumpkin pie too. You can save this in a jar and use it for other recipes. 

Chop your apples. 

In a separate bowl put the following ingredients:

2 1/2 Cups APF

1 Tablespoon Your Pumpkin pie spice:)

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

 In another bowl  mix your wet ingredients + Coconut sugar

2 x eggs lighly beaten

1 cup canned pumpkin puree

1/2 cup Olive Oil

2 cups coconut sugar

I love coconut sugar it gives just the right amount of sweetness without the after bite of sugar. Its unrefined which is great for all you healthy peeps out there and great sweet fix for the kids.

 

After your pumpkin puree is well blended add in your dry ingredients

fold in your beautiful chopped apples

coat your muffin tins with cake release. 

The name of this says it all. I've used this for 13 years and it has never failed me. 

My cakes have never stuck to my pans. 

Fill your pans appx 3/4 full. I always make mini muffins for my sons snack. But usually I finish up the mini ones before anyone else.  Also to give the muffins an extra yummy factor I topped it with strussel topping. Hmmmm Hmmm amazing. This part you really shoudn't pass up. It takes your muffins to a whole other level of yummy-ness! Mix all these ingredients together to resemble a crumbly texture and then sprinkle on top of your muffins. 

Streusel Topping

2 Table Spoon APF + 1 Tablespoon Oatmeal

1/4 cup Coconut sugar

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

2 teaspoon butter

Bake for appx 25-35mins. make sure your toothpick is clean after inserting into the muffin.

Your house in the meantime will smell GLORIOUS! You need to bake these honestly just for the aromatic experience. Its HEAVENLY!!!

TAH DAH!!!!!

And this is how everyone will feel about your muffins!!! 

HELLO FALL! We luv you!

Enjoy!