Chocolate cake

Today is my baby sister's lunar birthday. I have promised to bake her a cake :) not that i am expert in baking. i am only prelim in baking haha. my baby sister and my brother's girl friend, Yean would like to join in the baking experiment

So there we go shopping for the ingredients at Tesco. Bought baking chocolate, butter and whipping cream.

we used rice cooker to bake the cake, as we do not have a baking pan (mine is at my home in puchong, mum dun have one). unfortunately, the cake dun rise well. I guess because the temperature is not right :( so we have to make 2 of the cakes, so that we can assemble it to make a bigger cake

then something went wrong when making the chocolate icing. the chocolate seems to melt and dun blend with the whipping cream. maybe thats because we dun follow instruction:
1)leave the melted chocolate mixed with milk and butter overnight in the fridge - we only refrigerate it for 3 hours
2) whisk whipping cream till stiff, then add in chocolate - we were too excited and added the chocolate before the whipping cream is stiff.

so we ended up draining the chocolate from the cream and whisk it again...anyhow, there is still this melted unblend chocolate..sigh...

we then got our brother-in-law to layer the cake with the icing, using his cement layering techniques. During the decoration process, we have 6 people - baby sister, brother in law, elder sis, younger brother and yean...

we were laughing with all the funny suggestions and the not so perfect decoration....we have a great time though. never know baking a cake can bond a family and it is so much fun playing with it.

well, our cake looks like it is bleeding chocolate.

although the cake dun look so good, we really enjoyed ourself. well, the taste of the cake is ok, but it's a bit hard. thatz because i used rice cooker to bake the cake instead. i think it's because the heat is not high enough :P learn from lesson. will make a better cake next time. next victim will be my lil bro, his birthday is coming up next month wakaka