Father's Day cake & dessert

It was Father's Day yesterday. Did everyone remember to send a big love to your dad or dads? I made Rum & Fruit cake for my dad and dad-in-law, who were both away this Sunday but the cakes were safely sent to them;)

I started the preparation for the fruit cake a little in advance by soaking the mixed dried fruits in rum for a month. I also made a jar of honey and rum soaked walnuts to put in the cake. Both the fruits and nuts were added to a nice moist butter cake along with a fair amount of rum... I added quite a bit of rum in order to make the cake last longer because I was sending it to my dad in Japan which my dad received a day before Father's Day. Yay!

And there was another dad who I made a Father's day treat for..., yes... on behalf of Lana..., it's my hubby and the coolest dad for Lana, Andy! I made a special cheesecake for him (also me and Lana). But it's not a usual cheesecake. It was a sugar-free, flour-less cheesecake. See? I care about our 'daddy's health', so went for a healthy option. ;D

Not only did the cheesecake have no sugar nor flour, it actually had no cream cheese nor cream! However, it tasted like and as creamy as those high calorie ones! I was well impressed!

I'll share the secret ingredients and the recipe on my next post... (so watch this space! ;D)

With Lana's footprint. :) This is how I sent the cake to Japan.

お父さん、いつもありがとう。 

Father's Day foot print biscuit

It was the very first Father's Day for our baby girl, Lana. She (or rather me...) made biscuit for daddy. It was no usual biscuit but her actual foot print!

I made templates of her foot print by applying baby oil on her foot, pressing them on a coloured paper and quickly drawing the outline before the foot print dried out. Then I used them to cut out the biscuit dough.

So that's how her tinny feet made into biscuit for her daddy. ;D Happy Father's Day!!

父の日, Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to my dad and father-in-law!

Unfortunately, I can't send these cup cakes to either of them because they are both away... but we'll take care of eating them and send some love instead...

**Please note...**
By the way, neither of them look like these cupcake-men... (Just like my mother's day cupcake...)

お父さんへ
今日は父の日なので、こんなん作りました〜。残念ながら、日本には送れないけどこっちで食べときます。。では、暑い夏がやって来ますが体に気をつけて過ごして下さい〜。