Happy Sunday - Bread and macarons

I did two projects on one sunday afternoon... concurrently... cool?

TangZhong bread.. was thinking to do or not to do...since it requires cooling and proofing, might as well occupied the time with macarons using my newly bought silicon parchment paper.

I think Im the most happy women on earth yesterday.
Macarons got feet ! I almost cannot believe my eyes, is that...is that feet? so short, but it's still feet!. Oh my god.. I almost fainted.
The taste is nice. Crunchy on the outside and soft in the inside. Very sweet. I didnt do the filling, nvm. Its nice to eat just like that.

Definitely going to work on it again.. but so sweet. Will I be fatter and fatter?
Forgive me on the uneven shell... didnt thought it will work out..haha

TangZhong 65 deg bread
Will only do this method in future
Very soft even on the second day

Hershey choco syrup filling

Soft - Mayo and Hotdog Toppings

July 2011

Its been a tiring month, the workload is so heavy I hardly have time to blog.
I have decrease my bakings, only occasionally when there is request from family, anyhow, its time for me to diet also.

I shall post up some of my bakings up here.
And Oh, I attended a TangZhong baking bread class in De Mas. Dont know the students well, but teacher is nice. Overall, I do enjoy the course

I did do some peach cream puff but the pics are in IPAD, next time I upload again.

One more thing, in less than 2 mths time, I will be going Macau + HK. 1 Oct to 4 Oct to be exact.
But I messed up some of the booking itineray. End up spending more than I should. Cham, stupid me.

I also made mooncake for the first time in my life. I looked into the net and found that Shanghai Mooncake is the easiest to make. And seeing so many bloggers are posting up recipe on mooncakes, my hand itches. Haha

Ok come enjoys my pics

Hotdog, cheese, mayo

Cream Cheese

White Toast

Braided Cheese

To Bring Home

Cai Yu , Hotdog

Sugar, Cheese

In the oven

Serve Warm with Chinese Tea

Borneo

Borneo is a nice name.

I went with my sis's and family and mum last weekend. Another short trip, there isn't much things there and I'm glad its a short trip anyway, lol.

A tiring 2 hours drive up to Mt KK but its really worth the time. The mt is soooooo remarkably high and I dont think anyone can imagine how high it can be unless you watch the real one.

The rest of the place dont really attract me. But at least we went Sabah before - Everyone can FLY!

My 31st Birthday

Another birthday, not too bad this time, hubby came home early and we (with Ashley) had a dinner at Fridays. Not too exp but we dont really like western food.
I think it's going to be a long time to our next visit there.

I dont know what birthday cake to make... blueberry cake? I end up serving it to Mr Bin. Not satisfied.
Then came out with a "Not-so" Opera Cake. No joconde. Just plain vanilla sponge layer with coffee fresh cream (not buttercream..haha) and chocolate ganache.

The result ? Good! I'm glad I made this cake my own way, easy and not so common as those sell outside.

By the way, I did drive to Niniq and none of the cake attracts me. And not so cheap too!

Not to forget, my cousin bought me a pcs of Caramel cake from our favourite bakery

woo..melting caramel

My first Cheesecake

After tasting the yummy Oreo cheesecake from Kulai's bakery, me and my colleague found some recipe from the internet and we tried it on the Saturday.
Its actually quite easy and quick to do as its a non bake cheesecake
The next time, I must remember to lesser the icing sugar and also dont do too high. Don't like too many mousse.

8"

Nice, will do it again.

Opera Cake

Wendy called me up on Wednesday abt this class, I say ok as I think its more interesting to go with someone you know for a long duration class.
The class is nice, teacher nice, but drag a bit...Class started at 2.30pm (suppose 2pm) and ended at 6.45pm
Cake is nice... paid RM85 for the class, a bit steep

The New Senai-Desaru Highway in use!

I almost went to De Mas baking class on Sunday 11am, last minute hubby persuaded me to go elsewhere. I was hesitating also as I really dont want to spend the whole Sunday in the baking class. But the bread making is something I am looking forward to too.
At last, I went Desaru. Using the new highway. It was abt 45 mins drive... not so enjoyable as there was one lane at some points and the q was long at the toll station. Were at the beach for only less than 1 hour, weather was really hot my goodness! Then reach JB at about 2pm

One lane in highway?!?

Nice!

Reach home, Ashley sleeping, I am rather free, hubby say would long for some butter cake. Although I feel sleepy but still I went ahead and bake a marble cake. You know why I am looking forward baking a normal marble cake?
This is so as I bought a dark cocoa powder in De Mas at 250g @ RM5.90. The color I consider as black, so add only some dark color cocoa powder mix with the normal cocoa powder. The color is beautiful! I am glad I bought it