Recently #6

A glimpse of where i make cakes now.

I've been so busy and distracted that i almost forgot that i have a blog but i'm still here. Hopefully i'll have alot more to share soon. 

Some things i've done recently

We play "category"

The rules are very simple. For example, one person picks a category, say Countries, we have to list all the countries until someone goes blank, they either get drawn on or they have to do something silly like touch their nose for the whole duration of the next game. This is what my friends and I do sometimes  when we have nothing to say to each other. 

Marcus and Audrey ( nephew/niece ) doing puzzle in my room.

Raspberry roll cake. It taste better than it looks if i say so myself. 

a smaller version

A house full of apples. 

and i made 

Recipe from here

Ju Ju .

Pandan cake i made. Taste really funny!

Really good. I love cheesy fries.

There are alot of snails near where I live. I counted and there were 7 on a grass patch alone.

On another note, Daryl and I are on a heroic animal rampage. In the past 2 weeks, we buried a dead stray, saved a lost dog, and a baby snail from the road. That made me feel quite good. 

Audrey embracing mooncake festival.

New shoes are always good.

haha ! very funny right ? 

More to come soon.

Recently #5

Tuxedo cat.

Location : East Coast Park

Japanese bbq

Aburiya @ robertson quay.

Cat Woman.

Strawberry short cake, my version.

Green Tea chiffon cake.

Savoury Muffins 

Bacon & cheese

Recently #4 Pretend.

Playing house.

Playing dress up.

Hide behind the curtain.

Listening to -

Food that we eat.

This is Tampopo at Liang Court. Yakisoba is one of my favourite thing to order.

Steak Sandwich at P.S cafe. I don't usually like the food there, but this is okay.

DIY salad at Pete's place. Very fresh!

Orange jelly at Tampopo. Very good!

Cantonese dumpling and plains noodles with chinese chives.

Raw beef. I don't really like any sort of raw food, i had a piece, it didn't taste of anything but party because I was so worried about the taste of blood i hardly tried to taste it.

At Mr Steak Shabu Shabu near Paterson Street Hong kong

Very good cheesecake!

Found # 11 I saw a celebrity !

AWESOME RIGHT? 

Do you know who he is? :)

things i've made

Recently #3

Before they could cool down, these got snapped up really quickly.

Little kitty in the drain, she looked really sad.

at bronte with friends. I like the food. :)

Pizza at Pepperoni greenwood ave. Pretty good!

very pissed off kitty! she just had kittens.

all the way from munich.

Flourless chocolate cake for a birthday order.

I've started doing home orders and i'm back to baking!

Pretend monkey brioche

Its a pretend monkey brioche because there is much less butter than a real brioche recipe, it is not as complex as monkey bread.

Recipe 

Oven temperature 185 degrees c. Baking time 25-30 minutes.

Ingredients ;

300g bread flour

7g instant yeast

5g salt

25g sugar

3 eggs

50g milk

100g butter ( cut into slabs ) Chilled in fridge until needed

Optional - 80g raisins. ( add the raisins together with eggs and flour )

Mix all the dry ingredients, flour, yeast, salt and sugar in a mixer bowl fitted with a dough hook. 

* the only time i ever made bread by hand was when my hand mixer broke midway through. I rely on machines alot especially while making bread. Do not attempt to mix dough with a hand mixer because you will break it. Especially brioche. It was one big sticky and greasy mistake for me.

Add eggs and milk into dry ingredients.

Start mixing with a medium speed for 15-20 minutes until gluten form. 5 minutes before you add the butter, remove butter from fridge. 

Once gluten has form on the dough, add butter to dough in 3s, it will be quite greasy at first but it will soon be smooth and shiny. After adding all the butter, mix dough at low speed for another 5 minutes.

Flatten dough on a tray and fridge for at least 1 hr to cool butter down. 

Remove dough from fridge and let it warm up for 10 minutes before shaping dough.

Cut dough into 10-12 pieces and shape it into small little balls. *I used a 9" baking tin.

Arrange balls on the baking tin, cover them loosely with a clingfilm and let them double in size.

Bake them at 185c for 25 minutes. 

* this recipe is 50% less rich than a normal brioche. 

Instagram #3 Where did the time go?

I'm a creature of habit 

I need things to feel at home

my tins live in a big plastic box now

I'm friends with the oven at home finally. It takes me weeks to get used to a new oven.

human hippo

Man made beach at hotel

More to come!