Currently drinking: Triple Flowers Jasmine tea
Currently in oven: Apple pie #2
(Also currently frustrated at the slow internet... we're capped! Thank goodness I've already watched Saki for this week on crunchyroll... but it means no more streaming sitcom for me...)
My mum requested a second apple pie because we've still got those crappy apples to use up. This time, rather than melting the butter (which you're not meant to do for pastries because butter is supposed to be as cold as possible) and mixing it with the flour, I used the mixer to cut the butter into the flour. Took less than a minute =) Let's see if it really makes a difference to the pastry shell.
Anyway, my sister's gone back to Singapore and it's all peaceful and quiet in this house again. Back to the usual "children in front of comps while parents do their own work" routine. While she was still here, she went with my brother to this patisserie in Balmain called adriano zumbo. Apparently it was really good, but I had to go to work, missed out =(
Some chocolates they bought
Inside the box
Cherry cola cake- inside was cherry cola syrup with layers of chocolate
Passionfruit marshmallow I think? Wasn't that great
Titled Escape from... um.. some kind of forest, this alien looking cake was killed on its way home.
One of the chocolates cut in half- look at the layers =D
And while they were enjoying themselves at the cafe having cakes and desserts, I was having this at Franklins:
It was pretty bad. I'm not on a diet, but Weight Watchers were the only kind of cheesecake we had in the freezer and... it looked nice. I think I was hoping it'd be like a chocolate mousse kind of cake, but cheesecake, especially frozen ones, don't work. And not low-fat ones at that, because it was tasteless ._.
What was nice though, was what TT and I made yesterday. Made this as a request to make something else other than dessert:
Title: "White Carrot Cake". It was surprisingly hard to find the radish- our main ingredient for this radish cake, but finally found it in the Asian supermarket at Market City. Does that look good or what? =D Tasted "even better than the one you get outside", according to a review we got =P
Enough advertising and showing off there, time to check on Apple Pie II. Dad just proclaimed that it's raining outside. Cold....
Currently in oven: Apple pie #2
(Also currently frustrated at the slow internet... we're capped! Thank goodness I've already watched Saki for this week on crunchyroll... but it means no more streaming sitcom for me...)
My mum requested a second apple pie because we've still got those crappy apples to use up. This time, rather than melting the butter (which you're not meant to do for pastries because butter is supposed to be as cold as possible) and mixing it with the flour, I used the mixer to cut the butter into the flour. Took less than a minute =) Let's see if it really makes a difference to the pastry shell.
Anyway, my sister's gone back to Singapore and it's all peaceful and quiet in this house again. Back to the usual "children in front of comps while parents do their own work" routine. While she was still here, she went with my brother to this patisserie in Balmain called adriano zumbo. Apparently it was really good, but I had to go to work, missed out =(
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| From 2009-06-18-2205-35 |
Some chocolates they bought
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| From 2009-06-18-2205-35 |
Inside the box
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| From 2009-06-18-2205-35 |
Cherry cola cake- inside was cherry cola syrup with layers of chocolate
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| From 2009-06-18-2205-35 |
Passionfruit marshmallow I think? Wasn't that great
 |
| From 2009-06-18-2205-35 |
Titled Escape from... um.. some kind of forest, this alien looking cake was killed on its way home.
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| From 2009-06-18-2205-35 |
One of the chocolates cut in half- look at the layers =D
And while they were enjoying themselves at the cafe having cakes and desserts, I was having this at Franklins:
 |
| From 2009-06-18-2205-35 |
It was pretty bad. I'm not on a diet, but Weight Watchers were the only kind of cheesecake we had in the freezer and... it looked nice. I think I was hoping it'd be like a chocolate mousse kind of cake, but cheesecake, especially frozen ones, don't work. And not low-fat ones at that, because it was tasteless ._.
What was nice though, was what TT and I made yesterday. Made this as a request to make something else other than dessert:
 |
| From 2009-06-18-2205-35 |
Title: "White Carrot Cake". It was surprisingly hard to find the radish- our main ingredient for this radish cake, but finally found it in the Asian supermarket at Market City. Does that look good or what? =D Tasted "even better than the one you get outside", according to a review we got =P
Enough advertising and showing off there, time to check on Apple Pie II. Dad just proclaimed that it's raining outside. Cold....
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