It was my parents' birthday back a few days ago, and we got them two really nice cakes, both from 85 degrees (I know, it's expensive there, but hey, once [or twice] every year!)
This was Dad's. It was strawberry mousse inside with a sponge roll.
This was Mum's. It was tough bringing this one on the train and I was so scared it'd die or get deformed because the train was really hot. Fortunately, it arrived home ok... only to be...
... cut open at the back of the head.
I was going to cut right between the eyes, but my family was shouting murder and yelling for me to stop, so, here's a slice of the back of its head ^^ No, I'm not sadistic, really.
TT and I actually baked mum a cake, but I stupidly forgot to take it home with me =( It was nice, though there was one major error in the making of it. Recipe as follows:
Sponge Cake Ingredients:
3 Eggs
60 gm Sugar
75 gm Plain Flour (sifted)**
60 gm Melted Butter/Corn oil
Sponge Cake Method:
(1) Preheat oven to 160° C. Grease and line a deep 7" round baking tin.
(2) Whisk eggs and sugar at maximum speed for 5 minutes until ribbon stage.
(3) Fold in sifted flour.
(4) Fold in warm melted butter or corn oil, until batter is shiny.
(5) Pour into baking tin and bake for about 30 minutes.
(6) Turn cake out from baking tin onto wire rack to cool. Cut the cake into 3 layers. (I did two layers)
The one major error was that we followed the recipe, despite it looking wrong. Why? Because there's no way this cake can rise. It doesn't have any raising agent in it, like, self-raising flour, or bi-carb soda, or baking powder (yes, they are different stuff, those two). So, I think rather than plain flour, the author really meant self-raising, because the cake did not rise and became dense and quite hard. Still an edible cake though, just not spongy.
Durian Mousse Filling Ingredients:
250 gm Durian Flesh, blended
150 gm Fresh Milk (I use full cream UHT)
125 gm Non-Dairy Whipping Cream, whipped
20 gm Gelatine
5 tbsp Water
Durian Mousse Method:
I disregarded the method the site had, and just did it the simple way-
1) Whip cream till stiff and add durian flesh. Whip all together.
2) Tried to desolve the gelatine (we used powder form) in water, didn't work, so added the whole clump of gelatine (plus water) into the milk and put that to the boil while stirring. Not all the gelatine dissolved, but enough did, and we just poured the mixture through a filter to get rid of clumpy gelatine bits.
3) Wait for that to cool before pouring the whole lot of cream/durian in and whipping it for a minute or so.
Assembling it is easy: cut the sponge cake in half (diameter) and spread half the durian cream mixture on the bottom layer. Cover it with the second layer and top it with the remaining cream.
Refrigerate.
For original recipe, go here. The only thing is, use self raising flour for the cake part. Or add baking powder.
Tasted pretty good though. The durian mousse was so nice, and the gelatine made it set really nicely too. =) Those who hate durian... hm... I'm pretty sure you can replace durian pulp with... say... strawberry... or mango... or passionfruit pulp... =| Never tried it, don't know, but I'm almost certain mango will work.
Project #2! We worked hard that day!
This~ apple pie! This was actually made by TT, cos I was being adhd and cleaning up instead of helping... ^^'' Can't be bothered posting the recipe here, just go on google and search up "wikihow apple pie" and it should be the first link. Or just click here.
I made my family one just yesterday, and since my sister's back from Singapore, we had 5 people in the family. It was gone before dinner, and I made it at around 1pm (when I woke up... at around 11 ^^'') Big success? Thanks TT for the recipe =) It was really nice and received compliments from everyone (including dad, which is extremely extremely rare, because he's such a good chef, and everyone compared to him is like, pfft)
Tada~
There's still a whole bag of really bad apples here. My dad thought they were cheap and got them from the fruit barn, but they were... not really edible. Time to make another apple pie? ... Might leave it for a day, think everyone might get sick of it ^^''
Ok, I'm done. Been actually itching to type a blog entry up since last night, but had to sleep to wake up for work at 6:30 today. Gosh, it was insanely cold this morning, and absolutely dangerous on the road. My sister drove in this:
Can you see anything?
Can you?? The fog was super thick and we crawled our way to Pennant Hills.
While my sister's here, we did a whole lot of stuff together, like going to Olympic park to barbecue sausages and bacon (love bacon!) and going for a second round buffet to Shangri La for my parents' birthday, as well as yum cha at Canterbury League Club (that place is awesome! Looks really nice and has really good food too!) We took heaps of photos and sister made this:
Scrapbook pages? ^^'' Blurry, for a reason =P Anyway, just showing off my sister's artistic talents =D
Next week... looks like my hectic work schedule is back =( It'll be hard to get back to the "fanatic worker" mode after this relaxing week. Monday... don't come... ><
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This was Dad's. It was strawberry mousse inside with a sponge roll.
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This was Mum's. It was tough bringing this one on the train and I was so scared it'd die or get deformed because the train was really hot. Fortunately, it arrived home ok... only to be...
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... cut open at the back of the head.
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I was going to cut right between the eyes, but my family was shouting murder and yelling for me to stop, so, here's a slice of the back of its head ^^ No, I'm not sadistic, really.
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| From 2009-06-18-2205-35 |
TT and I actually baked mum a cake, but I stupidly forgot to take it home with me =( It was nice, though there was one major error in the making of it. Recipe as follows:
Sponge Cake Ingredients:
3 Eggs
60 gm Sugar
75 gm Plain Flour (sifted)**
60 gm Melted Butter/Corn oil
Sponge Cake Method:
(1) Preheat oven to 160° C. Grease and line a deep 7" round baking tin.
(2) Whisk eggs and sugar at maximum speed for 5 minutes until ribbon stage.
(3) Fold in sifted flour.
(4) Fold in warm melted butter or corn oil, until batter is shiny.
(5) Pour into baking tin and bake for about 30 minutes.
(6) Turn cake out from baking tin onto wire rack to cool. Cut the cake into 3 layers. (I did two layers)
The one major error was that we followed the recipe, despite it looking wrong. Why? Because there's no way this cake can rise. It doesn't have any raising agent in it, like, self-raising flour, or bi-carb soda, or baking powder (yes, they are different stuff, those two). So, I think rather than plain flour, the author really meant self-raising, because the cake did not rise and became dense and quite hard. Still an edible cake though, just not spongy.
Durian Mousse Filling Ingredients:
250 gm Durian Flesh, blended
150 gm Fresh Milk (I use full cream UHT)
125 gm Non-Dairy Whipping Cream, whipped
20 gm Gelatine
5 tbsp Water
Durian Mousse Method:
I disregarded the method the site had, and just did it the simple way-
1) Whip cream till stiff and add durian flesh. Whip all together.
2) Tried to desolve the gelatine (we used powder form) in water, didn't work, so added the whole clump of gelatine (plus water) into the milk and put that to the boil while stirring. Not all the gelatine dissolved, but enough did, and we just poured the mixture through a filter to get rid of clumpy gelatine bits.
3) Wait for that to cool before pouring the whole lot of cream/durian in and whipping it for a minute or so.
Assembling it is easy: cut the sponge cake in half (diameter) and spread half the durian cream mixture on the bottom layer. Cover it with the second layer and top it with the remaining cream.
Refrigerate.
For original recipe, go here. The only thing is, use self raising flour for the cake part. Or add baking powder.
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Tasted pretty good though. The durian mousse was so nice, and the gelatine made it set really nicely too. =) Those who hate durian... hm... I'm pretty sure you can replace durian pulp with... say... strawberry... or mango... or passionfruit pulp... =| Never tried it, don't know, but I'm almost certain mango will work.
Project #2! We worked hard that day!
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| From 2009-06-18-2205-35 |
This~ apple pie! This was actually made by TT, cos I was being adhd and cleaning up instead of helping... ^^'' Can't be bothered posting the recipe here, just go on google and search up "wikihow apple pie" and it should be the first link. Or just click here.
I made my family one just yesterday, and since my sister's back from Singapore, we had 5 people in the family. It was gone before dinner, and I made it at around 1pm (when I woke up... at around 11 ^^'') Big success? Thanks TT for the recipe =) It was really nice and received compliments from everyone (including dad, which is extremely extremely rare, because he's such a good chef, and everyone compared to him is like, pfft)
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Tada~
There's still a whole bag of really bad apples here. My dad thought they were cheap and got them from the fruit barn, but they were... not really edible. Time to make another apple pie? ... Might leave it for a day, think everyone might get sick of it ^^''
Ok, I'm done. Been actually itching to type a blog entry up since last night, but had to sleep to wake up for work at 6:30 today. Gosh, it was insanely cold this morning, and absolutely dangerous on the road. My sister drove in this:
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Can you see anything?
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Can you?? The fog was super thick and we crawled our way to Pennant Hills.
While my sister's here, we did a whole lot of stuff together, like going to Olympic park to barbecue sausages and bacon (love bacon!) and going for a second round buffet to Shangri La for my parents' birthday, as well as yum cha at Canterbury League Club (that place is awesome! Looks really nice and has really good food too!) We took heaps of photos and sister made this:
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Scrapbook pages? ^^'' Blurry, for a reason =P Anyway, just showing off my sister's artistic talents =D
Next week... looks like my hectic work schedule is back =( It'll be hard to get back to the "fanatic worker" mode after this relaxing week. Monday... don't come... ><
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