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Carols of the bell

{ December 24, 2009 @ 12:35 am } · { Cakes, Cheesecake, Chocolate mousse, Japanese Cheesecake }
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It’s never too early and never too late to have a festive celebration and that’s precisely what we did. I must admit, parties could never have been that exciting without a theme to follow. Maybe I have been watching too much that I usually associate parties with masks, dance floor, beautiful desserts ( Oh how I cant live without them) and tea parties served with teacups and muffins on a tray. Then, there are these whole bunch of ladies dressed in nice sun dresses and hats and accompanying them- some fine looking chaps. What a yummy pic but sadly unachievable in the culture I live in.  But still, we all have fun our own way :D

Cheers to the success of our bobbaas party. It was absolutely a bobbafied fun filled evening with my love ones xoxoxo. Really enjoyed the company of you guys! Picking what you wanna be was easy, improvising and creating the costume was A WHOLE DIFFERENT story. My time was stretched to the limit, considering the short amount of time I had to prepare stuff after work. Renting costumes was a solution but no way were we gonna pay 100 over for the jacked up festive price. seasonal descrimination much.. I pretty much spent some of the evenings doing up the outfits. Santarina’s outfit originally consisted of a plain red skirt n red tube top. Bought some white cloth and sewed it to the tube n skirt and attached a pretty ribbon at the front. Did the elfy one as well with tinsels n cloth and the elfy shoess which consisted of green n brown felt. I must say the angels looked absolutely stunning that day ;) Yayysss Pizzas, and many cakes accompanieddd the event..

Baked some choc cheesecake.

and some choc mousse, courtesy of David Lebovitz again. Thought I’ll try out those lovely mini shot glasses that I bought from Ikea.. They work perfect :D

A sinful something for a very Merry Christmas :D

Two presents have arrived before Christmas: Firstly, my results. When I first saw my  results, I was like ok. Worse than my very first semester grades but much better than I expected. Anyway, before that I was mentally prepared to SU one of the electives alr. But after calculating my cap with or without the module, it only improved by .01. What in the tootiest world… So I’ve decided to leave my 3 precious SUs for my last ( or maybe 3 more sems). How awesome.

Secondly, my other pressie came in the form of a mail from NUS. I wouldnt call that a pre christmas present but yes here it goes: I’ve been offered honours for my biz degree. After much discussion with my parents, maybe I’ll accept it afterall. Any other decisions can wait till next semester. Anyway, I’m quite looking forward for bestie to be back. and yes maybe another semester doing the same mod would make things so much better ;)

Half day at work tmr. Plus it’s a time of party and food. That’s whats bond people right. haha. Cant wait to see my colleagues tmr ;)

Dark chocolate mousse cake

{ December 3, 2009 @ 11:54 pm } · { Cakes, Chocolate mousse Cake }
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Time to satisfy some of my wildest DARK chocolate desires. It’s mousse time. This time special credit must be given to David Lebovitz for his awesome melt in your mouth baked mousse cake. At first when I saw BAKED + mousse , it didn’t seem quite right together. From all my past experiences ( sadly were failures), oven played no part in the process. Just plain raw eggs. No wonder my mum hated the idea of raw desserts. Anyway, less talk! My 5th attempt at choc mousse.

Melting the dark choc chips with espresso and cream. Although they all say block choc would be much better, I had to do something with the remainder of the chips. Better still. ESPRESSO! No coffeee machineee and there was no starbucks near by or something hhaa so well make do with home brewed coffee? hahhaa anyway it well brought out the essence of the choc. Maybe using espresso would yield a better outcome?  

Whipping the eggs and sugar. This is my fav part of baking. Just dump the ingredients and let the mixer do the job. So no longer will baking help you lose weight unless you’re those time of person who rather hand whip then use technology. It’s a NO NO for me after that huge  disaster of trying to be a smart alec and whipping the mixture myself that took like foreverr..

and here’s the final product. The cake was rather soft and yes it gets stuck onto the side of your knife so you cann slowly enjoy and lick it off.

No flour, no butter, pure choc. INDULGE in it while you’re still young ;)

Strawberry mousse cake

{ December 1, 2009 @ 10:29 pm } · { Cakes, Strawberry Mousse Cake }
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Freedom always comes with something beautiful. So I thought strawberries + pink + red would probably suit my mood best. Sometime back I tried a strawberry mousse cake bought for my friend’s bday from a bakery and fell in love with it. It wasn’t from a famous patissier whatsoever but the cake still tasted good. Sometimes simple works best :) Although I’m not such a big fan of fruit cakes, summer berry cakes or whatever cakes that are not Black  ( chocolate I mean), I found this cake rather yummy to the tastebuds. And so it goessss… My first attempt at strawberry mousse cake ;)

Hulling and washing the berries. Had a fun time doing so.. haha They were rather huge in size like those from the states I thought but tasted nothing like those sweet juicyyy ones I tried.

Slicing them up and ready for simmering together with the gelatin powder , water and sugar.

Next use a food processor to make the strawberry purree and mix them with the whipped cream. 400g of cream states the recipe. That’s a hell lot of cream and mousse to begin with. Anyway, the swirling colors were nice to take a photo of so there you go.

covering the sides with mousse and strawberry slices.

haha see that odd sunken shape at the tip.. It’s caused by uneven handling of the cake while trying to slice them apart. BOBBA!  It was too soft to handle yet tasted pretty hard. Daddy thought I made some suji cake or something. HHHAHAHA even better still. No need semolina flour to accomplish the same result. Anyway I thought the cake was a failure… but the mousse was acceptable although it could have tasted sweeter.. BAD quality strawberries? Maybe… RAWR! More attempts soonnn :D :D

 

Oh yah, Cant help but share my JOY. Bought 3 new love! HAHAHHAH the mini muffin pans were soo cute. When I saw them, I thought to myself ” you are mine”. Bought a bigger springfoam tin for making BIGGER cakes and a pie one..

 

Anyway babess if you’re seeing this ::: I CANT WAIT for the victorian tea party tmr ;) ) lovesssssss

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