I've finally got down to posting. Now in school, during break time, not much homework at the moment. Actually, can't be bothered to do them... :/

On Monday 26th April it was my father's birthday, so on Sunday I decided to bake him a cake. :) Pineapple cake, since I love pineapples. The cake turned out to be a little wet on the outside and rather sweet, because the caramel I made melted. -.- Also, I might've added too much pineapple into the cake itself so the cake became too heavy. But overall, I guess it was quite successful as this is my first time baking a fruit cake and first time writing with dressing icing. Haha, my penmanship in icing was terrible. However, sadly, now my sister has a phobia for fruit cakes so I guess this could be my first and last time baking fruit cakes at home...

Last Saturday there was a friendly tennis match with the international school in Zug. Played pretty badly since they're all so good. Moreover, I'm the worst in my team. Hopefully I'll improve... Last week I played tennis 5 times!

Gtg. Food Tech next.

Labels: Baking, Birthday, Tennis

Ooh my cookies aren't that bad after all! Yesterday, today and tomorrow, I shall be on a cookie baking spree. :) For the new year, I'll bake my friends cookies.

Yesterday I made cocoa cookies for my family and they were actually quite good! Reduced sugar of course. Haha. So I decided to make cookies for my friends since I'm trying to improve my dough-making skills for Food Tech. Today I made chocolate chip cookies. They taste better than the cocoa cookies but I felt the cocoa cookie dough was more firmly made than today's. Oh well, I shall try again tomorrow.

So far I've packed 6 packets of 8 cookies. :) Hopefully I can make as many cookies as I did today because I've got 6 more packets to go. Whoo! I can't believe this is how I spend my New Year's Eve and New Year. D: Takes me 2 hours to make 1 batch of cookies. :/ How time consuming. Good that I'm not in Singapore, or else I'd be drowned in homework and won't have time to do such stuff. Haha. Hope I don't gain weight eating all these sweet food. D:

The Enchanting Twilight

Labels: Baking, Cookies

Yay I baked my hot chocolate cheesecake. It smelt really good, it looked appetising, but it didn't taste that great. :( Oh well, 1st try...

There were supposed to be 2 layers - one pastry layer at the bottom and the cake layer on top. But when it came out of the oven, it had 3 layers - above the cake layer was a burnt cake layer. D: Well I garnished it with crushed almonds, so it looked nice. From far the burnt layer actually looks like a creamy-ish icing. Hahaha.

Anyway I got a hand whisk. And I found out that I should've gotten an electric hand whisk to whisk the egg white well so that a lot of air would be trapped in the egg white. If you don't get the egg white stiff then the whole cake would be a failure. But I just went on with my manual hand whisk and yes my sis and I got the stiff egg white! :D I remembered in MOELC's French fair we made madeleines and the teacher went around whisking the egg whites with the electric whisk. Heh. I did it with my own hand. :D

Cakes are really fattening. The amount of double cream, sugar, hot chocolate powder, margarine, cheese etc. I put into it is crazily huge! Oh plus about 100g of almonds? D: I think I baked it for too long and put it too high in the oven so that's why it became hard and dry. At least the pastry layer was good. :)

I thought it tasted weird, my sis didn't exactly like it, my mum thought it was dry but okay and my dad liked it because it's crunchy. (Of course it'll be crunchy - it's burnt!) Well it's gone now. Everyone ate it up, haha! :D

I realised I'd spent most of the day in the kitchen (because I cooked dinner too). And I've hardly completed any work for the hols because I've been slacking away and doing silly things. Well not like there's much to complete, but a bit of revision would be good. Nvm, I've had experience of doing things at the last minute from my life in Singapore. :P

The Enchanting Twilight

PS: I found a park with a perfect practice hill for running. Did 12 100-metre hill repetitions. Yay I should keep up with this as my hill work is still really horrible.

Labels: Baking