January 2017

So the year's started and before we know it, it's almost February. It may be a busy start, I hope that I'll constantly see the angels sent to protect me and see the smiles of the young lives I come into contact all day.

The blue's over and it's time to count my blessings and learn to stop a little bit and take time to smell the roses. Let's get inspired, keep calm and bake on.

Baking more pineapple rosettes
Baked almond Florentines

Oh Gosh! It has been so crazy busy that I'm not inspired at all. Oh well...

Passion Fruit Tarts

I love the aroma of passion fruits and the tartness that cuts through any sweet tart crust. I made two types of crust, one with almond meal and the other without. Haven't had the chance to use the one with almond meal, but the one without was a bit hard. I think I might have overworked the dough a bit. Nonetheless, the passion fruit curd is lovely, bright and tangy. The white topping is not meringue. I cheated with stabilised whipped cream because there was left over.

Thai Milk Tea Cake

Yeah! Finally! Presenting, Thai milk tea cake, tea powder all the way from Thailand, comprising 3 components, the Thai milk tea chiffon cake, Thai milk tea infused buttercream and Thai milk tea drizzle. It's Thai milk tea tea inside out, the flavour of the tea is really strong. 

November to bake

Got my hands on the Thai tea powder, but haven't had time to bake at all. So looking forward to the end of this week, then I can have some time to rest and bake. 

It's been a long and tiring month, with all the drama and stress of handling multiple deadlines. Sometimes, self induced stress because of that obligation to fill those pockets of free time with responsibilities which were kindly relinquished. Oh well, enough said. Let's see, year end bakes. Let's raid the fridge for ingredients that need to be used up. 

Thai milk tea powder- Thai milk tea cake of course!

Eggs whites- buttercream and macarons

 

Green tea buttercream- green tea macarons

White lotus paste- cute Japanese piglet cakes

Pineapple paste- rosettes and Taiwanese pineapple squares 

Oh yes! If I can squeeze in that Christmas gingerbread house, that template I have prepared from last year. Think I'll skip the Christmas fruit cake this year. 

I think that should be enough to make my holiday wonderful! 

有时候是被自己的情绪累着。。。

Rosette Pineapple Tarts 2016

It's time to bake some pineapple tarts again. This year, I started a little earlier than the last 2 years. But I froze some pastry since I Realised it could be a bit too early.

Did the lazy way of just forking it too. 

Matcha Eclairs

So you would have guessed, flavour of the month is matcha. I made some matcha pastry cream for the drip on the matcha inside out cake, so I might as well make some choux pastry. Matcha Eclairs it shall be.

Combined 3 different recipes. Shall document soon. I really need to, now that I've learnt to combine and modify. Soon...

Though my sister asked what those green looking things were and my husband said they looked like caterpillars, I think they look fine and most importantly, that taste good! Bleah!