Sunday, August 1, 2010

My baking adventures!

All my baking expeditions...not exactly in chronological order. Not that it matters. I feel like having a picture spam at the moment =D

For mother's day. I baked apple pies


Look nice! I used Fuji Apples instead of Granny Smith apples so that I won't have to deal with the sourness by using more sugar. I can have naturally sweet apples and add less sugar =D I used brown sugar as well. Tasted better.


I just made a bowl of soba noodles in soy sauce. simply boiled the noodles, bean sprouts, fishcake and egg together and put it in soba sauce. Simple meal and refreshing.


My first ever apple pie which failed reaaaally badly. I used 4 granny smiths apples and the fillings turned out SO SOUR! The top crust was so hard it was hard to slice into pieces. The aftermath was just disastrous.


Attempted asian style bibimbap with bokchoy, seasoned pork, kimchi, fried eggs and beansprouts. Well, after mixing everything together with the seasoning (gochujang+vinegar+sugar+seasame), the presentation and individual ingredients didn't matter as long as it tasted good.


I made agar-agar, mum-style! I used normal agar powder and added gula melaka, eggs and coconut milk. I loved the ones my mum made and was craving for some.


Oreo cheesecake! I learnt that, to get that ice-cream texture, I'd just need to freeze it. It tastes less creamy but you won't get sick of the cheesecake while having that one slice.


I just decided to play and cut a slice out to make a sundial out of my oreo cheesecake =D


Now this is another cheesecake, for Faezah's birthday and mine. It's a nutella cheesecake, but i didn't put enough nutella in the cream cheese filling so the flavour didn't come out strong. Then I decided to use nutella to design the cake as well. haha! it was fun... I used baking paper to make the cone-shape thing such that i can write with nutella.

My attempt with apple crumble. This was how it looked before baking. Looks really powdery.


The baked apple crumble! The sultanas in the crumble got burnt! For some reason, i preferred eating my crumble cold, so I put it in the fridge overnight before cutting a slice (it was really hard) to eat.


My obsession with salads at Austin Hospital resulted in me attempting to create my own thai sweet chilli chicken salad. I boiled chicken breasts (it'd be great to grill them instead). Then I added celery, corn kernels, red capsicums and apple slices. The salad dressing includes thai sweet chilli, lemon and some honey.


My final product! When I made this, I didn't intend to put so much stuff but the amount in the salad bowl just kept growing. Well, that bowl satisfied a couple of stomachs that night!


I baked this for father's day. It's just a normal apple crumble with nutella words.


When I bought Cadbury choc chips to bake muffins, i came across a cookie recipe on the choc chip package. So I decided to bake the cookies according to the recipe. The cookies turned out SOOooooo crispy it didn't feel like cookies, more like biscuits. That's probably because I didn't add any milk to the batter. Taste good though, with the butter, sugar and choc chips. so sinful...


My cookies just got smaller as i continued baking but they looked nicer as well


I used the remaining cookie mixture to bake one huge giant cookie which i gave to Eshan in the end.


My first attempt at baking banana -choc chip muffins! They looked slightly burnt. I had a huge problem with mashing the bananas because they were not exactly that ripe. The muffin texture was quite chewy but i liked it.

My second attempt at baking muffins! This time, i baked banana-cinnamon-choc chip muffins! My first batch failed because I put too much muffin mix in the cups and the paper cups couldn't support the growing muffin, so part of the muffin collapsed. The ones in the pic are from the 2nd batch and i put much less muffin mix.