Fruity Agar-agar

I actually made these agar-agar during the cny period! I had these images on my computer, but just did not have the time to edit them.

The agar-agar was made with apple juice, which explained the yellowish tinge. The kiddos got a pack each from their b'fasts from McDonalds and did not finish them.... so I took them and made agar-agar out of it. :) Thinking that it's apple juice, I did not add additional sugar to it. Well, turned out to be a wrong decision.... the agar-agar tasted sour! Thankfully, I topped them with some canned cocktail fruits, which sorta sweeten them up a little.

White chocolate strawberries cookies

Sorry for the long name of this cookie. Such a mouthful.

I bought a pack of dried strawberries, thinking that it would be able to impart fragrance and taste to cupcakes, but I was so wrong. Dried strawberries are nothing like the fresh one! It actually tasted like raisins! Much bigger in size tho'.

So in order to use it up somehow, I decided to incorporate those into my fav cookie recipe... I also added white chocolate chips to the dough....

Chantilly Cake

This cake was done for my father's b'day.

Before I got hold of this recipe, I had googled for chantilly cream and all I got was chantilly cream was whipped sweetened cream. So when I had a good look at this recipe, then I realised that it was totally different from the definition on the internet. I won't be disclosing the recipe, sorrie, as the instructor is still teaching this cake.

As I went about preparing the cream, I duno how I did it, but I overwhipped the non-diary cream! I wanted the cream to achieve soft peak but it never happened :P , disaster striked! The resulting cream was lumpy in appearance... but taste-wise, it's similar to what i had tried. Also I did not use rum as indicated, but replaced it with kirsh instead. I decorated the sides with white chocolate curls and kept the top simple with just piped words. It was a 3 layered sponge cake, with the same cream in between. Each layer was brushed with some kirsh too.

Green tea marbled madeleines

I made these as a variation from the yuzu madeleines recipe. These madeleines did not turn out as good.... I wonder if it's coz of the green tea powder.

Also, the green tea taste was not prominent enough. Maybe I have to add more to it. I used 1 tbsp and yet the taste was still not what I wanted.

The marbling was achieved by the addition of bamboo charcoal powder. As seen, not enough of the bamboo charcoal powder was added, it turned out like greyish instead of black.

Mother's Day bake

I better post this before it's Father's Day! LOLz. Been badly bitten by the lazy bug lately, which explained the sporadic postings. Here's what I did for Mother's Day. I opted for small little cakelets instead of a whole cake this year coz we dined out for the day and would not want to bring a cake along. Small cakelets, were enjoyed at home, before meals and the leftovers were finished in fairly short time. These cakelets were actually brownies, very moist and buttery. I topped them with some white chocolate and toasted whole almonds.