Macaron Workshop

We went to a Macaron Workshop last Saturday and it was really fun. 4 of us has been put into a group and have to share the tools and ingredient. The on hand experience was pretty limited due to huge number in a group but we did made some very delicious Macarons! :)

This was found on groupon deal, a Macaron Workshop provided by Taylors University. I would say the experience was only fair since the instructor was not really attentive and other than sharing this recipe, there is nothing much you can pick up from this workshop if you are newbie in baking like I do.

Below are the ingredients needed to make the macaron, and it was measure and provided as it is:

We first make some Italian Meringue then pour them into almond batter, and pipe them to baking tray.

After bake bake at 150 degree for about 8-10 minutes then leave them to chill. We actually bake longer than 8-10 minutes. I think it is because it wasn't preheat properly, I don't even know how long we need to preheat my oven... After it is all dry & chill that we could remove it from the baking paper. We first pair them up before pipe in filling.

Pipe the filling and fold them together. We didn't actually get to make the filling by ourself, this is pretty much all what we have made.

My share and TS share. They actually taste very nice. It is surprisingly easier than I thought before. But we definitely need some really expensive tools. Can't wait to start making those really delicious-looking recipe I found earlier!

Giant Lychee

To be honest, I have seen so many things in my life and nothing really surprise me. I thought.

But, saw this Giant Lychee before I fly off GuangZhou in the airport. Can't remember the name and I really want to try how does it taste. So I asked the sales girl see if I can get one to try, they said no. So I figured I could pay and buy some to try. So I asked for 5... They cost me RMB57 for 5.

In my palm, can't really tell the size right.

Compare to my BB. Yea tell me about it. It's CRAZY.

Sweet but not like extremely sweet.

Birthday Cake

Simon's Birthday, I order a cake for him from Patisserie Rui Artisanal @ Mont Kiara.

I originally order their famous Gateaux B52, but it was unavailable due to the very short notice, Crystal advice me to go for Opera instead. It was so much better than other Opera I had in KL. It was light, rich in taste but not overly creamy. Anyway, I designed the cake and was really proud with it. I am actually very surprise that I can actually describe the picture in my head like this.

My email to Crystal (the baker) was:

Hi Crystal,

This is Moo Yong, I called you earlier to check if it is possible for you to make a 1.5kg Gateaux B52 with 3D dragon artwork.

The artwork I have in mind is soemthing like the attached pdf file.

The tail and clouds can be sitting on the surface of the cake, the cake body in sky blue.

clouds color in white with black color lining to emphasis on the chinese fu.

upper body has to stand up perpendicular to cake surface, to make it easy to make the dragon body details, the upper body just make the dragon wear a red color Li-Ning T-shirt (herewith I also attached a pic of the logo).

And the dragon is also wearing a spec.

And finish with a Happy Birthday writtong on the front.

I have very little time and I draft the drawing of my design to send to the Crystal, it was like:

And I am very happy with the result. Crystal is a very talented baker. :)

And it was actually appear on Crystal Official Blog too, check it out! :)

Cookies Baking: TKO + Conversation Cookies

So now I started our blog, thought I would like to start with something pretty and maybe surprising for all my potential reader.

For Valentine's day I thought I wanna do something special for my valentine. So I decided to bake some Orea for him since he loves Chocolate so much. And some pretty conversation cookies to make the overall presentation prettier.

The whole process took us 7 hrs. We made everything from scratch, from 1. Chocolate Sable Dough:

To cut the cookies and place it on the baking sheet was sort of a pain for us. It is extremely difficult to keep them in shape. I think there must be an easier way to do it. Or simply because KL is too hot and the cookies get warm and soft real quick.

2. White Chocolate Ganache Filling:

It was this:

Become this:

Assemble them together, tada!

The Chocolate cookies was a bit bitter and very rich in chocolate scent. The white chocolate is actually not very sweet yet very creamy. They are fabu-licous together! :D

At the same time, we start baking some Sugar cookies for Conversation Cookies, from scratch. Too. Ofcoz.

And the icing too! How pretty are them!! :D

While writing msg on my sugar cookies, I thought why don't I just decorate my Orea too? So I start it with this:

How cute is this, I thought I can masses and sell them!

Then to the whole box of my cookies, my final masterpiece:

And Yiin even brought it to another extent, how cute are they!! We are so talented!!

Started @11a.m. Finished baking 6p.m. We are exhausted.