honey drizzle

Monday, July 30, 2007

I love vanilla(: Madagasca bourbon vanilla bean cupcake, simplicity at its best. I cant believe I didnt like vanilla when I was young. I think it was because I had the impression that vanilla was a plain flavour, or I was fed too much of those artificial addictives. This cupcake, which I keep making over and over again, is moist, tender and perfumed with vanilla. (:



Nutella swirl cupcakes, fourth of the swirl cupcake series. It looks weird here I didnt have a toothpick):


3:07 AM

On Friday, first ballet class in a really long time. Mrs lim's assistant reminds me of maplejie. Then on Saturday last Nswp meeting, as usual not very productive.








Then Sheryl came over to bake for sec4 farewell. First fudgy dark chocolate brownies with peanut butter chips. Then the cake, Devil's food cake with Raspberry meringue frosting(:


The meringue, it looks like clouds(:


Raspberry blood



Frosting the cake.


Frosted


Decorated.




hearts!

Haha, I know I'm trigger-happy. Im just pleased that it doesnt look like it was going to fall apart. (shh)


3:07 AM

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Mastering Physics:

You are asked to bake muffins for a breakfast meeting. Just as you are about to start making them, you get a call saying that the number of people coming to the meeting has doubled! Your original recipe called for three eggs. How many eggs to you need to make twice as many muffins?

Im stuck doing such questions all day long. Hmm, at least I only have about 500 questions to go.


7:28 PM

Im so sick of physics olympiad. I just finished one topic, and you find you have another topic with another 95 questions to go. I wish I could just let it rottt.

Hazelnut Macarons with Nutella filling. Haha I love hazelnuts(: But they are much coarser than almonds and take forever to sift. Haha, so I gave up halfway and dumped it all in. These macarons are really fragile though, many cracked while I was filling them. I desperately need silpat. My no brand cheapo silicon mat is too small and doesnt work. When I try to scrape the macarons off, their pretty feet get destroyed. ):




Oh yes made chocolate transfers for sec 4 farewell cake. They are extremely difficult, you need alot of practice and be good at art. So I say this is quite a good attempt for me. Traced out design in dark chocolate, filled it in with coloured white chocolate. I need to find a way of emulfyising the food colouring, it stays in specks in the chocolate.

Ballet slippers. Its a bit smudged coz the chocolate wasnt properly hardened when I applied the next layer. Also the ribbons broke off ):
Hearts (:


7:37 AM

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Bliss, last performances with sec 4s):

Dance fantasia: It was great to be at ucc again. Sajc was good too, very zakish but vj was better even though they were so similar. CHIJ must be the only chinese dance I've ever liked, it was very graceful. Cresent was wayy good, their energy level was really amazing. Oh man I love their dance(: Haha we are their biggest fans.
For our dance, it was quite good except Vanessa's bad fall at the end. At the end it was comparably silent, maybe the audience were amazed by our bravery, or so we think. Today Vanessa got this huge painful bruise that has all the colours of the rainbow):

Rapture by sajc: It was quite good I guess, comparing to how many items they put up. But they werent coordinated and some of the items werent anything special. Miss wee and zaki's item at the end was quite good. And they performed their syf for the millionth time. The only really really good item was by NUS, and it was really sharp and their technique is wow. The chereography was very similar to Zakis. By Zaini! Omg hahaha(:
BUTS: The stage was slanted): So it was much more tiring to dance and lean forward so you wont pirouette backwards or something. Now we love the ucc stage even more. But during the actual performance the inbalanced centre of gravity thing didnt really affect us. It was one of the best ones, maybe because it would be the last complete performance.


Haha, look at sharon.






5:54 AM

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Chocolate peanut butter swirl cupcakes. I was wanting to start a swirl series for cupcakes without frostings. Actually I wanted to try a honey hazelnut cupcake with nutella swirl, but no nutella, so chocolate peanut butter instead. But anyway that meant I could try my new cookbook, the Cake Bible.

Used the chocolate cake recipe from there, and attempted to swirl in the peanut butter. But the peanut butter was so firm, it just sank in the middle and looked really ugly. So in the end I had to melt the peanut butter.





A proper post on the past few days later(:


5:57 PM

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Chaos, wasnt as nervous as I expected. Weird blazer, tissue stuffed shoes. Frantic memorising at the back of the car, If you forget its okay.

It was raining heavily, and we got lost. Using the dam models to cover our heads, Ms cheong would have killed us. Drawing lots of order of presentation, we wanted second, because you could have an idea of what to come, yet get over with it.


Maisie says, Can you see the glow? If we win you get to keep it forever.
Destressing techniques, han han ana ana. First was Nj, I thought they were really good. Then it was us, thankfully everything was okay, embarrasing secondly): and I think we were too soft.
Q&A we couldnt answer really well, none of the question we preempted came out. Some the the other schools were really good, overly smart people should be disqualified):
I hate how they announce the results, you have to hope your school isnt called out during the commendation prizes. By some miracle, we didnt. And by that time we already knew who the 2nd runner up was. We were so giddy with happiness. God really helped us through, because with our own efforts there would be no way.


7:01 AM

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Ulu pandan racial harmony performance was quite okay. The stage was super small, everyone kept getting slapped in the face and bumping into one another. And even when you were backstage the audience could still see you.

Chaos last night, the glass room is becoming our second home.


Chocolate gelato, the best one I've tasted. Deep, dark and very chocolaty. Im going to convert to gelato soon.


Freshly churned. It looks soft but its not really, its just reflective(:


Vanilla Raspberry Swirl cupcake. Felt extremely sick of anything sickening sweet, so today a cupcake without frosting. Vanilla bean cupcake with fresh raspberries, and raspberry puree swirled in.



2:15 AM

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Last two days was Imcb. First day was really dead, didnt do anything except lectures, and waiting forever to plate cells. But second day we had more bench experiments and it was more interesting.

Lunch breaks at Holland village, Cold stone/rock/pebble today, Mango ice cream with passionfruit! and Maisie's weird hard gummy bears. Got lost many times getting there, pretty cool though. There was this playground bouncy see saw thing, haha turning effects of forces.

I dont exactly regret going, I guess. Half a million dollar microscopes, stinky gloves and we got to miss assembly and run about(:

Tomorrows a long day):


4:07 AM

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Oral is finally over(: Glad it was okay, the examiners were scary though.





Well last week was Yeah, which was pretty fun, and interesting. Ivfen and her flower face, Cheryl and I with our very brown tshirts. Dance is going crazy, practically every day next week. Oh, seniors came on monday(:

After oral I feel so slackish. Chewy chocolate peanut butter chip cookies, and I've eaten into my time for chemistry.




3:11 AM

Monday, July 02, 2007

I love summer. Its when all my favourite fruits are in season: cherries, strawberries, peaches.



Made cherry ice cream, it involved an hour of pitting cherries with a piping tip, cherry juice stained hands and cramped fingers. But really worth it, cherries have the most gorgeous colour in the world.


Leftover cherries, so made chocolate cupcakes with chopped fresh cherries.


Topped with white chocolate whipped ganache, the best frosting ever. I tried to do a rose swirl, ganache melted really quickly, so it sucks.


1:04 AM