4 July 2009
;18:51"Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you've made." //Magaret Atwood; Cat's Eye
my mogu and I went baking last friday! us before the baking started! surprisingly, there were quite a few people our age haha. got a group of well-dressed girls and a small boy with his sister. but I think the teacher was the funniest la, he looks super pro and he even got time to bake a pizza for us to try after the whole lesson.
this is cream with chocolate emulsion, you stir it for a while and it becomes good, creamy chocolate haha.
and my mogu stirring the cream! what I learnt is that baking requires copious amounts of arm power. even while we were not using the industrial mixer, the teacher made us stir bowls and bowls of stuff. we had to whisk the eggs into a froth then we had to stir the macademias into the cream and after it all, we have to add all the stuff together and mix it well. haha, if you don't have time to work out, go for a baking class la, guaranteed toned biceps after all that stirring and whisking!
and these were our cakes before they went into the oven!
haha, the finished product! we made a walnut pound cake also but that one not as sexy as this awesome chocolate macademia cake! all in all, baking is super good fun especially when you don't have much to do. but if you really want to take up baking, it's super expensive cos I was checking out the prices of the baking equipment and I think you'll have to spend at least a hundred plus to get all the basic stuff haha. maybe should just stick to making cookies first la huh.
I just wish the cakes would last long enough so I could give them out to all the people I love.
"Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you've made." //Magaret Atwood; Cat's Eye
my mogu and I went baking last friday! us before the baking started! surprisingly, there were quite a few people our age haha. got a group of well-dressed girls and a small boy with his sister. but I think the teacher was the funniest la, he looks super pro and he even got time to bake a pizza for us to try after the whole lesson.
this is cream with chocolate emulsion, you stir it for a while and it becomes good, creamy chocolate haha.
and my mogu stirring the cream! what I learnt is that baking requires copious amounts of arm power. even while we were not using the industrial mixer, the teacher made us stir bowls and bowls of stuff. we had to whisk the eggs into a froth then we had to stir the macademias into the cream and after it all, we have to add all the stuff together and mix it well. haha, if you don't have time to work out, go for a baking class la, guaranteed toned biceps after all that stirring and whisking!
and these were our cakes before they went into the oven!
haha, the finished product! we made a walnut pound cake also but that one not as sexy as this awesome chocolate macademia cake! all in all, baking is super good fun especially when you don't have much to do. but if you really want to take up baking, it's super expensive cos I was checking out the prices of the baking equipment and I think you'll have to spend at least a hundred plus to get all the basic stuff haha. maybe should just stick to making cookies first la huh.
I just wish the cakes would last long enough so I could give them out to all the people I love.
