Crepes!

oh my god! i made crepes today, think i got super high after making them and started sending the pics out to everyone i knew.

i was flipping through my new recipe book and saw one for crepes, and had this huge urge to make them instantly. So, anyway, i got down to work and cooked up some apples and bananas to top off my crepes and mixed up the batter, which wasnt really too hard, just abit time consuming. But, in the end, it was totally worth it, frying the crepes was really fun, and trying to flip them, and topping them off too, I so have to think of different things i can top them off with. Anyway, here are the pics, the recipe said serves 4-6, but I think i had enough for 20 crepes, shall use half next time.

Btw, im really happy with the pics that came out today as well! Here goes ( and i want nicer plates, hint)



ok, heres my workstation just before I mixed all of them one by one to get my crepe batter.



Heres the apples and bananas I cooked up to top off the crepes, the apples taste like apple pie filling =X




The final product, I was planning to make more kinds, but there arent enough people to eat at my house =(

New cookbooks!

Gah.ive been on the hunt for some new inspiration aside from cheesecakes, since im wayyy to lazy to go and buy cream cheese, esp since it doesnt keep too long so Im afraid i end up not using it in time, so I popped by Kino, and in the midst of a very very sinful book shopping spree ( I have alot of those ) , i picked up 2 new recipe books! ( I wanted to post up pictures, but im still not sure if thats against any copyright/legal/ip/ etc thingys)

First was a book called Muffins Galore! which, from the title, has like over a hundred muffin recipes, which i really need since Im kinda bad at muffins, dont know if its me or the recipes im using, so I thought Id try and get more material on it. The other book is by a Singaporean Chef! called Lust, which features a big handful of chocolate desserts, something I totally have a soft spot for, who doesnt like chocolate after all.

Oh, this same Singapore author, Audrey Tan, is also holding a donut workshop in Sept, hopefully ill be able to get a place for it and learn to make my own double chocolate donuts ( Watch out JCO! )

I made orange-blueberry muffins this week as well, didnt really turn out that delicious, though they were edible, I should have used fresh/frozen rather than canned blueberries as those kinda spoilt the texture for me.

Mann..long, wordy post, but I havent really made anything worthy of pictures yet, oh wells, getting too busy in the weekends, and weekday baking is too draining for me to grab the camera, haha

我回來了!!

Gosh, i havent posted in a month!!! to be honest, I actually baked cookies a few times in july, but.. was too lazy to put them up, more busy eating em =)

Anyway, now that im back from my extremely amazing taiwan trip, I can get back to baking, and the first thing I did was this banana cake, using my Doris Greenspan recipe book, and since I finally have ripe bananas at home.






i had quite good hopes for this cake as i was mixing up the batter since it already gave the nice banana cake smell ( im a huge fan of banana cakes), and it didnt let me down at all, i would have preferred it a little sweeter, but in the end, the cake turned out with a nice balance of banana and cake flavour, and had a soft and moist texture that i love in banana cakes.

im starting to run of out ideas of stuff that i can do without having to go and buy ingredients, so i guess its time to get hardworking and go shop for stuff, such as cream cheese for cheesecake. Also, maybe ill take some time off and attend a few workshops when I got the time, wanna learn how to decorate my cakes. Everyone else seems to be able to make prettier cakes than me =X