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Marble Chiffon Cake

I've not had the mood to blog for the past few weeks.....  lol.  So just a quick one for tonight.  Jac and I baked a Marble Chiffon Cake 2 weeks back.  It was our first attempt at a Chiffon Cake and I really loved how the cake tasted.. its light and fluffy!

This is the cake batter before it went into the oven.  Love the swirls of chocolate!

 

This is the cake after it just came out of the oven..... obviously a first time effort here.. hehehe.. i did not dare to swirl too much or too deep as i wanted the 'marble' effect.. not turn it into a chocolate chiffon... this is what happened : a layer of chocolate at the base. hehee.  Also, Jac and I were a little lazy.  Instead of using a spoon to scoop in the chocolate mix and the cake mix... we used a measuring cup (faster lah!).  I guess one cannot be lazy and take the easy way out in baking. 

 

duno why the top cracked though.... but it did not affect the taste of the cake.

 

The inside:

 

Yummmmmm... i feel hungry now just typing this post.  The chiffon cake had a tinge of orange in it as i grated some orange peel and added it into the cake mix.

Hehee..... next time we might try Pandan Chiffon Cake.  But got to find pandan paste.  Maybe got to head down to Phoon Huat for that.

:) 

me.. a stranger.

Gosh it's been some time since my last post.. sorry for being a stranger but the last week was really busy for me. The lovely Celine Navarro came and what a weekend it was!  There was lots to learn especially if you were around for the layouts workshop.. my favourite!

I've been so tired trying to recoup after that... been getting very little sleep the past few weeks. Dono why!  My body is physically tired but my mind refuses to go rest in the night.

Anyways... I've completed the 3 layouts from Celine's worskhop that I managed to be part of.

I love how they turned out.... :)

 

 

 

I love how the last one below turned out.. just imagine it was originally a blank white cardstock...... love the paints !!!!

 

 

this was the state of my fingers after the workshop:

 

the store blog has been updated with some photos of what went on over the weekend.. love this shot... so funny!

Celine.. come back again ya?  Next time we'll bring you out for durians! hehehehee.

 

Oh and before my sister kills me.... here is what we did on Sunday... the baking resumes!!! hheheee

Creamy Blueberry Muffins!  the inside was really yum and nice.... love it!

And on another note... I'm currently watching this kdrama:

Cain and Abel... its not too bad.. the main reason I watch it is for So Ji Sup of coz!  Been waiting for him to release a new kdrama ever since SORRY I LOVE YOU (which was sooooooooo good).

Okay .. im gonna sign off now.. have a good day ya?  AI later! weeeee.

more from the bakery.....

 Blessed Easter everyone...... it's Sunday and what is a typical Sunday activity?  BAKING of coz. hehe.  I did not show what we did last week so I'm posting for both last week and this week.

Last Sunday, Jac and I baked very yummy brownies.... it was really good, served of coz with vanilla ice cream....

 

Today, we attempted 2 recipes - Chewy Oatmeal Rasin Cookies as well as Philadelphia Double Chocolate Cheesecake.  Both were fairly easy recipes but turned out very good.

The chewy oatmeal rasin cookes had a nice 'chewy' consistency... not too sweet (as we reduced the sugar) and had a tinge of spice coz we added cinnamon and clove powder to the mix.

The Philadelphia Double Chocolate Cheesecake was .. ahem according to my auntie of 'HILTON STANDARD' lol!  I did not know Hilton served good cheesecake.. HAHAA.  Anyways, again, we reduced the sugar (actually we halved it!).  The cheesecake base was made by mashing oreo cookies and butter, then baking for 10mins to set the base.  The cake itself consisted of 4 packs of Philadelphia Cream Cheese (Light version of coz), sugar, some flour, eggs, semi sweet chocolate etc etc...  The cake was baked for about 45mins then had to be refrigerated for about 4 hours to set. 

^{(hmm maybe if it was refrigerated overnight, the cake would be a little 'stiffer' and will cut nicely... but i thought the consistency was pretty okay)}

Well.... we had the cake for after dinner dessert. hehehe.

Okay so that's about it for baking.. for now.  Next week Jac will be away in Seoul so i guess no baking then).

By the way, I've been scrapping like a mad cow (literally).... but have nothing to show. LOL.  They are for a secret something that will be revealed in due time.  Unfortunately, they are not for a new workshop.... hehehee... then again, maybe i'll turn them into a workshop.  WHO KNOWS!

So yep... my brain is officially zonked now.  Have a nice week ahead, everyone!

Sunday routine...

and so it seems.. the baking continues.  Today we baked ALOT.

First off..

SOFT GINGER COOKIES

i love ginger but have never been a big fan of Ginger snaps or Ginger cookies.  However these ones tasted really good.. especially dipped in coffee.  Our 'testers' said they preferred a stronger ginger taste but oh well.. it tasted fine to me. lol.

Then we did BANANA CRUMBLE MUFFINS

 

The muffin came out very moist and yummy.  We reduced the sugar but quite abit and the muffin was just the right sweetness!  The muffin top was really nice too coz there was a 'crumble' layer on it.

Lastly..... our third attempt at the ESPRESSO CHOCOLATE CAKE.  The first time we did this, it was really yumz but a little too sweet coz we did not have bittersweet chocolate and ended up using a mix of semi sweet and unsweetened.  The 2nd time we did this, some egg yolks fell into the egg whites (we had to separate the yolks from the whites) and this caused the egg whites not to fluff up when whisked.  The cake still turned out nice though but a little soft.

Today.. we had a perfect fluff...... hehee

 

we also added more unsweetened chocolate, less semi sweet ones, reduced the sugar and VOILA.... 3 times a charm!

 

After all the baking.... everything was eaten up real quick by our 'testers' (ala... family members).  LOL.  Tiring but well worth the effort.

So Jac... what shall we bake next?