All about Cakes & Cookies Baking

[Augmum]

micollh:

ANobleNerd , u r HHB,i always \"copy\" recipes from ur blog heee. nice to see u here.


by the way, anyone can help me? my panasonic convection oven gone case, i wanted to get a new one, but cant decide which to buy, i cant get a big one as the space in my kitchen already been designed to place that small oven..
any brand of oven you guys can recommend? tt's good for baking and cooking? Thanks thanks

micollh, Oops.....so sorri to hear that.
i also wanna to get a smaller oven, instead of using the big one
as it consume more electricity, esp sometimes, i only bake 1 small cake.

[twinklejoy]

ANobleNerd:

http://happyhomebaking.blogspot.com/2007/01/horlicks-doggie-cookies.html. I simply replace equal parts of the Horlicks for Milo. When I ran out of powdered milk for the second batch, I simply replace that amount with more Milo powder.


It's so easy to do that my son took over after we measured out all the ingredients. We just weighed out 9g of cookie dough for each dog and my son had fun making funny faces on it.

We made a batch of Horlicks and a batch of Milo for the younger ones' kindergarten party, and the kids loved it!

I personally like it because both Milo and Horlicks are packed with lots of vitamins and minerals, so they are lovely snacks for the kids.
:lol:
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Adoi! it's so...so....so..cute! :love: :love:

[peapot]

Oh wow! the cookies are so darn cute and the cookie monster very impressive.


ANobleNerd, How do glue the choc chip to the mentos sweet? Did you make your own frosting?

[ANobleNerd]

peapot:

Oh wow! the cookies are so darn cute and the cookie monster very impressive.


ANobleNerd, How do glue the choc chip to the mentos sweet? Did you make your own frosting?

Yup, I make my own frosting. Before tinting the blue frosting, I save about 1.5 teaspoons of white frosting for sticking the eyes on.

[Funz]

I took the plunge this weekend and decided to make a strawberry sponge cake. DS loves strawberry anything and inspired by the many talented bakers here, I thought I will give it a go.


I mean ok, sponge cake I know how to make, Korean strawberries are in season again, cream, well, just whip right? So I envisioned a nice white cake with cream piping and red juicy ripe strawberries adorning it.

The cake came out fine, the strawberries were fantastic, juicy and sweet even on its own. Then came the cream. I am not a fan of creamy stuff. I dumped 1 1/2 cup of whipping cream and started whipping. Thought I will get meringue like consistancy. But no, ended up over whipping and I got butter and skim milk instead. Which, was interesting. The kids were facinated. So got rid of the 1st batch and tried again. This time I got it right. But good golly gee, I never knew how much cream was needed for an 8 inch cake. Even with 11/2 cups of cream I was not able to adequately cover the cake, could still see bits of the cake. But I balk at the thought of piling on more cream. So decided to make do with a see through kinda finishing and forget about piping patterns. DD started decorating with the strawberries and in the end decided to just dump every single strawberry on the cake. Haha. The more the merrier, her logic.

Well today, we are left with only 1/4 of the cake. The kids and DH loved it. Me, I scrapped off all the cream and ate only the cake and strawberries.

Conclusion, next time, the cake, strawberry and cream will come separate, ala carte. Go add them yourselves if you fancy, I will even throw in chocolate sauce. But no way am I going to assemble another fresh cream cake. I still keep smelling the cream.

I have pics but somehow not able to post them.

[Augmum]

Funz,

i tried b4 using whipping cream to whip into cream,
but somehow i dun get the texture that we found in bakery cake.
dunno where goes wrong. :roll:

i ever bot those in a can form, whereby u just need to press it out...
oh......never try that again, the cream taste horrible !!! :x

[Augmum]

Yesterday, this was what i had baked, a \"normal cake\" with blueberries in it.


here are the pics
ok, calling baking kakis, Enjoy yr E-tea time Now

don't look nice, becos the blueberries sank to the bottom,
but taste Yummy !!!

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[Funz]

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Finally manage to post some pics.

Augmum, I bought the Presidents whipping cream. And yah cannot get the light fluffy consistency that you find at bakeries. I wanted to cheat and use those from the can but thought just try to whip some up myself. Lucky did not get those canned type.

[Augmum]

Funz,

yr strawberry cake looks so DELICOUS !!!
compared to yrs, mine looked so plain :oops:

oh u're using president whipping cream,
may i know how long u need to whip ??
and did u need to set the fastest speed ??

[Augmum]

Funz:

Augmum, I bought the Presidents whipping cream. And yah cannot get the light fluffy consistency that you find at bakeries. I wanted to cheat and use those from the can but thought just try to whip some up myself. Lucky did not get those canned type.

haha, u're lucky, it's taste kinda of weird,
it's a waste of money, i threw the whole can away juz after sampling. :x