Kopi Bun

I did not know what to bake... Chiffons have been presented to my tasters for the past few weeks... maybe I should make some bread again... But the success rate was about 70%... So I was deliberating... Should I just try it? Or find something easier to bake since I am spending my precious free time and I did not want to fail... I decided to bake Polo Bun... but since I have not come across any "nice" recipes... online or in my books.. I decided to try this recipe called 'Mexico Bun'... Not knowing how this name came about... I added Coffee Emulco to the topping so that the bread would not be so plain...

Anyway I had fun squeezing the paste out in circular motion... I had probably sqeezed too much on each bread and so when it melted in the oven, it flowed down the sides of the bread and onto the tray...

Nevertheless, the bread came out nice and fragrant... with a whiff of coffee aroma... Great with a hot coffee...

Cinnamon roll... buns actually...

My hands were itching to bake and was getting a little bored making doughnuts... though hubby was asking if I could make some doughnuts every other day, I did not fulfill his request as I was afraid he would 'overdose' on it and also because he was getting "tubbier" by the day... looking just like a doughnut... Round and big... haha...

But since I was satisfied with the texture of the doughnut... I wanted to "transfer" the dough into making other kinds of bread... then cinnamon bun came to mind... Eventually, i dod not use the same doughnut recipe... I used the recipe in one of my books... while it was in the mixer, I was already afraid that this would be a failure... the dough was too soft and sticky... I kept adding flour to it, hoping that it would not become tough after baking... When the dough was done... I rolled it in cinnamon-sugar-butter paste... it was a mess... Instead of being a "Roll"... it became a bun... nevertheless the final product was soft and fluffy... slightly tough after being left overnight in an airtight container but still good enough to eat on its own without the need to heat it up...good try...

Melting Moments

Recently, I have just started a course and this has taken up 4 days of my time... Together with some other commitments, it has been a challenge to bake... I was only free last Thursday evening... So I took the opportunity to bake something simple... Since I have quite alot of butter left in my chiller, I decided to bake some cookies - Melting Moments... I have tried this recipe some time ago... This time, I followed the recipe to a 'T'... and it turned out nice as usual but too sweet and buttery to my liking... Then it dawned on me that I felt the same the last time I baked it and told myself I should reduce the amount of sugar... I totally forgotten about this... But the texture was really 'melt in your mouth'... For my husband who is a chocolate lover, he liked this too... The tasters loved it... and found that the sweetness level was acceptable... Gosh... I will still cut down on the sugar the next time i do it... I wanna try the 'chocolate version' of melting moments... My husband is so looking forward to it...

Doughnuts

I have always wanted to try making doughnuts... But the thing holding me back was the amount of oil that was going to be used to deep-fry them and also some previous failures in bread making... I did not want to prepare the dough, let proof for an hour, fry it in an obscene amount of oil (which might be wasted if I don't use it for other purposes) and then yield a dry tough doughnut...

I looked through some of my books and one recipe caught my eye... it was simple enough for me to want to try it on a boring afternoon... In the end, it took about 3 hours of dough preparation before I could fry the doughnuts... and it certainly did NOT disappoint me... So soft, fluffy and yummy! I brought all of it down to my tasters and all of them devoured it within minutes... I made 2 batches more after this 1st successful try and it turned out great each time... I kept some until the next day to test if it would become tough... NO, it did not... and it was still as soft as before...

My husband has been asking me to make doughnuts these days... and put lotsa chocolate on it... His favourite snack at the moment...

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