Pizza

I am organising a "Make your own pizza" party for my cousins in early August... As a prelude to that little event, I decided to do a pizza dinner for my parents and my son's godma tonight... Making the pizza dough was easy... Just have to throw all the ingredients into the mixer and it's done pretty fast... I find that rolling out the dough was more tedious... I watched a programme yesterday and this Italian chef was flipping the dough in the air... He said this will make a better tasting pizza... Hmm.. So i tried... No matter how I throw it, it got longer and longer and eventally a small hole appeared... No matter how the chef flipped it... It remained a nice flat round dough... duhz... Guess that's the difference between a chef and a housewife.... haha... I gave up and ended up rolling it out and placing it on the pizza tray that I just bought few days ago... The pizza tasted great... But I was abit diappointed that the botton wasn't browned enough... The previous attempt at baking pizza yield a nice brown crispy bottom... I used the normal baking tray that came together with the oven... I did not put it longer to brown the bottom as the top was already bubbling and I did not want to burnt it... Oh well, I guess it's ok... It was still a nice dinner... Most importantly, it is the company that counts :-D

Cake Order - Mixed Fruit Cake

One of the staff at my grandma's coffeeshop ordered this cake to celebrate his own birthday... Yeah, you heard it right... Guess I should put it this way... He ordered a cake to share with the rest of the staff... Since most of the staff are at least 50years old... They tend to favour fresh fruit cake... compared to chocolate ones.. So I decided to pile this cake with lotsa fruits... They feedback that the cake was a little too "wet"... gosh... I guess I might have overloaded on the fruits and agar agar topping... bish... Nevertheless, the cake still tasted great according to them... Pity I did not get a chance to see the cross-section of the cake to better understand what happened to it...

Dried Fruit Bread

I came back from my Company Convention with a pounding headache... But my hands were itchy to touch some flour... So decided to try a recipe from the new Bread book that I bought from a bookstore in Lucky Plaza... This recipe was supposed to be Kugelhopf...and the recipe called for onions and bacon to be added into the dough... However, an alternative was given... it can be made into a sweet bread... adding raisins and dried peel to it... Since I have lotsa of it at home... I decided to try the sweet version... I halved the ingredients as I did not know if this bread would work out... The bread was soft and fluffy when hot... As it cooled, It was slightly dry... But I guess if you toast it and put a slice of butter on it, it will be yummy... Will let thye tasters try it tomorrow and see what they say :-D

Sri Melaka Cupcake

I tried this recipe from Alex Goh's book, 'Magic Steamed Cake'. i was afraid that the Gula Melaka syrup would be too sweet, so I reduced the amount of caster sugar. Previously, I made a mistake of pouring the steamed cake batter into paper liners without putting them in the mould... so all the batter flowed out... Stupid me! Then few days ago, while I was at Sun Lik, I bought some white paper cups... this time, I poured the batter into these cups and put it into the steamer... I was curious how this cake would turn out... As I have poured the batter nearly to brim of each cup, I was afraid it would rise too high and flow out of the cup... When I opened the steamer lid 20mins later, I was in for a pleasant surprise... It not only did not tip out of the brim, it rise so beautifully... When I left it on the tray to cool, I had expected it to deflate... and it did not! The cake was soft and nice... Not too sweet... Easy to make... Another recipe to keep!