Japanese Melon Pan. I was lucky enough to get hold of this book during our weekly visits to the library. I like to borrow all books related to bread making...even though I may not even try any of the recipes from the books I borrowed. However, this is one book that I will try not just one, but several recipes.
Sometimes I do borrow books just to look at the illustrations and try to learn, or more exactly, 'copycat' the style, composition and angle of the beautiful shots :') Well, if you were as keen as me, you may have already clicked on the above link, and would have realised that I have did just that :) These are Japanese Melon Pans or Melon Buns. I remembered the afternoon when we came home with this library book...everyone of us were busy with our own things...except my younger child.
The pastry dough was very soft, fortunately, after chilling them in the fridge for at least half-an-hour, it was more manageable to work with. I tried out different patterns just to see how each version will turn out. Journey down the baking trail: Cookies. I am moving an inch at a time on my baking trail. I have not been baking much for the past few weeks...was busy catching up with things that I have left behind...like watching tv drama and keeping up with the household chores. I have been wanting to make these melt-in-the-mouth German cookies when I first saw it at my baking pal, Sherlyn's blog.
I bought the bag of potato starch weeks ago, but it was on a spurt of the moment that I decided to bake them...even though I was recovering from a fever. My younger son as usual, was always keen and eager to help me with baking, and lately he is into cooking. I have to thank him for being a very caring child. It was a hot and humid evening when we went about whisking the butter and the sugar. I decided to let the dough chill in the fridge and it was a good thing I did. Since there are so many recipes on my to-do list, I usually do not go back to the same recipe again too soon. And 1 tablespoon of unsweetened cocoa powder to the other half.
Mid-Autumn Fest. Just like all the fellow Aspiring Bakers out there, I spent the past few days on a mooncake making marathon! I have initially planned to make 2 batches of traditional baked mooncakes and another 2 batches of snowskin ones. Just nice to use up most of the lotus paste I bought. My first batch of snowskin mooncakes....matcha green tea snowskin mooncakes with red bean paste, and, ....Coffee snowskin mooncakes with tiramisu lotus paste.
The matcha snowskin is made by simply mixing matcha powder with water, as for the coffee flavour, I used 3-in-1 coffee ;) Last Friday, I did not know what has gotten into me, after sending our elder son to school for his project discussion, I made a last minute decision to swing by Kwong Cheong Thye. I gave myself just a few minutes to shop as I had asked him to park at the roadside to wait for me. Here are the new flavours I made...Cranberry snowskin mooncakes with cranberry paste and Mango snowskin mooncakes. Mini Snowskin Mooncakes 360g white lotus paste Method: Treese, Love, Happiness. Salts & sweets. Bakerella.com.