Chocolate Macarons

Chocolate Macarons

Ingredients:
75g egg whites
75g fine sugar
85g almond meal
85g icing sugar
1 Tbsp Valrhona Cocoa powder

Fillings:
Fruttose Raspberry
Chocolate Ganache (50g Anchor Whip Cream +50g Belcolade Dark Chocolate 71%)

Method: 

1. Sift almond meal, cocoa powder & icing sugar together. Set aside for later use.

2. Whisk egg whites until foamy, add in sugar gradually & whisk until the egg white mixture becomes shiny & stiff peaks.

3. Fold in all the dry ingredients into the egg whites batter until thick & flowy.

4. Pipe the plain batter onto silpat mat. Rap the baking tray on table top a few times to spread the batter slightly.

5. Set it aside for the shells' surface to dry up.

6. Preheat oven to 200C, slide the tray of dried macarons into the oven, off the heat immediately & keep the oven door ajar with a thick glove placed in between, for 6mins.

7. Once the 6mins is up, close the oven door . Bake the macarons at 150C till done.

8. Remove from oven & let it cool completely before removing from the silpat mat. Decorate as desired & pipe fillings.

 

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A baking enthusiast

I would like to express thanks to 'mydearbakes' who had presented me this lovely award. I am really honored & happy. I am definitely a baking enthusiast! *^_^*

Here I would like to pass and present the award to Wai Fong from 'Fong's Kitchen Journal'

Baked a rainbow cake with chocolate frosting for a friend's friend. 

Hope the birthday boy likes the cake =)

Award

Thanks to Jane from 'Passionate About Baking' for passing this award to me. I am so honoured to receive this award from her.

I would love to pass this award to the following bloggers, do drop by their fabulous blog *^_^*

Min's Blog

鲸鱼蓝蓝小窝居

袅袅烘焙香

星厨房

Liebster Blog Award

Thanks to Doris from 'Tested & Tasted' for passing this award to me

Here are the rules

• Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog.

• Link back to the blogger who presented the award to you.

• Copy and paste the blog award on your blog.

• Present the Liebster Blog Award to 5 blogs of 200 followers or less who you feel deserve to be noticed. (Some say just 3 or more blogs of less than 200 followers each).

• Let them know they have been chosen by leaving a comment at their blog.

Here I would like to pass and present the Liebster Blog Award to the three blogs:

* Simply Hanushi

* Frozen Wings

* Fong's Kitchen Journal

Awards & Carrot Tom Yum 'Ban Mian'

I would like to express thanks to Amelia from Amelia's De-ssert who had given me these lovely awards. I'm so honored & happy to receive these awards from her!

I'm passing these awards to the following friends:

Min @ Min's blog
Alan @ travellingfoodies
茄子@ 袅袅烘焙香
hsling @ 星厨房
鲸鱼 @ 鲸鱼蓝蓝蓝

Carrot Pasta Dough

(recipe adapted & modify from the batter baker)
 

Ingredients:
1 cup plain flour
1 egg
1 tsp salt
drizzle of olive oil
fresh carrot juice as required

Method:
1.  Make a well in the middle of your bowl of flour.

2. Crack an egg into the well. Add salt & olive oil. Then slowly stir in the flour till a dough is formed.  If it feels too dry, add carrot juice till you get a firm but smooth dough.  Knead till it comes together.
Rest the dough for about 30 mins.

3. Flatten or roll out the dough into a disc, then feed it through the rollers at the widest setting. Slowly work your way through the narrower settings till you get the thickness you desire, flouring the dough as required so it doesn't stick to the machine.

4. Finally, feed it through fettuccine cutters, and you get beautiful fresh 'Ban Mian' !
 

Award & Cookies

I would like to express thanks to the following bloggers who had given me this lovely award. I'm so honored & happy to receive this award from them! Do hop by their yummy blog if you have the time!

Jean from Noms I Must
Alice from I Love. I Cook. I Bake
Honey boy from Cozy bakes
Yummy Koh from Yummy bakes
Nancy from Bake for a queen

Here are the rules to abide for accepting this award:
1. Post linking back to the person that gave you the award
2. Share 7 random things about yourself
3. Award 15 recently discovered blogs
4. Drop them a note & tell them about it

7 random things about me:
1. I am call Cathy because I am a cat lover! I do not own any real cats but I do have a very cute & hugable soft toy cat at home.

2. I am DIL (Deadly In Love) in baking & will bake as often as I can. Guess what? My cat's paws feel itchy if I can't bake!

3. I simply heart cheesecakes, be it baked or non baked. Any flavours are welcome EXCEPT durians! I'm so glad that cheese is the topic for this month Aspiring Bakers, which means I can try out different recipes & have a variety of cheesecakes in future!

4. I don't eat durians (pls refer to no 3). In fact, I can't tolerate the durian smell :P

5. I am a morning person who 'auto' wakes up everyday. Very disciplined huh? Yeah but no no, I guess I am deprived of zzZZzz.... turning into a panda now ;P

6. I love all cartoon characters! I wish I can live in a 'cartoon world' with Doraemon, Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Carebears, Smurfs, Puss in boots, Marie, Chip & Dale etc as my neighbours! How fun will that be! ;)

7. I can't swim. Oh well, expected isn't it? Have you ever seen a cat that swims? ;P

P/S: I won't be passing the award at the moment as most of the bloggers out there have already got this award.

Alright, last but not least, let me present you my home made cookies. My colleague wanted to give these to her students as it is our last day of lesson tomorrow!

Aren't we cute?

Panda Bread

First, I would like to thank Lena (from frozen wings) for passing these lovely awards to me *^_^*

Next, let me present you my Panda Bread! Aren't they cute?

I came across Florence blog (Do What I Like) a few years ago & saw this Panda Bread. I fell in love with it immediately. However, I am not really into bread making at that time & I do not possessed a good mixer or an oven. So, I could only envy...

Recently, I saw this Panda Bread again in Facebook (by Shinni Bakincow). Oh well, those baking bugs inside me are urging me to try out making this bread!!


Do hop over to Not Quite Nigella blog for a step by step guide on the making of Panda Bread.

Panda: Can you bear to eat me ??