Random Bakes :)

Beginners' Baking Class got me all excited about baking! And my most frequent bake is.....*drum rolls*.... PANDAN CAKE!!! Reason being... I had difficulties baking a perfect one at home. I was baking it almost every 2 weeks and my poor sisters & friends have to be tortured to eat it repeatedly.

It started off with a flat one, with a dense texture at the bottom...

After discovering that the recipe might not be meant for a 10-inch tin (my teacher says it can), my 3rd sis bought a 7-inch tin for me... (must be eat until scared le, want me to faster succeed and stop baking pandan cake. Heh :P) And I had better luck baking pandan cake...It was fluffier though there is still a denser layer at the bottom... read that it might be due to too high oven temperature or overwhipping of egg white.

Tada! My more successful pandan cakes!!

I still continued baking for a no of times before I finally decided it was enough. But at least this version had supporters... :)

My next most frequently baked item would be Cheesecakes! It started off with the mini cheesecakes which won many many fans.... to the bigger ones which I baked for birthdays and my sis's ROM...

The cakes are acceptable but not as good as my family's all-time favourite Hilton cheesecake below...

A different type of cheesecake which I tried making was this chedder cheesecake that you see below. Hmm.. unlike cream cheese, the chedder cheese was not nice.

Another cake which I have tried to bake a number of times would be Tiger roll. This is my 4th sis's & bro-in-law's favourite... but somehow, they dun turn out as nice as the one baked in class. The cream always makes the cake messy... perhaps I did not whip it well... shall try it again soon.

Other baked items with pictures are shown below:

Disastrous Looking Pandan Kaya Cake: Part of the kaya layer ingredients was burnt when cooking..and using only the remaining unburnt ingredients, the layer was super sweet. Thankfully, it was still finished up with some praises.

Christmas Log Cake-A group effort: Deco by HF... I think we spent like 30 mins trying to decide where to place what among ourselves. The inner roll was done made by me. Icing was done by Ah bu.... and it was quite crunchy as we did not have icing sugar and replaced it with caster sugar. Haha... Overall still quite nice la. :)

Chocolate Banana Cake: PL's cake for her father, with my guidance ->Bad teacher & not-so-nice cake. The chocolate ganache somehow harden and was difficult to spread on the cake. Apparently, PL says still quite ok in taste.

Chocolate Hazelnut Tart: This was for Mae's Birthday. I love the crunchy filling inside. Only complaint might be the saltish tart.

Checkerboard Cookies: This was what we learnt in our Intermediate Baking Class. It is supposed to be more checkered but the dough was too soft for me to create the original effect... might be due to my kitchen temperature.

Other items which I baked but with no pictures to show:

- Butter cake: not as nice as the one baked in class

- Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies (Soft)

- Classic Chocolate Chips Cookies (Chewy)
- Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies

This is what I can remember so far.... till my next post.... :)