weekend bake-off
So the weekend bake-off begins with...
Friday evening, I baked butter cake (from the box). But it was still quite delicious and soft too. Nice with a cup of tea. Mind you, I took these photos with the worst lighting conditions at 10:30pm!
Every morning, my neighbour's ghastly dog will bark and howl at 6 in the morning. Friday night I prayed to God and asked that the dog will just shut up, so I can enjoy my sleep in. 6am ... not one peep from the dog. 7am... cling clong clang... my dad was washing the dishes. rarh. Woke me up. So much for sleeping in.
Woke up pretty early on Saturday morning and was pretty excited to bake some green tea stuff! Mum and I went to the oriental store to try to find Green tea powder! They didn't have any! Gah... went to the Indian store...they didn't have any either... went to the Korean store... finally they had it, although wasn't sure if it was the same as matcha (Japanese green tea powder)!!! Cost 10 bucks for 50 grams! - and I used it all! I didn't know there were so many varieties of matcha (green tea powder)!
So my first attempt at making these Matcha cookies... they didn't turn out too bad, but I made a boo boo! Instead of mixing the egg yolks into the batter, I mixed egg whites... BAhhhhhhhhhh~~ But still edible and nice and soft on the inside. The green tea taste is not as strong and fragrant as I would have liked though.
I also baked Matcha cupcakes while I was at it. Pretty similar ingredients. They didn't turn out as green as I'd hoped because there wasn't enough green tea powder after having used the majority of it on the cookies. A tad sweet still, even though I cut down the sugar already. They look more like banana cupcakes.
So what's up for next weekend? Hrmm.. more baking??
Maybe I should try to make a meal from my Secrets of the Red Lantern recipe book. I really want to visit this resturant when I got to Sydney. It's not too far from the city centre, so hopefully we might have time to go there. The contestants from Masterchef went there on last nights episode! By the way, if you love autobiographies, Red Lantern is a must read autobiography/recipe book. I cried several times whilst reading - she writes very well. It's the autobiography of Pauline Nguygen as a child escaping Vietnam and growing up in Australia. I first read her story from another book called Growing up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung which is a collection of stories by Asians that grew up in Australia which is another good read. For those who are part of the generation of Asians that did grow up in Australia, you'll be able to relate to many aspects of their lives growing up in Australia too as you read their stories.
♥ weiwei
today...
@3:46 pm