'God' Mothers' Day ??!!

11 May 2008
Today is Mothers' Day and as usual all the restaurants will be crowded as everyone will be out having dinner. Which is why we opted not to go out and my brother and sister-in-law came over and we had my leftover breads, croissants, ... with ham that they bought during their recent holiday in Europe. Well, luckily we didn't go out 'coz my friends came over with my god daughter to give me a surprise ! It was so sweet of them ! And you bet it was a lovely surprise ! Made my day !

Mama Mia! It's Pizza Time !

13 May 2008

Today was a more relaxed day as we only had to make 2 types of pizzas. One was a plain dough pizza and the other the wholemeal pizza. We only had limited types of toppings so I didn't really bother and put similar toppings on both the types of pizza bases ! I think Thursday would be an exciting class as we will be making doughnuts and cinnamon rolls. Both are my favourites ! Can't wait ! It will also be the last class for breads and we move on to pastries on Saturday.

The plain dough pizza before it is put into the oven for baking.

Both types of pizzas just fresh from the oven !

Croissants & Danish

10 May 2008

At last we are making croissants & danish ! Didn't know that making croissants involves so much work. And we have to work quickly too. If not the butter will melt and whatever we've done will go to waste.







Yup! We made the Milk & Cheese Plait (bread) while waiting for the croissant dough to be cooled down again (in the freezer).

More Breads !

08 May 2008


Foccacia ! Another one of my favourites. Dip that into olive oil mixed with balsamic vinegar...yummy. Come to think of it, I won't mind making this at home. It's quite easy to do and I like to eat it anyway. ... which reminds me... I'd better start practising all these recipes and get used to doind so with my own appliances. I wonder if it will taste at least 90% like what I bake at baking school ? My mixer's so tiny compared to what we've been using so far. Even the oven is a midget now !



Ingredients for Foccacia

Ingredients for the German Muesli Bread


Both the Honey & Carrot Bread and the German Muesli Bread

Pretzels Anyone ?

06 May 2008

Yummy! I love pretzels and so does my aunt !! We made a Pumpkin Bread, Brioche and my favourite pretzel today. Also got to watch a video on how pretzels are made. Looked very easy on video but let me tell you that it is not so. Trying to tie the pretzel is another different story. The pumpkin bread was good coz I like pumpkin anyway. But the brioche, to me, is too much work for nothing ! Have alook at the picture of the brioche and maybe you'll agree with me ?












Ingredients for the Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients for the Honey Pretzel