Puff Pastry

24 May 2008

Yay ! We made Puff Pastries today. This is quite interesting to make and also slightly simplier than when we made the croissants. Technique is roughly the same only that we used Puff Pastry Magarine instead of just pure butter. This enabled us to roll and fold the pastry sheets for a longer time compared to using just butter where we needed it to be cool most of the time. Here's what turned out ! ... oh yes, we also made Shortbread Biscuits!

Special Request !

23 May 2008

Had a special request from my mom today. She wanted me to decorate a cake for a family friend's birthday. The theme was golf ! As I had not been practicing icing for so long, I dared not do anything too complicated ! Here's how it turned out !

Pies Anyone ?

22 May 2008

Today we made many types of pies... another easy day for us 'coz we could use the same base (pie) and just put different toppings or fillings ! We also made the Florentine which I personally found a bit too sweet !

Choux Pastry

20 May 2008

We made Choux (pronounced like shoe) Pastry today. Quite a simple recipe. Just that it is very, very fattening !! The amount of butter and cream that we use !!!!! Oh boy! But it's delicious, that's why! We piped out the shape of the swan's head & neck and also the tail. Then attached them to the base (body) of the swan ! If you look at the pictures below you'll see what I mean. We also made them in shapes of flower baskets and also the ever popular Eclair. We had time so we learnt how to make butter cookies as well.

Picture of the choux pastry before they were baked.

The Swan
Flower Baskets & Eclair

Butter Cookies before they were baked.

Chinese Pastries

17 May 2008


Today is the first of our Pastries & Cookies Module. As I mentioned before, we have 8 lessons on breads which we have just completed and now begins the 8 lessons on Pastries & Cookies.

We made the Hong Kong Steamed 'Chicken' Bun, Kaya Puffs and Snow Skin Mooncake with both Lotus Paste & Red Bean Paste fillings.

The Snow Skin Mooncakes were'nt as difficult to make as I thought they would be, the Chicken Bun, I would need to practice wrapping it, and as for the Kaya Puffs, they were really fun to make !

The Hong Kong Steamed Chicken Buns straight out of the oven!

Kaya Puffs, before !
and after !!