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 !!

dOughnuts

15 May 2008

At last we're making Doughnuts, my favourite ! It's not so difficult to make after all... just that we've got to fry it once we're done. We didn't make the Cinnamon Rolls like I thought but did the Chelsea Buns instead. It's similar to the Cinnamon Rolls but it doesn't have the cinnamon taste or the aroma which is quite a waste as I really like the cinnamon smell !! We also made a Ragi Walnut Bread. Ragi is a type of flour that is used to make thosai. We mixed it with walnuts and added our bread recipe and so we have the Ragi Walnut Bread !! This is the end of our bread making module and we start with Pastries on Saturday !

A picture of the doughnuts before they were fried !

Here's one of them in the fryer
The end product!

Here's one of the Chelsea Buns before they were popped into the oven.

And, after !
This is the Ragi Walnut Bread

'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).