If there is one thing about my family that I am proud of, that would be cooking! My mom, cooks really, reeally good! My bro makes the best adobo I have tasted! and I must say, I also quite have the skill. BUT not baking. The first and the last time I baked was on my sophomore year in high school cooking class, it was a flop.
Since me and 'le boyfriend aren't going anywhere on our week long "Gong Xi Fa Cai" vacation, I figured, why not try one of the recipes that came with the rice cooker we bought last christmas. It's been lying aroung for officially two months now, and we haven't really used it. So, I scanned the list of the recipes and I spotted MOCHA BUTTER CAKE...in the rice cooker?...interesting!
And so...Saturday night, inspite the exhaustion from cleaning the whole day, I still raced to Fairprice (everyone was in panic-buying mode, since stores will be closed for a week) and bought the ingredients for my rice cooker experiment. Came sunday afternoon, my first few attempts in making the batter was already a flop. Thank goodness Joyce still had a bunch of butter left from her cookie-baking too so I borrowed one bar from her and so the second round went on. Thankfully (again) Kim is also around who happens to have an HRM background. She's already done this thing over and over and so she helped me with the icing and the terminologies, like "fold half of the...into the...". I mean what the hell does fold mean?...
It was almost nine when I removed THE cake from the rice cooker...I just baked my first cake! (in a rice cooker) yey! Now, Icing time...everything was fine, until I started decorating with the brown icing. It was a disaster! I know there are different ways (or was it types) of mixing the sugar and the egg for a different type of icing but what the heck, I only know one! Kim is to the rescue again (good thing she was still awake). and then tadaa!!! my first official Cake topped with cadbury chocolate almonds.
I had fun that day! one those "my firsts" day. Especially on the part where I was decorating the cake with the brown icing. When I served it to everyone, Guess what?! I've had good feedback. For sure, that wasn't anything like Bread-Talk or Bengawan Solo or maybe Bob's (in Bacolod) but not bad for a start right? which means...I should add baking as a hobby...
Since me and 'le boyfriend aren't going anywhere on our week long "Gong Xi Fa Cai" vacation, I figured, why not try one of the recipes that came with the rice cooker we bought last christmas. It's been lying aroung for officially two months now, and we haven't really used it. So, I scanned the list of the recipes and I spotted MOCHA BUTTER CAKE...in the rice cooker?...interesting!
And so...Saturday night, inspite the exhaustion from cleaning the whole day, I still raced to Fairprice (everyone was in panic-buying mode, since stores will be closed for a week) and bought the ingredients for my rice cooker experiment. Came sunday afternoon, my first few attempts in making the batter was already a flop. Thank goodness Joyce still had a bunch of butter left from her cookie-baking too so I borrowed one bar from her and so the second round went on. Thankfully (again) Kim is also around who happens to have an HRM background. She's already done this thing over and over and so she helped me with the icing and the terminologies, like "fold half of the...into the...". I mean what the hell does fold mean?...
It was almost nine when I removed THE cake from the rice cooker...I just baked my first cake! (in a rice cooker) yey! Now, Icing time...everything was fine, until I started decorating with the brown icing. It was a disaster! I know there are different ways (or was it types) of mixing the sugar and the egg for a different type of icing but what the heck, I only know one! Kim is to the rescue again (good thing she was still awake). and then tadaa!!! my first official Cake topped with cadbury chocolate almonds.
I had fun that day! one those "my firsts" day. Especially on the part where I was decorating the cake with the brown icing. When I served it to everyone, Guess what?! I've had good feedback. For sure, that wasn't anything like Bread-Talk or Bengawan Solo or maybe Bob's (in Bacolod) but not bad for a start right? which means...I should add baking as a hobby...
I just got two new Chiffon cake recipes. this will keep me busy for the rest of the week. in the meantime here's a slice for all of you out there! My Mocha Butter Cake...and oh! it'll be nice with a chamomille honey & vanilla english tea...enjoy!
