my weekday bakes..

after the weekend baking frenzy.. i guess the addiction continues.. been so excited to bake all the recipes i found.. surprisingly i was not tired! hee.. after work, went to fairprice to get the ingredients.. oh yes, i may have flour, butter and sugar always ready at home.. but this time round, i needed chocolate spread.. so went to buy.. cant wait to hands on the recipe..

yesterday everyone's home except siang lah.. so b sis tried to help me cream the butter and sugar that explains why I have time to take the before photos.. hee.. but i guess she was either too slow or simply too gentle with the batter that my dad offered assistance also.. all i had to do was to sit down and snap! hee..

presenting the batter my dad mixed:


after adding the the flour, the eggs and chocolate spread.. in the oven it went.. the recipe calls for the batter to be swirled with the chocolate spread.. trust me, after i hands on, it is not easy for the chocolate spread to follow the toothpick but the petite thing moved together which is not easy to be swirled..

ta-da.. presenting the tray of chocolate frosted cuppies!

next, i moved on to mix the batter for the choco chips..

presenting it baking in the oven:

ta-da! more and more yummy bakes!

packing all my cookies.. one for mum's colleagues.. one for my colleagues.. one for dear dear.. one for the house.. one for dad's office.. hee.. so glad to have so many loyal supporters! hurray!!

my weekend bakes!

it has been a long long time after cny that i last baked, there are so many recipes that i always wanted to try but haven got time..

it has been a tiring week for me after cny making so many plans for everything.. i had no time and my body is too lazy to bake after work.. so i made full use of this weekend to bake those that i always wanted to make.. hee.. very satisfied with the bakes! i wanted to make choux pastry but cant find my recipes for it.. i have taken out all my choux pastries recipes and left it somewhere as my priority for baking but cant find it.. so cant bake.. then i realised, it is in my cupboard all along and i just couldnt find it..

bake 1: mousse cakes.. finally kendy went to the biggest branch phoon huat, geylang to help me buy the small cake rings to make mousse cakes.. but i simply cant handle gelatine.. this is my 2nd time failing it.. the 1st was, i promised to make cheesecake for christmas party but the cheese just doesnt set.. sighz.. this time round, the whipped cream and the cheese just doesnt set.. i removed the cake ring to see it flowing out.. how disappointing.. i threw them all away.. no photos..

bake 2: chocolate fondant.. in one recipes, i can only make 7 fondants.. dear dear ate 1, b sis ate 2! they love it! they are surprised with the ozzing chocolate in the middle! i made another batch today with the same results.. dear dear had another one today.. great!

presenting the chocolate fondant:

bake 3: marble cake.. next i decide to make marble cake.. because of the swirls inside, i always think is a beautiful sight.. cant wait to lay my hands on it.. but i mix too much batter with the chocolate paste because i have more chocolate batter than vanilla batter, thus my marble cake is not well presented.. but taste wise, great! this is my 1st attempt, will improve on the next.. but wonder when i got the chance to do it again.. because my family doesnt really eat cakes and dear dear prefers banana cake to marble cake..

presenting my marble cake:

bake 4: peach muffins.. found a recipes on the Internet on peach muffins.. i always wondered how it taste like.. and recently after having 2 baking tins for baking muffins, i love to bake muffins now! hee.. after reading baking books, i dare not overmix the muffins now.. after 5 times of stiring it, i let it rest.. i hate to see the lumpy muffin mix actually..

presenting my peachy muffins:

presenting my peachy stuff: i went on to make peach konnyaku jelly with the peaches i had left.

bake 5: wanted to make pizza as breakfast today.. but after the yeast rise and all which is more than 2 hours later.. we ate it about 4pm.. hee.. after zh brought her mum's homemade pizza, i have always wanted to make my own! see my onions and tomatoes, i fried my own tomato paste for the pizza.. hee.. results: well, zh mum did it better.. her consoles was that her mum has made it for many years where im just a beginner.. haha.. but it is definitely cost savings to buy sunshine brand pizza from fairprice than making it.. well, for the fun of it.. hee..

presenting my pizza bake:

random pics: bacon streaks.. got too much bacon for the pizza so made some bacon streaks for dear dear and brother.. their fave!

updates..

met up with the girls 2 weekends ago for catch up.. princess jas went to japan for cny.. saw her blog.. she had so much fun! also very expensive..

p.s dear dear think we can go japan for honeymoon? see the snow or the sakura flowers?? hee..

photos that were taken:

everyone's paycheck increase.. left me liao.. haiz.. still stuck with the same pay for the past one year.. hmm.. i should start thinking about my future? what do i want to do? marketing? non-marketing? on the brighter side, graduating in a few months time! so looking forward! hee..

for those who read my blog, any comments for our wedding dinner? looking at holiday inn atrium and club chinos.. these are the only places that are available for the date we chose.. with the budget we have.. hee.. comments comments..

congrats ali!

besides sista's wedding, saturday was also ali's rom! they had a party at downtown east coasta sands! but we came from sista's wedding and it was quite late about 11pm so most of them left.. no other pictures except this..

ali and his wife were very tired from the bbq.. so many people came at about 7-10pm.. we saw the photos in his camera.. by the time we wanted to take, his camera lo batt liao..

their wedding in oct this year on dear dear's birthday.. looking forward to it..

sista's wedding..

saturday was sista's wedding.. this is a very special wedding for me as sista's been my great friend for the past 2 years.. i guess we were much closer after leaving jj..and my very first wedding dinner attended with dear dear.. it makes me so overwhelm with emotions seeing sista getting married..

i still can remember the day we 1st met, in my opinion, she is quite mature and she has a very great dress sense, she dresses very well to work every morning.. and she greets everyone with a very cheery good morning everyday she comes in to work.. she always appear with her usual bright smiles.. i remember the day we sat in the conference room and the team did an introduction, she purposely said, "im xxx.. same age as steph's" till today, i can remember she mentioned me in her intro.. anyway, she knows she left a deep impression in me.. hah..

it's really great to see your love ones getting married.. i missed a good friend one last year and another 2 whom i have known for many years.. but because of family pressure.. we had no choice.. dear dear and i made a pact.. no matter what comes our way, we are going to be in bo chap mood this year and attend every weddings we can.. what chinese traditions? we have His blessings..

so happy for her to see her so blessed, married into a good family.. congrats Mrs Ang, must be very xin fu now wor.. just sms her.. she is still at the hotel.. 2 nights stay..

was supposed to be there early to witness her solemnisation but was late.. ;p hee.. when i saw her, i asked.. haven solemn? she said, over liao.. haha.. so we went up to the bridal suite to take some pictures..

lovely pics displayed at the reception..

@ the suite..

i love her pink roses..

her 2 others sistas she often mentioned to me..

among the three of us, sistas, zann is married.. me has gone through rom so cant be her sista.. been waiting and waiting for her to ask me to be her sista actually.. but she said i rom liao.. but was having lessons on sat morning so cant also.. the other one on my left, chantell has been jie mei many times so she dont want to be jie mei liao.. i have met her twice.. we went k once and watch bruce almighty together..

so though we are really sistas because we address the bride as sista but none of us is her jie mei.. hee..

another photo from chantell's camera..

admiring the view from her suite..

back at the function room:


i guess romantic red roses was the theme.. there were red roses everywhere.. even the tableware is red! hee.. nice!

the table setting for the vip table..

this is our 1st wedding dinner attended together.. sweet!

another picture, can tell our significant height difference..
gosh, have to start looking for comfy high heels for my wedding..

taking more snaps before the wedding starts..

how lovely..

so miss you dear babe..
my vegeterian ex-colleague.. congrats on your promotion!
& she promised to make me an ang pow box!

with the girls on the same table..

we had to leave early to ali's rom party..
sorry sis, we didnt stay till the last dish..

p.s: sista, feel like a star on my blog? hee.. purposely meant it this way..

p.s: sista, after attending your wedding.. im so looking forward to my own.. hee..

my proposal ring..

on saturday, dear dear got me his proposal ring for me.. hee.. though it is not the biggest size.. but dear i love it! because my finger's not too big and i prefer very simple, very sleek white gold to hold the diamond and the size is just nice!

thank you dear dear for remembering it! i simply love my brillant rose!