Birthday celebrations!

Peekaboo!
Haven't been blogging much for the past two weeks? Wasn't much active with any pictures taking, let alone trying to recover from my super stubborn cough.
Officially I am sick for one week, and it doesn't seem to get any better. The best I stopped coughing is like for ten minutes before the coughing resume. And that's after taking medicine.
Else now is with flu which doesn't make it any better either. Yet, best news, I'm not staying in bed to rest but keep going out to meet social calendar, school stuffs and driving.

Anyway, this week we had two birthday celebration in class. Two of my classmates are having their birthdays in the same week! One being my 'grand-daughter' and the other being my 'daughter'.

That's our first cake. A simple cake with fruits topping! We should have like gotten a veggie cake for her instead. Hahah.
And the following day, or rather that afternoon, I baked a cake too!Planning to bring it to class for everyone to have a slice.

My first time baking cheesecake. Apart from the previous time of doing oreo cheesecake, but this time the cheesecake is getting baked.
Wasn't too sure how the result would be like, and I'm super nervous about it, the whole time the cake is inside the oven. When the cheesecake first came out of the oven, I wasn't sure how to feel. The top was slightly burnt and like the color layers weren't that uniform.
Was in agony and was debating whether I should still bring it to class. Shawn was telling me what to do to save the top layer, such as adding egg white. But I just didn't want to do anything with the cake already, not even slicing the top off so it won't be so burnt.

Eventually you know that it's the thoughts that counts.
And also celebrating the birthday together that is more important. Plus after the cheesecake got cut, the color inside looks not too bad.
But nah, I think next time I would stick to normal cheesecake without any rainbow colors. Hahah!

So that's cakes overload in two days.
Now for the fun weekend ahead! 

And kitty back on her dessert diet again. A spam of dessert three times this week. Definitely couldn't be any happier than this.
Tried this waffles shop inside Cathay after we were done watching World War Z.
Turned out to be awesome, and with a choice of sweet and savory choices, it suited Box and mine's taste; one being a sweet tooth and one isn't.
Next time just might try their sinful chocolate waffles, which I had to resist ordering it this time. Though the chicken floss waffles looks super interesting as well. I mean chicken floss on waffles?!

That's all the short update I have right now. Back to essay writing and later a fun event! Stay tune for the pictures.

A busy Saturday out

Finally the end of a busy week. And now I'm wondering about next week. Cross fingers I have some time in between to relax and chill out.
Sunday's probably my most important day, especially when it's the day that I rarely go out hence the only day that I get to slack at home the whole day, do my own stuffs and get some work done without the thought that I have to go out and meet anyone.
Then again, Sunday also the day I put aside for family time.

On Saturday was another busy running around day for me, from morning till night. Reckon I probably need to duplicate myself, just so I can be at two places at once. Lol.
Though morning again, I had a rare sleep in an extra 2 hours.
Sudden change of plans to go down to Nex for lunch with family.

It became a trend that we're celebrating both Mother's and Father's Day at Fish & Co.
Then again, that is big brother's treat.
Next week would be my treat for daddy. Lol. Big brother's treat is both at Fish & Co, while for me, I choose my location accordingly (somewhat).
Mother's Day was the dessert buffet, something I reckon mummy would enjoy.
And for Father's Day, well, I'll reveal the location next week.

After lunch, headed down for my next appointment at Orchard.
Dr Low was celebrating her new clinic opening down at Scotts Medical Centre. So the next time anyone wants to find an orthodontic, you know where to head to!   

 

Couldn't eat much since I just had lunch, and decided to head straight for dessert instead.
And a refreshing glass of white wine. Only mistake was not getting the name of the wine.
Exploration of the new clinic and also finding who is the employee of the mouth!

Home-d before I needed to change into another outfit for my event at night. Rushing, indeed.
Next event is Ashley's 21st party at 49 seats. That's another strike off my food hunt list.

Super love the interior design of the store, the way how menu were pinned up on the wall like decoration, the interesting lights, and the wall decoration. We had the inside of the store all booked up for Ashley's birthday, and it was theme black and white.
Brought him a balloon, in which I painfully held it through my mrt ride with people staring at me and a kid wanting the balloon. Felt bad for the kid but I really couldn't give him the balloon.
Then again, I know how is it like to receive a balloon randomly, and cheap thrill maybe but I do receiving surprise gifts once in a while.

Was seated with Ashley's secondary school friends, since I kind of have no special group to sit with. But the guys I sat with were very nice, and did try to include me into their conversations as well, ensuring that I do not feel left out.
The meal consist of unlimited refill of ribena (Gosh, I haven't had this drink is years!), mushroom soup and a main course. For me, I chose chicken chop since I had fish for lunch already (best not to overload fishes in a day).
However, personally, I felt that the fish & chips were more to my liking as compared to my chicken chop. Nothing special that screams out to me. Pretty much 'cause one of his friends offered a piece to me. Lol.

The party ended with screaming (singing) the birthday song and trying to see if we can get a complain from the opposite neighbor for noise pollution. Even the owner was being very spontaneous about it and getting us to sing louder. Off with the birthday cake, and chilling out with the birthday boy.
Eventually time kicks in, and time for me to head home. Cinderella still ain't a fan of staying out late, and she woke up with horrible blisters on her ankle. Major sigh.

49 Seats
49 Kreta Ayer Road
62254332
Mon - Sat 12:00 to 23:00

Dessert Buffet @ The Food Dot

Following back on a my dessert diet. I finally found the time to head down to The Food Dot for my long awaited dessert buffet.
Secret but I actually bought this deal since last month, planning to bring Mummy here for Mothers' Day.
Unfortunately, we kept postponing the date until Wednesday. In the end, it became a combine lunch of celebrating belated Mothers' Day and advanced Father's Day. Kind of like killing two birds with one stone. Lol!

The dessert buffet starts from 1.30pm to 5.30pm, last order being at 5pm.
We arrived there a little too early, but the staffs still allow us to start the dessert buffet early. Starving the whole morning for this buffet, I wasn't prepared for the dessert that they were able to bring in.

But when they brought in these two wooden planks of desserts, I was speechless.
The decoration blew me away and I was just shocked, amazed at how they present the dessert to us. To the extent of having the utensils layout in icing sugar.

Currently they are having a promotion on their dessert buffet. Instead of the usual price of $38, now it's $16.90.
For me, I paid $9.90! So let's do the math; in total, the meal costed $19.80 for Mummy and I. There were 9 different types of dessert given, together with free flow of lychee peach tea and lychee apple tea and ice cream. I'll say buying the deal is definitely worth it!
At the beginning, I didn't know that we had two different types of tea to drink, until one time they refill the jar and it tasted different. That's when we learned that they let us drink two types of tea.
Personally the lychee peach tea was pretty sweet, while the lychee apple was more refreshing.

My favorite of the lot.
Bananas muffin (that's what I shall nicknamed it). And together with a little sweet caramel sauce. I was immediately won over from the first bite.
And even ordered it again for a refill.
A little bias as well, since I'm a bad sucker for good bananas muffin.
 

Overly chocolate muffin!
To-die-for.
Super moist chocolate cake.

One surprising thing I learn from this muffin is that they added tomato sauce on top.
Didn't think that would actually go nice with muffin but amazingly, it did! On the first bite, I actually didn't think it was tomato sauce that I was having.
Until I scoop the redness off and taste it on my own, that's when I realize it was tomato sauce. Who knew.
Second favorite of the lot.

Mummy enjoying her lychee peach tea.
And they even include little bits of lychee inside the tea for you to enjoy.
Definitely a place perfect for chilling out with friends and having simple desserts. At the same time, a good hiding place from the heat.
While having our dessert lunch, behind us we were seeing the bakers inside the pastry baking the green apple oatmeal muffin.
Almost wanted to request if I could join them. Lol.

The dessert buffet ended with unlimited scoops of ice cream.
Chose the mint ice cream while Mummy went with mango.
Added with icing sugar cubes and cranberry, it gave the ice cream additional taste while mixing the flavors together.

That's one meal I went super overboard with sweetness. And to think the night before I had a lot of dessert as well. This is bad bad bad, even for a sweet tooth like me.
Overall, I do enjoy the dessert that they have for us, and for that price it's definitely worth every cent. Very relaxing atmosphere and the staffs were friendly to our needs, ensuring that they always keep the jar refill and asked if we needed any refill of any desserts.

The Food Dot
70 Race Course Road
Singapore 218572

A bit detour, but here to more dessert pictures! That's how much sweetness is currently inside me.

Probably going to resume my high protein diet already.
Goodbye to dessert for a while (like real!).

It's a chocolatey baking session

Disappeared this week without blogging much, least the only thing I could do is take pictures and upload them either on Facebook or Instagram.
Flooded my two social network website with pictures of food. Literally.
Reckon that's the only thing I have been up to this week. And yet the most guilty thing is I haven't done any exercise to get rid of the calories inside me. My horror.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings are now very important to me to get my exercises done. Pretty much going to start this exercise regiment where Friday is swimming, Saturday is cycling and Sunday is running. Kind of sound as though I'm training for a triathlon. 

So let's see what nonsense I have been up to this crazy week.
Started with last week baking session. Though now lately, I don't take that much picture of my baking process, just the end product.
P.S. It's going to be a chocolatey post.

Started with a random baking session last Wednesday.
Wanted to taste my new hand mixer out, and at the same time had a super bad craving for chocolate lava cake which I couldn't satisfy it.
Didn't had the time to buy the dessert either, so it was just a straight moody week.
Decided to make my own lava cake instead. It was another experimental baking session again. The first time I baked lava cake two years ago, it didn't had any shape when I took it out of the oven and immediately the chocolate oozed out. It had the taste, just no substance or 'backbone' at all.

This time, I'm learning from experience.
And a friend of mine gave me this tip that after I'm done with the mixing of all the ingredients, I placed the baking bowls in the freezer for about half hour before I bake them.
Reason is to get the chocolate a little harden up, so when I bake them, the inside would not be baked so fast, making it more molten inside.

I'll say overall it was not too bad.
Except I made a horrible mistake when I took the lava cakes out.
Silly me, but I took one bowl out first, to see if it was done baking since it still look under-baked (Yes I know lava cake is suppose to be half baked but it seriously looked really under-baked then).
So I started poking it with a fork and having a taste session. Eventually I got excited that it taste awesome that I forgot I have 5 more bowls inside the oven baking away.
So the remaining 5 bowls were well-done instead of medium rare.
Good job to me. Only one had the oozing effect.

Ingredients:
100g cooking chocolate
100g butter
8 tablespoons sugar (should have been reduced)
2 eggs
4 tablespoons self-raising flour

Steps:
Melt the butter and chocolate over a hot water bath. 
Whisk the sugar and egg until frothy. 
Add the melted chocolate/butter mixture into the frothy mixture.
Stir in the flour.
Fill the metal baking bowls till 3/4.
Left them in the freezer for about half hour.
Heat the oven to 180 degree and bake the metal bowls for about 11minutes.
Served with ice cream and icing sugar on top.
Enjoy.

My next baking session was on Saturday after big brother requested for brownies.
Tsk at me for baking his requests.
Usually I like to buy Betty Crocker brownie mix and just add the essential ingredients before 'throwing' them into the oven to bake.
Today I shall be a little less lazy and bake them from scratch. Just because baking in Singapore is so expensive.

Even toss in a bit of blueberries for extra flavor.
But somehow my blueberries weren't enough to get much taste out, but they were too precious to be wasted on my brother's want.
They didn't really turn out even, surprisingly since they were all level-ed before I 'threw' them inside the oven. Apparently one side rise higher than the other side.
But who cares, they were super moist and awesome tasting. A little too sweet because of my sugar adding again (mental reminder to add less sugar).
And at night when big brother brought home ice cream for the brownies, they tasted even more awesome. Pity he didn't get Ben&Jerry ice cream as what I requested.
See. This is called bully. I baked for him, and he couldn't get the ice cream I wanted. Imagine eating the brownies with B&J chocolate therapy ice cream. Aww...

Ingredients:
150g chocolate
150 butter
3 eggs
4 tablespoons milo powder
10 tablespoons sugar
8 tablespoons plain flour

Steps:
Melt the butter and chocolate over a hot water bath.
Mix milo powder and sugar and then add eggs.
Add in the melted chocolate/butter mixture
Stir in the flour
Once evenly mixed, butter the baking tray and pour in the mixture.
Bake at 180 degree for about 20 minutes

I found that it's roughly the same steps as baking the lava cake, just that for brownies I add milo powder and it's baked for a longer time period. As well as more flour.
But well, main thing it's one dessert that was enjoyed by everyone who ate it. Even daddy!
Definitely a to-die-for dessert as proclaimed by me.

And finally my third baking session on Monday.
This time I have an accomplice to bake with me. Cheesecake is something I never baked/done before. Mainly because cream cheese is quite pricey to get, and also the thought of the calories inside the cheesecake stopped me.
I rather buy it off the shelf and not know how much calories is inside one slice.
And here I am, making my first no bake oreo cheesecake. Congrats to myself.

We took roughly an hour to get everything done, before it is left to be forgotten in the freezer till the following day.
The first bite for our tasting session is plain awesome. We probably should have added a bit more crust to balance out with the thick level of cheesecake.
But other than that, we also should have added more oreo but I kind of ran out of oreo during the baking session.
Bright side, ntuc is having offer on oreo biscuits and I bought 4 rolls! A big debate whether I should have bought 6 rolls instead or even 8! Yes, I love oreo biscuits. If it's still on offer tomorrow, I might stock up with another 4 rolls xD

Ingredients:
8 pieces digestive biscuits for crust
enough butter for the biscuits
2 packets of cream cheese (250g each)
1.5 cup of whipping cream
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1/2 cup sugar or 8 tablespoons of sugar
Oreo biscuits

Steps:
Melt the butter in the microwave
Crush digestive biscuits
Make crust and leave it in the freezer
In a mixing bowl, mix the cream cheese, whipping cream, sugar and vanilla essence
Crush oreo biscuits into smaller pieces and add into mixture
Finally pour mixture into the tin
Add more larger pieces of oreo at the top
Freeze for at least 4 hours

And guess who's my first taster? Duhhh. Big brother!
He even took the biggest slice.
So that's the three baking experiments I had over the past week.
Probably not going to bake anything this weekend, super need a break from eating desserts and also to give my poor stomach a break from being a bad sweet tooth.
Till then, it's back to burning the calories off.
Have a good Friday!