Wednesday, 29 February 2012

White Chocolate Chip Cakes

**Here we go recipe number two!**
Lots of yummy ingredients!

A bit of butter... a bit of sugar... mmmm yum!

I think i'll be pretty good at this folding thing after a few more recipes!

Wow! looking good!

Mmmmm got to <3 melted chocolate!

Woa! O_O look amazing!

Finally done! 
I decided to jump the gun a bit and instead of going through the book recipe by recipe, I chose one that I already had all the ingredients for *Saves me the trip to my local food store*.
This is actually a pretty easy recipe! Not to mention very very delicious, but I did have a few snags along the way:

- They're a little smaller than shown because I don't have a deep well muffin pan, so in using my one they ended up more of a cupcake than a muffin;
- Unfortunately my icing didn't set... and i'm not sure that it would with this recipe! So i had to dip them in instead *I'll never say no to white chocolate icing! even if it doesn't set :P*

Other than this they turned out pretty well! Tasted great too! :) Gotta thank my flat-mate and his friends for helping me out with the eating! haha 12 cupcakes to myself = one sore stomach!

Ingredients - 1 
Difficulty - 2 (again with the folding! haha)
Taste - Super moist, sweet and delicious!

Sunday, 26 February 2012

Strawberry Roulade

***All my recipes will get a 1-5 rating '1' being easy and '5' being Oh hell I'm giving up.... ***

Pre-folding! ... Oh dear... here we go!

Lots to add and little time!

Have to roll it up and let it rest for 30mins :) 

Finished! Woa looks yummy!

A strawberry roulade is a really good place to start if your looking to make something that looks fairly impressive from scratch but is also not too hard for a beginner cook *like me*... it was pretty fun to cook too! My sponge was little too thick and a bit overcooked but i'm pretty proud of my first attempt :) That and it tasted amazing! The cheese cream was especially tasty (even though I had to swap the ricotta for mascarpone... was all sold out in the shop!).

Guess it must have tasted good! because between my house-mate and I it was gobbled up in record time! :P **note to self... join gym!**

Ingredients: 1 - All common and easy to find
Difficulty: 2 - Only because I'm still a beginner at the whole 'folding' thing
Taste: Amazing!

Cooking my time away...way...ay...ay.....

Current Status : Job hunting
Feelings: Bored as hell
Conclusion: Bake my way through a dessert book! :P

I'm attempting to stave of complete and utter loneliness/bordom by cooking my way though this little beauty:

Sweet Food by Murdoch Books

So starting with the always delicious 'Strawberry Roulade' here begins my disastrous amazing cooking adventure...