Oven adventures
29 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Bring me out Darling/Dar Dar, jiak jiak 吃 吃, Love Nest @ Pungol Springs Tags: Bosch
Having an oven is so much fun!!!
Initially the salesperson was warning us that the oven will spoil if we never use it regularly. He even advised us to switch it on and heat up the oven for fun if we do not use it regularly. Haha, no need lo!! We are fully utilizing our oven!!
And with the addition of our super Kenwood kitchen mixer, nothing can stop Darling and Dar Dar from their Oven fun!
Kenwood Classic Major, Winner - Domestic Diva Awards (Singapore Women's Weekly)
We have yet to sign up for our free baking workshop at the AFC studio…haha but we are already experimenting with online recipes.
One of our very first bakes is the chicken… haha, my babarian obsession to grill my own chicken and tear the meat off it!! Grunt!
In the end, I was too lazy to marinate my own chicken, so bought a readily marinated one from Cold Storage. Lolz
Grilled herb marinated chicken
The chicken is quite big for Darling and me, lucky we got Xian’s sister to help eating and help in da-baoing a big drumstick for Bryan. We also made lasagna and brocoli to go with it. =)
The next major meal made by darling using the oven was this super Lovalicious breakfast!
Breakfast full of love
This breakfast really touched me deep deep! Darling really put a lot of effort into this. Everything is in hearts!! Truly amazing my darling. That’s how creative my Darling is!!
Our current favorite website for baking recipes is “joyofbaking.com” The website has lots of nice easy-to-follow recipes and some even comes with a video demonstration! Really easy way to learn to bake =D.
Next, Darling made these lovely muffins, using the small foil cups. Don’t just look at the pretty face of these muffins, they really pack a punch! Full of flavourful chocolate chips! And most important of all…handmade with Darling’s love
Love Muffins
More pics of the lovely chocolate chip muffins
After muffins, Darling wants to take up the cupcake challenge! She wants to try out cakecups as well as the icing decoration =) We even bought small packets of decorative sugar from Red Man =p
The cupcake batter ready to be baked
With the 3D hotair of our Bosch oven turned on, the batter soon becomes… …
Fresh cupcakes hot from the oven
And then with the whip of our kitchen mixer and under the delicate hands of my darling, they soon become… …
The finished product, Vanilla Cupcakes
This is our very first attempt making and decorating cupcakes and it’s a really fun and sweet (coz we keep eating the left-over icing) baking session!
This attmept really perked up Darling’s interest in cupcakes and very soon, there shall be a second attempt. =)
Darling bought Hershey’s chocolate powder for her next cupcake experiment and off we go to our next cupcake adventure!
Darling's Hershey Choco-Love cuppies
Up close and personal with the Choco-Love Cuppies and the improved icing!
The previous icing made for the Vanilla cupcakes was too soft and fluid so this time round, Darling added in a generous amount of icing sugar and the consistency of the icing turned out just nice.
Now is my turn to try my hand at baking something for darling. Christmas season is near so I decided to give it a shot at making Gingerbread man! Darling has never eaten a gingerbread man before, neither have I…haha
The ingredient list really got me blurred…what the hell is molasses? Well, a trip to Red Man got me all the listed ingredients. Molasses is a type of cane sugar extract which is thick and sticky, almost like honey’s consistency but black/ dark brown in colour. The smell is also different…haha
Quite exciting to really bake and create something on my own. I did not study Home Econs before and the only thing I really cooked myself is instant noodles. All the time I have my darling at my side to guide me in cooking…this time I was alone. So scared, yet excited…
I was thinking how happy and surprised Darling will be when she sees and eats my gingerbread man! Shiok!
My first attempt at making the dough failed miserably… =( The dough I made is so sticky!! It looks so so different from the joyofbaking.com video! I was so so sooo disappointed… Well, maybe I added the ingredients in the wrong order? Or maybe my measurements were not accurate? I endured the heartache and threw the failed dough away, and started my second attempt at the dough! I must succeed this time!! This second attempt, I have not enough molasses as per the recipe so I used 3/4 volume of what the recipe suggested…Viola, guess what??? The dough came out perfect!!! Hahahahahaha
I really shouted “YES, YES, YES!!” when I saw the dough changing into the consistency as shown in the video! I knew this will definitely succeed!
The freshly baked Gingerbread man
My babies came out of the oven in 4 batches. The first batch were too crispy as I made them too thin…so I made some adjustments to the subsequent batches and they really looked more like the gingerbread man I knew. Next mission… the decoration… So what do you think of my art-work??
Batch 1 decorated by me.
Decorating them is so much fun!! I was smiling to myself while decorating them coz I knew Darling will be so happy to see these cute babies!! Haha.
She was indeed surprised and happy and excited to see these gingerbread man! Mission accomplished!!
So we went back to our Punggol love nest in order to continue the decoration of the rest of the gingerbread man…but there was a big twist of event…I was too rushed to finish decorating the first batch of gingerbread man so I did not have time to clear up my mess before I left the house. Darling was so so angry and disgusted to see the whole kitchen in a mess…sigh…all my fault. I have successfully turned an happy event into an unhappy event single-handedly again…
Well, I cleaned up the mess and mopped the house floor to atone for my sins and lucky darling forgived me in the end…and we ended up finishing the decoration for the remaining gingerbread man!! Yay!!! Mission finally accomplished and all’s well that ends well!!
Darling and Dar Dar's combined efforts. Can you guess who decorated which ones?
The latest additon to our oven adventure has to be the chicken pies =)
Darling has always been famous for her chicken pies at home. Even her picky brother likes her chicken pies and her sisters are eagerly looking forward to them too. This time round, darling is making chicken pies for me!! Haha YEAH!
The "I love U" chicken pies
I showed my colleague KJ this picture and she was like “So pretty!!!” Hahaha
When I finished work that day, I rushed home and enjoyed the best chicken pie I have tasted so far!! Darling’s version of the chicken pie =x
The pastry was light and fluffy and the fillings were not too watery. And it’s not excessively oily too. Healthy chicken pies by darling!
The finished chicken pies
I gobbled up 4 STAT! Haha, really good stuff. Today I brought some for my colleagues KJ, Chris, Vincent and they all have praises for the pies! For the rest who have no chance to savour these pies…there will be chances…wait for them. Haha
I am looking forward to our next project! The countdown cupcakes. They will be chocolate cupcakes with Hershey’s chocolate frosting! Can’t wait…
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