Baking Recipe: Custard Cream Puff & TGIF!!!

Hoorah!! The weekend is here again. It feels like lately, I just look forward to weekends. The best time for me to just laze around, be lazy and do nothing. So you think right? Not quite really. Lately I spent a lot of time trying to meet up with my friends, hence the lesser blogging too. Also, my buddy from Melbourne will be coming back for a week.

Only one thing in our minds for sure. Eat, eat, and more eating. Then there is a ton of catching up on our usual girl.. (oops ladies now).. lady talk. That got me going through my travel photos and I have so many that I have yet share here in my posts. So slowly, I will try to draft posts differently and hopefully make it a more interesting read.

If you are interested to know, the photo above is a masterpiece though it's depicted from a famous artist's work. I was walking along the Yarra River, Southbank, down at Melbourne CBD, and stumble upon this guy who drew quite a number of art work on the pavements. Though the photo above has been slightly washed off by rain, you could see how much heart, tears and sweat was put into that single canvas of art work. Plus it's not paint. Hand drawn with chalks. AWESOME!!

You must be thinking, how is my custard cream puff related to the photo above? Well, there is no relation at all. However would it help that every where I go, or which ever country I am in, I would just walk into a bakery and get myself a custard cream puff or profiterole? This is one of my absolute favourite treats. I loved it as a kid and still love it till this day. Since I know how a cream puff should taste like, I sure hope you will enjoy this recipe of mine.

For recipe: Click on image

When I served it to my family, particularly my dad's first words uttered were "wow girl! this reminds me of the cream puff I had in London during my younger days". To know I jolted my dad's memory is fantastic.

After all I am really fussy about how my custard cream puff should taste like. Though it's a basic choux pastry; if baked perfectly, and filling is flavoured well, a simple custard cream puff could send fireworks into your brain. Plus, custard cream puffs should always be served fresh on the day itself. For additional kick, make sure to coat it will real good semi-sweet chocolate. Custard Cream Puff to me will always be a simple, classy light treat.

Have a good weekend y'all!!

xx

Baking Recipe: {Part 1} Christmas Cranberry Cookie

The past weekend has been a blast as I made 2 types of treats. Yup..you heard me right. Two types of treats which I've been dying to make for sometime now. For starters, since Christmas is around the corner, I've decided to pre-experiment to bake my very own version of Cranberry Cookie frosted with Lemony Royal Icing on Saturday. And then for tea on Sunday, I was itching to make some tea snacks, thus making the Chocolate Profiterole. What a perfect way to start the Sunday evening with a light dessert. Lol..

Oh! Not forgetting.. I'm so excited to share with you that recently I got my very first order from my very dear friend, who have requested me to bake a birthday cake for her mom. Gosh.. I'm excited yet a little intimidated. Will keep you posted in the next post.

Anyways, for now.. I'm eager to share with you the treats I made for Christmas, and I'll continue to bake a couple more in the coming week.

For my Cranberry Cookie, I've decided to use my trusty cookie dough recipe and added in the cranberry and some white chocolate myself. This cookie will not have a strong white chocolate taste, that is if you're concern about the level of sweetness. I only used the white chocolate to add hint of natural sweetness to bring out the lovely cranberry flavour. Also no christmas cookie will be complete if it's not frosted. So this is my first time working with royal icing. I don't think my hands were steady enough to frost the cookies. Will definitely have to practise more ;p.