Time to do some blogging

My pictures have been piling up. If I do not clear them, very soon, they will go into the Recycle Bin.

After my last attempt of moist brownie, I wasn't really satisfied. So I went on to search for more brownie recipes to try.

Attempt 2 - Jamie Oliver's brownie


Great taste, but my pan size is obviously wrong to be able to yield this super thin brownie.

Attempt 3 - White brownie


A self-experiment which turned out to be a disaster! I wanted to make a white brownie using white chocolate. So I tried to modify the moist brownie recipe to use white chocolate. I ended up with a super sweet dense cake instead. Yucks!

Attempt 4 - Back to Jamie




I decided Jamie's recipe is worth trying again. This time I adjusted the ingredient and amount and got my own version of perfect brownie. Don't you think so? LOL... This will hence be the recipe to use whenever I feel like baking brownie.


Besides brownie, I also tried Jamie's Banana and Honey bread.



Although I really love his brownie, can't say the same with the bread. It's best eaten fresh from the oven. Once overnight, the texture is compromised.


Did some Naan for dinner one night after seeing the easy-to-follow recipe on Gina's FB. I did two versions, onion and cheese. Both were good, the kids love the cheese ones.



It's 11:55pm now. My eyes are threatening to shut down any minute. Must be the effect of the medication starting to kick in. I shall let the pictures of my bake today end this session.

Waiting to be transformed...


...into this!


My forever lousy deco skill...


我很丑，但是我很好吃



Trivial... I sliced off the top of the cake for deco reason and had a big piece left (almost 9"). My girls who were eyeing the cake were happy that they can finally lay their hands on something. I told them not to finish the whole piece of cake as it was nearly lunch time. They really listen to what I said and left this.



When I questioned them, one of my girls answered, "we didn't finished the cake what". *fainted!*

A "not so brownie" brownie?

I mentioned in my earlier post that I was looking for a brownie recipe. I sourced through a few fellow bloggers' recommendations and decided to give Edith's Moist Brownies a try.

Frankly speaking, I was never a brownie person. Brownie, to me, is something dry and not so interesting, even when goes with ice-cream. I do not know what prompted me to try to bake one. Maybe it's the need to try something new, rather than some same old cakes and breads.

The recipe wasn't too difficult to follow, thankfully. However, I made a mistake of trying to bake the same amount of ingredients intended for a 8" pan, into a 6" pan. Needless to say, my brownie took forever to cook. Since it was my first time making brownie, I wasn't even sure when it should be considered done. In the end, it took about an hour before the stick inserted was no longer wet. The top of the brownie was already turning dry and I had to tent it for the second half of baking for fear that it might burn.

My brownie was quite tall, when out of the oven. To my dismay, it started to collapse quite a bit upon cooling. So much so that the top cracked and tore off from the brownie! I wasn't confident at all whether it was even eatable.

Once cooled, I couldn't wait to test it. Surprisingly, the result turned out really good! Although I'm not sure whether mine was the correct texture, it probably was a good mistake, if it was one to start with.



It was moist and dense, yet not heavy. I can't find the perfect word for it, but the kids adore it. DS said this was probably one of the best cakes I've made (initially he thought it was a cake). I may try it again. But this time I'll make sure I use the right amount of ingredients for my pan size.


The kids requested to have pizza for dinner. I was quite reluctant as it was already 6pm then and I knew I would not be able to make the pizzas in time for dinner. They insisted they were not hungry and can have a late dinner. I had no choice but to quickly set to work. I used Happy Home Baking's pizza dough with mixed herbs. I added 1 tsp of mixed herbs instead of 1/2. It was a good choice. I love the aromatic base and the kids had no complains too. This dough recipe is a keeper.