Chocolate Moulding Class

I went for the Chocolate Moulding Class conducted by Gina yesterday. Took Darren and Olina along. The kids had fun moulding and eating their chocolates.

Both kids enjoying the fruit of their labor


Darren's Chcolates


Olina's Chocolates


And these are made by me




Mood: fun

Basic Baking Class

I attended Gina's Basic Baking class yesterday at Chef's Secret Studio. We had lots of fun. Gina demo three cakes, Marble Cake, Cranberry Fruit Cake & Cotton Sponge Cake. All cakes taste wonderful. My favourite turns out to be the Cranberry Fruit Cake. Although I'm not a fan of fruit cake (in fact, I don't like most fruit cakes sold outside as they tend to bee too sweet), I find this recipe very nice. It's sweet, but not over-sweet. The cranberries are naturally sour, so it's a good combination with the cake. Will probably try my hands on the baking later.



I've also learnt a few tips from Gina's class. As always, she's very generous in sharing her knowledge with us. You won't feel silly asking her tonnes of questions. So the moral of the story is, attending a good lesson is still necessary if you really want to succeed in baking. It will save you a lot of unnecessary mistakes down the road. But again, because of the previous baking trial and errors I had, I was able to recognise the mistakes I've made earlier when watching the demo. Hopefully you'll see more successful bakes from me from now on...lol...

Mood: happy

Basic Fondant Decoration Class

I attended the Basic Fondant Decoration Class today at Gina's residence. This is the first time I attend Gina's class. She's a very good teacher, very generous to share her knowledge with us.

She demo the Marshmallow Fondant (MMF) in the class and showed us how to cover a cake with it. Seems easy enough to handle. I'll probably be using that in future rather than rolled fondant which ended up a flop the last round I tried. The MMF tasted better too, not extremely sweet despite the amount of icing sugar that needs to be added to it. Will probably do some fondant cuppies next round for two gatherings in line.

After the demo we had our hands-on session. Our group had fun creating our fondant cuppies. I was rather slow and manage only to do two cuppies while some in the group manage to do three. But overall, everyone enjoyed the class. Gina was very generous and even bought us very pretty boxes for us to bring our "masterpieces" home.



The piglet didn't stand out as much as I want it to






I ended up buying more cookie cutters from Gina too. Some cute Disneys cutters that are too cute to be missed and some Christmas cutters which are great value for money!




Looking forward to the Basic Baking Class with Gina again tomorrow!

Mood: happy