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Baking Class : Of ‘Piglets’ & Flaky Skins

Attended a baking class at Creative Culinaire this afternoon with my sis (cousin YL had a last-minute appointment and had to forgo attending the class).
Initially when I was looking out for mooncake-baking classes, I was looking specifically for classes teaching us how to bake the traditional mooncakes (for The Hubby, who loves the traditional baked […]

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Baking Class : Muffins

How time flies!  I’m already into my last lesson of the cake module.  And the last lesson, we will be baking muffins!
I’m quite a huge fan of muffins, and had been looking forward to this lesson for quite a while because I’m sure the recipe will be somewhat different from the other recipes I’ve tried so […]

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Baking Class : Chocolate Cake & Fruit Cake

The Hubby looked through the book for my baking class after my first lesson and declared that he will be looking forward to this class when I bring home a chocolate cake and a light fruit cake.  After all, he has a huge weakness for chocolate cakes.

- (top) The cakes without frosting; (bottom) with chocolate frosting topped […]

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Baking Class : Pound Cake & Utility Cake

We each brought home a total of 4 cakes in the size of a rectangular cake tin, like the Sara Lee pound cake.  Yes, you didn’t read it wrong.  It’s a grand total of 4 cakes, all in slightly different flavouring too!
The first two are pound cakes - one being the normal butter pound cake […]

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Baking Class : Emulsified Sponge Cakes

The first lesson of the cake-making class and we made 2 emulsified sponge cakes - Egg Sponge Cake and Swiss Roll.
The recipes were relatively easy to follow through as compared to the pastries’ recipes.  And I decided to partner with one of the other 3 classmates from the previous pastry-making class since both of our partners […]

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Protected: Choux Pastry - Scratch Mix

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Baking Class : Choux Pastries

The grand finale of the pastry-making class I have been attending… Choux (pronounced as “shoo”) pastry! Don’t the cream puffs, chocolate eclairs and swan pastries look delectable? Yummy!
Choux pastries are a lot easier to bake than I imagine them to be. But I seriously need more practice in learning how to pipe the roux. The […]

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Baking Class : Puff Pastries

Learnt how to prepare and bake puff pastries during baking class on Saturday namely: - tuna puff, cream horn and danish pastries - using the 3/4 pastry method.
It was quite an eye-opener. Never knew that the laminating of the fat required that much work, not to mention the time required between the folds to allow […]

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