Mushroom Bruschetta
** Click HERE for recipe **
We had lunch at Marina Bay Financial Centre and after that went for a walk at Marina Bay Link. We passed by The Soup Spoon and I saw pre-made mushroom soup available for sale. Suddenly having a mushroom craving, I'd decided to make a mushroom meal dinner for the boys.
To pair with the mushroom soup, I'd decided to make Mushroom Bruschetta as their carbo in take. Guess what, it was well liked by the boys. Initially I thought it might be a little mushroom overdose for them but who knows ... both of them enjoyed the meal.
Fun with Bread/Cookie Moulds
Since I had a collection of moulds, school holidays is the best time to take them out to use because I got all the time in the morning to prepare breakfast for myself and the boys.
** Isn't this adorable ... made this for myself. Sealed off the sides of the bread with a sandwich mould and add on kitty face with my cookie mould. **
** Tried out my new bought mini mickey cutters with bread n cheese for the boys. **
** Tested out more new moulds ... simply love the deep indentations **
Chocolate Making
Finally I picked up the courage to try making CHOCOLATES!!!
Well actually there's a reason behind the push. Oswald wanted a Dinosaur Themed Birthday Party at school. To make sure that everyone in class gets a dinosaur in an inexpensive way, I've only got this choice!!! Plus my SIL was so sweet to pick up the dinosaur chocolate mould from Phoon Huat for me. So, why not give it a go and if it fails, then at least I still got time to think of alternatives.
Did lots of read ups and asking around ... I even bought a book on chocolate for reference. Finally I put my hands on making it ... and the result ...
** Couverture Milk Chocolate with Dark Chocolate Truffle Fillings. **
I only know that it was couverture chocolate when I was extracting the chocolate from the mould. During extraction, chocolate snaps easily and melts very fast. This only happend when couverture chocolate is not tempered properly. But when I purchased the chocolate, I had ask for compound chocolate specifically and was told that it was compound chocolate. Kinda felt cheated but the chocolate taste really good.
** Compound White Chocolate with Dark Chocolate Truffle Fillings. **
Though the taste of previous batch of chocolate was heaven but don't think I am ready to temper with chocolate yet. This time round, tried making chcolate again and using COMPOUND chocolate. I had choosen white chocolate because I wanted to experiment with colours. Added a few drops of green into my white chocolate and the color turned out quite pretty.
Upon comparison, compound chocolate is really much easier to work with. No more breakage and melting during extraction. Of course, the taste will lose out a bit but don't think kids will be able to tell much of a difference hehehe. Now, can make colorful dinosaurs for Oswald cuppies for school party!!!
Birthday!!!
Due to my pregnancy, I was totally out of mood during my 1st trimester and only till recently then I am feeling good enough to start things in the house again. I had missed out on making my own and hubby's birthday cake hence I gave it a go to make my MIL one.
Had asked my boys on how should I decorate the cake and trust me ... never ask a child for opinion if not ... your cake will turn out this way ...
Oh yes ... is a DINOSAUR themed cake. LOL ... this is what you get for an answer when you ask 2 boys who are crazy over dinosaurs now.
Took a green tea cake base recipe from Okashi Treats: Sweet Treats Made With Love and then filled the layers up with Azuki Beans and whipped cream then followed up with the decorations.
Despite the kiddish decoration, which all the kids at the table were so excited about, everyone else like the taste of the cake. So overall, the cake was cute on the outside ... but tasty on the inside hahahaha satisfy both kids and adults.
That's not all that I've been churning out from my kitchen recently ... there's more to come. Check out on my next post on my crazy over bento making for my boys.
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