Baking Day

My second bake for this year. 

And last night was a total failure. I forgot to add my sugar to my flour and in the end, when I added the sugar to my dough last, it became too soggy. Threw away my dough and went to bed disappointed. 

This morning tried again and thank God I didn't make any silly mistake. The scones turned out nice and flavorful. The shape could be improved though. 

Pizza

My first time making pizza from scratch.

I even made my own dough. It was quite easy to make but needs about 3 hours cos the dough need to expand for 2 hours.

It was quite successful and the taste was not bad, though I couldn't taste the ham.

Next time I'll make Hawaiian pizza with pineapple toppings. Kat even suggested hae bee hiam pizza.

Chocolate Banana Muffins

After 4 tries, this batch of muffins is the best so far.

They have a nice dome shape and I could taste both the chocolate and banana amidst the soft texture.

I'll try my hand on orange cake next, but let me finish my CNY goodies first.

Baking muffins

Kat gave me a recipe for muffin. I tried it and I love the taste. The muffins were rich in banana and just nice for sweetness. I quite happy with them till Derrick said they were too hard. So in order to have a source of comparison, I google for the best muffins in Singapore and "Chocolat N Spice" was featured in the net.

In order to benchmarked with the best, I went down to Tanjong Pagar Plaza and bought seven of their most popular muffins.

In comparison, my muffins were like lilliputians. So much smaller. Chocolat N Spice muffins rose very high. Their muffins also were very soft and fluffy, very nice texture. The only thing I dislike was the taste. Their muffins were all to sweet. Really really sweet.

Thus I just have to work on my technique to make my muffins soft and fluffy as the taste was good.

Will definitely experiment till I get it right!

Banana muffins

I didn't know that muffins are so easy and fast to make. You don't even need a mixer.

My first attempt on banana muffins without a electronic scale.

Taste wise it's not bad but I think I need to improve on the texture.

Baking for Sunny

Baking some cookies for Sunny now.

The first time I tried was a complete failure as I didn't follow closely to the recipe.

This time round, the cookies look good in the oven. I hope they taste as good as they look. Well, after all, they are filled with good stuff, like Manuka honey, flax seed and peanut butter.