Posts

Showing posts from December, 2010

My Attempt at Baking

Image
It's the season of Christmas and that gives me more time to indulge in food. But besides eating, there is much fun and joy in making it too. So i decided to make a Marble Cheese Cake. It turned out to be easier than I expected. Mine was a little too watery and so I reduced the about of eggs into the recipe below. So here's how I did it. 1. In a plastic bag, crush 140g of diguestive biscuits until fine and add about 1 tbs coco powder, not too much or it'll taste bitter. Add soften butter (50g) into the crushed bicsuits till it sticks to each other. 2. Beat the cream (1 tube of Philadephia cream cheese) until soft, but not too much. Add 2/3 cups of fine sugar, 2 eggs, 1 tbs vanilla extract and 2/3 cup of heavy cream and mix well. 3. Remove 1/3 of the mixture into another bowl and add melted chocolate into it. 4. Line a baking tin with the crushed biscuits so that it forms a crush and pour the plain mixture into the tin. 5. Add spoonfuls of chocolate mixture into the plain mix

Coffee Power - Nescafe Cafe Menu: Cappuccino

Image
Once again I'm back to blogging, still foreign with it though and at the wrong time; Exams peeking from behind the bushes with a sly smile. So what are we, poor and frustrated, students to do? Well beside praying, we can draw strength from caffeine and one of my best way, in my opinion, is to drink coffee. Stay in NTU hall, there's no personal pantry to make my own coffee. Grind the beans, and let water pass through the grains and out comes thick black gold. So I have resorted to 3-in-1. Being a person who can drink coffee and fall asleep the next moment, coffee is not longer for staying up but as a way of life and appreciating the wonders of the Earth. I was introduced to Nescafe's new 'Cafe Menu: Cappuccino & Mocha' by a very good friend. I think aesthetics is very important when selling a product and here Nescafe has does it once again. The packing is appealing to the eye and slim so it fits in your hand perfectly. I see a trend with the packaging becoming