Baking!!

This is becoming a habit.
Looks like I'm going to start baking on Fridays, every 3pm. lol
Anyways, I was looking for something different today.

So while looking for a vanilla cake recipe, (or something like that),
I ended up with my Christmas Chocolate Mud Cake sketch:

I just wonder if I'd have enough space on the cake for this simple deco XD
I certainly hope so! :x

So anyways, I found the recipe and went to work on it.
But instead of vanilla, I made just a simple fluffy butter cake :D

Have you ever seen such golden cake before?
*no, I did NOT add any colouring rofl!

It looked ultimately awesome, I tell you.
Cause the outside of the cake was actually brown, so when I cut it,
I was so surprised that there was this golden colour inside XD

Plain awesomeness, I tell ya :D


Cake #2:

Actually, it was the same with the cake last week.
The only thing was, I used a different chocolate bar for the frosting.
Last week's bar was dark chocolate.
This week is milk chocolate.

The result: the frosting was kinda sweet (I didn't add any sugar!)
but it sorta matched the dark denseness of the cake.
(oh yesh, guess who couldn't wait for the frosting to sit? :P
- Answer: My Mum XD Yeah, not me rofl.)

I suppose if you wanted a nice balance between sweet and dark chocolate,
this is the combination to go.
If you wanted just dark all the way, then dark chocolate frosting is the best choice.

It all boils down to one's general preference :)

Closing pic!

Yeah, I should've used the Meringues to see if the design can fit :/
Well, I still have the cool snowman, so when the whole thing sits,
I can measure it :D

Now all I have to worry about is my homework!
... and more collegemates asking about the cake I'm supposed to bring for everyone :x

Awesome Weekend!

So I'll now report to you what happened last weekend.

It was an awesome one of back-to-back baking and outings :D

First up, I told you that I'll bake, right?
And I kept my promise.

Even though I only had like...

80g of butter AND

absolutely NO blocks of cooking chocolates XD

Thank goodness there was still an abundance of other stuff :D
*Of course, those other stuff was the main reason why I was baking anyway
in the first place x.x haha

And heeeeeeeeeeeeere's the result!!
*Truth was, I wanted to 'celebrate' my besties' and my birthday for 2011.

The cake turned out awesome for Saturday!
But it was the wrong Saturday :(

SR was having a morning project, so we met up at the Mall instead XD

Cake Piccccc!! :D
*oh before that, guess what this is! :D


Dum dum dum!!
Meringueeees! :D
Pronounced MUH-RANGS. haha XD

They were my deco on my otherwise "mudcake" :D

Anyways, real photo of the Chocolate Mud Cake!!


AWESOMENESS!!
(though small hehe)

Oh, I'd love to liken that shiny dark brown chocolate to chocolate sauce...
but that is not the case.
It's just... Chocolate ganache made with REAL eating chocolate yummeh!!

A closer look to the cake :9

The space is for cream writing :D
*planned to be made by real chocolate cream with minimum whipping cream :D

That's the difference of store-bought and home-made :P
It LOOKED DAMN AWESOME!
Oh, yes. With a DAMN :D

Yes, people.
3D-themed mushroom :o
Sadly, I didn't have any food colouring,
else I would've painted a little for the mushroom :x
*but then you'd get scared too :/

Close-up pic of my favourite SNOWMAN!!
Oh my, he's just basking in Coolness and awesomeness XD XD

♥♥♥♥♥ Him lotsss!!

So, it was closer to Halloween than Christmas...
But meh! :D
Why not make some lil' devils too? :x
That's what I did, but Mum didn't receive it too well.
So in Dad's mouth it went XD XD

Another shot of the Chrirstmas Chocolate Mud Cake! :D


All these shots were taken on Saturday morning.
Cause after that, I was to go out on an outing with my besties♥!!

[As mentioned earlier, SR had a morning appointment with her college,
so chele and I WALKED.]
And finally inpromptu-ly stopped in the middle of Marrakash for a photo session XD
It happened to cross our minds about pictures while walking there, so... XD

Yes, that's how spontaneous we were :D

The best pic that I have :D
*sorry SR. I don't have a pic of we three.

Yet again D:

Anyways, we two walk walk walk and
then chose clothes to change into later when SR comes XD

Then we decided we were hungry,
so we went off to eat something.

chele, being the Laksa lover, wanted to eat Laksa XD
And I, suddenly had the urge to eat Tenppayaki o.o
Of course the Laksa lover didn't want to eat Tenppayaki...
But the Tenppayaki didn't mind eating Laksa.

So after walking around the Mall, trying to locate the shops,
we finally found our second-last resort XD

Ah Cheng Laksa, in Asian Av.
Here is what I got:


Yesh, people. It was a set.
Curry Laksa and Longan :o
You know how much it was?
RM8.60
(I think)

Quite okay also :o
I suppose it's because their renting space is seriously small,
so they can afford a cheaper price compared to the other shops.
(including the Tenppayaki rofl)

After SR came, we talked and walked and tried on some clothes and then parted.
It was great to have met up with my besties again :D

And we all made a solemn oath to not have bfs again.
In college XD XD XD

*okay, not true.
We just agreed amongst ourselves that we wouldn't get any bfs in college :x
So, heads up white! No bfs for you! >:(
ahahahahahahhahhaha!!

Anyways, when I got back
(Thanks chele's mum! :D)

Guess what happened? :(

errr... yeah.
Looks like someone some people couldn't resist the temptation of a sitting/waiting
Christmas Chocolate Mud Cake D:

My family members could not resist just watching it from the fridge XD
ahahha!!

Like I said, I ♥♥♥ this guy! :D
I think he's sooooo coooooooooooooooool! :D

Also, I got a pleasant surprise from ezine articles too that day! :D

They emailed me my gifts :D XD
♥ them!!

On Sunday, we had Sakae Sushi for lunch.
But I didn't really enjoy it :/
Next time, when I don't worry too much about money
(or in an all-you-can-eat-sushi)
I'll stuff myself maxxxx :D

*uhm, yes, that's how I "enjoy" my sushi XD
So I didn't enjoy when I wasn't stuffing myself and looking at the price instead :(

Something hotate! :D
Yup, the scallop is at the bottom.
Heaven knows what's on top... ah, whatev.
Just eat it! :D

Yummeh :D

Well, needless to say, the cake didn't last long...
But at least now I have some ideas on my Christmas cake! :o
I know what I'm going to bake now XD

Of Getting Blamed :(

Wow, I don't know what to say.

It's kind of upsetting, being blamed but not sure if and should I take the blame for it.

I know it's a rat race and all that,
but I can't say that it was entirely my fault.

There were so many parties, yet...
*sigh*

What I'm talking about,
is the very first group presentation that occured, less than 4 hours ago.

The lecturer gave us all 2 weeks to come up with the presentation.
I had 7 people in my group, including me.
I know, not everyone could follow my pace...
even though I'm not even the leader.
Most of us started 2 weeks ago.
And with some of us lagging,
we only managed to put everything together TODAY.

It's GROUPWORK.
Everyone is expected to contribute... yet...

The thing is, I wouldn't have minded if we were the first group to present.
We were the last.

And we took (I believe) 30 minutes to finish our presentation.
Unfortunately, right after us, the lecturer closed the time,
and 3 more groups didn't have a chance to present their stuff.
(All groups were supposed to present for 15 minutes max)

The thing is, with the amount of time that we took up,
I supposed one more group COULD HAVE presented.
But you know what?

We also couldn't be blamed, cause the first 20 minutes was a stagnant
period of time waiting to be filled... but nobody went up to present.

I wanted that slot, but one of us had to go back home to
get their computer for their missing file slide.
And we couldn't just present with one missing member =_=;

Ahhh... it's such a headache.

I feel really bad, cause the ones who didn't get to present
lost 10% of their marks.
Was it my fault? I think so.
But! BUT! BUT!! It wasn't entirely my fault.

And I do still feel guilty about them.
It's like, I'm directly responsible for that :(

So... *sigh*

Things would've been better
IF everyone got their act together and not at the last minute realized that the file wasn't sent.
IF everyone of my group were able to present the first time,
IF the other group just went ahead and presented their stuff.

It does suck when your body parts aren't coordinated.
The best thing was... I'm still here.
*sigh*

That's it, all I have to say.
I'll talk about the more enlightening parts next time.
When I'm not feeling so bad D: