Macaron Class

I have attended the macaron class conducted by Sunny Yaw (Big Boy Oven) from KL on last Saturday. The class was held at Hong Yap Trading Company at Jalan Siam Penang and the course fees is RM220. Before the class start, I tried the macaron which was made by Sunny. That was the first time I ate macaron and I was surprised as the macaron taste really good, I just like it. Sidney said that macaron is sell in Singapore and Japan, too bad that I do not see any macaron selling in Penang. Erm, anyhow, now I know how to bake it myself already, so I can bake it at anytime I want lo, haha, but according to Sunny and Sidney, the macaron is something hard to make as every single steps are very important and if you do not handle it well, your macaron will not turn out nicely. :(

Left: Sidney and Right: Sunny Yaw

Here goes the macaron photos...
Before baked:

After baked:
The "legs" will come out after you bake it, and this is the specialty of macaron. According to Sunny and Sidney again, without the "legs" it is not consider as macaron. Haha, so funny.

Coffee macaron made by Ah Shui, hehehe...
Tea break prepared by Ling Zie,

Banana raisin bread (not too sure about the name)

Chocolate Guinness Cupcake

Cookies

Thanks Ling Zie. I like the Guinness Cup Cake very much, but I did not try the cookies :-( Was busy keipoING and kapsterING around and forget to try it. Hehe...

I like the class as we are able to hands on and make our own macaron, each student will do one recipe. I can conclude that the class was fun as I can learn macaron from there and also get to know some new friends. Thanks to Sunny and Sidney for taking the efford to travel down from KL to Penang to conduct the class, nice meeting all of you and of course, hope to see you all again in the future.

Cake Decorating and Icing Course From CAC

After attended the Pastry and Bakery Course, I had decided to continue my "Cake Decorating & Icing Course" from CAC. It was a 10 lessons basic cake decorating by using different icing, piping techniques, color combination and piping tubes.

Some basic techniques.
My own project, hehe...
Big group project, everyone had their own chance to decorate a small portion of this little baby.
Personal project, I make this love box by my own.
Small group project, cake decorated with different piping techniques, color combination and piping tubes. I like the mini loves that surrounding the cake.
Before the course end, we decorated a 3 tier wedding cake. Wooo, sound interesting and professional right?

First Baking Course from CAC

The first course that I had attended is "Pastry and Bakery" course, from CAC - the Centre of Proffesional Cookery. It was a good place to start my learning journey as our chef covers the basic lesson that every baker should have.

Egg Tart and Fruit Tart
To bake a nice and delicious egg tart is not easy. As you can see from the photo, successful egg tart is shown on top left of the photo. While on the top right, also an egg tart but the egg mixture was absorbed into the pasrty, FAIL!!! The two fruit tarts on bottom were decorated by me leh, look like what har? old man? monkey? ... hehe, no comment..

Cookies
I think for every beginner, it is good to start with cookies as it is easy to bake and not easy to fail. Of course, to bake a really nice cookies, there are also few things to take note also. Am I right?

Doughnuts, Creampuff and Swan Lohengrin
I like to eat creampuff since I was kid, my dad always bought me creampuff and I like to eat when it is cold. So I normally kept in fridge for one whole night and eat in the next morning. Now I have the chance to make my own creampuff, yeeeheeee…happy leh. The right one is donut coated with chocolate.

Puff Pastry

Tuna Puff

Chicken Pie

The story of how the puff pastry was invented is interesting. Once upon a time, A French baker forgot to add the butter to a dough and at the end he wrapped the butter in the dough. This result in airy, puffy mixture and the taste was great. Later, this method was used to make a puff pastry. The process of making puff is a bit complicated for beginner, and special ingredient need to be used, that is pastry marjerin.

Croissants / Danish Pastries

Such a nice and delicious pastries.

Bread

White Pan Bread

Plain Bun

Bun with different filling

I feel unbelievable when I saw the bread was baked out perfectly. Finally, I know how to bake bread. Yuh Huh!!!

Doughnut
You can have different kind of topping for the doughnut. You can either sprinkle them with icing sugar or top with chocolate and chocolate rice. All are equally delicious.

Butter Cake
WuaHaHaHaHAaaaa...the cake that my family and I like. Butter cake, the traditional cake. Honestly, it is very very very delicious!

Black Forest and Fruit Flan Cake
The lesson I like the most. We baked and decorated the cakes by ourselves. After this lesson, I keep on baking black forest cake at home. Hehe, nice mah, and I can practice my decoration skill as well.

Cup Cakes
They are tasty and easy to bake. I think it is great to serve during breakfast or coffee break. Hehe…

Swiss Roll
It was baked in a shallow baking tray. Spread with jam/cream that you like before roll up. I like to eat swill roll as the texture is just like sponge cake, soft and yummy.

Christmas Cake
“We wish you a merry Christmas,
We wish you a merry Christmas,
We wish you a merry Christmas,
And a happy New Year.”
Hohohooo… A Christmas celebration should comes with Christmas cake mah. The cake decoration brings out the snowing feel, cool leh!!!

Pizza
After you learned how to make pizza from this lesson, you can bake it at home. It is simple, just put whatever you like on top and bake it. Hahahaha…

Baked Cheese Cake
My favorite cake. I like cheese…but why har? Cheese is so expensive, and if eat too much, easy to get fat…why why why????

Chiffon Cake

Pandan Chiffon Cake

Orange Chiffon Cake

Such a beautiful chiffon cake, the shape is still nice after taken out from baking pan. The taste was good, especially the pandan chiffon cake.

Dessert
Not manage to take a nice picture of this as the ice-cream melted so fast.

Graduation
A certificate was given to all the students after attended the course. We had our graduation ceromony at the center, together with all the foods. Hehe..
I felt much more confident after attended the course and now I am able to bake many types of cake, pastry and more...big thanks to our chef Mr. Bruce Lee for sharing his baking knowledge with us. Yeh!