Monday, January 31, 2011

Pineapple tarts - 2011

This year I tried two different recipes for pineapple tarts. It's the first time i attempt to make pineapple tarts in the traditional flower shape way. I bought a roller and a mould from phoon huat for this purpose. The first recipe was from Little Teochew's website.
The tarts after glazing, before entering the oven. ;)
The completed tarts!


The second recipe is from my friend Pei xian. For those who loves butter and wants a crumbly, melts in the mouth kind of pineapple tart, this is the recipe to try.
Ingredients:
700g plain flour
500g butter
100g sugar
100g milk powder
3 egg yolks (beaten)
1 egg for glazing
Pre-rolled pineapple balls (I always use the ready made pineapple filling from redman, its slightly on the sweet side but I'll okay with it being sweet. haha.)

Steps:
1. Sift the flour
2. Using fingertips swiftly but gently rub the butter into the flour until it looks like fine bread crumbs. You may also use fork (as per the instructions in the 1st recipe) It basically requires you to scrape / flake the butter with your forks. You essentially want to coat the butter crumbs in flour. Using forks prevents the cold butter from melting since there is no contact with heat.
3. Add the beaten 3 egg yolks into the butter-flour mixture and gently coax all the crumbs to form one large dough ball.
4. Grab a little dough and wrap a pre-rolled pineapple ball with it. Continue to form enough tarts for your baking tray.
5. Bake at 160 degrees celsius for 15 minutes and glaze the pineapple tarts with the beaten egg and bake for another 5 minutes.



Friday, January 21, 2011

Butter cake - 2nd attempt

The butter cake that look well-baked. The emphasis is on LOOK.


The bottom was burnt. But it's an improvement from the first time ba. :)

- Posted by Baker Peanutos

Monday, January 03, 2011

Newtoys!

Say hello to......

;)

First day of work in 2011

Yosh! It's a brand new year and a brand new day at work for the year!

Dear Lord, i pray that u will be with me as I strive to give my best in my work. Give me wisdom and the skills i need to do a good job in all the projects that I will handle this year. I pray that I'll be salt and light for u in this place that u have placed me in. I'm grateful to u for giving me this job and I pray that u will bless me in my days in this company. Holy Spirit, please be with me throughout and guide me. Thank you, in Jesus name. Amen!

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Saturday, January 01, 2011

Last CG of the year!

Had our last CG for 2010 at Marina Barrage today! My first time there and first time flying a kite!! It was super fun! I didn't manage to fly any high up in the sky but Jingwei and Yong Chao got theirs high high up! :D super cool that i was able to get a chance to tug the strings for one of the kites that flew high up :)

Why fly kite? cos we wanted to our goals/reso for 2011 to set flight! :)

That's the kite with all our goals!

Pray that all our goals will come to pass by the grace of God! :)

Spongebob or Megamind?!?

Saw something really interesting in J8 today! hahaha!


Blessed 2010 Birthday

Had a series of birthday celebrations with different groups of frenz. Felt very blessed :) Thank you all!!!! Muacks!

1) Surprise from Lee Mei and Jestee. Right after gym and dinner haha. accompanied with KOI :) had a good time chatting with them and i really hope that by next year my wish for the 3 of us will come true! :)


2) on 22 Dec celebrated Cuifen and My birthday together with Lydia and Beatrix :)

Happy Birthday Cuifen!
I look too astonished in this picture lah. haha.

3) Birthday treat for Cuifen and me at Big O! I love the food there! :D Thanks to Guoqiang, Jincheng and Jian Ming! :)

"Batman returns" ice cream & "The Dark Side" Mudpie! We were so eager to start!!! It's yummy!


Really had a great evening luffing and eating. Thank you guys~
Looking forward to the good news from jingui.com ;)

There are some others celebration, for which i would like to thank my precious friends who celebrated for me. Though no photos to post yet. hehe.