How to: Chocolate coated strawberries

Yum yum.... :)_

Recently, the supermarket is filled with yummy Korea Strawberries. They are delicious by itself, and with a layer of rich dark chocolate, they are even more irresistable.

These sweet little things are really easy to make.

Ingredients needed are just baking chocolate, butter and strawberries. And you need a foam board and picks as prop.

1)Melt chocolate with some butter using double boiler, or over low heat. Stir till both melted and there's some shine in your chocolate.

2)Wash and dry(important) your strawberries with paper towel.

3)Poke the strawberries with picks and dip them into the melt chocolate.

4)Onced the strawberry is coated with chocolate, take it out and stick it upside down on a foam board as shown in the photo.


5)You can let the chocolate harden in room temperature, or put the chocolate coated strawberries inside the fridge for a few mins to speed up the process.


And that's it! It's an easy and great dessert for Valentine Day ( I know this post is way too late for Valentine ).


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After reading my posts, I have friends who thought that I always bake for occassions, like birthday and etc. but surprisingly, it is not so. I'm either not in the mood or simply don't have the time :P I just bake whenever I want to, and I think that is more fun.

Well... last year end, I did try to bake log cake for Christmas. But after a year break, I forgot the amount of batter needed for that specific pan size. It was too thin when spreaded out and I baked too long, it ended up to be semi-cookie, semi-cake like stuff, although it still smell and taste good :P

Chocolate Mousse Cake?!

Hanhan loves to eat cake, she had been requesting for cakes these few days and we had an enjoyable weekend, going from places to places eating cakes. :) Some taste good but some really not up to standard to be served in a restuarant, Daddy said that I can bake better than them ;> that's really flattering, and it set the mood for baking.
Sponge cake base similar to the Christmas log cake, but I added slightly more chocolate to get a darker shade and more chocolatey taste.
For chocolate mousse, I followed a recipe found on the net. I do not have a cooking thermometer, and was cautious about Salmonella poisoning, therefore, I just cooked the egg yolk, and the rest of the methods were the same. In the end, I realised the "mousse" was basicially made from egg yolk, chocolate and whipping cream. :P I think next time I will just leave out the egg yolk, and make chocolate whipped cream (no worries about Salmonella poisoning).

A layer of ganache, to give the cake a nice shiny outer layer.

Yum yum, I love this cake. Daddy loves it too. It's really chocolatey.

I am not an expert in baking, but I love to try out different cakes, especially chocolate cakes ;) and I really love this sponge cake base. With ovalett/emusifier, it is really easy to make a sponge cake. Here is the recipe(with some lazy modification, correct me if you think that is seriously wrong):

Ingredients (just nice for a 229" circle pan) (what am I writing? 22"?!)

1) 3 eggs

2) 50 g sugar

3) 1 teaspoon vanilla essence

4) 1/4 Tablespoon sweeten condensed milk

5) 1/4 Tablespoon ovalett/emusifier

6) 50g sifted top flour

7) 15g sifted corn flour

8) 1/4 teaspoon baking powder

9) 25 g melted butter/cooking oil

10) chocolate/cocoa powder (for chocolate cake, and add as you like)

Methods:

1) Beat ingredients 1 to 5 till ribbon forms.

2) Add in ingredients 6 to 8 ( + 10 optional ), fold in till combine.

3) Fold in cooled melted butter/cooking oil.

4) Put into preheated oven, bake at 175 degree celsius for about 20 mins.

* temperature and time differ from oven to oven, as the temperature indicated on the oven might not be accurate

If you tried out the above recipe, let me know what version of sponge cake you have made, I would like to try too :)

Cupcake for kids and the kid at heart

Yesterday I baked these.
Colour sprinklers, kitkat and yummy chocolates....... I love chocolates.