On time and enough time?

Had been a very busy weekend but one that I was not being frustrated due to insufficient time for too many tasks. For one, I didn't bake till after midnight.

Managed to submit a lot of work for my part-time project this weekend and I am very confident that I will be on time to submit all require write-ups. My deadline is 26 October.

This weekend's baking was for the open house and a chocolate cake for next Thursday's delivery, which I've baked just now. Icing will be done on Wednesday. See, no sweat in terms of baking.

I also went shopping, heee... went to MV with MC and BIL after our dim sum lunch at PJ. The mall was not so crowded as compared to many of the times I went. I wanted to get some working clothes and a dinner dress. Went to Metro Jaya and found that the prices were really very high, I didn't think I can afford anything in there, can you believe that? Went around to many more boutiques and ended up at Dorothy Perkins, which I was really skeptical before walking in - I mean, UK brand, must be expensive.

Surprisingly, I got something there. First of all, I think UK cuttings fit me better and I actually love UK fashion. I got a pair of jacket with matching skirt and pants for RM300. It felt like a big achievement!

Before we came home, we went to our official chill out coffee place, the one with green aprons and a siren.

More work after I came home, was so busy that I didn't even manage to chat with MFG on line. Well, I actually, originally, planned to drop him a few lines, but didn't want to disturb him for too long, so I thought to only speak to him much later... okay, when I came up from taking my cake out from the oven, I got a message from MFG saying "logging off. Good nite". So I actually did manage to say "nite :)".

Good night everyone. I hope I can manage my usual gym routine coming week and I hope I've got enough time to sleep, no insomnia whatsoever.

ps. I hope there's no grammar or spelling error - lazy to check. Blog ed, can you please let me know if any. Thx!!

Cheesecake Brownies

Got an invitation to Zaza's open house. Since the open house was on Saturday afternoon, I only had time to bake on that very morning. Normally brownies would be on the top of my list when I need to bake something within limited time or last minutes.

Choose a new recipe for this occasions since this is the best time to get opinions from many people. It was quite well received. Thanks for the support guys. This shall be a confirmed item on The TeaRoom menu under the brownies list.

Giving the brownies the marble effect.

Soft creamy cheese on a sticky rich chocolate base.

Do you feel it too?

Sigh...

Have been really busy for the passed one week. Although the working hours have been long - stretched up to dinner and after - I've enjoyed myself most of the time. Having said that, the major damage now is the fats that have been accumulating from all the eating and no gym for one whole week! Yeah, subsidising the gym again. Humph...

On another note, do you realize that time spent with your favorite person is normally good time regardless of the location or time. And do you also realize that sometimes certain things have become habits without you realizing that they had?

Here are pictures of dinner on Thursday with MFG...

The non-halal restaurant at The Curve

My drink - a mocktail of pineapple, fizzy water and... I actually can't remember what I've ordered.

His beer. Which I should have ordered because I thought it tasted better than mine.

Our dinner - assorted sausages. They were yummy!

There was a little episode in the office yesterday, I got so pissed off with the bossy colleague of mine that I actually "told her off". By me raising my voice, I actually "earned" myself a glance from my big boss who happened to be in a discussion at close proximity. But that's all he did, not "interfering" at all. Hah...

Been getting orders for cupcakes lately and I want to say thank you to those of you who've recently been a fan of TeaRoom.

Thank you.

ps. pictures of brownies from new recipe tomorrow

My new chocolate cake design

Got the idea from this...




The original look, with fresh raspberries on a white cream frosted cake.

I've got these soft candies that looks like raspberries (don't they?). Not only they are not as expensive as the real berries, they are also easier to handle, no need to glaze or preserve.

If you want to pipe a few different designs from a same colour icing, the best is the use the coupler, that allows you to interchange nozzles.

Pipe a bed of "leaves" and "stick" the candies on them.

Pipe some veins and more leaves randomly. I tried not to overdo the cake. Haha... Trust me, piping leaves can be quite addictive.

Drop some veins and leaves to the side if you want to decorate the cake more. I couldn't stick the candies on the side of the cake because my icing will not hold anything. Besides, the candies are too heavy.

So I had the candies resting on the base of the cake board.

There! The final look, complete with birthday tag - There's no more space to write birthday message anyways.

Subsidising gym

That's what we normally call ourselves doing when we can't make it to gym as often as we can.

LGM, if you are reading this, sorry I didn't turn up for combat (IF we were there lah), we had workshop this week from Monday to Friday and I overlooked the need to entertain the guests from breakfast till dinner (supper) and even karaoke.

Right. Off from blogging tomorrow and potentially Wednesday (and Thursday).

Happy Birthday TD!

Here are the birthday cupcakes, for my most loyal cupcake fan! (Erm... after the Cupcake Queen of course :P)

Can you figure out what this is? Thanks for the key chain TD, without that, this is not possible. Haha...

Yes, reward us with cupcakes!

These were for the quarterly launch at TC today. Did you get one too? :)



Thanks Herny for ordering with me. Hoping to supply the full set - including all classes - for the launch.