Loli-Chocs for Baby Hani

Chocolate lollipops make the perfect party favors.

They are great for Birthdays, Weddings, Showers, Classroom Parties and any other occasion where you want to hand out beautiful and delicious favors. Yummy! Once you get the hang of it, making chocolate lollipops is very easy. It is even a fun project you can do with your kids.

...chocolate 'suckers' are perfect easy and fun to make treat for all occasions..

Even if you have had no chocolate making experience...

...you can get creative with your chocolate lollipops and emballish them in a variety of ways...

Thanks Major Sultan for the order, I hope your grand-daughter loves them.

Homemade Chocolate...

What comes to mind when you think of a chocolate bite?

Maybe it’s a chocolate biting you as you wake up from an obsessive chocolate dream–oh wait, that might just be me.

...little candy bar of Almond & Raisins chocolates..

White & Dark Choc-Oreo

Thanks Major Sultan for order.

Now, want to order some homemade chocolate for yourself?

Frozen Shoulder NOT Frozen Lamb...!

So, I had my orthopedic doctor’s appointment yesterday at Gleneagles on the road to doing something with this gnarly shoulder pain of mine. What should I expect at this time from this suave and sophisticated and totally personable & humourous Doctor of mine..????

Doctor: Hey Nita, lama you tak datang jumpa I. How long has it been - 3 years? whats wrong with you now...?

Me: You know me Dato', I only come and see you when my limbs are falling apart.. (LoL)

Doctor: Is that right shoulder giving you problem again?

Me: No, but its the other one ...there was decreased motion of my shoulder, stiffness and extremely painful.

Doctor: Pulak dah... (so he checked my left shoulder... ) - Ni Frozen Shoulder..!
You see ...the joint capsule of the shoulder joint has ligaments that hold your shoulder bones to each other. And when the capsule becomes inflamed, the shoulder bones are unable to move freely in the joint. That is why you are in so much pain....& you know that you need to go for Surgery..

Me: Surgery...??? Oh no, not again..!

Chocolate & Cuppy's samples...

On the 8th March 2011, the British Malaysian Chamber of Commerce (BMCC) jointly with Gleneagles KL will be holding a very special event for women to celebrate the Centenary year of International Women's Day (IWD).

Here are some chocolates & cupcake samples which I made for tasting.

The taster...Ms Molly Jagpal-Exec Director....

and (..I am keeping my fingers crossed.... hope she likes it).

Black & White Choc-Oreo & No frills nutty chocolates...

Moist Chocolate cupcake topped with ganache..

Below cuppy was specially made for one of the staff, Ms Nabisa - enjoy..!

Once again, thank you BMCC, for giving me the opportunity to present my cupcakes & chocolate to your company.

Oh my... Apple Pie...!

My apple pie evolved after years of baking 'not quite good enough' apple pies. I had tried all combinations, cooking apples, eating apples, half and half of each, shortcrust pastry, sweet shortcrust pastry, crumble topping on a pie base, although all the pies were edible they weren't delicious. Eventually I stumbled across a Jamie Oliver recipe which gave me hope, after a bit of tinkering I made a so-called 'perfect apple pie'.... (clap, clap, clap..)

This pie is, for me, the perfect combination, not too tart, not too sweet due to a mixture of half cooking and half eating apples cooked till just soft in a little bit of water with cinnamon and brown sugar added, once cooked set aside to cool completely.

The pastry, a rich, crumbly, sweet shortcrust bound with egg yolks rather than water and sweetened with icing sugar, although a pain to roll out, wonderful against the natural tartness of the apples. The egg yolks add a richness to the pastry which is short but a little cakey too.
A bit of egg-wash on top and dusted with cinnamon before a slow bake in the oven...perfection...!

Forget about that nice ribboney-lattice-top, am to lazy to take out my ribbon cutting tools, so I just use the ordinary knife and cut the pastry dough into long strips, then weave them together in a criss-cross pattern to creaty that lattice effect. Hmmm..., that will do..

Warning: Your house is fixing to smell pretty good!

Forget about those scented candles, you've got the real thing!

I find that there are two things that make apple pie the best....

First, it has a delicious, homemade crust. Next is its delicious filling.

For me apple pie must be eaten with very good quality vanilla ice cream although in desperate times double cream or custard will suffice. Unfortunately, neither one of those were in the fridge...! (sigh...)

Mickey & Minnie Mouse Cupcakes

If your little girl loves Minnie Mouse then this may be the cupcake for you.
These were done for a friend's grand-daughter.... and...

...were inspired by some great Minni Mouse cakes and cupcakes I have seen in internet...

These cupcakes are moist chocolate with vanilla buttercream icing and topped with fondant. Simple yet tasty.

Speaking of which, I love old Disney cartoons.

So intelligent, devoid of emotional talk, such a deep guy narrating it, such humour.

Those were the days!

Did you know all that separates Minnie from Mickey is a bow and lashes?

Thanks Major Sultan for the order...

& to Baby Farhani, Happy 2nd Birthday...