Chocolatechip and Almond whitechoc cookies:)

cookies are everyone's best friends. my recipe of chocolatechip cookie is one the most successful recipes of mine. i baked this more than 10 times already and everyone loves it. i would be weird if i didnt upload any photos on my baking blog, so enjoy!!

khaow and blink visited my house to do the column on baking for school mag

my 18th bd treats for kids at baan ratchawitee:)

colorful packages

formy friend's bd

we need: 2c flour, 1/4tsp baking soda, a pinch of salt, 1c brown sugar, 1/4c sugar, 2 large eggs,

170g butter (room temp), 1 tsp vanilla

1/2c chocolatechip or 1c whitechocolatechip and 1/2c almond

combine flour, baking soda, and salt

in a mixer bowl: cube up the butter

and put in both sugar
till it is nice and smooth

add eggs and vanilla

now this is optional: either add white chocolatechip and almond or chocolatechip

scoop them on the cookie sheet

if you want soft cookie: make a big scoope

crispy: use spoon to press the cookie dough down into a thin dough

bake it for 15-20 min at 180c

ENJOY!!!!

Martha Stewart's Chocolate hard pretzel treats!!

baking always cure me in awkward ways. fyi i bake whenever i feel want to, special occasions (like someone's bd,reunion,new year gifts etc.), bad things happened (heart broken for instant lol), mom's or friends' requests, baking with friends(esp valentine's day) etc....

this time i baked b/c i wanna challenge myself... i used to baked pretzels but it failed like...badly lol

so, i began to flip over martha stewart's cookies baking book that i bought it a while ago, and found a recipe of chocolate pretzels

make dough of cocoa and espresso powder, butter,sugar,vanilla extract,egg,flour and refrigate about 30 min

roll into 24 balls. shape balls into 12-inch-long ropes.

form each rope into a pretzel shape.

whisk egg yolk with water in a bowl. brush cookies with egg wash

sprinkle with sugar

and bake at 170c for 30 min

it go great w/coffee or nutella dip would be nice

care for brownie?

last thrusday was weird. it was that i had an awkward feeling of wanting to eat brownie so badly at 10 at night. weird wasnt it?! so guess what, i went downstair to my lovely kitchen and baked it at 10 pm.
"cashew nuts brownies" as soon as the brownies are nicely baked i scooped up and eat it w/out any patient. weird weird weird!!

hot!!

flip it over

slice it and packed, ready to give out :D

day out w/ Nikki at vanilla garden thonglor

the resturant is casually decroated in a modern japanese style
tempura for nikki, FAB
omelet curry rice for me
green tea melon redbeans paste chu ice and peachy parfait

such a delightful resturant. im always a big fan of vanilla resturant but never been to vanilla garden. the food the serve here are mostly japanese style but they still serve pasta, dont worry lol. nikki said pasta here is better than brasserie (and ofcourse the price is also higher) dessert here is superb, again japanese style. you just cant miss chu ice, which is kinda like chu cream but instead of cream, it's icecream... a big YUM! for that

yummies at canada and the states!!

i just came back from canada and the states a few weeks ago. lucky me, the time i was there was the exact same time during the curfew. lots of yummy stuffs there, these are the photos from my iphone and ill upload the photos from my cam later.

smoked salmon rolls, teriyaki chicken, and tempura ramen

maple walnuts icecream with freshly made waffle cone. you know we just cant miss maple at canada

almost raw lol

chocolate mousse for dessert YUM!!

the best sashimi ever!! very very fresh. sockeye salmon and shimaji

hot pot udon

the original pepperoni pizza

chocolatedy vancouver statue

very berries tarts

spongebob birthday cake :D

one of my fav<3>

making waffle for breakfast at the hotel

welcome to seattle!

the very first starbucks is at pike place downtown seattle

king crab, sweet!!

my fav again, salmon steak with tartar sauce and rice

fresh shrimp at pike place

Matcha Daifuku

everyone im back!! miss my baking blog soooooo much! the truth is i couldnt manage my time to update the blog even though im on my summer vacation and get 3 months off. (well, summer vacation often makes students lazy...) as we all know my latest entry was in march, 2 months ago!! shame on me! but now that i have the time, this is probably gonna be my fresh start

MATCHA DAIFUKU
lots of people asked me what's the different between 'mochi' and 'daifuku' the answer is they arent that different. daifuku is pretty much like the subset of mochi. daifuku is mochi with redbeans paste, that's it!! lol

The recipe is exactly like the previous entry on strawberry daifuku but no strawberries. we just add 1 1/2tsp of matcha to the flour mixture before we microwave it. i made this in march but as i mentioned it before, i didnt have time to update the blog.

in this entry i uploaded almost every picture of the procedure. ENJOY!!
one last thing dont forget to wash your hand folks!!

INGREDIENTS
1 can of canned red bean paste
1c glutinous rice flour
1/3c icing sugar
2/3 hot water
1+1/2tsp matcha powder
more glutinous rice flour for dusting

1.stir red bean paste in a low heat saucepan till the paste is dry

dry enough to roll into small 1" balls

2.in a microwavable bowl mix together flour and icing sugar

3.dissolve matcha powder with hot water
4.combine matcha with dry ingredients
5. cover the bowl with plastic wrap and microwave it for 1 min then stir the mixture again and microwave it again for another minute

6. becareful the mochi mixture is super hot. dust your hands with flour and divide the mochi mixture into balls and flaten them.

7.place the red bean balls in the middle of the flour
8.fold the corners into the middle

9.dust and flip
10. pack them and give out!