Been Busy in the Kitchen

I guess there's nothing else better to do here besides being in front of my computer 24/7 trying to get some work done while I'm away from Montreal. Nowhere else to go in this small little town. So I've been busy in the kitchen trying out some desserts...

Fruit Arrangement for Calvin & Karen

Green Tea Pound Cake

Green Tea Cheesecake w/ Raspberries

I am taking a cake decorating class every Wednesday evening, 2 hours a week. This is a buttercream icing decorating course. Probably not icing for Chinese people... at least for me, it's too sweet, but the icing does look great. The first lesson was all talk, blah blah blah. Lesson 2 was hands-on. We had to do a rainbow cake in class.



I've to admit, while the rainbow is nice and all, but the cake wasn't edible. HAHA! It just won't bake properly for some reason, I guess I did something wrong. I'll try another recipe next time. But I flat iced the cake anyway and took it to class to decorate it. Then it was sitting on our kitchen counter for 1 whole week because I didn't want to throw it out.

A good student practices what she learns (but who am I to talk about being a good student when I was never a good one since high school and throughout university). I actually baked an edible cake. A soccer chocolate cake! The church had a soccer game last night and they ordered pizza for dinner, so I made dessert. The white icing is almond flavour and the dark part is chocolate flavour. It was a two layer cake and I put even more chocolate filling in the middle!




More pics of the cake and some "in-progress" photos.

And more calories for them...




I made more than enough chocolate chip cookies for everyone to have at least 2. Of course there were left overs because some of these people who played soccer weren't exactly very young... but LP were more happy to keep the rest in his office. He tried to convince me not to make him bring all of the cookies to church so he can eat all of them.

I also tried to make mango pudding and taro tapioca, but nothing special. Those are the easiest desserts to make, any Chinese can do that.

Next on my list... DURIAN cheesecake! But I've to wait until LP's at work to try it out or he will kill me. And... find a way to keep it in the fridge without stinking up the rest of the fridge. Although I probably won't smell it anyway, but I guess for LP he'll be able to sniff it even with the fridge closed.