Baking Adventure and Energizer obstacle race 2015

   

 I am finally back once again after all the hectic school work and stuffs. This week is going to be a stressful week as i am preparing for my chinese O'level examination on 2 June which is like 1 week away from now. There is 1 week of chinese intensive revision and my coursework to do to, it is mentally tiring to cope with all these stuff at the same time.

   Anyway during the period that i was missing, i also found some time to bake. To me, being able to bake or cook is like a time for me to relax it kinda helps me to release stress, so i decide to name it as my baking adventure. During this period i bake a few stuff like vanilla soufflé, winnie the pooh theme cookies, rainbow cake for my mom on mothers' day, lemon meringue tart and lastly lemon bars.

     The vanilla soufflé recipe is from Eugenie Kitchen, the steps are simple and easy to follow and my soufflé manage to rise quite high and nice. I love the soufflé and my family members also complimented it, it has a pudding like consistency and also a milky and eggy taste which i love. The winnie the pooh theme cookies were inspired by another blogger known as Bento, Monsters, however i did not use the german cookie recipe i switched it for the vanilla sugar cookie recipe by My Cupcake Addiction and it works equally well. I was quite please with the results, it may not look the best but i am super contented that the pooh bear one turned out super well. However I could work on the other details for the other characters like tiger and eeyore.

Eeyore

Tiger

Pooh

     For mothers' day i decided to bake my mother a cake this year, so i decided to make a rainbow cake. The cake was made using a packet mix to save time as i do not have enough time to make it from scratch. As i only have 1 cake pan i need to bake all the layers one by one and it too me a long time to complete. Each layer requires 25 minutes to completely bake so if you multiply that by 6....... yup i used 2 1/2 hours to just complete baking the cake. In total i used 4 hours from the start when i mix the batter for the cake to finish decorating it. I was elated as this is the second cake i bake but the first that i decorated the finishing of the cake looks quite good ahahahaha.

Lemon meringue tart

Lemon bars

     The lemon meringue tart recipe is by Eugenie Kitchen again hahahah, i decided to make this tart as i was craving for something with lemons in it and i have always wanted to try this recipe, so i finally had the chance to do it. This time i manage to control the sweetness and sourness just nice so it is not too sweet or too sour, but i could further improve on the tart as someone said that they could still taste the flour taste.... I use the remaining lemons to make lemon bars since i don't feel like  making lemon tea with it this time, the recipe is from Laura Vitale.

     This year, i joined my first obstacle race organised by Energizer, it was super fun and there was free flow of ice cream too! The obstacles was easy to do cross but it was the running that was difficult. I think it was because i did not train enough and also because we are running up hill, i was already tired after crossing the FIRST obstacle and it was only 500 meters......... However the part that i enjoy the most is the bouncy slide, you would have to climb up an air inflated structure that has steps at first then you can slide down it. On a whole, i really enjoyed myself and would like to participate again next year if given a chance :).