My best friend, The Oven.

I've delayed posting up a new blog entry because i've been so distracted lately with baking..

I've also found a new hobby.. which is horrible. because its useless and cost me $50 so far.. $50 i could've spent buying more stuff to build my business..


Anyways, Introducing my new hobby!!
Making miniatures out of polymer clay! ..woo...

This was my first batch of tiny macarons, the first picture has a needle in it, which shows the size comparison.

This is the mini sushi things i made with glow in the dark clay.

I rolled all the little rice grains..

And the little berries.. and glued them onto the macarons from the first photo.

now my finger hurts :( 

But they are so cute! =D

i was hoping to give them to my friends, but they are so fragile cause of all the tiny little bits on them.. so i donno anymore.

Dave let me have his hard drive so i was finally able to back up all my photos again, it went from 200gigs to 100gigs. =D


Im currently so spaced out at the moment that i keep distracting myself from blogging because i have no idea how to jump to the next topic.. 
i think i used all my brain power trying to figure out how to make the little berries look cuter.. 
but im just going to blog on and hope the people that do read my blog understands =D and only looks at the pictures. =D

Anyways!! big moment for me.. sorta.. 

I invested my money into my future.. 

I bought myself a new mix master =D! 

my trusty hand mixers about to die on me.. its making horrible noises now..

And my delivery came in yesterday!! 

i love getting mail. i get so excited when things are delivered to me.

Peanuts!

And a whole lot of cooking gear :)

i hope this investment gets me somewhere.
Actually.. i think it already has..

My main reason for not having a proper job by now is cause i don't want to work if its not something i love, and its not something that makes people happy..
i know that's such a horrible reason.. but its truly my reason.

the only thing i remember wanting to do was to make people happy :)

but i am happy i have made some people happy with my food so far =D
who can complain about free desserts right :P


My baking list for the week!

A green tea cake for Gillian's birthday.
I had a taste when it came out of the oven and it was beautiful, but im not the biggest fan of green tea, so i think the light taste of it was good for me.
but Gillian couldn't taste it when she had it, which is a shame :(
i had to rush it and iced it with cream instead of making its own green tea frosting.

i then also made a green tea ice cream cake for Gillian too, but i never got the chance to give it to her..

 I then made some Pandan cake for dave and my family, which i didnt take any pictures of..

sides an instagram picture of the cake rising.
the problem i had with this cake was the essence i used for it, it has this strange bitter aftertaste.. and just tasted fake? so i might use real pandan leaves next time.

On monday Kerrie and Anya came by to eat dinner and bake with me.
I made something off my 'To cook list' and made some BBQ Ribs!

we used both pork and American beef ribs.
Slowly cooked in the oven for 2 and a half hours..

The meat was so nice, but the sauce was horrible. i wish i had good BBQ sauce
Still!! cross that off my list!
i honestly would rather buy killa burgers ribs, they are cooked nicely and they dont take 2 hours to make. And! its much cheaper.

But after dinner i made some sugar cookies coated in royal icing :)

And while i had from per-packaged cake mix at home, i thought i'd try to make a gradient cake

And because i was stupid enough not to think before hand that making a moist Betty Crocker cake.. with so many soft layers would end up in the whole cake collapsing on me during the shoot.

no worries tho.. i used so many straws to hold it up.. as well as dave in the background holding the straws..
But man does Betty Crocker make amazing cakes. it was so yummy!

But I'm happy with how the colour turned out, i don't think I'll ever make another cake like that again. i just cant be bothered waiting by the oven 20 minutes after 20 minutes because i only have 2 cake tins for 6 layers.

BIG NEWS!!

My photograph got published in the local newspaper :)
i know it doesn't seem like much, but it feels like such a big step for me.
the only problem i have is that people can never ever get my name right...

but its alright, at least the for the the first and last part right.
that's all that matters to me honestly.

One time, i got a certificate for a fashion thing.. where my name is spelt wrong.. so i can never use that..

But yeah!! woo, local paper :)
One step forward.