20 recipes / chocolate cake with white chocolate ganache

8 February 2012

If I ever judged how successful my baking is by how the food looks, then this would have certainly been an EPIC FAIL.

Because my cake looked NOTHING like the photograph in the book. Seriously. My cake had no delicious layer of white chocolate ganache like the picture did, no pretty patterns on the ganache. Zero, nada, zilch.

Thankfully, my taste testers eat my food despite the looks and I got rave reviews on taste. Thank you, dear taste testers (:

This chocolate cake with white chocolate ganache I made this past weekend was from this chocolate recipe book, gifted by my sweet friend Ru for my 19th birthday (thanks, love!). All the recipes in the book look absolutely mouth-watering; I can’t wait to try them all!

I’ll be away for the next couple of days. See you when I get homeeee (:

OVER AND OUT.

20 recipes / lemon spaghetti

31 January 2012

We had this for dinner tonight. And it was really not bad. I quite enjoyed the tang of the lemons. Although, if I made it again, I’d probably reduce the lemon juice a tad.

Pasta always makes me happy (:

3 down, 17 more to go.

20 recipes / marbled chocolate brownies

27 January 2012

This is probably a new favorite brownie – not too sweet with enough creaminess. I made this recipe twice in two days!

It’s been a huge hit (:

2 down, 18 more to go.

20 Recipes / Chocolate Angel Food Cake

20 January 2012

If you’ve read my twenty list, you’ll know that trying out twenty new recipes was something I set out to do before I turn twenty-one in September. I was honestly wondering when I would get started on this project, seeing how busy I’ve been. But since someone gave us a whole potful of egg whites this week, I decided that yesterday was time to actually get started. Since I’m not a huge fan of meringue, I googled and found this – Chocolate Angel Food Cake.

I was pretty nervous about this at first, because egg whites and Singapore humidity aren’t always good friends. But it all turned out pretty good, I must say (:

The only change I made from the recipe was substituting cake flour with 1 cup minus 2 tablespoons of plain flour, because I didn’t have any of the cake flour.

Getting started is always the hardest part.
I’m off to look for my next new recipe to make! (:

One down, nineteen more to go.