Puppy's Creation 006 - Milo Chocolate Muffin

In this entry, you will see the colourful sillicone muffin cups that Puppy bought. Do you know why she bought it in the first place and not the normal muffin tray? Blame on her stupidity lor. The story begins like this...

She had heard from people that one cannot put metal plates into the microwave oven as it will cause the metal to emit radiation or something like this. As she is a typical Singaporean (obedient), she bears this in mind. Her first few baking attempts were just cookies so she just need the microwave turnable. When she started to read more blogs, she wants to bake more than just cookies. The next in line will be muffins. But those muffin cups that she saw were made of metal. So NO NO. Cannot put that in microwave. She search the blogs to find for alternatives. Then finally, she found that there is things such as silicone baking ware. She immediately went to that shop and buy it. And she tried with this milo chocolate muffins.

One day, maybe she was being enlightened by someone in her dreams, she went to read the instruction manual of the microwave. Then she realised that her microwave is a higher end model which allows her to choose a function called 'Convection' to bake her creation. So all along, she has been using hot air to bake and not microwave, which means when she is using that function, metal baking wares CAN be place inside the microwave. She still dares to declare that she is an engineering student, a Science person when such simple logic she still don't know.

Enough of teasing her, I think she also feels very stupid and spent so much money on the silicone ware which she feels that is not that good for baking and it has a peculiar smell. Very hard to wash too. Anyway, she had just bought metal loaf tin, metal cake tin and metal muffin tray. Metal metal metal. Haha.

Enjoy the muffins. ; )

Puppy's Creation 005 - Walnut Butter Cookies

Haha. Since Puppy has time to update her blog today, so might as well post two entries. Puppy has found an interesting site. Video Jug, is a site full of videos. As pictures worth a thousand words, Puppy has learned a couple of useful techniques over there, from tying of hair knot to kneading bread. She also saw this simple butter cookie recipe there. She decided to experiment again. And poor me, I have to be her guinea pig again. But I love being one. Hee hee.

During the process, Puppy has a bad feeling as the dough doesn't look like a cookie dough. It is extremely creamy and soft. After baking the first batch, to her horror, all her cookies melted in the oven and got burnt. She dare not to bake the second batch so she kept the dough in the fridge for the time being while she was thinking of ways to salvage the situation.

She went back to the website and read through the comments. She discovered that others also encountered the same situation. Then an experienced baker thought that the author might have typed the recipe wrongly, instead of 25g of flour, it should be 250g of flour. After reading through this, the next morning, Puppy added 125g to the remaining dough and kneaded it until well combined. This time, it looked like a cookie dough and her confidence came back again. She baked it and the kitchen was filled with the aroma of the butter. Yeah. This cookie is not those sweet kind as the recipe requires you to sprinkle icing sugar after baking it. But we prefer it just like this. Nice twist to this baking attempt. : )

Puppy's Creation 004 - Chewy Rolled Oats Raisin Cookies

It's Oats again. Haha. Puppy got too much oats in the kitchen. Will be expired in a couple of months time. After searching among her favourite blogs and websites, she located this recipe. She can find all the ingredients in her mini kitchen so she started making it straight away. Haha.

The product tasted good but it is not chewy at all. Haha. How come?? Puppy suspected that the cookies are overbaked as all the cookies have charred bottom. But she followed the oven temperature stated in the recipe leh... Maybe the oven temperature is not calibrated properly? So many maybes... New bird, opps, I mean new baker is like this one. I told her she is at her exploring stage. She will mature as a baker as time passes. Haha. Do I sound like a wise old man? Of course not. I am a wise old bear. : )

Puppy's Creation 003 - Oatmeal Cookies

Puppy was into baking since September 2008. It has been more than 6 months since she started to bake. Most of the time, the results were not what we see in the recipe book. There must be some techniques that were not mentioned in the book. Puppy does not have any baking experiences (unless you count Home Economics lesson in Sec 1 and 2) and her mum doesn't know baking either. She depends solely on the recipe book. Maybe that can account for the differences in the products.

Other than recipe books that she bought or borrowed from library, her favourite source of recipes will be from blogs. She loves to read them. From there, she can learn from others and get tips in baking and cooking. There are several sites that she visits frequently, namely Happy Home Baking, Just Bento, Elinluv's Tibits Corner and many more. Got addicted to them.

There is also another thing about Puppy's website that readers should take note. Puppy will not publish the recipes that she tried in this blog as she took them wholesale from books and blogs. And she is still not up to the standard to modify the recipes and publish here. Actually she can acknowledge the source lah but she forgot where she took them from already. A puppy with the memory of a goldfish. Haha. Nonetheless, she is more than happy to share with everyone. So if you are interested, do drop her a message in the comments and she will send you the recipe.

This oatmeal cookies is her second creation. Not really that succesful even though they looked quite nice from the photos. The cookies could not get golden brown without the bottom getting burnt. Not sure of the reason. Puppy suspects maybe her microwave oven's temperature is too high. Anyway, after scraping off the burnt part, the cookies are still edible and quite nice actually. Hee hee. Can add more almonds. Kym kym loves almonds.

Puppy's Creation 002 - Chocolate Chips Cookies

This blog is not dead. Puppy was just too busy to update it. After two months, finally she has the time to update it. Hee hee. This blog is about Puppy's first baking creation - Chocolate Chips Cookies. This recipe is obtained from Sharp's instruction manual. Puppy's first attempt MUST be a successful one in order to boost her morale or else she won't have the courage to bake again. Then the microwave oven will become a white elephant.

The advantage of using the Sharp's recipe is that you can follow everything in it and no need to modify the recipe to cater to the oven because this recipe is written with this oven in mind. Hee Hee. The results is great. Everyone in the family loves it. The only comment is that more walnut can be added in.

I was eyeing on the cookies when they are just freshly out of the oven. Smell soooo nice. Hahah. I am going to chop a few for myself by stamping my foot print on them. Haha.