bakes & cakes 10

 dulce de leche using condensed milk imported from indonesia..courtesy of my maid, more flavourful and not as sweet as using our condensed creamer. This was made ages ago but i have another batch in the fridge made from 'chocolate condensed milk'.

 i saw this butterscotch chips in jaya grocer...and straightaway bought it and googled for choc chip recipe.

 and ended up with shortbread butterscotch chips cookies. I also made another batch using my mom's shortbread recipe and add butterscotch chips. Preferred the latter because it's crispier. i still have some of the chips stashed in the fridge, will make another batch of cookies..if the kids OR myself did not eat it on its own...You gotta try this chips....it good even on its own, infact i think it's better to eat it straight from the bag ;)

 first attempt of making cheese tart..you'll noticed that there were 2 sizes of tart shell here... because i started with the small ones, and i only have a dozen of those. Looking at my dough i figure it took me about 5 mins to fill prepare the shell, 20 mins to bake it, another 10-15 mins to cool the tart before i can knock off the casing, and start to prepare the shell again...the thought of 4 cycle of those really put me off and i started to use a bigger silicone tart case (even though it's more difficult to shape the dough) and managed to finished the dough all at once!

the bigger tart is more satisfying...more cheese to base ratio ;)

konsert n konvo irfan & anugerah kecemerlangan alia

Last Friday was Irfan's concert in monterez. I sent him  to school at 5.30pm  and went to monterez with DH and Alia after Maghrib. We managed to get a middle seat as there were many others earlier than us.

 while waiting for the concert to start

 dah keluar...cikgu still tengah sibuk susun the kids

 show started...nyanyi lagu cita-cita yang irfan selalu nyanyi especially dalam bilik air

 menari tarian cina pulak

 graduation cert from principal teacher

 siap kiss lagi cert tu. the event ends around 11pm and we went to have our supper as the kids are hungry. pergi kedai mamak then noticed there was another 4 families from the concert having their supper there as well. Irfan excited jumpa kawan2 kat kedai mamak. the next morning we sent alia to school and go off for breakfast.

 after breakfast we saw her already sitting at her place to wait for the ceremony to start.

 irfan still mengantuk from last night. he was lying down trying to sleep most of the time.

 posing at the stage

third place in class...alhamdulillah

bakes & cakes: hari raya haji

 During the raya haji I made pavlova for my in laws. Since they are celebrating raya in Kajang I can prepare the topping just before we go off to Kajang. 

For my grandma in Melaka I made super fudgy brownies with almonds. Gone within just a few hours after serving. The kids really loved this brownies.