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Jasmine – Rose CP Soap and Green Tea – Blossoms CP Soap

I have received my silicone soap log mold last week and I have made two batches of floral note CP soaps since 🙂

The first batch I made was this Jasmine and Rose CP soap, still using almost same composition of oil as my honey-oat milk cp soap. Instead of oat milk, I just used water to dilute my lye in this batch and I added jasmine and rose oils for fragrances. the combination is lovely, my husband claimed it reminds him of Balinese spa 😀 Again, in this batch I don’t use any colorant, so this is the natural color of all the ingredients together.

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Choux Cream Puffs aka Kue Soes

This is another well-known Indonesian (or Asian) cake. Creamy vanilla rum custard with light choux pastry shell, lovely combination!

Some tips and tricks that I can share:

  • Make sure to pre-heat the oven to the required temperature before baking
  • Do not open your oven door when baking the choux pastry shells, otherwise they will not puff up
  • You’ll notice tiny bubbles around the choux pastry shells when they are baking, do not take out the pastry shells until almost all or all of those tiny bubbles are gone
  • Do not over mix the flour and egg (maximum three minutes of mixing), they just need to be incorporated well, otherwise the batter will be too runny and cannot hold its shape. I believe this doesn’t affect the taste at all, only appearance.

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Coffee Sugar, Anyone?

coffee sugar

I have only discovered this new type of sugar in the office this afternoon. My colleague was making her shopping list and mentioned “coffee sugar”, which at first I didn’t pay much attention to. I only noticed it when she came back from her shopping trip and loading stuffs to the office pantry. What the heck is coffee sugar?!?! It looks so similar to raw sugar in term of color but it is more coarse in texture.

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Hydroponic Project – update 4

DAY 20

Another brief update on my hydroponic project:

  • the shallots grow fast! I have put another shallot root to the same plastic bottle
  • I moved the tiny chilli sprouts to new plastic bottles, they show very slow developments. Not sure whether this is normal, or have I overcrowd the container with two sprouts each? Or, maybe the nutrient is not right? I guess we’ll find out later how they will grow

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Check out the previous updates here: Update 1, Update 2, and Update 3