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Nutella Braided Bread

I browsed through Youtube on the weekend and came by this easy recipe, yet it looks really pretty and may impress your families/friends/girlfriends 🙂

Looks like Nutella Pizza?
Looks like Nutella Pizza?

And, tadaaa here are the progress to final result after oven:

nutella braided breadTo be fair, I will let you in my little secret: this is not made with bread dough, but store-bought puff pastry; saved so much preparation time! A cheat version of Nutella braided bread hehe 😀

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Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict by Hubby

This lovely dish was hubby’s creation a while ago and absolutely yummylicious with extra appreciation for he made the sauce from scratch as well as my favourite homemade roasted potato wedges; and actually spent quite some time researching on Youtube! 😀

smoked salmon egg benedict

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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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