Baked Satruday (part 2)

So here goes the second installment of my baking experience last Saturday! As you know we baked two things that day, Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chip Cookies and Natilla-Filled Chocolate Cake! :) But before I go on with the cake, I just want to share some more pictures of the cookies we baked.. :) This is not a cookie but this is someone who loved what we baked.. This is Mark! As you can see, he loves taking pictures and he sure was a handful when we were baking! :)

And like us, he just couldn't wait for the cookies to cool down... :')

This on the other hand was the very big oatmeal cookie we baked :)) It was so big that we weren't able to finish it ourselves :))

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See how big it is?? :o

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Moving on.. We also bakes Natilla-Filled Chocolate Cake that day wherein the recipe was taken from NewGenBaker... :) I personally liked the cake because it wasn't that bad for beginners like us... :') So here is the recipe!

Ingredients:

for the Natilla or the filling in between the cakes:
1/2 cup condensed milk
1 cup milk
1 egg yolk
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon butter
for the cake:
2/3 cup cocoa powder
1-1/2 cups All- Purpose Flour
1-3/4 cups sugar
1-1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup butter
1 cup water
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla

for the Chocolate Icing:
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon coffee
2 cups evaporated milk
1 cup condensed milk
1/4 cup All- Purpo
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 tablespoon butter

Instructions:
1) Preheat Oven to 350°F.
2) Grease and line two 9-inch round pans. (we used foil papers instead = easy cleaning)
3) Sift first 6 ingredients for the cake together. Set aside.
4) Cream butter until fluffy. Add sifted ingredients alternately with water and beat for about 2 minutes until smooth. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat 1 minute longer.

5) Pour into prepared pans and bake for 40 to 50 minutes or until done. Let cool.

6) Combine all ingredients for Natilla except butter in a double boiler and cook until thick around 30 minutes. Remove from fire. Stir in butter.

7) In a heavy bottom saucepan mix together all ingredients for chocolate icing except baking soda and butter. Cook until thick; stir in baking soda and butter.

8) To assemble: Fill layers of cake with Natilla.

9) Ice decoratively with the chocolate icing.

My notes:
- Our cake got dry so i suggest that you either put oil in the mixture or check on it after 30 minutes, to make sure that it is perfect.
- If you have other recipes for a chocolate icing, then use that and not this one because it is gonna be tough making this one. Ours actually got burnt and it does affect the taste of the whole cake! :)
- Use 8 inch baking round pans so that your cake will be a little thicker.. :)

So far these are some of my thoughts and now, for the pictures which are very few and incomplete.. :) I wasn't able to take a final shot which I think is a mortal sin haha.. (my excuse: We needed to chill it for an hour and it was already getting late and we had to bring it to Jenny. When we gave it to Jenny, my camera had turned low batt on me), so let's use our imagination... 0.0

Baked Satruday (part 1 )

Yesterday was a wonderful day for me and my high school friends because we baked! :D The fact that I don't have an oven in my house made baking such a great thing that I was truly excited even the day before. We went to our friend, Angellyn's house to bake some goodies...

We decided to bake a cake and cookies at the same time. Wherein the cake is for Jenny since it was her birthday and the cookies are for us to munch on.. ^.^ We also decided the day before that we will be baking Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chip Cookies adapted from My Baking Addiction. :)


Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter (I think we place more than this amount!)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup rolled oats ( and also more of this one ^.^)
1 cup chocolate chips or chocolate morsels (we placed less of this!)

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

2. In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, white sugar and brown sugar until smooth. Stir in the peanut butter, vanilla and egg until well blended.

3. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; stir into the batter just until moistened. Mix in the oats and chocolate chips until evenly distributed. Drop by tablespoonfuls on to lightly greased cookie sheets.

4. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven, until the edges start to brown. Cool on cookie sheets for about 5 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

So what happened to us was, we had this..

then this..

to these warm, fresh from the oven cookies! :)


We noticed that cookies got flatten out while it was being baked at the oven and that it got really humongous and each cookie was stuck with the other, so I recommend that you give space among your cookies so that this won't happen! :D We also used an ice cream scoop to evenly measure and distribute the cookies...

The final product was great! We really liked it and even my friends' moms loved it too.. Although, I think that it was quite too sweet so be careful when putting those chocolate morsels and even those peanut butter! But other than that, I really love this recipe and will definitely be on my tried and tested recipes! :D

When we had chocolate syrup on our side we also drizzled some (or maybe a lot of it) on our cookies and here are some of it! :D

Angellyn, Sydney, Jeannine, and Anne :)

part 2 of my baked Saturday will be about the cake which is Natilla-Filled Chocolate Cake! :D

My yummyEATS experience

I know that it is quite late for me to post about this event, but a promise is a promise and up until now, I can't seem to get over this wonderful and sumptuous food event! ^^,

Last Saturday, May 21, as what I have told you in my previous post, I attended the greatest cooking and eating fair this May which is the yummyEATS!!! And I am still and will always be forever grateful to Ms. Rowena of Animetric's World for giving me the golden ticket! :D Its just a downside that I wasn't able to meet and thank her personally :\

So... as I arrived at the NBC Tent, I was amazed at how small the venue was and yet, the yummy people could fit all the concessionaires (and there were a lot!) in it without even sacrificing the cooling system! ^o^

The next thing I did was to register and claim my ticket and the food eating and be merry stuff begins! The game plan is to try all the concessionaires offerings while it lasts and till I get full!

This post would be a very long one if I am to tell you about each concessionaire that joined the event so I have decided to just tell you about my favorite ones! ^.^

#1 The first booth that I checked out that day which was Mochiko! Even though I love eating and trying out new foods, I must honestly say that it is my first time to try Mochiko's famous Mochi... And as it turned out, I loved it! Especially the Azuki Mochi since I love anything red bean flavored! :D And since the weather outside was warm, every bite of Mochiko's ice-cream filled Mochi was the greatest feeling I felt that moment!!! :) They also have other Mochi flavors like: coffee, grean tea, black sesame, and more...

#2 The second concessionaire that I loved was truly and positively a love at first bite... Simply Pie! offers both sweet and savory pies that are truly worth a try (I noticed that it rhymes)! I love how each quiche I tried instantly gave me that soft and comforting feeling that makes me want more of it.. That day's specials were, Spinach Feta and Sun Dried Tomato, Mushroom & Sour Cream, and Bacon & Gruyere Quiche (my favorite). And since I DID wanted to have more, I bought a box of 9 (3 of each kind) and when I got home that day, my mom also liked the Bacon and Gruyere one! (each quiche costs Php 38 = worth it!)

#3 Merry Moo Ice Cream... What I really liked was their Caramel with Sea Salt Ice Cream because it wasn't as sweet as I thought it would be and not as salty as I also thought it would be... There were only hints of saltiness and as I indulged over it, it started tasting like a coffee flavored ice cream which I think is really interesting and makes you wanna take another spoonful of it one after the other... :D And this is simply the reason why I love Merry Moo Ice Cream.... :)

#4 Now, to something artistic and fun! Little "Miss" OC Kitchen was definitely one of the most interesting and coolest concessionaire in the event.. And I think I would just let the photos speak for themselves! You can even check out their website for more photos of their great works that will surely amaze you... :)

really angry birds..

they're so cute I'm gonna die.. :))

#5 Big Daddy's Chicken has been a favorite of mine for a very long time because what they offer never fails to bring back fond memories of Taiwan's night markets and Taiwan foods! Their Fried Chicken Fillet is something that is totally similar to what we eat at Taiwan. Its flavor and crunchiness is really something that makes every bite a great one! :)

#6 As many of as knows and admits, Starbucks never fails to make a good impact on its customers and I was impressed with their set-up during the e, and it made me wonder what would happen if they had those in school and malls that are small ones where they could just skip the dining area part.. I mean I think it would be a great idea.. :) Who wants fast Starbucks drink??? (I do!)

#7 would be the message board and photo booth which was fun and interactive at the same time!

#8 The FIC Ice Cream Truck outside the venue proper serving free scoop of ice cream was really one way to catch the attention of everyone passing through the street.. I tried their newest flavor which is the Lemon Crumble and it was superb, perfect to fight the summer heat.. It was great that I am running out of words to describe it.. ^^ It was surely the best way to enjoy the end of the greatest food event of the year! :D

I also got the chance to meet two new friends during the event and they are Kaye and Bibs. They are both from Bicol which really shocked me because they came all the way from their place just to join this event, which I also think is really amazing! :D They were really nice and were even the first one who talked to me since they noticed that I was alone.. ^^ Thanks Kaye and Bibs!!

To close this very long post, I just want to say that I am really looking forward for the next yummyEATS and for any other events Yummy is gonna come up with! And this was definitely a memorable one!

mission accomplished! ^^,

for more photos click here! ^.^