"Mooncake" Mama

Flicking through my cookbooks (hardly any guidance from youtube), I decided since the mid-autumn lunar festival was a month away, I will take this opportunity to make jelly moon cake. If you asked is there another reason behind why I did this, Yes of course! After all there is a reason for everything, right?

Although it was my first time making jelly moon cake, it was relatively easy as long as you follow the recipe's instructions. Not sure why but my filling is just enough for only two to three moulds rather than the five stated in the recipe so I had to double the portion. The jelly moon cake turned out really well and I was totally amazed on how it looked. It really did resemble the real thing and it tasted oh so good! I managed to persuade some of my friends to eat some as I was really paranoid that only I felt it was nice.

Just a reminder, jelly moon cakes you have to quickly give them away or eat them in 1 or 2 days after you have done them since they don't keep well for too long. It is best to consume them within a week after making them as there are coconut milk in it.

For the jelly egg yolks
1/2 cup water
50g sugar
1 teaspoon agar-agar powder
2 knotted pandan leaves
1/3 cup thick coconut milk
1/2 tablespoon custard powder
1/8 teaspoon orange-red colouring
Equipment: Ball ice-cube trays

Bring water, sugar, agar-agar powder and pandan leaves to boil. Lower heat and add coconut milk, custard powder and colouring. Stir with a hand whisk and continue to cook until it thickens. Once the mixture starts to bubble, turn off heat and pour into the moulds.

Pour the jelly mixture up to brim of the lower ice tray and cover with the upper tray. Expect the mixture to overflow from the top. Place a heavy object on the ice tray to keep the cover in place and leave jelly to set completely, about 20 minutes.

Refrigerate for a further 30 minutes before removing the jelly egg yolks from the mould. Leave in a bowl for later use.

Ingredients For The White Jelly Skin

3 cups water
140g sugar
2 pandan leaves
5 tsp agar-agar powder

2 tbsp condensed milk
1/2 cup thick coconut milk or santan


Instructions To Make The White Jelly Skin

1.  Bring the first four ingredients to a boil
2.  Lower the heat and add in the condensed milk and coconut milk
3.  Stir continuously until the mixture starts to bubble again
4.  Turn off the heat immediately

Lastly, a big thank you, my besties, for helping all these.

Birthday Celebration

So I  turned 22 last month... I know right!? 22 years old!

I intended to blog about this earlier, but got caught up in that mayhem called life instead…

I had my 22th Birthday last week.

This year I decided to keep it simple, for a while I toyed with the idea of doing it at home. But I realized that if everybody came I would have about 15 grown up "kids",  and that would be impossible to do it in a tiny house. Not to mention the having to whip up enough food to feed the crowd, and coming up with enough entertainment to keep the "little" ones entertained while still trying to be a good hostess to my guests, and at the end of the party being left with a giant mess to clean.

Unfortunately, I wasn't in my best condition on that day ( abdomen pain, back pain, tiredness, headache and etc....)

Of course I did celebrate my birthday but in a way more simple than I've planned, and the best part of it is that I don't have to worry about the food and drinks or guests not liking the food, cause Pizza is a hit right ? Everybody love it to some extent (even if some will just eat the cheese topping and leave the crust).

After all what matters in a party is that all have fun. (Sleepovers with the girls was the best part, where you paint each other's nails, have cute trendy and awesome nails, sitting in the dark talking and giggling). The girls all arrived in their normal clothes, but brought their pajamas with them. It was hil-a-rious & so much fun. Well it all went extremely well during bedtime, I even had a plan of who was to sleep where. Well the joke was on me, these are little people with a will of their own and there own ideas.) Sometimes the simplest birthday party ideas work best. In fact that day was more like a sleep-over birthday party. =)

I was also overwhelmed with birthday wishes on Facebook that day. I always feel especially blessed on my birthday. I love when people take the time to wish me well and help me celebrate.

My favorite cake of the Night ( with my Name on it #yay )