Found some time to bake yesterday night. Decided to try Chef Daniel Tay's Cream Cheese Cupcake recipe learnt during one of the past baking workshop. This batch was baked for a special group of people whom I have been working with for the past few months.
Had wanted take photos during daytime to catch natural lighting, unfortunately the sun wasn't bright enough this morning. Had to make do with florescent lighting and the photos didn't turn out good :( Oh well, next time.
The ingredients are quite straightforward - grinded oreo biscuits (without cream) as base, baked cream cheese cake, and topped with cream cheese & lemon whipped cream, mini oreo biscuits and candied strawberries in strawberry syrup. I love the strawberries in syrup (brand: Fabbri Strawberry Fruit and Syrup, available at Shermay's Cooking School and Culina). I think it will go well with vanilla bean paste ice-cream.
Personally I found the cupcake too creamy, heavy and sweet for my liking. Probably people with sweet tooth may enjoy it. May tweak the recipe a little, when I find the next opportunity to try this recipe again. Many other recipes to try as well and looking forward to more workshops!
The texture of home-made kaya is slightly rough, and looks humble but wholesome. I love the richness and fragrance of the coconut milk with touch of pandan juice. Smells heavenly, I think I can get a high on sniffing this one. LOL.
Pistachio & Dried Cranberry Cookies. This cookie has bits of green and red, apt for Chinese New Year and very easy to make. Love the crunch and doesn't taste too sweet.
Everybody lurves Cream Cheese Cake and this one's better with Oreo biscuits as base (and fold in if wish to) and cream cheese mousse :d~~~
The zesty lemon pound cake with cream cheese glaze is GOOD! Contrary to usual pound cakes, this one is light and not too dense. The lemony taste is not too heavy on the palate either. Chef Daniel Tay used to sell this in his Bakerzin cafes but not anymore. Gonna bake this for WH one of these days.
Another favourite sauce is home-made garlic mayo. Plain store-bought mayo tastes too flat and I usually add more flavouring.
Was feeling rather hungry, decided to indulge in a little supper and ordered a club sandwich for sharing with hubby. Room service was pretty fast, my orders arrived in 20mins, just nice after a hot shower. We sat on the cozy bed, munched on the hot fluffy fries and sandwich overfilled with ingredients, sheer bliss! By the time we hit the bed, I guessed it was already close to 3am.
Woke up super late and decided to go for a pampering spa treatment. But before that, we went to Erawan Shrine first to offer our prayers, a must-do for all our visits to Bangkok.
Now for our spa indulgence, we decided to try Lavana Bangkok Spa, located at No.4 Soi Sukhumvit 12 Sukhumvit Road, within 5-8 minutes walk from BTS Asoke Station. This is a recommendation from hubby's friend who is currently working in Bangkok, so it must be good :)
As we entered the Soi, spotted a few hawker stalls selling fruits and fried fritters. Since we hadn't have breakfast and lunch would be after the spa treatment, decided to grab some juicy pineapple and crispy fried fritters.
It was passed lunch hour so we needn't wait for a table. Most of the patrons were locals, so we believed the food should be quite authentic.
I ordered my favourite lemongrass drink which was ok, nothing to shout about.
Next up was Tom Yum Seafood Soup. I'm not into Tom Yum as it was too spicy and sour for me, but hubby love Tom Yum soup a lot. So usually I would just take a bowl and he would finish the rest.
Except that hubby must always order the duck meat, which was tender and succulent.
I always love the iced chinese tea which was very refreshing and fragrant.
Shrimp paste fried rice. Not bad.
The only photo I took of the hotel, an elegant decoration by the lift lobby. Hope the political unrest could be resolved soon so that I can return to the charming Land of Smiles again.