From passion to profession - Caught in the 'pirate ship'

Chef Chung called (in mandarin) " Gina, Saturday you got 1 hr (6 to 7pm) to demonstrate your premixes and your famous MAGIMIX okay? got many many people about 300 - 500 pax) coming to the launching of my new cake decoration book, must come, must come okay?"

We set off at 12 noon boy! the journey was exceptionally long, heavy traffic, jammed and by the time we reach the hotel in PENANG was 5.40pm, 10 min to set up our demonstration table? Rush rush... as we enter the ballroom what a disappointment the many many people is only a handful (like 15 pax) then we are given a table at the corner of the room and by the time we set up it was already 6.15pm of course some audience came to see our counter tried our cookies samples and bought some premixes. Can you imagine how disappointed I told my colleagues in Cantonese " I have aboard into a 'pirate ship' - that mean coned! So what can we do but to make the best out of it - quickly show the audiences 1 of our Baker's One best selling item

"THE GREEN PEA COOKIES" It comes complete with step to step instruction which my friend Linda from Singapore call it "idiot proof" ha! ha! (the mix never fail you). Very suitable for beginners

It is a very yummy and cookie it melt in your mouth releasing the aroma of the pure green pea.

To start you need 110ml corn oil and a mould for making the cookies.

Here's the step to step pictures :-

Mix the GREEN PEA COOKIE MIX with the oil

then you level it and shape it up with the cutter

Bake it in the oven for 25-30 min at 180 degree Celsius and it's ready

When it cool down, pack it into a container and you can proudly serve your guest for the coming festive. And for us we take it back to our shop as sample for our customers...

then I sneak out and take some photos of my colleagues(look at them "so happy")

and of course the works of Chef....

(pic 1 simple decoration)

This is a good one, it ginger bread with royal icing and some sugarpaste

From passion to profession

Yes, it the passion for baking/cooking that leads me to this interesting profession. Being a instructor for the pass 15 years or more I have been meeting with lots of interesting enthusiast. We shared our experiences in this field and has improvised most of the long tedious recipes.

Thank to my good kitchen helper, which is a food processor. Ah...talking about food processor you may not believe, it is wonderful and you can easily whip up any recipes with it and here's a very interesting Swiss roll for those of you who have a food processor to try out.

SWISS ROLL

INGRE A: 5 egg white

1/4 tsp cream of tartar

80 gm castor sugar

B: 5 egg yolk

C: 3 tbsp fresh milk

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

D: 60 gm self raising flour

30 gm corn flour

E: 3 tbsp corn oil

F: 150 gm strawberry pie filling

METHOD (Preheat oven till 180 degree Celsius)

1) Place A into food processor (fitted with EGG BEATER) process till soft peak.

2) Add in B, one at a time till bind add in C, D and E thru feed tube (one after the other)

3) Pour batter into a 14" x 10" tin (lined with parchment paper).

4) Transfer tin to oven and bake for 20-25 min

5) Remove cake from oven, cool cake and spread with F, roll cake