Back to Sugarloaf~

We had our lesson at TCA again. And we just couldn't resist the temptation of the amazing desserts displayed in the sugarloaf display counters.

I really couldn't decide between the gourmet sandwiches and the sushi as they all looked delicious. In the end I went with sushi and I think I'm glad I did. They were generous with the salmon sashimi and there were relatively many ingredients. However, since it wasn't wrapped with nori, the sushi kinda broke up when I picked them up with my chopsticks.






For dessert, I chose the passionfruit chocolate mousse. The bottom later is the mouse, the middle layer is some while chocolate cream and its topped with passionfruit puree. The dessert is elegantly finished with a piece of white chocolate.

The first spoonful was amazing. The rich chocolate flavour of the mousse, the creamy and sweet white chocolate cream was balanced with the acidity of the passionfruit puree. However, the more I ate, it did start to get heavy and a little too sweet. Perhaps it would have been great with a warm cup of tea!

Mocktails?

Yesterday, we celebrated the dad's birthday in advance since mum will be going away on a business trip during his actual birthday.

And so after a meal of chilli crab, salted egg yolk crab, stir-fry and salad, I decided to make some mocktail. Since there weren't enough spirits at home and since Im underage anyway, I made some mocktail instead.

I got the recipe from mybestcocktails.com and made the orange-lime relaxer. So as you can probably tell from the name already, there lime and orange juice in it. Sprite is then added and the mixture is shaken.




Unfortunately, there seemed to be a problem with my shaker and no matter how tighly I held it together, the mixture was flying everywhere. I guess its time to get a new shaker? Anyway, I had to settle for stirring instead and it did change the "effect" of the mocktail a little. Overall, it turned out pretty well actually. Theres the tangy-ness from the lime and the sweetness from the orange juice and the fizzy sprite made it really refreshing to drink. (which is why I initially mistook the name of the mocktail as 'refresher' is my insta and facebook posts)

Since I have some leftover orange juice and sprite, I wanted to make myself a nice beverage after school today. Since there was not enough lime, I replaced it with some lemon. (2tbs lime 1tbs lime, 1tbs lemon) I could taste the difference, but it wasn't significant if one doesn't pay to much attention to the flavours.

Yep. That's it. Hopefully I can try out more recipes after getting a new shaker!

Fruit Paradise Pie

 Heres a desert pie I tried during a friend's birthday.

This is a fruit tart from the Plaza Singapura outlet of fruit paradise.
Theres a lot of cream. A LOT. As you can see. If you’re not a fan of cream then this might be a bit hard to eat. But you can always scrape the excess cream off. Personally, I really liked the cream cause it went great with the vanilla ice cream(I think!)on top of the tart base.
The tart base was buttery and crusty and was the right thickness for me^^
Great dessert, but I personally don’t think I could have managed another size cause it can be a bit heavy.