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{ Tuesday }

2:55 PM • Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Woke up at 9am, but was supposed to wake up at 8am. Oh well, I was kinda tired so was forced to bed for another hour. I thought it wouldn't hurt. Haha, turns out that I should have woke up at 8am.

I couldn't really believe that I have stood up for 6 hours straight with baking egg tarts and macaroons. And it hardly came to me that lunch time was far way than past. Anyway, I was ok later on in the evening. Yes, gobbling up all the pastries that I've made. Haha, seems like I had lunch and dinner in dinner.

Actually I was suppose to finish the macaroons in an hour that is from 10am to 11am. But I ended up finishing it at 12noon. So, I had to immediately start off with the next pastry since I'm already back of the schedule. I thought that everything went well with the macaroons until I started off with the puff pastry dough that I had to make for the base of the egg tarts. The dough was traumatic.

You know puff pastry has to use plenty of water and magarine right? As it said in the recipe, the ingredients A was just a normal dough that was made of 400g of flour, 220g of water, 50g of butter and a pinch of salt. This one was quite normal, as it looks, well, normal obviously. But when I reach to ingredients B which was the 300g of pastry margarine, that really gave me a heart attack. The recipe said use dough A and roll it out in a cross shape with the centre having the most volume of the dough. Then it said put the whole of ingredient B on top of the centre of the dough and wrap it. I followed*. Then, it said rolled it out like a rectangle. I did*, but when I did that, all the margarine came splatting out and I tried to put the margarine together with the dough. Cause I saw the book and the pictures doesn't look like what actually happened. So instead of rolling it out, I ended up kneading the dough. Blek. I kneaded it until a state that it was finally mixed well with the dough. Then, I only continued looking at the steps...TOTALLY WRONG, I KNOW!

Well, overall, Kark said it was edible and was by far the best pastries I made. Yea, I still remember kark saying that whatever I bake came out like chocolate chip cake instead of chocolate chip cookie. Worse remark ever. LOL.

Anyway, I enjoyed baking it despite of skipping lunch and standing up for 6 hours straight cause in the end I was able to share what I did. YAY ME!