Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Happy Valentine's Day! I've made chocolate truffles for Valentine's Day this year..the recipe is in fact very easy but it was the packaging that took me a lot of time!!

It's all handmade!!! My fingers sore making the confetti at the bottom...they are all over the place in my office now...I bet the cleaning lady must be *&&%$#@^^&^@...

Chocolate truffles in their pure form...

Ingredients:

1. 150 g dark chocolate (75% cocoa)

2. 50g unsalted butter in room temperature

3. 10g caster sugar (it has to be caster sugar...I used the ordinary white sugar and it didn't melt...they chocolate truffles have a bit of crunchiness bcoz of that!!)

4. 50ml cream

5. 25g cocoa powder

Procedures:

a. Melt chocolate in a double boiler

b. Then put the butter into the melted chocolate

c. finally, add sugar, stir until they are all mixed well, then turn off the stove

d. add the cream into the melted chocolate butter mixture bit by bit

e. put the mixture into the fridge until it's hardened

f. roll the chocolate into tiny balls and dust them with cocoa power, that's it!

You can make white chocolate truffles by replacing dark chocolate with white chocolate, and replacing cocoa powder with icing sugar...I'm gonna make some very soon!

I also made some dorayaki for lunch with the remaining red bean from the pudding the other day...

Ingredients:

1. 1 egg

2. 10g sugar

3. 1 teaspoon of honey

4. 50g plain flour

5. 1/4 teaspoon of baking powder

6. cooked sweeten red beans

Procedures:

a. mix egg, sugar and honey in a electric mixer

b. sieve flour and baking powder into the mixture -- mix them together with fold-in method

c. pan fry the dough at low heat until the color of the bottom turns brown (1 chinese soup spoon can make 1 pancake)

d. add red bean paste in between 2 pancakes, ready to serve!!

A mini dorayaki made from a tiny bit of remaining mixture..haha...cute?