Happy New Year!

Greetings people!! Or have you all given up on me ever blogging again!! Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! and to all fellow muslims Selamat Menyambut Tahun Baru Hijrah!! I finally got off my lazy x@#*! and decided I must post something new on my blog as everybody else seems to have put lots of interesting photos and posts about their new year celebrations!

New resolution maybe, but for this year I have decided I will really get down to looking for more inspirations on cake decorations and perhaps go down to KL and do the Wilton decoration class... we'll see how this progresses. We have that flat in Datuk Keramat unutilised so maybe this year most holidays will be in Malaysia! Who knows maybe I will get to meet up with other fellow bloggers who so inspire me especially Ka Wiz! I didn't realize she posted a comment in my blog until today you can tell I am so baru at all this. Thanks Ka Whiz for dropping in and thanks for your advice on the cupcakes , will try it out probably this weekend. I also didn't realise another fellow blogger from Brunei, Sas who does not really know who I am, dropped me a note too. thanks Sas. Thanks also for linking me!!! So honoured lah tepaksa tah slalu-slalu me update blog ku ni! Your babu knows who I am just ask her ok! I love your blog your frank comments always make me laugh and that lamb you cooked for your friends in Melbourne looks really nyaman! Nanti minta recipe nya ah!

Well my son Haji Mohamed Fahamin finally came back from his month long Haj experience, tall, lean and arabic looking!! We were all happy to see him along with my parents who were full of praises for Amin! With his return the family is whole again and my number 1 critic and kitchen helper is back full of ideas as usual on how to cook things etc!! Oh and his mess is back too!

Well over the holiday period I did do a couple of cakes but recently I did these gems - mini pavlova and they were really light and yummy!! Normally I would do a huge pavlova with 9 egg whites (like the one in the other photo), but this time Mum had passed to me some whipped cream to use up quickly as it was near the expiration date so I didn't want to risk not having enough cream. So I did 6 egg whites and made 30 mini pavlovas. Unfortunately I ran out of strawberries and kiwi fruit so left about 7 pieces without any fruits but just cream... also kena whallop by Amin! You would think he would put on weight from eating all this sweet stuff but nooo! Anyway Pavlova recipes are all over the place and some call for the use of vinegar or lemon juice. Either is fine. But if you guys cannot be hassled to whip this up or give them a go let me know and I can do them for you at $1.50 each!! The big pavlova I sell for for $50.00 each!! Cheh! Tahun baru business mesti lah!!

Pavlova:

6 egg whites

12 oz caster sugar

2 teaspoons vinegar mixed 2 teaspoons cornflour

Fruits to garnish

whipped cream

Method:

Heat oven to 140C. Whip egg whites till soft peaks then add sugar 1 tabelspoon at a time. Laslty add cornflour mixed vinegar. Pipe or dollop onto well greased tray accordingly. Put into oven for 1 hour. Do not open door at any time or increase heat. Once done, leave to cool completely, then decorate accordingly!