mini crepe cake share

i tried to make pastry creme this morning. it didn't turn out too wonderfully.

well. let's rewind. two days ago, i made crepe batter and made a few crepes for breakfast with two girls, but well. still ended up with a lot of batter. at first i wasn't too concerned because i was having friends over for dinner too and thought i'd make crepes for them. but two of the three girls who came over brought cookies, so we had cookies for dessert instead.

so yesterday, i was worried about the crepe batter going bad so i made the rest of the batter into mini crepes. (used a 6" instead of my 9") I have about nine mini crepes (would have had 12 but i ate three :P) and thought i'd make a crepe cake. so after looking up some recipes, i decided to try making the filling this morning.

man. it was kinda hard. i think i didn't add enough milk the first time around (i hate washing measuring instruments so i just pretend to eye it... heh) and so it sorta seized up really quickly while it was supposed to "boil" and it was hecka lumpy. super lumpy. sigh. i was going to leave it as it was, but decided to look up some more specific "how to"s instead of just relying on the recipe directions. dude. there is a youtube video of a pastry chef teacher doing everything that took me an hour to do in just 8 minutes. sigh.

then i tasted it, and phew. it was disgusting. it tasted like raw flour with milk. so i figured i had to cook it some more. i added more milk and took out my whisk and beat the crap out of it while heating it. i furiously stirred it for seriously 20 minutes straight. so this time, it wasn't lumpy. but seriously. still tastes funny. although there is less of the raw flour-ness. it's sitting in my fridge now waiting to cool. i think i'll slice up some bananas and incorporate it into the crepe cake when i assemble it.

anyway. the bright moment of the morning was that I didn't want to make the whole batch of pastry creme because well.. i only have 9 mini crepes to coat, so i made just half the batter. and so i was left with half an egg. heh. so i made french toast sticks with it! woot! just added some milk and cinnamon and sugar.

t'was yummy!



i'm going to spend the weekend at greg's place so i can play with their new dog. i think i'll bring the mini crepe cake to share with them since i can't eat it all.

delicious giant golden mushrooms

made oatmeal pancakes with chocolate chips for brunch today with chang and jenny. too bad they weren't in the picture with me. the oatmeal pancakes were pretty tasty though. used smitten kitchen's recipe.

(please note the overripe banana begging to be used in something...)

Visited the lakeside with Greg this last weekend. We look pretty happy, too bad I'm sporting a double chin. eh. oh well. we had fun playing the ukulele there. OH! Greg bought me a ukulele, it's pretty cute and petite and really easy to play (lots easier than guitar because the strings are easier on your fingers than the guitar metal strings). i can play all the four chord songs. :P and i know the first three chords to "a whole new world" too bad you need like... at least six more chords to play the whole song right... my repertoire of songs is pretty limited, just "i'm yours", the song from music and lyrics and i'm trying to perfect the four chords for "hey soul sister" which actually are the same chords as the ones for "don't stop believing". ukulele + greg + lake side + camera = fun + tired fingers + too many pictures...




Also made some rum cake with Jenny. They tasted so much like alcohol though! lots more than I had expected, and I definitely let the rum boil for a long time to try to take away the alcoholic-ness of the syrup. Anyway, ended up not using all the syrup and just eating the cake as it was. It was pretty tasty. Used the mini bundt pans that Greg got me a long time ago. I didn't expect the cake to rise this much (for some strange reason) and well they look like giant mushrooms. Delicious giant golden mushrooms.