BunnyBoi came over yesterday and we had oven roasted salmon & asparagus for lunch! :))
I'd wanted to do a crispy skin but soft meat but the skin was burnt really badly as the flame we used was too hot and too much oil was used for this dish.
Overall I love love baked salmon and I'm glad that BunnyBoi enjoyed this meal we both prepared together. We'll cut down on the oil in future!
Next, we both successfully baked a chocolate ganache cake for our first attempt!!
I got the recipe from joyofbaking.com and it's really a "mix-in-the-pan-cake".
I altered the recipe to my own preference as her recipe is really toooooo sweet.
Ingredients include:
- 195g all purpose flour
- 50g caster sugar
- 25g unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- pinch of salt
- 240ml warm water
- half a lemon, squeezed
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
All we did was to add the ingredients listed 1 by one and then manually whisk it!
By the time it was of a consistent texture, we lined the cake pan with butter and flour, and pour the mixture in!
Oh and before that we had to preheat the oven to 180deg Celsius and placed the cake pan in the centre of the oven for 35 minutes. The toothpick inserted in the centre came out totally clean!!!
Due to time constraints, we cooled the cake at room temperature for 30mins, and proceeded on with our chocolate ganache frosting.
Chocolate ganache ingredients:
- 1 whole bar of Van... Baking chocolate
- 1/3 of Bulla thickened cream
- 1 tablespoon room temperature butter
Melt the ingredients over a double boiler and adjust thickened cream to your liking.
Once time's up, pour chocolate onto cake and freeze for 30mins. (We later learned from BunnyBoi's mum that it can be cooled in the normal fridge section to harden)
And..... Viola!!
I've always wanted to bake with my boyfriend and I'm so so glad that it's you that I'm doing it with. I'm looking forward to many more cookings and bakings with you honey. I love you. <3
