Creme Brûlée

Creme Brûlée has been on my list of things to bake for a while now. The first time I made creme brûlée was in school where it was a no bake creme brûlée. Since then, I have searched for other recipes which were the normal baked creme brûlée and bookmarked one which I thought was good. This is recipe is from George Calombaris from Masterchef Australia.  There is a video where he shows the step by step way of making the creme brûlée which I found was really helpful.

 I bought these ramekins a few months back with the sole intention of making creme brûlée and also invested in a small little blow torch to have a blast with torching the sugar! Then it took me so long to find the butane gas to fill the torch. Finally everything I needed to make creme brûlée were ready. Then they sat in the cupboard waiting to be used for almost a month! hahaha..... 

Finally I did it. Made them one afternoon and had them for dessert after dinner. I was doubtful of the creme brûlée when I took it out from the oven. It looked a little overcooked but the centre was still a little wobbly. I cooled them in the fridge for almost 4hours and then torched the sugar to create the hard sugar layer. Put it back in the fridge for a short while before eating it.

The texture was smooth and taste was not too sweet. I love the little specks of vanilla seeds in the custard. Real vanilla bean is really much nicer than vanilla essence. Then the caramelised sugar layer had the crack sound when I knock the spoon into it. Yum! The recipe was quite simple but I am not sure if it is really easy or I was just lucky. Hopefully next time I make it, it will still be as good as this. So happy!!

Chocolate Mousse Trifle

We made a big batch of chocolate mousse in school that day and I took the extra home. I also had some frozen coffee sponge cake in the freezer so I combined them and made trifles. Each trifle had 2 layers of chocolate ganache, sponge cake soaked with coffee syrup, chocolate mousse, fresh strawberries and fresh whipped cream. 

This first glass of trifle is topped with home grown strawberry! Yes, just the one strawberry is home grown. It was Pei's precious strawberry that she had nurtured.

The rest were topped with my chocolate decorations. One is a butterfly and another is chocolate cigars. Oh! these photos were taken by my Personal Professional Photographer, Pei. (4Ps!)

Nothing much to say about these trifles except that they were delicious and I had to stop myself from going for a second glass. I wonder how much calories I ate....actually I don't really want to know. Ha Ha. 

Life is short, Eat dessert first!