I had tendered my resignation as I decided to become a SAHM to look after my P1 son and have more time to teach or revise with him for his study. Hence, my last day of work is 30 Sep, and I decided to make some cheesecake for my colleagues.
For easy serving, I had chosen to make individual portions. This time, I used 2 flavours of yogurt - Mixed Fruit and Nata de Coco. What did I learn this time? Well, I realised that the cheesecake wasn't as "smooth" looking as my 3rd attempt; there's coconut flakes. I realised that it must be the Nata de Coco (means cream coconut) flavour of yogurt that I added in. Before I realised this, I thought what had gone wrong this time round? hahaha... Hence, I should avoid using Nata de Coco flavour of yogurt if I want a smoother looking cheesecake.
There was Teacher's Day celebration at my girl's childcare centre. We were supposed to attend the celebration but we were informed by my son's school that he's sick, so we had to rush down to his school to pick him up. Hence, we had to pick up our girl first since her childcare centre is near our working place. When we reached her childcare centre, they were having mooncake making as Mooncake Festival is just round the corner. The teachers asked us to make mooncake together with our girl first before leaving the centre, so I did.
Mooncake making isn't difficult for me at all, especially the snow skin ones. When I was still schooling, I had been helping my mum to make snow skin mooncakes to sell to make extra income for the household. Hence, when I saw the teachers and some parents sprinkled flour into the mould, I suggested that they should tap the flour on the skin instead of sprinkling flour into the mould.
Why do we need to tap flour onto the skin and why cannot sprinkle flour into the mould? We need to tap flour on the skin so that the mooncake would not stick to the mould, and hence, it can "drop" out from the mould when you shake the mould sideways. We do not sprinkle flour into the mould as it would cover up the pattern in the mould, and the end product would not have a nice defined pattern on it.
Although I have not made mooncakes for a long time, I still can remember my mum's teaching. See the end products below.
Teacher's Day is round the corner, and I've been thinking what gifts would be appropriate for my son's teachers. A red pen would be useful for the teachers as they would need to do markings! However, it looks "miserable" if we give just a pen although it's the thought that counts. Since I've been into rainbow loom, and I have come across videos showing how to make a pen hugger, which there were girl and boy designs. Hence, I decided that I would make a pen hugger as well. To make it special for the teachers, I also personalised them according to how my son addresses them. The personalisation was something that I have created, which I am really proud of. :)
Credits to be given to the creator of the pen hugger, Made by Mommy, and this link leads to the girl/princess pen hugger video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viKdHxuwoiU.
