Chocolate Cupcakes Workshop with Lessons Go Where

This is my second workshop in collaboration with Lessons Go Where. This time, I'll be conducting a beginner Chocolate Cupcakes Workshop. Exclusively to Lessons Go Where, I'll be sharing on baking moist chocolate cupcakes, making your own swiss meringue buttercream and frosting your cupcakes. If you want to display your creativity in frosting, join us for this workshop.

Date: 29 June 2014, Sunday
Time: 2 - 4pm
Venue: The Baking Loft

Sign up now before it's full! See you there!

Launching my first Workshop with Lessons Go Where

I'm pleased to announce that I've collaborate with Lessons Go Where to launch a Blogger Chef Workshop - Butter Cakes. Exclusively to Lessons Go Where, I'll be sharing on the creaming and rub-in method to produce a marble butter cake and chocolate chips muffins. If you are new to baking, join us for this workshop.

Date: 27 April 2014
Time: 2 - 4pm
Venue: Chantilly Culinary Studio

Sign up now before it's full! See you there!

More about Lessons Go Where, adapted from Lessons Go Where Website.
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They aim to provide users with a one-stop online location to select and book, as well as compare and review the widest selection of recreational lessons in Singapore, across all areas of interest and different vendors.

Shop for your favourite lessons right now in Baking, Cooking, Music, Sports and Exotic lessons! They're constantly bringing in more lessons and you never know what you’ll find!

Baking Workshops

Workshops from Palatable has been re-launched!

Starting next month, there will be a series of repeated popular workshops, and new workshops coming up.

Roses Decoration Workshop will kick start the series. This is an advance workshop for bakers who will like to enhance their delicious bakes with simple decorations.

The Perfect Pound Cake Workshop is a basic workshop for newies who are new in baking and wants to learn more about creating a perfect pound cake.

Hurry, sign up now and gain yourself another skill! :)

New Workshop Dates

Mother's day is just round the corner. It's time to pick up some baking skills and impress your beloved mum with your bakes!

New dates have been scheduled for Perfect Pound Workshops and Magnificent Muffins Workshops.

In our Perfect Pound workshop, you'll be learning how to make that perfect pound cake in two varieties. You'll also bring back the pound cakes that you have baked in class. Check out the details here.

For Magnificent Muffins workshop, it's back to basics. Make muffins without the hassles of mixers. You get to bake three different types of muffins, and bring them home to share with your loved ones! Check out the details here.

Hurry, register now as vacancies are limited!

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Brownies & Muffins Workshop

Last month, Stacey emailed me and told me she wanted to learn cupcakes, muffins, brownies and chocolate. I thought that was rather ambitious to achieve in a day! After much discussion, her friend and her decided to sign up for my chocolate valentine's workshop and a customised workshop-Brownies & Muffins. They attended my chocolate valentine's workshop last week, and today, they are back again for their second workshop. They felt more comfortable after last week's session.

The ladies had fun weighing and creaming their batters. The tasks today seemed less difficult, and more achievable for them even though we didn't use any mixers! I helped to train their biceps! I also baked some blueberry & almond muffins for their refreshment.


These were what they brought home with them after the workshop.

Brownies.


Assorted Muffins- Chocolate chips, Cheese and Orange.

Chocolate Valentine's Workshop

A month ago, I "advertised" on my Chocolate Valentine's Workshop. Initially, I thought I might need to cancel it as school will be starting soon and most parents are more anxious about being at home with the children and spending time with them. Fortunately, I didn't have to cancel as there were two ladies who were interested to attend this workshop.


It is quite disappointing when I have already prepared all my materials for workshops and there were no response. Even an enquiry or two will make me excited. Anyway, today's workshop went very smoothly and well. The participants have not baked before, but they were rather good in their moulded chocolate roses.




During this workshop, they were taught how to bake an Almond Pound Cake, mould chocolate roses & leaves and frost with chocolate ganache. They did all these themselves, which I'm really proud of. I'm sure their family members will be elated when they bring back the cake to share with them. Hope they can re-create this cake during valentine's day!

Parent & Child Brownie Workshop

The day before a workshop, there tend to be quite a lot of preparations to be done. Fortunately, I happened to have quite a lot of leave to clear this December. I can't imagine if I hadn't been on leave on Friday, then I'll be preparing the items like crazy on Friday evening.

I baked some brownies for the participants to try, prepared all the ingredients, equipment before the actual day. There were a total of five children even though three were allowed. :p Well, since it was rather informal, and the "extra" children didn't get another set on their own, I guess it was alright with me. Can't bear to turn the child away, can I?


The children were able to follow the instructions and methods closely. From the way I looked at them, I figured it could be their first time to try baking. But they were rather good though! I was glad the children and the adults had a good time preparing, baking and frosting their brownies. They were rather fast in their frostings! I hope they enjoyed the brownies of their labour! :)

Orange & Almond Pound

I baked an Orange & Almond Pound cake for a colleague who is recuperating at home from cancer. It was really a heart pain to see her like that. Even though we were not very close all this time, my heart went out to her the moment I heard about her case. I was really sad, and I sms her once a while to cheer her up, and give her all the encouragement that I can. I finally found the courage to ask if I can visit her. Even though she looked differently, she is still as pretty as ever. I made an excuse to bake for her, so that I can visit her. She was happy that I visited her, and liked my cake very much. I tell myself, if I have the time again, I will bake for her again, at least to keep her going and make her happy.


This pound cake will be taught for under my Perfect Pound workshop. Sign up for it now!

Chocolate Valentine's Workshop by PALATABLE

Soon, it will be Christmas, and a Happy New Year.

Followed by Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day! It’s a season of joy and giving. Therefore, whether it’s for gift or a treat, bake a cake and decorate it to impress your loved ones and friends!

With its simplicity to make, you’ll be able to show them how good your home-bake treats are!

Course Details:

Course fee: $85 per person

Date: 3 January 2010, Sunday or
17 January 2010, Sunday

Duration: 3 hours, 1300-1600hrs

Venue: Trainer’s residence @ Hougang Street 11

Class size: 4-6 persons

For more details, check out at Chocolate Valentine's Workshop.

Experimenting

I was experimenting with some pound cakes and decorations for my new workshop for Valentine's. I was glad the combination turned out to be perfect - Almond pound cake with chocolate ganache. I was pleasantly surprised that my children almost finished up the whole mini cake! The almond pound cake was really fragrant and nice, especially when it's chilled! I also like it very much. It will also be a good cake for any ocassions!



Watch for it coming up soon!

Rose Decoration for Valentine

With Valentine’s Day on Chinese New Year, what best to give to your loved ones, then to self bake a cake and decorated it with roses?

Learn to make roses using different types of sugar paste for your cake decoration. Transform your homemade cake, into an impressive cake with your modelling roses! The best part is, no complicated tools are used!

Book now to secure your seats!

Course Details:
Course fee: $65 per person
Date: 10 January 2010, Sunday
Duration: 3 hours, 1300-1600hrs
Venue: Trainer's residence @ Hougang Street 11
Class size: 4-6 persons

Course Programme:
Fully hands-on learning the following:
1. Fondant Roses
2. Royal Icing Rose
3. Modelling Chocolate Roses
Includes demonstration of:
1. Daisy using Royal Icing
2. Fondant flowers using flower cutters

What you'll acquire:
1. Your knowledge of making edible model roses.
2. Your roses, including all the spares that you are left with from the fondant or modelling chocolate paste.
3. Pipping nozzle and piping nail that you used in the workshop.
4. Simple recipes.

Rose tea will be served during the workshop.

Registration and Payment:
Register with Jane @ thepalatable(at)gmail(dot)com by 4 January 2010. Payment is made via internet transfers to POSB Savings account 017261398. Confirmation will be given once payment is received.

Enquiries:
For further enquiries, please contact Jane at 9824-4954.

The Perfect Pound Workshop by PALATABLE

Traditionally pound cake refers to a type of cake made with a pound of each of four ingredients: flour, butter, eggs, and sugar. However, the quantity of the ingredients are often changed to suit the sweetness that is desired. Hence, any cake made with a 1:1:1:1 ratio of flour, butter, eggs, and sugar can also be called a pound cake.

Now you can learn how to make that perfect pound cake that goes well with a cup of coffee or that Earl Grey Tea.

Course Details:
Course fee: $75 per person
Date: 20 December 2009, Sunday
Duration: 2½ hours, 1300-1530hrs
Venue: Trainer’s residence @ Hougang Street 11
Class size: 4-6 persons

Course Programme:
Hands-on baking a pound cake.

What you’ll acquire:
1. Your hands-on knowledge of preparing the ingredients, creaming and baking.
2. Two pound cakes to bring home.
3. Recipes and bonus recipes.

Light refreshment will be served during the workshop.

Registration and Payment:
Register with Jane at thepalatable(a)gmail(dot)com by 14 December 2009. Payment is made via internet transfers to POSB Savings account 017261398. Confirmation will be given once payment is received.

Enquiries:
For further enquiries, please contact Jane @ 9824-4954.

Roses Decoration Workshops

One way to contantly sharpen your skills is to conduct a workshops so that you ensure that you don't forget the techniques. That was what I did lately. So far, I've had two Roses Decoration Workshops conducted at the comfort of my place. I had the youngest participant at 18, and a more senior lady who is a retiree. How nice it was to know them.


What the participants learned during the three hours workshop was to pipe roses using royal icing. According to the participants, that was the most challenging as skills and precision is required to get a pretty rose. Next up was moulding the roses with fondant. By adding colours to the fondant, you'll get coloured roses. If you have theme cake, then coloured roses can fit well in the decoration. It was rather easy for them to pick up the moulding of the roses. The participants were really good (in both sessions)!

Being someone who loves to entertain, I made some snacks for my participants to go with Rose tea. I thought they might like to have a short break in between to 'digest' what they had learn.


Finally, it was moulding chocolate roses. We made the moulding chocolates from scratch. Not sure if there are ready made ones, but it was easy to start from basic ingredients. The participants got a "taste" of how the moulding chocolate was like after mixing. Lots of kneading were required before the moulding chocolate was ready. It was...quite a challenge. Nonetheless, all the participants had equipped themselves with the know-how and the skills of moulding roses. I'm very happy when I see them leaving my place, happy with what they have learnt, and what they brought back. Most importantly, I am happy that I am able to impart my skills to them.

New Workshops!

Dear Friends,
I've just started embarking on a new journey of...conducting my own workshops. For the past few weeks, I've been busy with trying out new recipes, working out how workshops should be conducted so that people gained the most out of it. I'm very glad that there are people and friends out there who believe that I can teach and share my experience with them.

I had my first Roses Decoration Workshop yesterday. There were two participants in the workshop. I decided to proceed with them, even though my ideal was four. Because the number was small, I was able to provide them with all my attention. The workshop went on smoothly and as planned. I prepared some Rose tea (since the theme was RoSe) and snacks for them. We had fun though, and the setting was casual. I hope to continue with this workshop, to provide more people, be it home bakers, passionate bakers or even students, the knowledge and the skills to mould roses to decorate their cakes and cookies.

I've launch another workshop - Parent & Child Brownie Workshop. This workshop aims to provide the parent & child the knowledge to bake brownies, frost it with chocolate ganache and topped them with thousands & thousands or dragees. This is one good way to keep your children occupied and to learn new baking skills during the school holidays!


One more workshop you can look forward to is The Perfect Pound Workshop. In this workshop, you'll get to learn how to bake good pound cakes that can be served at any occasions. Since Christmas is just round the corner, home-baked pound cake is one good X'mas present you can impress others with!

Check out more details in PALATABLE website.

The Perfect Pound Workshop by PALATABLE

Traditionally pound cake refers to a type of cake made with a pound of each of four ingredients: flour, butter, eggs, and sugar. However, the quantity of the ingredients are often changed to suit the sweetness that is desired. Hence, any cake made with a 1:1:1:1 ratio of flour, butter, eggs, and sugar can also be called a pound cake.

Now you can learn how to make that perfect pound cake that goes well with a cup of coffee or that Earl Grey Tea.

Course Details:
Course fee: $70 per person
Date: 15 November 2009, Sunday
Duration: 2¼ hours, 1230-1445hrs (Session 1)
or 1530 – 1745hrs (Session 2)
Venue: Trainer’s residence @ Hougang Street 11
Class size: 4-6 persons

Course Programme:
Hands-on baking a pound cake.

What you’ll acquire:
1. Your hands-on knowledge of preparing the ingredients, creaming and baking.
2. Two pound cakes to bring home.
3. Recipes and bonus recipes.

Light refreshment will be served during the workshop.

Registration and Payment:
Register with Jane @ aloyallyanders(a)gmail(dot)com by 8 Novmber 2009. Payment is made via internet transfers to POSB Savings account 017261398. Confirmation will be given once payment is received.

Enquiries:
For further enquiries, please contact Jane @ 9824-4954.

Roses Decoration Workshop - New Date in Nov

New date has been released for reservations - 8 Nov 09. There are still available vacancy for 18 Oct 09. Sign up now before it's fully booked!
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We all love roses because of its gorgeous beauty, colour and fragrance. Rose is perennial favourite.

Many cake decorators like to use roses to decorate their cakes especially for wedding cakes! It is loved by all ages alike. Now, you can learn to make roses using different types of sugar paste for your cake decoration. Transform a simple cake, into an impressive cake with your modelling roses! The best part is, no complicated tools are used!

Course Details:
Course fee: $65 per person
Date: 18 October 2009, Sunday; or
8 November 2009, Sunday *new date*
Duration: 3 hours, 1300-1600hrs
Venue: Trainer's residence @ Hougang Street 11
Class size: 4-6 persons

Course Programme:
Fully hands-on learning the following:
1. Fondant Roses
2. Royal Icing Rose
3. Modelling Chocolate Roses
Includes demonstration of:
1. Daisy using Royal Icing
2. Fondant flowers using flower cutters

What you'll acquire:
1. Your knowledge of making edible model roses.
2. Your roses, including all the spares that you are left with from the fondant or modelling chocolate paste.
3. Pipping nozzle and piping nail that you used in the workshop.
4. Simple recipes.

Rose tea will be served during the workshop.

Registration and Payment:
Register with Jane @ aloyallyanders@gmail.com by 10 October 2009 for 18 October workshop, and by 1 November 2009 for 8 November workshop. Payment is made via internet transfers to POSB Savings account 017261398. Confirmation will be given once payment is received.

Enquiries:
For further enquiries, please contact Jane @ 9824-4954.

Roses Decoration Workshop by PALATABLE

We all love roses because of its gorgeous beauty, colour and fragrance. Rose is perennial favourite.

Many cake decorators like to use roses to decorate their cakes especially for wedding cakes! It is loved by all ages alike. Now, you can learn to make roses using different types of sugar paste for your cake decoration. Transform a simple cake, into an impressive cake with your modelling roses! The best part is, no complicated tools are used!

Course Details:
Course fee: $65 per person
Date: 18 October 2009, Sunday
Duration: 3 hours, 1300-1600hrs
Venue: Trainer's residence @ Hougang Street 11
Class size: 4-5persons

Course Programme:
Fully hands-on learning the following:
1. Fondant Roses
2. Royal Icing Rose
3. Modelling Chocolate Roses
Includes demonstration of:
1. Daisy using Royal Icing
2. Fondant flowers using flower cutters

What you'll acquire:
1. Your knowledge of making edible model roses.
2. Your roses, including all the spares that you are left with from the fondant or modelling chocolate paste.
3. Pipping nozzle and piping nail that you used in the workshop.
4. Simple recipes.

Rose tea will be served during the workshop.

Registration and Payment:
Register with Jane @ aloyallyanders@gmail.com by 10 October 2009. Payment is made via internet transfers to POSB Savings account 017261398. Confirmation will be given once payment is received.

Enquiries:
For further enquiries, please contact Jane @ 9824-4954.