Rouge Blanc

Evangeline came over to bake together and we made this dessert which she has been eyeing on since god knows when..
http://www.cakechef.info/special/chef_yokoyama_2/rouge_blanc/index.html
The recipe is in Japanese and the issue here is that there may be ingredients which we don’t have…
   
Here’s the first part of the recipe, making the mousse fromage:
ムース・フロマージュ
クリームチーズ・・・１２５g
フロマージュ・ブラン・・・２５０g
生クリーム４０%・・・３７５ml
卵白・・・８０g
砂糖・・・１１０g
水・・・適量
ゼラチン・・・３g
Mousse Fromage
Cream cheese 125g (room temp.)
Fromage Blanc 250g (we used marscapone)
Fresh cream 40% fat 375ml
Egg whites 80g
Sugar 110g
Water (Enough to cover up the sugar)
Gelatin 3g
Directions:
1. Make an italian meringue. Put the sugar in a pot, and add enough water to cover the sugar.
2. Boil the mixture to １２０℃ (you need some time for this)
3. Meanwhile whip the egg whites till soft peaks form and add the hot sugar syrup while continuing to whip the egg whites till stiff peaks form and set aside
4. Cream the cream cheese till soft and creamy, add the fromage blanc and mix till incorporated
5. Whip the cream till soft peaks form. Meanwhile, dissolve the gelatin in a small amount of water and put the mixture over a double boiler to help the gelatin dissolve. (I sprinkled the gelatin into a small cup of water and placed the cup in a hot bowl of water)
6. Add the soften gelatine mixture into a portion of the cream cheese and fromage blanc mixture.
7. Mix the rest of the cheese and fromage mixture into the gelatine cream cheese mixture.
8. Fold the whipped cream into the cheese mixture in three different batches.
9. Fold the italian meringue into the cream cheese and whipped cream mixture in three different batches.


Making the biscuit sponge is the next part.
ビスキュイ・ア・ラ・キュイエール
卵黄・・・３個
砂糖・・・９４g
卵白・・・３個
小麦粉・・・９４g
Biscuit a la Cuillere (You can use other cake sponge recipes if you like)
Ingredients
Egg yolks x3
Sugar x94g
Egg whites x3
Flour x94g
Directions
1. Whip the egg yolks with 30g of sugar till the eggs yolks turn pale.
2. Whip the egg whites with another 30g of sugar  till foamy. When egg whites are foamy, add the remaining sugar in three parts while the egg whites are beating into stiff peak stage.
3. Add the 1/3 of egg white meringue mixture into the egg yolk mixture  and stir with a whisk till incorporated.
4. Add the flour into this mixture and fold till incorporated.
5. Fold in the remaining meringue till you get a light creamy mixture.
6. Line a Jelly pan with baking paper and brush with butter if the paper is not non-stick
7. pipe the sponge batter onto the tray in strips
8. Bake in the oven at 180degree celsius for 15-20 mins
 
ポンシュ
シロップボーメ１７度・・・１００ml
フランボワーズピューレー・・・１００ml
フランボワーズリキュール・・・２５ml
Punche recipe
Syrup 100ml
Framboise puree (Rasberry puree) 100ml
Framboise liquor (I used lychee bols) 25ml
1. Mix all ingredients
 
Composition
1. Cut the biscuit sponge into the shape of the mousse cups.
2. Place the sponge in
3. Using a table spoon, drizzle the punche into the cup with the sponge
4. Cut a strawberry into quarters and lined it by the sides of the cup such that you can see the side of the strawberry from the side.
5. Pipe the mousse fromage into the cup to slightly less than 1/2 full
6. Soak another biscuit sponge in the punche syrup and place it in the cup with the moussed topped using two toothpicks or chopsticks
7. Repeat step 4 with another strawberry quartered.
8. Repeat step 5 with the mousse fromage till the cup is full. Scrap the top of the cup so that the dessert has a flat surface.
8. Top the dessert with a strawberry, half a rasberry and a blueberry. Add a small mint leaf to add contrast to the colour of the dessert
9. Decorate with sparkle powder if desired.

The directions are available in the link with step by step pictures.. The dessert tastes as good as it looks! :) Best part? Its really pretty and it feels good looking at it.. Evangeline and I simply loved it.. :D

This is the most beautiful thing I made.. :)
 

The Last Chance

After a long night of crying the night before, a shock came to me on Saturday night.. I remembered baking horrible tasting shortbread.. Well, not horrible, but it lacked something some how... Maybe too hard? Suddenly, a call came.. to my phone.. it was him.. I was happy yet lost.. He was really concerned about how I was getting along.. Well, I was doing baking for therapy.. and as usual, baking in a sucky mood indeed produces crap... And he asked me if I wanted to catch movie.. ** Yes!!!! Why would I wanna give up a chance to go out with you? It was like a chance for me to save the relationship.. A light at the end of the tunnel which I thought let to a dead end..** But... Saturday night movie=expensive? But he was really sweet.. He told me not to worry about the price.. But yet still, I knew I wun wan a treat.. I had to say yes, cuz I can't pass the chance to go out with him.. On top of that, he was coming to pick me up!!!!!!!!!! How lucky can I be?

MOvies that night had bad timing, bad prices, nothing interesting.. So we landed up walking around the night streets of orchard road.. And decided to look for live bands... And we found ourselves at Indochine Wisma.. That was a really great place to chill.. Great band.. all kinds of liqour, beer and what nots at a single price of $15.. Seating in lazy sofas...

We had a nice talk.. I found out he wasn't having as easy time as I thought.. I thought I was the only one wetting my pillows being stupid.. But the guilt and confusion was driving him crazy.. He was really troubled.. I couldn't do much.. I was the cause of all these trouble.. But all I can do now is not bear grudges and be there for him in whatever way I can.. Bearing grudges only will turn me into a bitter person and probably back to the hot and short tempered Claire I used to be..

The details of how we met up the following Sunday was kind of a blur to me.. But I do remember going to Holland V to try out the cold rock... Over priced and almost similar to Ben and Jerry's, the cold rock's only interesting point was to look at the way they mix their ice cream.. A kid's size ice cream is $4.60 and additional toppings come at $1 each...

Another night of long chat and sharing.. Things were not ready to fall in place.. But its ok... For an impatient Claire who is always screaming at people, this is one of the best opportunity to train my patience.. But doing the right thing doesn't mean making everyone happy.. He's trapped becasue of his conscience and pressure from family.. All he wants is to be alone.. Some Alone time.. no girls, no pressure.. It's not difficult.. But it may need alot of tolerance from me..

I can't admit I'm sad, but I guess getting to meet him twice on consecutive days did make me feel better I guess. So I baked something nice!! My Coconut Chiffon cake that went Poof within a day! Now that's fast!! Recipe shall be up soon... Pardon my laziness...

After all the packing being almost down it was time to laze around.. But something nice came! Another phone call! He asked me out for dinner!! Except its at Raffles Place.. So I took the 167 which took one hour to get me to town.. It was enjoyable though.. Cuz I could watch yakitate Japan on my phone.. Town+ meeting him, I had to look pretty! I remembered the night before he had a basketball match with Junwei and friends.. But he gave it up for me.. So we met up at City Hall MRT.. And woohoo cuz I wasn't late.. Damien came along, so the three of us had dinner at HAn's Raffles place.. The set menus there are worth it though.. Main+soup+garlic tost+dessert+drink.. Dessert was a slice of watermelon though..

But around 6, he had to go for basketball cuz they din have enough players.. So my date ended with a one hour dinner.. Damien had to go Tanglin.. except he didn't noe how to go plus his ERP cashcard was low on cash, which means summon under the ERP gate.. So I followed his car to Tanglin to pick his friend.. Ho-Lan abit cuz my directions gt a little lost since I was away for so long.. Damien dropped me off at holland V after that and I tried finding my way home using my bus guide.. There was one bus to switch,but I switched twice cuz I landed myself at pandan valley thanks to taking bus in the wrong direction.. Haha...