My third attempt at tiramisu - Chocolate tiramisu

I found this recipe from a food blog. I thought it was interesting and tried it out. It turned out well. But, even though i love chocolate, i think i still like my tiramisu old school style.

The ingredients include:

200g dark chocolate (70%) - melt
3 medium eggs
250g mascarpone cheese
150g Italian sponge fingers (i used the whole 200g packet though and hence needed more coffee)
100 ml strong coffee
1 tbsp cocoa

-Beat yolks and add mascarpone. Mix through and add melted choc.
-Whip egg whites and add to the cheese mixture
-Dip sponge fingers into the coffee and turning it a couple of times and then arrange on dish
-Layer with the cheese mix. Add another layer of coffee-dunked sponge fingers and the rest of cheese mix.
-Dust with some sifted cocoa
-Refrigerate for 3-4 hours. Enjoy!

Folding in the beaten egg-whites

Arranging coffee-dunked sponge fingers

Second layer of sponge fingers

Final Product

You can change the chocolate to suit your liking. The tiramisu turned out really chocolatey and decadent. Only the Italian sponge fingers work for tiramisu, don't even bother buying other ones. Only a bit more of the tiramisu is left in the fridge.

On another note, i made banana cake for Fat's birthday today. But i screwed up the icing, it was too thick, i didn't put in enough lemon juice. And i've already eaten two slices of the cake. I feel like i've been eating too much, just shoving food up my trap. Laters.

My room and Choc chip cookies

Here's my bedMy study desk

I made some choc chip cookies the other day. And this is the recipe if anyone wants to have a go at it. The recipe is from a foodblog i visit and its a fool-proof Women's Weekly recipe.

Ingredients:
125 g butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup caster sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 3/4 cup self-raising flour
125 g choc chip
65 g nuts

Method:
-Preheat oven to 160* C
-Cream first three ingredients together.
-Add the egg and beat some more, mix in the flour
-Fold in choc chips and nuts until they all come together
-Make tsp sized balls, arrange on lined baking trays, leaving room for the cookies to spread out
-Bake for 10-12 mins. Enjoy!

Choc Chip Cookies

P.S: For the latest recipe, i actually used chopped up Cadbury diary choc, omitted the nuts and reduced a bit of the caster sugar to make it less sweet.

Netball tourney

The girls had the netball tournament just now. Competing against other Bruneian teams. Hana's team consisted of herself, xan, badi, bibi, aimi, yil, azim (captain), khairul, danni n asri. The team named themself 'Shinobi' and as you can obviously note its a mixed (boys & girls) tourney. Shinobi won second place.

I declined to join in supporting them as i knew i would be just sitting down, probably munching Nora's sandwiches and feeling like i did not belong. Heh. Whatever, right. So i stayed at home, slept, played Wii twice and games on my laptop and youtubing. I was thinking of making notes for this and last weeks' stuff. Yeah. That went out of the window. It is the weekend though and even if i feel like crap i know i shouldn't feel down.

It was a bit hard getting to sleep last night. I kept tossing and turning. And at one time, even woke and sat up to the merry sounds of 'Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gham'. And i, not intending for it to go on for the full and lengthy three hours that hindustani movies extend to called upon my housemate for help. Next week is a week of holiday. The laziness is setting in already. And i know evading any work will just accumulate it all. :(