新玩具 ～ 鲷鱼烧模具 Taiyaki Pan

新玩具是朋友出差时帮我带回来的。

几个月前这里的巨人霸市和几家百货公司办了个日本展，其中一个卖得火红的产品就是鲷鱼烧模具。当时我也走了几趟但偏偏没运气，每次去都扑个空。现在终于拥有了，当然要好好珍惜。

想看鲷鱼烧的成品吗？请留意下一篇我的第一次@鲷鱼烧和食谱分享。:)

【新玩具】格子松饼机及使用心得 New Toy ~ Waffle Maker

以前住家附近有一家Prima Deli，每次回家时经过都看到长长的人龙在排队买waffle，远远的就能闻到那香味，有时我也会被诱惑加入排队的人龙，后来搬走了就很少买waffle来吃了。直到最近工作附近用午餐的地方开了一家waffle专卖店，有十几二十种吃法，吃了他家的waffle我又对waffle重燃兴趣。

于是就寻寻觅觅想觅得一部便宜的waffle maker来玩玩。找了几家大型电器店和霸市，发现在本地waffle maker的选择真的不多，来来去去我只看到了两个型号（sandwich maker倒是有蛮多选择），但是这两款的外形和质感我都不喜欢，所以就一直没买成。（注：如果舍得花银两在ToTT可以买到专业的waffle maker，但是价钱高出许多）。

在无心插柳的情况下让我在Expo的电器展（我是去书展经过顺便进去看看的）瞄到了这架便宜的waffle maker, 才SGD16，有一年保家，外形是我喜欢的纯白色，而且质感还不错，二话不说就马上买了下来，虽然心里一直想找的是在网上看到的心形waffle maker。

使用了数次后，在这里和大家分享使用的小小心得和这架机的优缺点。

1）机器上有一个红灯一个绿灯，以前我总以为红灯亮时把面糊倒入，绿灯亮了就代表好了（连销售员都跟我这么说，真是不专业），其实不然。和烤箱一样这机器是要预热的，红灯亮时代表在预热，绿灯亮了代表已经预热好了，这时才可以倒入面糊，把盖子盖上。要烤多久就根据个人的喜好。在烤时会发现绿灯时亮时灭，灭了代表温度已经到达最高点，需要加热时绿灯又会亮起来。

2）像这种用电的waffle maker和用在瓦斯炉的waffle iron比起来坏处是不能整个拿去洗，但是有些比较高价的里头的格子板还是能拆除拿出来清洗的。我的做法是使用后用厨房纸巾抹一遍后用干净的湿布再抹一遍，然后再用厨房纸巾抹干，开着盖子风干后才收起来。

3）和用在瓦斯炉的waffle iron比起来的好处是不用注意火候，不用翻面，掌握了烘烤的时间后用一个计时器时间到直接把香喷喷的waffle取出就行了。

3）每次烤waffle前都要先抹油（可以用牛油或margarine，但不能用涂面包的那种spread因为含水量高），这个动作只需在烤第一片前做就行了。在预热以后才抹油。

4）新买回来的机器建议做好的第一片waffle报销不吃。

5）如果有烤焦的情况为了不影响下一片，要先清除格子板上烧焦的部分才烤下一片。

6）在烤时尽量避免频密打开盖子查看。以我这架机来说大约3分钟waffle就烤熟了，这时颜色还是浅黄色，waffle是软软的，如果喜欢吃外皮脆脆的要继续烤。烤到5分钟就差不多了，这时外皮有点褐色，我想要吃脆一点烤了6分钟，效果不错。因为担心继续烤会烤焦，所以我最多烤6分钟。

7）这架机最大的缺点是火候不平均，烤好的waffle的颜色中间较深。其实平均的火候/温度是选购waffle maker的重点，但是谁叫我贪便宜，买这个价钱这样的品质我是可以接受的。另外，就是格子比较小也不够深，所以做好的waffle也没那么美。所以，如果你很在意外形要买这架便宜的机器前要三思。

8）使用这架机器对我来说最大的挑战是怎么适量的加入面糊让面糊填满整个格子板而盖上盖子后又不溢出，我还在研究当中。其实这也只是外形的问题。面糊倒得太少waffle做好后就不是完整的正方形。面糊倒得太多就会溢出来（不要忘记面糊会膨胀），虽然说溢出来清洗也不难因为整架机内部是不沾的。

好了16块的waffle maker使用心得报告完毕，下一篇会分享第一次做的成品。有兴趣购买的朋友听说Sheng Siong有在卖，价格高一点，多少钱，哪里有货可以打电话去询问。

New Toy

Recently I joined in the crave of Happycall Pan, a double-sided pressure pan from Korea.

I got to know about this pan in July this year during my mom’s stay in hospital through Channel U TV shopping. Why? Because I went to hospital to accompany my mum everyday and before my mum had her afternoon nap we would switch on the TV and watch together and we watched the TV commercial of this pan almost everyday during her one week stay in hospital. I was quite tempted to get the pan that time but the price was over my budget.

About 2 weeks ago I happened to find out the pan is sold in Gmarket at almost half of the price only (*eye rolled*) and it was within my budget. Then I started to read up more about this pan. The more I research the more I am interested.

Initially I thought this pan is for grilling only as advertised but it is actually a pressure pan so it supposes to make cooking faster (i.e. I can cut down the cooking time if I want to prepare a quick dinner after work). What’s more, there is newer model which has better and more coating and deeper as well. It took me 2 days for the research and on the third day I tak boleh tahan (could not resist) so I ordered one online as an early Christmas gift for myself. To think over, I have changed a lot over the years. In the past, I would buy myself party dress or branded bag as Christmas gift but it seems like I am more excited over kitchen toy nowadays

For those who follow my blog you must have noticed my cooking blog post is getting lesser and lesser and my blog has become almost a 100% baking blog, so I hope this new toy will provoke my interest in cooking again.

Here presenting my new toy – Happycall Ocher deeper pan.

Here is a video demonstrating how the pan works.

Angel@第一个土司盒 My First Pullman Tin

2009年2月份用纯手工制作第一个面包，玩了两年多的面团才在今年4月底拥有第一个土司盒。

之前制作土司时都是用9”x5”的loaf pan，其实也没什么不好，就是土司偏宽和矮，还有就是不能制作正正方方的土司。日子久了，看到很多姐妹高高隆起的山形土司或是工整的正方形土司，心里开始痒痒了。

曾经去烘培店瞄过发现土司盒也不是很贵，差不多十多块，但当时没有心要买。拖着拖着后来看到几个姐妹家用这个有波纹的，还是完全不沾，让Angel也好想拥有一个。探了探行情450g的要接近三十大洋，因为不常做土司看到这个价钱有点却步，所以没买成。上了淘宝网一看，发现才卖大概三份之一店里的价钱，那就更下不了手了。

直到一个机缘和有心人的帮忙才把这个土司盒飘洋过海给我带回来。同时还帮我扛回来了另一个宝贝，有时间拍照了再分享。

话说这个土司盒真的非常好用，不用抹油也完全不沾（用之前其实有点怀疑因为我用不沾的loaf pan烤，即使涂了油还是有点沾的），烤好的土司外皮纹路漂亮极了。早知道这么好用，三十大洋也值得买。

下一篇会分享用这个土司盒烤的第一条土司，待续。

Cake Stencils & Two Lovely Awards

A reader, hociak, left a comment to ask how I "write" the wording on this simple birthday cake that I made for D.

I thought it is a good idea to take pictures to show hociak and also to share with you guys.

I guess many of you already know the answer.

You are right. I used cake stencil to create the wording and design.

I don't usually see cake stencils on sale, so when I saw it in NTUC Xtra, a local supermarket chain in Singapore, I grabbed both designs.

The other design I have is with wording "I Love You". I used it on this Father's Day cake.

These cake stencils were quite cheap; I remember I paid less than SGD2.00 each.

They are suitable for 8" round cake or bigger size cake.

How to use it? Simply place the cake stencil on the cake, dust with icing sugar (or cocoa powder, green tea powder..... whatever you can think of) and remove it carefully.

This thing is very good right? It turns a bare cake to a decent looking one (and meaningful one) in less than a minute time, especially useful for people like me who is lack of cake decoration skill.

If you are good in drawing, you can make your own cake stencil too. Just draw on a cardboard and cut out the design. I ever saw my secondary school classmate did that in our home econ class.

If you know of any places selling cake stencils please leave a comment to share ok?

Besides the exciting news of D returning home tomorrow after his long two weeks business trip, there is another reason to get excited.

I received two awards today! The awards are from Jess of Bakericious. Thank you, Jess.

I found out Jess's lovely blog when she started to leave comments in my blog. After which I became her reader too.

I would like to share these two awards with ALL of you. If I were to list down all there will be a very long list, so I try to limit to name only 10 blogs this time. They are either blogs that I have been following all these times or lovely blogs that I just discovered.

Anncoo
Blessed Homemaker
Hearty Bakes
Jane's Corner
Min's Blog
Nasi Lemak Lover
Small Small Baker
The Little Teochew

Tested and Tasted
我的厨房乐园

Please feel free to collect your awards from here when you are free ya! XOXO :)

New Toy ～ B.M 面包机

Bought from Carrefour - SGD66.90

这就是我的新玩具 - B.M。你可以叫它Bread Machine，不然叫它Bread Maker也行。

以SGD66.90的低价买的Carrefour自家品牌 – Bluesky面包机。这是我见过最便宜的面包机，所以在Carrefour闲逛时看到不加思索就买了下来。

不过，是不是便宜没好货呢？其实买这个面包机有点一波三折，在这里就不详述了。面包机正式的启用日期是五月三日，第一个出生的宝宝是什么呢？那就要看我下一个post了。

My Baking Cups 我的烘培杯子

这些是我拥有的烘培杯子。除了白色的是同事送的外，其他的都是在Phoot Huat买的。

Phoot Huat卖的烘培杯子都是大量出售的，所以价格也比较便宜。缺点是一款要用很久才用得完。搞到我一直跟自己说一定要用完了才可以买新的。

后面三种不需使用模型，面糊直接倒在里面就能拿去烘了，拿去蒸也行。

前面褐色的是用来垫muffin tray的，不能单独使用。

你可能会好奇，那个粉红色边的迷你杯子是做什么用的。我当然不会用它来烤蛋糕（我可没那个耐性）。那是我过年时买来为我的黄梨塔扮美美的，就像这样

黄梨塔穿上衣服后美吗？

Muffin Tray 松糕烤盘

Bought from Ikea last year - SGD12.00