Baking with Tessa

Tessa loves watching baking videos on YouTube. She is also curious about Junior Master Chef/Baker. We have wanted to sign her up for baking workshops, but never got down to doing it.

At the back of my mind, I keep reminding myself to fulfil her dream of trying her hands at baking. I was on medical leave even before the miscarriage, so I decided to venture across our Clementi place to Phoon Huat while they sell all kinds of baking supplies.

Inspired by my window shopping trip, I started searching and copying recipes online. Finally, we tried our hands at baking chocolate chip cookies last Saturday (29 June). It was quite a success I must say, despite the fact that we don't have a conventional oven. We baked using the amazing Philips airfryer!

The cookies turned out not pretty but yummy. Tessa was so proud that she was going around sharing the cookies with her cousins and  friends.

Today, we up the challenge by baking a birthday brownie cake for Lao Ma and Georgie gonggong.

I went to Phoon Huat to buy the necessary baking apparatus like measuring cup, spoons, baking tin, whisk etc.

We used ready brownie mix which made things really easy and straight forward. Tessa helped me measured 1/4 cup of water and 1/4 cup of oil; which she poured carefully into the cake mix. I then added an egg and we started to stir to blend in the mixture. Tessa was happy to stir and find the mixture turning into a brown sticky mix.

We wanted to test bake the brownie in two paper cups. They turned out to be two wonderful, yummy brownie cupcakes! Dylan ate up his portion and asked for more! Tessa was delighted at how delicious the brownie turned out to be.

We scooped the rest of the mixture into the baking tin and I put the tin in the airfryer for 35 minutes.

While the brownie is baking, I got Tessa to work on the cake decor. I cut out pieces of art card and had Tessa drawn and wrote on them. Tessa put in good efforts to decorate them. When she's done, I taped toothpicks to the cards so that we can place the little signages on the cake later.

The cake turned out pretty. We delivered to Lao Ma in the evening as everyone else is out for a dinner appointment. We wanted to give her a surprise and keep her company. We served the cake with strawberry ice-cream. Yumz!!!