Selasa, 29 November 2011

Rainbow cookies


Ingredients

  • 8 ounces almond paste
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 4 eggs, separated
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 6 drops red food coloring
  • 6 drops green food coloring
  • 1/4 cup seedless red raspberry jam
  • 1/4 cup apricot jam
  • 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips, melted

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line three 9x13 inch baking pans with parchment paper.
  2. In a large bowl, break apart almond paste with a fork, and cream together with butter, sugar, and egg yolks. When mixture is fluffy and smooth, stir in flour to form a dough. In a small bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Fold egg whites into the dough. Divide dough into 3 equal portions. Mix one portion with red food coloring, and one with green food coloring. Spread each portion into one of the prepared baking pans.
  3. Bake 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven, until lightly browned. Carefully remove from pan and parchment paper, and cool completely on wire racks.
  4. Place green layer onto a piece of plastic wrap large enough to wrap all three layers. Spread green layer with raspberry jam, and top with uncolored layer. Spread with apricot jam, and top with pink layer. Transfer layers to a baking sheet, and enclose with plastic wrap. Place a heavy pan or cutting board on top of wrapped layers to compress. Chill in the refrigerator 8 hours, or overnight.
  5. Remove plastic wrap. Top with melted chocolate chips, and refrigerate 1 hour, or until chocolate is firm. Slice into small squares to serve.

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How to assemble a wedding cake

1. This wedding cake was created using a simple white cake filled with lime curd, a pineapple-rum filling, and coconut frosting.

2. With a long serrated knife, trim the "skin" off of the top and bottom of the cake layers. Trim the top of the cake to create a flat surface. (Wrap remaining cake rounds in plastic while you assemble one layer at a time.)
  • Start by looking down at the cake and your knife hand to make sure you're holding the knife blade level.
  • Crouch down to eye level with the cake, and turn the cake with one hand to score the outer edge and mark where you're going to make your cut.
  • (This is when cake turntables come in handy--but a cardboard cake round can be he look is very elegant and refined--think of a Dobos Torte (although those layers are actually baked individused as well.)
3. Slice ("torte") the cake into 3/8"-thick to 1/2"-thick layers. The thicker the layers, the more rustic the look. Cutting a cake round into multiple thin layers requires more skill, more filling, and more time, but tually).
  • Each cake round should yield 2-3 layers, depending upon how thickly you cut them, how full your pans were and how high the cake rose in the oven.
  • Special insulated baking strips are available that moderate a cake pan's temperature and help cakes bake evenly, without pronounced rounding in the center. Using these strips can help reduce the amount of cake you'll need to trim to get a flat surface.
 4. Before adding filling or frosting, brush each cake layer with simple syrup. Pay particular attention to the edges, as this is where the cake will begin to dry out.

5. You're using a soft filling, like mousse or whipped cream, pipe a ring of buttercream around the edge of the cake to contain the filling.

6. Carefully stack your next cake layer on the frosted or filled bottom layer. Crouch down at eye level to be sure you've stacked the layers evenly. Brush the layer with syrup, and spread with filling.

7. When you've added the top layer, brush it with syrup, and add a generous dollop of frosting. Don't worry about crumbs; you're going to spread this layer of frosting fairly thin and refrigerate the cake to create a "crumb coat" that will seal in the cake and fillings before you frost and decorate the cake. (This stage is also referred to as "masking the cake.")

8. Refrigerate the cake for at least an hour, until the frosting is firm to the touch. Note: butter- and cream cheese-based frostings will firm up more than frostings made with shortening. If you're using whipped cream as a frosting, you can apply a thin layer of jam to help contain the crumbs. There's no need for the extra crumb coat.
Frost the cake round to create a smooth, even coating.

9. Refrigerate the finished cake, and repeat with the remaining tiers. The filled, frosted cake layers can be refrigerated for up to two days before the wedding without losing quality--but it's best to use a separate refrigerator so that the cake won't absorb strong smells from other foods in the fridge.

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Selasa, 22 November 2011

26th SEA GAMES INDONESIA 2011


26th South East Asian Games a.k.a SEA Games was held in Palembang and DKI Jakarta, Indonesia from 11th November 2011 until 22nd November 2011.
Fyi, This is the largest south east asia's sport olympic. There were eleven country in south east asia who participated in this olympic, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Timor Leste, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Myanmar.
In this 26th SEA Games, there were 44 kind of games/sports. 21 games/sports were held at Palembang and the rest at DKI Jakarta. 

This is the final acumullation of all score/medals that every country had:

NegaraGoldGoldGold
1Indonesia181151142
2Thailand10798120
3Vietnam9690101
4Malaysia595079
5Singapore424573
6 Phillipines365677
7Myanmar162735
8Laos91236
9Kamboja41124
10Timor Leste116
11Brunei 047

As we can see, Our country, Indonesia has got a first place as a overall winner. 
Congratulations for Garuda! Super thank for all of our Athlete! They're very meritorious for us and for our country! 
We're all already know&believe, INDONESIA PASTI BISA! :D

See you at another SEA Games 2years from now in Myanmar ;)

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First post!

Hello! This is my first post!
Let me introduce myself first, I'm Bella a sixteen girl who study at 57 Vocational School and now I'm in senior year ;)
Nice to meet you,readers!

Now, i want to tell you why i make this blog. In third grade, my computer teacher teach us how to make a blogger account and how to manage a blog.. and here it is! A blog for my computer task.
Furthermore, i'll share some information here in another post.

Regards,
Bella
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