I spent the day today with 3 old friends and 14 new acquantainces at Bayan Indah for my first ever baking class. This culinary retreat was fabulous, cosy and not a typical Malay home with its open space concept. We were welcomed by a jovial Rohani Jelani cum cikgu of the day and was served with a mug of coffee and orange sponge cake at the reception room.
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| Garden of herbs.. Nice right.. |
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| Very cozy place.. I love the open concept! |
The first thing that Rohani did was to go through a few important steps in the recipe, briefed us on the dos and the donts and after that demonstrated to us on how to separate egg white and yolk, how to beat the egg, why brown sugar and not regular white granulated one and within a few minutes, the cake batter was ready! Rohani made it looked soooo easy!
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| The guru showing us the how-to-do.. |
There were basically a selection of 4 cakes but each pair can only choose 2 to bake and bring home. The ingredients were pre-measured and was put nicely at everyone's station along with our very cute apron.
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| My partner in crime |
Me and my partner, Hanani baked strawberry layer cake and toffee banana cake. The baking part was pretty easy but the preparing the garnishing and decorating an otherwise plain sponge cake with lemon curd, toffee and etc was leceh and time consuming. I would definitely do it at home if I have an extra helping hand.
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| Before.. |
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Tadaaa..
might appear a bit sloppy but it sure taste DELISH! |
Rohani and few of her assistance were there all the time and entertained each and every questions and doubts we had and demonstrated to us whenever we appeared clueless. We started baking at 10am and finished everything at around 2pm! It was quite tiring actually especially with the hot whether and having to stand most of the time.
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| Bushra, my ex-uni/room mate for 7 years! |
Anyways, we still had fun learning new stuff while meeting up with old buddies amidst our busy schedule. Bushra and Azida, future radiologists working in UMMC while Tasha and Asra just came back from Australia for their post graduate study. We had a nice chat over lunch while enjoying the view of Bayan Indah before heading home at 3pm.
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| Camwhoring session is a must! |
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| Asra and Tasha preparing mango cheese cake.. |
I told Rohani to expect another email from us after Raya. We will definitely return for more of her cooking class!
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So long Bayan Indah
We sure will return to this sanctuary soon |
Have a nice weekend ladies (err.. and gents)
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