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daazninvazn131
 
Living In: Walnut, California, USA
Member Since: Feb. 2011
Cooking Level: Not Rated
Cooking Interests: Baking, Frying, Asian, Mexican, Italian, Dessert
Hobbies: Hiking/Camping, Walking, Reading Books, Music, Painting/Drawing, Charity Work
Recipe Box 3 recipes
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About this Cook
I love chocolate
My favorite things to cook
I enjoy baking cakes, not necessarily because I enjoy eating them, but mostly because I enjoy decorating them. Chocolate tempering is also really fun. I like decorating cakes and molding chocolates because there is a certain art to it, and with food, I can make textures that I can't with a pencil or a paintbrush (I enjoy art). I also have fun deep-frying stuff and converting it to oven baking time because everything tastes good deep-fried, but baking can reach almost the same effect and is a lot healthier.
My favorite family cooking traditions
My grandma makes Chinese food. I don't like her Chinese food because it usually has too much or too little salt. I prefer to just eat rice with tofu soup (it's Korean, but who cares? It's all East-Asian).
My cooking triumphs
My chocolate mousse. I love the stuff because, see, although I love chocolate, I get annoyed when the chocolate just won't melt in my mouth, and I have to chew it to get it to melt and taste the velvety taste of melted chocolate. It's also too dense. Which is why when the mousse intercepts, with the perfect chocolaty taste, yet a fluffy, light, creamy, AND velvety texture, well, you get what I mean. But I had to go to the gym forever after I got hooked on it -.-
My cooking tragedies
Ah... I tried putting cocoa powder into a regular cake (or it may have been sponge), and adding coffee too. It was horrible... Tough and chewy, not to mention dense and tasteless, yet overly sweet. Thank god the mousse was good, and it looked pretty.
Recipe Reviews 3 reviews
Chiffon Cake
pretty good but the thick and overwhelmingly sweet buttercream icing will overwhelm the light, subtly sweet flavor of chiffon. Instead, try using stabilized whipped cream without an overwhelming amount of whipped cream

4 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jun. 1, 2011
Chocolate Ganache
As a pour on ganache, I would say this is allright, still a little bit lumpy, but pretty smooth. But once you whip it, oh my, its heavenly. Its firm, and stiff, like buttercream, but a hundred times richer and more chocolatey than buttercream could ever get. Plus it has a light texture to it

5 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: May 19, 2011
Crepes
Oh my god!!! I have always wanted to try this at home because the crepes from the Japanese restaurant I always got them from was too money consuming. =] I like eating them by folding a big circle of crepe in half, then spreading nutella all over it, scoop chocolate icecream into it, along with strawberry, banana, and kiwi, then rolling it into a cone. Delicious

3 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Mar. 27, 2011
 
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