My cooking today

After a depressing but unsurprising news from my massage therapist, I decided to do my home-cooking hobby to ease tension in my body. I am hooked on recipes from this book from Amazon (shipped all the way from US!), I tried:

• A variation of Rochers today - with cashew, almond, and Cointreau.
• Honeycomb candy - honey, corn syrup, lots of sugar, gelatin, and baking soda
• +coated with chocolate
• Also did the dark-chocolate truffles (with some success).

Honeycomb-candy

Coated honey comb in the fridge

For ganache, I used chocolate from Cacao Barry - while I supplemented my chocolate coating with Callebaut. The Cacao Barry turned out to be oily as I managed to skim about half a cup of chocolate oil that bubbled up from my ganache. The box indicated 41.8% Fat.

Ps. I also cooked Carbonara for dinner with mom. :)

Ingredients:
Cacao Barry Venezuela 72% 1kg $23.50
Callebaut 250gr $7 for 70.4% / $6 for 56.5%
President 1L heavy (whipping) cream $8
Unsalted butter 1 stick $3.8
Caster sugar
Baking soda from Bake King 100gr $1.50
Light Corn Syrup 500ml $5.50
Gelatine powder $3.50
Cooking spray $9.50 (expires 2014)

I got most if not all my baking ingredient from Sun Lik Trading
33 Seah Street, Singapore 188389, just opposite the Raffles Hotel.