Let's Make a Cake! :D

On White Day, I actually wanted to bake a cake, and bought whipping cream for it. However, I realized how hard and complicated it is to bake a cake when I got back home; I just made some chocolates in the end, and they were very easy to make! To use the cream with the expiration date of April 5th, I baked a cake today! It's just a simple sponge cake with some cream on top, but it tasted really good!

Ingredients (for two sponge cakes):
- Baking powder 1/2 tsp
- Flour (for baking) 120g
- Sugar 110g
- 5 eggs
- Brandy 30g (I used rum oil)
- Vanilla oil 1/2 tsp (I used grape seed oil instead of this)
- Whipping cream (or whipped cream, which would be easier for you to use)
- Salt 1/4 tsp
- Milk 30g


Procedure:
1. Sift baking powder, salt, and flour


2. Mix egg yolk and 50g of sugar until it's white and thick. Then, put milk, brandy, vanilla oil in order; put #1 into this mixture.


3. Mix the albumen until it is white and makes bubbles. Then, put 60g of sugar little by little until the albumen is hard.


4. Mix #2 and #3.


5. Put the dough into a cake pan


6. Whip the cream.


7. Make a whole in the center of the baked sponge cake.


8. Put whipped cream on the sponge cakes and put them together.

Valentine's Day/ White Day Chocolate

In South Korea and Japan, girls give boys chocolates on Valentine's day, and boys give girls candies on a day called "White day" or March 14. So, to help the boys who are wondering what they should give their girlfriends on this day, I am uploading a post about how to make chocolates today! Girls, don't feel bad; you can use the recipe to make chocolates for your boyfriends too!

Needed materials and ingredients:
- Two bowls and two pots
- Two spatulas
- Deco pens
- Two pipping bags
- Couverture Chocolate (I bought dark chocolate and white chocolate)
- Sprinkles, nuts (you can use other ingredients to decorate the chocolates!)
- Chocolate mold or cupcake papers

How to make it!

1. Put a bowl in a pot with water, and put some chocolates when the water starts to boil. Then, mix them well with your spatulas.(Be careful not to have any water go inside the bowl with the chocolates!!)

While the chocolates are melting, you can cut some nuts into smaller pieces for decoration later on.

2. When the chocolates melt completely, take out the bowl from the water, and put it in a pot of cold water until cools down a little.

3. Put the melted chocolate in the pipping bags, then put it in the chocolate molds or cupcake papers.

4. Decorate them with deco pens, sprinkles, and nuts!

5. Cool them for about one hour, and you have your handmade chocolates!


Happy White day!