Recipe: Chocolate Cake With Strawberry Filling

Well, I finally did found the Chocolate Cake recipe that is simple and easy to bake. The truth is, the strawberry filling is only as a diversion....hihi to finish it up the strawberry jam on time before it is too late for consuming. Pssst, the chocolate ganache was very tempting rite?

THE CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPE

Ingredients

         200g Dark Chocolate
         200g Butter
         170g Plain Flour
         1/4 tsp Soda Bicarbonate
         1/2 tsp Baking Soda
         200g Brown Sugar
         200g Castor Sugar
         25g Coco Powder
         3 Medium Eggs
         75ml Evaporated Milk
        125ml Water

Methods

1. Butter two 8 inch tin and preheat oven at 160 Celsius.
2. Melt in together chocolate, butter and water by double boiling or in a sauce pan.
3. In a bowl, shift together flour, baking soda, soda bicarbonate and coco powder.
4. Beat the eggs in a electrical mixer until fluffy and stir in the evaporated milk.Mix in sugars and pour in the chocolate
5. Add the flour and mix until corporate. Pour the mixture evenly in the baking tin and bake for 1 hour or until the tooth pick came out clean.

CHOCOLATE GANACHE RECIPE

Ingredients

         250ml Eveporated Milk
         250g Dark Chocolate
         3 tbs Castor Sugar

         3 tbs Icing Sugar
         1 tbs Glucose Syrup
         1 tbs Butter

Methods

1. Melt the chocolate, sugar, glucose and butter.
2. After the chocolate mixture has melted, let it cool to the room temperature and put it it the freezer for 15 minutes.
3. Put in the icing sugar and beat the chocolate until fluffy.

HAPPY BAKING PEOPLE!

Penakut maybe one of the best way

Maybe I expected too much this year...too much and definitely I just can't handle it any longer. For this upcoming  2012 I have no expectation at all. Well it is good option for me so far and for my point of view no body will be hurt by living the life as it is...Everyday is an exiting and adventure as my father had told me one day. So, for 2012 no plans for me so far and nothing to reach. Living the life as it is and just wait for surprise and the magic.

Now I'm listening to Penakut and Gadis Semasa by Yuna Zarai.

Penakut - I should be that. Things had happen recently. I turn around and wonder if I hold on to my standpoint, maybe thing will be in another way around. I should have foreseen things and say NO from the beginning because I already know it was very unfair.

Ini tidak adil tidak adil baginya, 

Ini tidak adil tidak adil bagiku, 

Ini tidak adil, 

Untuk engkau bertanya jika ku mencintaimu juga, 

Tidak adil tidak adil baginya

But I was there willing to try my very best, willing to take my chances and abandoning the standpoint. Yes now I have to pay the cost for the things that I have done.

Tak semua kau rancang akan berlaku,

Mungkin nasib tak menyebelahi aku, 

Entah mengapa engkau yang aku cinta, 

Mungkin lebih baik kau ku lepas saja

While writing this post and at the same time listening to the song, I am smiling and thinking how funny I was. Willing to accept things although I do not like it. Willing to compromise, forgive and being tolerate as Zaidiana said. Try too hard to complement others makes people said you are being hypocrite in some ways. Thank you for the experience, time and effort.

If anyone ask, "Dear, are you happy for what you have?". My answer is, "Yes, I am happy and I need to be happy and I will try my best to be happy". Once more I wanted to held my head up high and it is only an unfortunate event that I have been passed through.

BE HAPPY, BE WHAT YOU WANT, BE YOURSELF!

TRY NOT TO BE WHAT OTHERS WANT YOU TO BE...YOU MAY HATE YOURSELF.

Congratulation Adlil!

It was a hectic day today if you asked me...I really had to think about 100 products to make next year and for me it was a good sign...and talked about adrenaline rush...Wooohaaaaa I LOVE IT! There is no more "ifonlyiwasbuzy"...hehe...In the evening, rushing home with the normal Friday's traffic jams so I can make it to Ad's wedding....Congratulations Adlil!!!!

         After the wedding, the three of us Pija, Zai and myself rushed to Wangsa Walk to see the late night movie...Yeay!!! Sherlock Holmes...Good movie and after that I have been knocked out to sleep....but the two of them crept downstairs eating durians....Wah~ haha

Picture with the Bride and Groom~

New Time Line

It is time to forgive and forget

Let's create new path and forget the past

Deeply sorry for all the mistakes

The things that have been said and done

My past will be my future references

Setting new goals and gripping the past goals

To be independent and having own palace where I'll call home

Wish to be here, Wish to be there

May everyone will be happy with this new time line

InsyaAllah

Solemnization Zura+Zam

To a dearest friend of mine I'm wishing Congratulations on your wedding! May Allah bless you guys and happily married ever after and will have lots of cute children in the future :)

Yet it was a risky  and bumpy journey towards the brides house...But finally we arrived there safely...Alhamdulillah and I only have a picture to prove that I was there. The most incredible thing is her mom do remember me. Wah, a very good memory there makcik! Well, a credit goes to the brides outfit. Lovely purple I have to say (it was my favorite colour too)...Well Congratulation again!

InsyaAllah

When I was in Form 2, an English teacher asked not to forget to do my homework. The I simply answered to him, " InsyaAllah teacher, I will finish it at home today." Then with a frowning face he asked, " Why do Malays always says InsyaAllah? It is just because most of the time when students answered with InsyaAllah, they really didn't meant it. It is a promise right, just like 'yes, I will do it'? I do sometimes feels that they just playing with the word". Then after that I was speechless and just smiled at him an said, " I'm afraid so sir that InsyaAllah should be a promise".

I really think deeply about it and after a while I didn't said InsyaAllah just as simple as everyone else. My answer is always 'I will do it' or 'I will try my best'. And to be frankly, I also did not believe much in promises with the one with InsyaAllah in the end on the line.

A few days earlier, while reciting the Quran, then I saw few verse saying about IsyaAllah and why we need to say it. Alhamdulillah, I finally found the answer that I have been searching for a long time.

Surah Al-Kahf, Verse: 23-24,

وَلَا تَقُولَنَّ لِشَيْءٍ إِنِّي فَاعِلٌ ذَٰلِكَ غَدًا 

• Verse 23 : And never say of anything, "Indeed, I will do that tomorrow,"

إِلَّا أَنْ يَشَاءَ اللَّهُ ۚ وَاذْكُرْ رَبَّكَ إِذَا نَسِيتَ وَقُلْ عَسَىٰ أَنْ يَهْدِيَنِ رَبِّي لِأَقْرَبَ مِنْ هَٰذَا رَشَدًا

• Verse 24 : Except [when adding], "InsyaAllah (If Allah wills)." And remember your Lord when you forget [it] and say, "Perhaps my Lord will guide me to what is nearer than this to right conduct."

According to riwayat, few Quraishy have asked Rasulullah about soul (roh), the story of Ashabul Kahf and Zulkarnain, then Rasulullah said, "Come to me tomorrow and I will tell you the story" and he didn't say InsyaAllah (If Allah wills). But until the upcoming morning, the wahyu about the matters was late and Rasulullah cannot answered them. Hence, came upon us ayat 23-24, as a lesson to Rasulullah; Allah reminds Rasulullah when he forgets to say InsyaAllah which has to be said immediately afterwards. 

Lesson learned, do not forget to say InsyaAllah or if Allah wills but never take it for granted because when you promise to do something, you have to do it or else people will disbelieve in you. Same goes if you promise to yourself. Maybe things that you promise only you and Allah knows, but what if you did not accomplish the promises? Well, that's the thing only you and Allah knows best. This is just a reminder for me and you in case forgotten...Well, I did forget for a while then......InsyaAllah not in the future.