Butter scones

Hello ppl! I'm back with a good recipe to make scones :) actually I tried to make it 3 times already and this is the most successful attempt. The previous experience included uneven temperature oven which burned the bottom of the scones and shivery hands that pour way too much milk into the mixture which I tried to fix the problem by adding flour. Well, as expected, the final products look more like a Chinese shao bao than scones @.@

The first batch of scones look like this lol.

And this, my friend, is the successful batch :) it does look like scone right? (Please say yes lol.)

Anyway I adapted a recipe which I found online and I made the self raising flour myself by mixing normal flour and baking powder. As I was using the salted butter, I omitted all the salts required for the recipe. The substitution of self raising flour with normal flour is: 1 cup of self raising flour 130g is equal to 1 cup of normal flour plus 1 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder plus 1/4 teaspoon of salt.

Recipe is as below:

1 cup 130g of self raising flour

30g salted butter

25g caster sugar

Around 65-75mL milk

Little bit of egg liquid

Very easy busy. Rub in the butter into the flour and make it looks like crumbles. Basically u can cut the butter into very small pieces first or for me I just scope in enough butter and cut them in the flour using the wooden spatula. The crucial point here is that u have to keep the butter cold so that it won't melt. Then, just stir in the sugar.

To make the dough, I added the milk very gradually thanks to the precious experience. U just have to add the minimum amount of milk to combine the crumbles to become a dough.

Lastly, cut the dough using the cutter or like me I just used my hand to separate the dough to make the size I want. However make sure u have enough height for each scones around 2.5cm so that the final product is thick enough. Glaze the scones with the egg and start baking it! The oven is set to 220 degree Celsius to bake the scones around 15 minutes. 

I tried to taste the scones when they first come out from the oven and they are soft inside. I thought I did it wrong again. But after they cool down, their texture changed so I know I make it right this time :)

Panna cotta

I dunno if I'm doing it in the traditional way. Basically I just want to satisfy my milk pudding crave therefore I made this. It wasn't easy as I was trying to figure out my own recipe so I have a few failed attempts. 

Anyway the successful recipe is as below:

About 100mL full cream fresh milk

1 teaspoon condensed milk

1 teaspoon agar agar powder

So what I did is I mix everything and heat them with medium fire so that the powder will melt. Then just wait for it to settle in the fridge. I didn't mix the powder with water to make normal agar agar mixture as I scare it will become too like normal pudding instead of creamy milk pudding. I used agar agar powder to substitute gelatin but I guess they are more or less the same lol.

And the experience I gained from my fail attempts:

1. Have to melt the agar agar powder if not it will not settle the pudding and will taste powdery

2. Never cook the egg with the milk as it will turn into scramble egg

3. Add egg only if you are going to cook the pudding in oven

Ya I made some scramble eggs @.@ so please don't repeat my experience and make some successful pudding :)

New nail colours!

Yes I'm being very very lazy recently. Can't be arsed to renew my blog everyday so I only blog when I have something new to talk about. My life is so damn boring nowadays and I don't want to blog about craps everyday haha. 

Anyway I bought new nail polish from SASA! They have such an amazing deals that I get nail polish at RM3.10 per bottle. The original price for the nail polish is RM3.90 and they have further 20% off! I wasn't aware of the discount when I dig around to choose for colours I like so I got like such a pleasant surprise when I pay at the counter lol. Ya so easily satisfied haha. 

Anyway I chose some light colours this time, including pastel purple and light blue. The solution seems to be quite watery for the purple one so I applied like 3 layers to make it look solid. However the blue colour has no such problem and I can easily get the solid colour by applying one layer. Anyway, both colours are nice but I prefer the purple one more. Looks kinda cool and make my fingers look soft and pinkish haha. They are quite long lasting as they still look good after a week. So I'm very happy with the purchase haha.

This is how the colours look like. 

I really love buying nail polish from Sasa. They have a lot of interesting and fashionable colour which makes me feel excited :) however u'll need to dig around to get a good bottle. Trust ur instinct when choosing the colour. Go bold!