Cooking things with an oven

Yesterday, Aunt Wong and I made some desserts to treat ourselves. Apparently both the desserts required the use of ovens which is not my thing. I can cook on stoves and barbe grills with ease but not with oven. In fact, I've only used an oven once or twice under my mum's supervision. For me, I prefer the stove cause things get cooked really fast and I'm not restricted by a oven door blocking my way.

Anyway, the desserts we made were pavlova and bread and butter pudding. It was my first time making them so 80% of it was cooked my Aunt Wong. I just watched and learn from Aunt Wong, oh I also cracked some eggs(20% of the total work! I can safely say 'Aunt Wong and I made the desserts' =D).

These desserts are really simple to do!

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Pavlova
6 eggs (egg whites)
15 oz of caster sugar
3-5 tablespoon of corn flour
2-3 teaspoon of vanilla essence
2 teaspoon of vinegar
1 pinch of bicarbonate soda

Steps:

1. Crack and separate the egg white and yolk into 2 different bowls.
2. Preheat the oven to 120-130 Celsius
   
3. Whip up the egg white with a machine mixer at MAX speed (make sure no traces of oil in the mix).
4. Slowly add the caster sugar into the thick fluffy mix, 1 tablespoon at a time.
5. After that, just add the remaining ingredients into the mix.
6. When the mixture is thick, smooth and glossy stop the machine.
7. Pour the mix on a baking sheet(sprinkle the sheet with some corn starch to prevent it from sticking!)
8. Level the mix to about an inch thick.
9. Pop the thing in the oven. If you like it to be fluffy on the inside cook it for about 45 minutes. The other alternative would be cooking for 2 hours to make a cookie texture.
10. Prepare some whip cream and some fruits and pour them on top of the pavlova

Pictorial!
Preperation

Egg whites

The mixture

Before popping it into the oven

Bread and butter pudding
6 eggs (egg yolk[from the previous recipe] or eggs)
8-10 slices of bread
150 ml of thickened cream
300-400 ml of fresh milk
1 tablespoon of caster sugar
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence
butter
raisins (any type of non citrus fruit)
a few pinches of cinnamon powder and nutmeg powder

Steps:

1. Pour the egg yolk, thickened cream, milk, caster sugar and vanilla essence into a bowl and blend everything until the mixture becomes smooth.
2. Preheat the oven to 150 Celsius
3. Take the bread and spread both sides with butter.
4. Line the bottom of a large ceramic pot with the bread. Add some raisins on top. Make approximately 3 layers of bread with some raisins or fruits between them.
5. Pour the mixture into the ceramic bowl and use a fork to gently press the bread slices (to make sure the all layers soak up the mixture goodness).
6. Pop the thing into the oven and take it out when the top is all brown and crusty.
7. Serve it with some vanilla ice cream

Pictorial!
1st layer of bread and raisins

The mixture poured onto the layers of bread

Baking the Pavlova with the pudding

The final product! :)

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Hope you guys will make some and enjoy!

Bobo the DOG wanting some treats.

Oh yeah, I'll be going back to K.K. around 21st of June! =DDD I'll be in K.K. for around 18 days though, but I'll try my best to meet up with you guys IF some of you are still around.

P/S: I still dislike Bobo. Boo on you Beagle!