Strawberries in Season

The strawberries are in season lately. It seems like I've been baking strawberry-related pastries lately. But it's alright, nobody is complaining anyway! Early Sunday morning, I woke up to make Strawberry Flan. Just feel like eating some pastries, so I decided on strawberries since I bought them yesterday and cannot be kept for long.

Initially, I had wanted to do Apple Crumble Flan, but I changed my mind after seeing the strawberries. In the afternoon, I had wanted to just bake my Cinnamon Rolls. However, my hubby suddenly told me it will be his mum's birthday this coming weekday, and asked if I was baking any cakes. I told him I had no time since I'm baking my breads. But I thought for a while, I should have time to manage both. So I decided to use the remaining strawberries for the cake. I quickly whipped up a vanilla sponge cake while the dough was proofing. Actually, I was quite fast. From 1pm, I started the bread dough, by 4.45pm, I had finished frosting the cake for my mother-in-law, and baked the cinnamon rolls.

Standing on my feet for almost four hours, I was really dead tired! But I'm happy that I managed to churn out a cake for my MIL. :) I hope she liked it!

Morning Produce: Two Strawberry Flans



Afternoon Produce: Strawberry Cake for my Mother-in-law


Cinnamon Rolls


Unfortunately my cinnamon rolls turned out to be quite dry on the surface.

Apple Crumble Flan

Wanted to do swiss rolls on Saturday, but changed my mind since I still have creme patissere. So, decided to do an Apple Crumble Flan.

Laying out the tart dough, prepared to be baked.

Baked the tart dough till browned.

Cooking the fuji apples with butter and ground cinnamons.

I mixed the creme patissere together with the cooked apples.

Then lay out the thinly sliced apples on top of the creme patissere apple mix.

Crumbles are put on top and brought to the oven to bake till browned.

This is the cross section of my Apple Crumble Flan. The browning does look appetising, isn't it??