Chocolate Souffle - Results!

So I made the souffle this morning and I think it came out really well - considering it was my first try. My boyfriend helped me make it - which was really fun and nice of him to do. We had difficulty separating the whites from the yolks, but he got the the hang of it - I however did not... several accidents :P

On the whole, it was pretty simple and easy. I used 70% cocoa instead of 60% so it came out darker and a tad bitter - but tasty! And it came out a little bit more like a cake rather than light and fluffy - a really nice cake though. I even got it a little moist - YUM!

So yeh, next time I am going to try making a cheese souffle (maybe add some bacon bits).

Chocolate Souffle

Tomorrow I am going to attempt baking a chocolate souffle. I spent a while looking for recipes, but I think I found one that will turn out light and fluffy - not heavy like pudding.

Here is the recipe I will be following and I will tell you how it goes.

Easy Chocolate Soufflé Recipe – Ingredients

Serves 4

• 100g (3.5 oz) good quality dark chocolate (I used Lindt Excellence 50% Cocoa solids)
• 50g (1.75 oz) Golden Caster Sugar
• 4 Egg Whites
• 2 Egg Yolks
• Butter
• Single Cream, optional

Easy Chocolate Soufflé Recipe – Method

1. Pre-heat your oven to 150 degrees c (300 degrees f), and rub the inside of 4 ramekins with butter.  Set to one side.
2. Place your chocolate in a heat proof bowl over a pot of heating water.  This will allow your chocolate to melt without burning; stir it to help the process along.
3. Whisk the egg whites in a bowl.  If you’re using an electric whisk (as I did) then start off slowly, speeding up once the eggs start to thicken.  Stop once the eggs form a glossy, thick mix which forms fairly stiff peaks (they do not wilt when you stop whisking).
4. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg yolks together with the sugar until combined.
5. By this time your chocolate should be melted; take it off the heat and drizzle slowly into your egg yolk mix, then stir in one spoon of your egg white.
6. Add your egg whites spoon by spoon into your chocolate mix.  Fold until combined but do not stir fast or over-stir – this will beat the air out of the mix.
7. Spoon into your ramekins and smooth the edges with your thumb (this helps them rise evenly).
8. Put the ramekins straight onto your shelf for 25 minutes.  Don’t open while they’re cooking or they’ll collapse.

That’s it.  I copied a Gordon Ramsey tip and cut a hole in the top with my spoon and poured in single cream to serve; I recommend you do the same.

Delicious!

BTW I got this recipe from here:

School results!

I had to do a 'viva voce' for my individual project for drama. I am doing a Director's Folio on Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros. I got 4.5/5 (90%) - which is awesome! Just a shame that it is only worth 5% of my total HSC - but I am still happy. It is certainly better than getting zero!

I got 16/20 for my English listening task on Belonging - OMG hate English class...

I am doing Mathematics 2 unit. We just recently had a test on Geometrical Applications of Calculus. I got 97% (lost one mark) - which is awesome! HUGE shame that it doesn't go towards my HSC (directly). But it's good to know that I am doing well. Just hope that I'll get marks like that in my exams :s

I'll think of something witty eventually - Do You Know God's Will?

I'm a follower on his blog, so I had a read and found this interesting. Have a look yourself:

http://cyborgcommando0.blogspot.com/2011/02/do-you-know-gods-will.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+IllThinkOfSomethingWittyEventually+(I'll+think+of+something+witty+eventually)

Another blog - Rhinoceros

Hi,

For my Individual Project, for Drama, I have chosen to do a Director's Folio on Eugen Ionesco's Rhinoceros.
During this journey I need to write down the process in my IP logbook. But, just for fun, I thought that I would also create a blog for it. So here's the link:

RHINOCEROS

Please have a look and whatever else.

Thanks,
Ness

A New World To See - a poem by Vanessa Kidson

A New World To See

Vanessa Kidson

Clouds so white, soft like cotton candy

The beach so warm, bright, and sandy

The meadow beyond, so lush with green

Such beauty as this; here only seen.

In the distance lay mountains, covered in blankets of mist

Beds of roses, so red – blush like they have been kissed

This day so lazy, but not quite mellow

The sky – sombre with grey, but the daisies; still vibrant yellow.

People of the city, come, there is a new world to see

Surely the life you’re living is not quite what you thought it would be

For if it were, your home would last more than a mere fifty years

And the end of a day’s work wouldn’t leave you in tears.

Surely your lust for lights will dim in time

As well as the thriving of your city’s sleepless crime

When will this world of endless days come to its end?

The angel will come, and your world’s arrogance will forever descend.

So people of the city, come, there is a new world to see

But it will only live up to your high standards if you so let it be.

This world of grace, a mystery to your mind

Leave it alone for this is the only of its kind.

This world – sleepless like yours –only makes a peep

The only pools to swim in are the rivers and lakes deep.

The only towers you will see are the great trees, mighty tall

And they will stand longer years after your skyscrapers fall.

Come people of the city! Come step into this life!

Leave behind the evils of your world, your ego and your strife.

Bring your love and care – tools for your new home

And use them well, to tend to your greening garden’s growth. 

Rob Pat - Another Fan Site

I made another blog on blogspot called I Love Rob Pat X Edward Cullen.
Now I'm not an obsessive crazy teen in love with him - although, I admit, when I first read the books I was - so I don't post stuff about every little thing he does or say. But I do like to look at his face - he is my type of eye-candy. So I post pictures, some articles about him, I'll put up links to really good fan sites, and so on.
So have a look. It's not much yet, it's only new. But I'll keep adding stuff.

 Here's the link:
http://www.iloverobpatxedwardcullen.blogspot.com/.


Thanks,
Ness