Christmas Baking & Cooking Journel 2016

This year is a quieter year for baking but the baking still has to be on, partly because both older kids have been away and they are coming back for Christmas. As usual, I bake the following items ourselves, our Baking List :-

1. Fruit Cake
2. Prune Cake
3. Red Velvet Cake
4. Choc Moist Cake
5. Briwnies (cancelled)
6. Cookies
7. Candied Caramel Peanuts - sweet & salted
8. Mincemeat Pie (thinking)

For Cooking, I am getting an ordered Roasted Turkey for Christmas Eve, the rest of cooking will be :-

1. Spaghetti 
2. Chinese Lasagne
3. Marcaroni
4. Mashed Potatoes
5. Pizza
6. Ordered Pizza fr Aroma - 20 pcs
7. Ordered Satays
8. Roast Chickens on Cans

For our Celebration Menus, here are the list :-

21 Dec - Winter Solstice cum Christmas Gathering for Heng's Family

1. Spider Sausages
2. Marcaroni

Gifts for Carolers to take home :-

1. Mini Fruit Cake
2. Chinese Lasagne

Refreshment for Carolers :-

1. Spider Sausages
2. Iced Lemon Tea
3. Cookies
4. Fruit Cake
5. Candied Peanuts
6. Sweets

Journal of Baking

17 Dec 2016 Saturday for GB Christmas Party & Officers

1. Bake 1 Kg of Red Velvet Cakes 
2. Bake 4 Portions of Fruit Cakes - used Earl Grey Tea but did not soak the fruits, cakes a bit dry, pour Earl Grey tea all over the cakes to make them moist. 

19 Dec 2016 Monday (permed my hair in the afternoon)

1. Baking of 6 packs of Cookies - all types
2. Bake 4 Portions of Fruit Cakes for carolers (moist & buttery), pre-soaked fruits in morning, used Orange Juice, turns out well.

20 Dec 2016 Tuesday

1. Meeting till 8pm at DMH 

21 Dec 2016 Wednesday (Meeting in morning, can only bake in afternoon)

1. Spider Sausages 
2. Chinese Lasagne for carolers
3. Roasted 5 Kg of Peanuts - 3Kg candied, 2Kg salted
4. Make Pastries for Mincemeat Pies

22 Dec 2016 Thursday (to complete baking if possible)

1. Baked 5 Portions Prune Cake
2. Baked 4 Portions Fruit Cake
3. Roast 2 Chickens on the Cans
4. Baked 2 Portion Choc Moist Cake

Lunch at Tavern Imago with Elite Ladies

23 Dec 2016 Friday (Me-Day, Pedicure, Feet Maaaage)

1. Ordered Pizzas
2. Cooked Macaroni Cheese
3. Iced Lemon Tea

24 Dec 2016 Saturday 

1. Baked 4 Portions Choc Moist Cake (early morning 1-5pm)
2. Basked 4 Portions Red Velvet Cake (early morning 1-5 pm)
3. Check Guests List 50 pax
4. Collect 2 Turkeys
5. Collect 10 Pizzas

Menu

1. Roast Turkey (Bought)
2. Mashed Potatoes
3. Spaghetti & Mee
4. Spider Sausages
5. Maraconi Cheese
6. Purple Cabbage n Guava
7. Pizzas (Bought)
8. Roast Duck - Andrew
9. Pumpkin Soup - Lee Lee               
10. Salsa Sauce with Chips
11. Chicken Salad by Aisha
12. Appertizers by Susan

Guests List

1. Our family 7
2. Tai Family 13
3. Amelia 5
4. Susan 5
5. Aisha 3
6. BB 4
7. GB 7
8. Winson 5

Total 50

I am going to adopt the attitude that since I am baking to give away, I will give as many away as the people can come to me or to my mind. I do not want to keep cakes until the real parties and then noone eat the cakes and they went straight to freezer then dustbins after a few months. What a waste. This year plan is no wastage. I also hope to sell some off so that I could recover some of  my cost. (Sigh! The ingredients cost are getting higher by the year.)

For the record, I managed to give all away and some of them totally unexpected namelist too. I still have 3 in the fridge which were promised for someone but will see if we eat them first.