How to Melt a Cooking Chocolate without overheating it

Well, the first time I actually melt a chocolate is when I tried to decorate a butter cake for father's day. I googled about melting chocolate before I did it and I was really wise to read before doing anything.

Here's some tips on melting chocolate:

1) Remember chocolate will become unworkable when they meet water so make sure all the utensils are completely dry including the spoon or spatula.

2) Don't use wooden spoon or plastic spoon, use metal spoon instead.

3) Do not use high temperature to heat the chocolate and NO direct contact of chocolate with heat, or the chocolate will overheat and forms lumps and become grainy.

4) If the chocolate is overheated, add some oil (eg olive oil).

5) The chocolate must be stirred continuously when melting.

These tips are very important to produce smooth and successful melted chocolate.

Some people are very confused in melting chocolate especially for people who are doing it for the first time. I find it not very difficult as some people think if you follow the instruction correctly. There are several methods to melt chocolate such as using microwave or a method they called double boiler.

Double boiler is simply a method which the chocolate is melted in a water bath except the pan containing the chocolate does not touch the water contained by the other pan/pot otherwise the heat transfer will be so direct and fast that will caused the chocolate to be overheated.

Steps to melt chocolate:

1) The cooking chocolate must be broken down into small chunks of even size.

2) Heat a saucepan until it is boiled. Then lower the fire of the stove.

3) While the steam is still produced by the water, put another smaller saucepan or a heat-proof bowl in the larger saucepan. Make sure the water does not reach the smaller saucepan.

4) Slowly stir the chocolate as they will start to melt. Keep stirring them for 2-3 minutes or until they almost melt and remove them from heat.

5) The residue heat will make sure the remaining chocolate melts or else the chocolate will be overheated.

6) Let the chocolate cool down a bit but not too much then they are ready to be used.

The melted chocolate can be used as topping for muffins, cakes or you can also dip fruits or marshmallows in the melted chocolate. :)

Melting chocolate could be so easy if only you do it patiently. :)

Thanks for reading this! Have a nice day!

The Making of Oreo Butter Cake

Hey guys and girls! How's your father's day? Hope every daddy in the world is having some fun. Us kids have took a lot of effort to make this day happening! Like me, I have done some little surprise for my daddy today. Basically I have made an Oreo butter cake for my dad, but wait a second, we all know that I can't bake. So what I did was, I went and bought a ready made butter cake without any topping from the bakery shop, then I went back home and decorate it as my own cake. Easy peasy. :)

My sister and I decided to make an Oreo chocolate butter cake. *wink* So today I am going to share how I did this cake easily without having to switch on your oven and do some baking.

First of all, what we do is we crunch some Oreo cookies. Crunch them until they are powder-like. Then they are ready to be used. Next is the difficult part. Melting the cooking chocolate and use them as topping with the Oreo sprinkle.

If you do not know how to melt chocolate without overheating them, please click on the link below:

http://fionashrekdotcom.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-melt-cooking-chocolate-without.html

After melting the chocolate they are ready to be used to cover the butter cake. If you are worry that the chocolate is not enough, you can always melt a second batch as backup. In case you do not need them, you can stored them in the fridge and reheat them when you need them. My sister used the leftover of the chocolate and dipped her strawberry in, it tasted something like the strawberry dip in the chocolate fountain.

To cover the butter cake with chocolate, we used a bread knife to create a smooth surface covering with chocolate. The top of the cake should be covered with thin layer while on the other hand, the side part should be covered with a slightly thicker layer of chocolate. After that we sprinkle the Oreo powder on the top and tada!

I know it's kinda messy and I shouldn't have posted this up, but I want people to know how to do a little surprise without having to BAKE a cake which is really a pain in the ass, I KNOW!! My dad was so surprise when we told him that we actually did this cake by ourselves cause at first we told him we bought this cake for him.

Hope you all like what you see and leave a comment to tell me what you think. Till then, xoxo :)

Mix & Match with [little yellow dress]

Hey everyone its been a long while since I blogged and I admit that I have been uninspired for a very long time. Well since this is first post after the big holiday from blogger, I have decided to do something very fun I would say and somehow hope it would be useful to some people. Yes, like the title has said, its about a fashion mix and match!

In this post I am going to show how I mix and match some clothing that had been stereotypically thought that can only wear once in certain occasion. However to me, every clothes or dress has the op

portunity to mingle around with different accessories, which means as you accessorize yourselves with different garments or accessories, you will find that the outcome could be different as well that it might surprise you. :)

The subject I am going to use today is the yellow colour short dress I wore to my graduation dinner. Well, the photo quality has been a little poor but let's just focus on how I combine different garments together. I have tried to mix the dress with a black colour vest, a long jacket, a short tutu skirt and also a pair of jeans. Now here's a photo of the dress itself (I know I don't look very good and also I curled my hair to fit the rockstar style that I tried to do) :

Original look

As you can see the quality of the photo is not very good. This is my yellow dress and there's a small belt a bit above my waist. I haven't prepare this look very well so apology from me. :)

Now let's see the second look that we can obtain from this dress. I put on a black colour vest and I was not wearing any shoes but any stilettos or gladiator heels will do. If you have a black colour boots, I think it will go well with this look too.

Second look

Okay, here's the second look I created with a vest and the yellow dress. I personally think it's kind of cool. :p

Now let's move on to the third look:

Third look

This is the third look and I combine a jacket and the dress together. I used to bought this jacket because it reminds me of the sexy girl on motorcycle. Teehee. :p Now when it goes together with this dress, it created a rather casual look to me and this look can always goes with boots or even ballet flats.

Next is the fourth look:

Fourth look

Well, this is most likely my favorite look of all, because I am such a big fan of tutu skirt, they are just too cute. Hehe. This is also an easy look to nail for a date night or to attend a party.

Here's the last look which I combine the dress with a pair of long jeans. This time the dress will act as a yellow top and to nail this look, I accessorize with a vest which I used earlier before. Together they make a really cool look especially for tall people. :)

Fifth look

I hope you guys enjoy this and feel free to try them out! :)