Girlies over!

2 Saturdays ago, i did my first hosting to the girlfriends at my place for a mini hi-tea session.

It was quite a last minute thingie and needless to say, the dessert menu was decided only days before the Saturday. However, having said that, red velvet cupcake was the sole purpose of getting the girlies over in the first place. They were my guinea piggies to my first attempt of red velvet cupcakes! Hee…

too red! :(

But i couldn’t just prepare the cuppies, could i? ^.^

So, as a gracious hostess, *ahem!* i prepared another first dessert… an experiment, again. Hahahahaa.. i’m just so mean!! Oops :P

I was curious to know if Alice Medrich’s chocolate fudge could set as chocolate truffle in chocolate cakes. Alas, it didn’t, not even when i froze it for hours. Admittedly, i panicked a little in the beginning. How in the world can i get the cake out of its mould if it couldn’t set at all?!?!

Then i did the unthinkable!

I scooped it out! ^.^

With an ice cream scoop!

And dumped it straight into clear glasses and decorated it with a slice of dried orange. Thank goodness the girlfriends didn’t think it was revolting. Heh.

But.

It was ultra ultra rich. Not meant for the faint-hearted for sure. It was so rich in chocolate that almost none of them could finish the whole cup, except me and 1 or 2 others. Not only it was so very rich, it contained too much alcohol too! 8 tbsp of Grand Marnier in total for the chocolate fudge! — psstt : but the helper, the alcohol lover, devoured it within seconds! –

I is too generous :p

Next time, i’ll cut it down to 6 ;)

Besides the sweet stuff, i managed to bake 1 of my favourite breads in the world using mixed herbs and sundried tomato instead of rosemary. The friends loved it, especially with the salted butter. Butter rocks!

Then we also had chicken wings and curry puffs, tapao-ed by the girlfriends.

And not forgetting, flowers for me!! *smile* :)

While it was a busy busy day for me (helper was still sick then but still can eat my chocolate-cake-in-the-cup), it was well worth the effort. Time spent with the gfs was priceless, especially when i hadn’t been seeing most of them for quite sometime already. Thank you girls for the lovely Saturday! :)

xoxo

p.s ; and yes, more makan sessions to comeeeeeeeeeee! me likey hosting! *wink*

p.p.s ; more on the food prepared here. the gf took more pics than me! i just plonked my arse down and ate away. oops.