Sweet World of Joan

This Summer I got to enroll in a Basic Baking class at a vocational school, it ran for a whole month with 30-hour class per week. I got to bake cookies, brownies and bars, buko and egg pies, tarts, emapandas, butter macaroons, chiffon cakes, brazo de mercedes, a to-die-for dark angel cake, ensaymadas, sweet rolls, basic breads and even pandesal. We even had lessons on basic cake decorating, it was expensive but worth it :-) As far as I can remember I always love to cook and bake. During my teen years I was in charge of the kitchen every weekend where in I subject my family to my "experiments". Most of my experiments came from TV cooking shows and recipes cut out from magazines. There was even a time that I even baked a chocolate cake for a friend in college who lived in Antipolo, it was a 12-inch round cake with a chocolate whipped cream icing and nips for decoration. Our barkada traveled from my home in Cubao to their place for a lunchtime celebration and when I opened th...