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Avocado Bandung

This is a recipe sketch, implying that either we haven’t found the right proportion of ingredients, or that we’re too lazy to measure, or that it’s easy (and almost nothing can go wrong!). You’ve been warned! Now enjoy…
This dessert consists of sliced (or diced) avocado and bandung, a sweet, sometime sickeningly too sweet, pink drink that regaled the streets of Malaysia and Singapore. It is extremely simple to make, requiring almost no preparation time (okay, we took 5 minutes to prepare 4 glorious bowl, not too bad right?).
Avocado bandung

Avocado bandung, with the evaporated milk and rose syrup cordial at the background.

Instructions

To make this dessert, you simply need a few ripe avocados, rose syrup, evaporated milk, crushed ice, and some warm water. For each serving, you would want half to two thirds of an avocado, and about half a cup of bandung. To prepare the bandung, mixed rose syrup and warm water well in a large bowl. Then add some evaporated milk to obtain an opaque pink color mixture (this is the basic of bandung drink). Taste it and adjust the amount of rose syrup and milk in the mixture. It should taste fairly sweet (in fact, it should be too sweet, since the crushed ice will melt and mix with the bandung and dilute the flavor). If the rose flavor gets too strong but the mixture is not sweet enough, you can try adding a tablespoon or two of sugar, dissolved in a third cup of hot water.

Prepare the avocado by slicing it lengthwise around the core seed. Then scoop out the meat using a spoon and slice it lengthwise to thin slices with width of about 0.5 cm. To prepare a single serving of avocado bandung, place about half or two thirds of an avocado in a small serving bowl. Top it up with some crushed ice and then about half a cup of bandung. (If, at this point, you realized that you didn’t make the bandung sweet enough—we told you so :p —you can add a tablespoon or two of rose syrup and mix it well.)

Acknowledgment: This is an original sketch inspired by es teler, a sweet avocado drink found in the streets of Jakarta.

Black Forest

This is a recipe sketch, implying that either we haven’t found the right proportion of ingredients, or that we’re too lazy to measure, or that it’s easy (and almost nothing can go wrong!). You’ve been warned! Now enjoy…
Black forest

Black forest cake


We just made this black forest cake. Well, actually, we’re not sure whether it can pass as a black forest cake. Hopefully. We used chocolate rum cake as a base, a dense cake with rich chocolate flavour and intense rum and vanilla aroma (we’ll post a recipe for this soon). We also used a chocolate ganache glazing, roughly 1 to 1 scalding heavy cream to chopped milk/dark chocolate ratio. The filling was whipping cream and canned cherries, lined with the ganache. We glazed the side and top of the cake with the ganache, and topped it with whipped cream and cherries. Finally, we sprinkled it with shredded chocolate. Yummy!