A touch of Claire- baking, cooking& life

What is you favorite chocolate glaze like? Rich, thick and melting in your mouth, or syrup like that is shiny and sticky? Of course you can say both- come on, it's chocolate! Chocolate is just among the most magical things to me whose texture changes so much in different temperature when combined with different other ingredients. You can totally make a flourless chocolate cake with just egg, cocoa powder and cream; or with only egg white and chocolate, you can create the most stunning chocolate mousse in the world! We buy really good ~70% chocolate at home for baking, of course and for directly putting into our mouths. We as small kids absolutely preferred sweet milk chocolate, but our palates gradually develop as enjoying more of the biter aromas as many people grow up. Getting back to the cake today, it was made for a really good friend's defense party (alas, one more friend graduated, sad face..). Hopefully the decorations on the cake remind somewhat of festival

I feel that I haven't been properly baking for such a long time! I spent some time with families when they came to visit us, tried to focus on my science a little bit more (failure!!!), and attempted to writie something science related ( ??? ). But most of the time, I guess I'm just so scared of the hot weather and crawled in the cough daydreaming lol.  Before I even realized, it is September already (which is also related to back-to-school season, ouchhhhhhh ...). I guess it just somehow reminds me to stop wandering in the lazy summer time and start do/bake something. Chance came that I was asked to make two cakes in one weekend. So here we go: The green tea charlotte is an adapted version of mine. I once made a similar one here . But here it just made total sense that I used 2 egg white to make the lining meringue biscuit and the egg yolks went to the mousse filing- no waste at all XD. I love the versatility of green tea; it basically go with anything, yet it ju