The spoiler to this post is… it was a failed attempt =(
It was a long day at work. I was supposed to work overtime as there was just so many tasks at hand, my final assignment at TAS. However, I knew I had to rush home to prepare the pastry cream and later assemble the cake. I left office at 7 and headed straight to town to get the last ingredient – vanilla extract. I called my sis to ask if the bakery shop that sells baking ingredients and equipments would have the vanilla extract that I wanted. Bad luck. The shop was closed when I reached there at 7:40. Called her again and she suggested that I should head to Tesco. I rushed to the baking section and loitered there for almost 20 minutes. I could not find it =( Out of desperation, I got a bar of HERSHEY’S special dark baking bar.
Finally got home at 8:40, had dinner and began to prepare the vanilla pastry cream, err… chocolate pastry cream. Melted the chocolate bar, whisked together the egg yolks, sugar and cornstarch in a pan, then poured the melted chocolate into the pan and ta-daa! The pastry cream was completed in about 15 minutes. I then set it in a bowl of ice bath. It was time to make the crepes!
I took the crepes batter out of the refrigerator, placed the pan over medium heat and swabbed the surface with some oil. Next, I added about 4-5 tablespoons of batter into the pan and swirled to cover the surface. I went into the dry kitchen to get some dishes washed while waiting for my first crepe to cook. When I was done with the washing, I went back to attend to my crepe. My heart popped out immediately. Oh no, we ran out of cooking gas! Work had to stop. Ahhhh…
I had to request Pei Yee to get the 20 crepes done for me tomorrow morning. I wished I could prepare them myself but he will be arriving from Singapore tomorrow morning and I would not have time =( I should say that I won’t be able to keep him away from me tomorrow instead (haha). Ah, there goes my failed attempt. I kept the chocolate pastry cream and crepes batter back to the refrigerator.
Time to get some sleep!
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