Chocolate Hazelnut Soufflés

-POST PROMOS NIGGAZ-

Oh hey thereeeee

So remember when I said I baked them soufflés and I would do a post? Yeah well this time, procrastination didn't get the better of me (applause please) and I managed to gather all the pictures and the recipe so here goes. 

(G o s h this is so exciting it's my very first tutorial post ha ha ha I'm so lame k)

Okay so, everyone loves a good molten cake right? Make that a chocolate molten cake and you'll be like wow how can this get any better? Oh but it can haha presenting...... Chocolate Hazelnut Soufflés!!!!!

Okay so Chocolate Hazelnut Soufflés is just a fancy term for Nutella Lava Cake right haha but whatevs. I was extremely hesitant about making it at first because everyone knows how damn difficult soufflés are like once you remove them from the oven, they deflate. However, I had a go at it and with this recipe, it was super easy and it tastes like absolute heaven!!!!

Ingredients will be as such! Notice how we're not using flour/butter hehe made me feel a little less guilty making it

Coat your ramekins with cocoa powder so that the soufflés can rise evenly/does not stick! 

Then, separate the egg whites and yolks and set the yolks aside. Next, we're gonna add a pinch of salt and your cream of tartar to the whites. This will actually stabilize the egg whites and aid in the formation of stiff peaks. Now whisk them up until the volume of the whites have tripled, and stiff peaks have developed!

After which, add the sugar and vanilla extract to your egg yolks and whisk until you get a creamy and a beautiful pale yellow color!

Okay now, you're going to warm and loosen up your Nutella. As Nutella is usually used as a spread, its texture is rather thick and it's not going to mix well with our egg yolks. Which is why we'll have to place it into a microwave for say, 10 seconds, on high heat to loosen it up! Now it'll have more of a liquid consistency as opposed to a thick uh.... peanut-buttery texture hahaha.

Add the Nutella into your egg yolks mixture and then........ proceed to clean out plate of leftover Nutella hehe YUM

Yummmm I friggin' love Nutella

Blend the Nutella and egg yolks together as such!

And now, slowly and carefully add in your egg whites! Using a spatula, fold in the egg whites and be careful with them and don't stir or whisk the mixture because you don't want to knock all the air out of the whites because you'll end up with a flat and rather dense soufflé....... So start by gently mixing in one forth to one third of the egg white mixture and slowly folding in the rest of the whites!

After that, just scoop the mixture CAREFULLY into your ramekins! Mine were rather small so I managed to make 4 instead of just 3!

Now stick those babies into a preheated oven at 190 deg C for about 15 minutes and watch them r i s e

After which, take them out and immediately dust them with icing sugar! Look at them aren't they absolutely gorg mmmm and for an even more decadent treat, you can add a scoop of vanilla ice-cream on top haha calorie-ladden for sure, but just add another half-hour of cardio to your workout and you're good to go ;)

Okay so, that was my very first recipe/tutorial/Idon'tevenknowwhattocallit thingy haha it's kinda weird and doesn't really fit my blog type......... but y'know, why not? Hope this helps anyone out there who have wanted to try their hand at baking these tricky desserts but were afraid to do so haha.
Now that promos are over and I got PW out of the way last year (hahaahahahahaha), I'm kinda hoping I'll be able to do more interesting things like go out on shoots, maybe fashion or street photography hehe. Andy and I already have a few places in mind ohhhmygod I'm so stoked. In the meantime, keep a lookout here I'll be updating this space rather regularly :) OH and if you could do me a favor and click on that ad there, I'll appreciate it A L O T hehe thanks lovelies!!!!

                                                                                     xx, Z

HIATUS TILL AFTER PROMOS I'LL BE BACK BIGGER AND BETTER haha have koads of ideas so stay tuned! Till then I'll be studying like crazy. See you guys in a month's time! x

/To really matter/

Hello there lovelies

As you can see, I changed hellyeahpinkacid's layout a little and I like it a lot more now. Gotta love the social media widgets eh! So with a new layout I'm going to start blogging more often as well I mean like why not right? It takes my mind off things and gives me something to do other than studying hahaha. I know I have promos coming up real soon and I realize I NEED to ace this bout of exams haha so I'll try balancing working on my grades, and working on this space :)

So...... I baked chocolate soufflés a couple days back, and I kinda did a step-by-step shoot whilst baking haha trust me it was no easy feat balancing a super heavy DSLR and a mixing machine, but I managed hehe and said post will be coming up real soon!

In the meantime, I'll be trudging gliding through school everyday and I'm really looking forward to post-promos days when I can go out and shoot haha I really do miss playing around with my camera :( Oh well till then

     
                                                                                    xx, Z

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Hold on

Such an awesome photo huh haha credits to Ahmad Syafiq!

This is for all my readers out there and the anonymous people who've been constantly sending me words of encouragement! Thanks thanks thanks a million times thank you. Honestly you guys make my day and knowing that someone has been through what I've been through? Feels nice haha. Anyway I get that my blogs pretty fricking depressing but I shall try to develop a paradigm shift and look at things positively from now on! Try's the word but oh well at least it's a good start yeah hehe.

I'm living for myself and myself only. I will no longer allow myself to be subject to emotional blackmail ever ever ever. Selfish, maybe but it's time I get my priorities straight.........

GEEZ I AM SO TIRED OF STUDYING like omfg I know everyone says this all the time but the idea of having another year and a half of stu-dying left before I stu-die some more, KILLS ME I am not even kidding okay I admit I do enjoy studying it's relaxing (no i'm not being sarcastic) and the sense of accomplishment you get when you compete something? Undescribable. B U T why do they have to screw it aaaaaalll up and measure your 'smartness' with stupid unnecessary redundant exams and redundant unnecessary stupid tests? Totally makes the entire process so unfavorable and completely unenjoyable. Sigh can I please study for the knowledge. Like reading for instance I love reading I am a book nerd YES and I love finding bits and pieces of new information that's what learning is to me :( I even love writing essays about themes of life which is basically what we do in Lit but the whole idea of following a structure just totally limits my flow and I can't even properly get what I want to say out. Geddit? Like we're being graded on our knowledge that's fine but once we acquire it you wanna grade us on how we put it across? Damn that's some shitty business right there.

Don't ask me what I want to do in the future. The very thought makes me want to leap up with excitement but also because of all the social barriers and the expectation to conform, makes me want to cower right back into my seat, picking gingerly through all the brochures and pamphlets and ultimately choosing the path that's the s a f e s t O M F G I swear to God that that will not be me

A R G H BACK TO STUDYING NOW THEN YAY RECURRENCE

I WILL SURVIVE THIS SHIT JUST W A T C H

Okay this is it I'm 10000% determined right now only lean protein vegetables fruit dairy no refined grains no sugar no carbs no nothing. I've been off clean eating for about a week now and I feels absolute shit like tired and even more whiny haha probably cause I feel so guilty hahahaha

I solemnly swear to myself if I eat anything wrong it's coming out I'm purging it out I really don't care if it's unhealthy or anything I just want to be t h i n