Back to school

I always loved school, and even though I haven’t been in a proper classroom with the threat of an exam at the end of it for a while, I do still love a good classroom sessions whenever it’s possible to arrange. As a result, I was very excited to finally make it to a cooking class here in Singapore this Sunday.

            I was researching classes that would teach me to make dim sum, or noodles, or perhaps a classic Thai curry or an Indonesian rice dish, but somewhere along the way I got distracted by the croissant making class, and so it was that this Sunday morning I woke up nice and early to meet Jules to learn how to fold butter into pastry in just the right way!

            Having been on best behaviour for most of this month (with one or two slip-ups along the way) a croissant making class was never really the best idea, but it was a full four-hour sessions, and croissants are something that I have always wanted to try making from scratch, so I just had to go for it.

Jules and I met at the kitchen at 10am ready for our intro into ‘laminating’ dough. We folded and rolled out dough for the next few hours, finally shaping our lovely layers into moon shaped rolls that we glazed and set to one side for an hour to prove.

Very proud of ourselves

The kitchen was based in the heart of Little India, so having passed the hour eating veggie Indian food just around the corner we returned to bake our goodies and test out our first ever efforts at croissant baking. I have to say, I am pretty impressed with how they all turned out!    

The end result!

            The class took a little longer than we had planned, so once our goodies were out of the oven we bagged them up and then carefully carried the buttery smelling amazingness all the way home, to be demolished with a cup of fresh, strong coffee on the side.

            Thankfully we had arranged for our lazy Sunday night to be spent eating veggies with Liv, so we cancelled out some of our very bad behaviour with a dinner of vegetables, served with vegetables and some vegetables on the side.