Not so bad at all…

I don’t bake…but the other day, I thought I would give it a try.

If you remember, I got this from Annie-Q…

…a long long time ago but we never got round to eating it so when the expiry date approached, I quickly put it in the fridge. Somebody told me that it would be nice to use it to make bread pudding and we were planning to do that during the March school holidays but we never did. Then I saw this recipe that looked simple enough so I decided to give it a try.

The panettone turned out to be something like the Gardenia butterscotch bread…

…that is very popular among many, just a lot more fragrant and nicer.

I cut away the crust and cut the rest of it into bits as instructed in the recipe…

…and I placed them in a baking tin that I had lined with paper and greased using butter.

Then I melted 1½ pints of vanilla ice cream and whipped it together with 4 eggs, half a cup of sugar (the recipe says 1) and three-quarters cup of water…

…until there were no more lumps of ice cream and then I poured that into the tin…

The recipe also said that I should let it stand for 15 minutes, pressing to submerge the panettone bits in the whipped cream.

I did not want it to be too thick in case it would get burnt on top and would not be cooked inside so I made two…

…thinner pieces and put them into the oven once it was hot enough (250°C) to bake for half an hour.

True enough, it turned out a bit scorched on top…

…but thankfully, it did not taste burnt and inside, it  was cooked right through…

…so it was all right. It tasted great – very nice and fragrant but unfortunately, it was a little too sweet for my liking. Maybe the panettone was sweet in itself and I should have left out the sugar altogether.

Ah well!!! I guess I deserve a pat on the back – it was not great but it was not so bad, not bad at all. Hehehehehe!!!!

Incidentally, I just collected this from the POSLAJU office here yesterday. They delivered the parcel to my house on Monday but I was out for lunch. My cousin from Melbourne, Australia is currently in Johore/Singapore visiting her in-laws there and she went through all that trouble to bring some of the stuff over all the way from Down Under to send to me …

…plus some goodies from here as well, thank you so very much to her. Gosh!!! The jelly powder smells so so so nice that I was completely overwhelmed when I opened the parcel. Now that the school holidays are coming, no prize for guessing what Melissa and I will be making – our own jelly pisang…

*Archive photo*

…Yum! Yummmm!!!