Super Short Break Austin Heights Day 3: Cake Baking and KTV

It was our last day in Austin Heights and it began with a lazy morning and packing up. We checked out and headed to bfast.

Right next to the bfast place was this 娃娃机 shop. It's lure was too strong and each attempt was only at RM1! We easily spent RM50 at the shop and all the kids caught something except for Lil Shauna.

The last coins were reserved for her but it still ended up foiled. Lil Shauna was mega upset and even teared. I got dagger eyes from Daddy Lim. I just died. Well, not that she really wanted a soft toy but the emotion of being the only one who failed was hard to bear. She even rejected the soft toy that Felicia wanted to gift her to comfort her. So nice of F. Fortunately, the incident was soon forgotten and emotions soothed over bfast. I cold sweat.

We were on perfect time for the reserved cake baking session at 11am. I wanted to bake chocolate cookies this time and asked Daddy Lim to stay and help with the boy. Lil Shauna partnered with her beloved F. The bakery was so much more crowded this time.

The session started with ingredients preparation. I am Princess!

I was busy taking pictures.

So Daddy Lim got to help with my chocolate chip cookies.

It was time to bake. All we had to do was to follow the step by step instructions in the ipads provided.

Zaky chose to bake chocolate eclairs this time and it was much more difficult and complicated than the molten lava cake that he baked the last time. I ended up having to follow him around as he melted butter over stove and used the mixer.

So what happened to my chocolate chip cookies? The chef was in the house and successfully managed from A to Z. The cookies were the easiest to bake and Daddy Lim was all done while we were still scampering around.

All baked and smelling really good.

The cookies didnt stay intact on the tray for too long. Once cooled, it was too hard to resist them. Yum yum. My SIL had to keep reminding us to keep some for photo taking. Lol. They were delicious. Daddy Lim did complain that he couldnt taste the chocolate chips bcos Zaky kept snacking on the chocolate chips before that. Lol.

Our eclairs were just starting to bake.

This was the part with a lot of waiting.

The eclairs were out for cooling after 18 mins as advised by the staff.

I had assumed that 2 pieces made up 1 eclair. I know, they looked a bit flat and white right? Haha.

It was after a few minutes of cooling that the lady boss noticed that something was wrong. Upon double checking the instructions, the baking time was supposed to be much longer but lower temperature at different intervals. The staff who gave us the wrong advice was defensive and told us that we should have read the instructions properly. He toned down when I was apologetic. Well, small case, small case, dont spoil my holiday.

It was after many more minutes of baking that the eclairs were finally done. The lady boss said that we were lucky bcos the puffs are delicate and often doesnt puff once the oven door is opened. Ours puffed enough for us to inject the chocolate custard even when they were taken out of the oven to cool. See the difference from the initial white flat pieces?

Each puff was sliced and injected with chocolate custard before coated with chocolate jam. The initial few complete pieces didnt see the daylight and were sent straight to the various tummies. Hohoho. They were yummy!

These were what was left of the popular items while waiting for the girls' cakes to be done. Even then, some of them still disappear but at a controlled speed.

The girls' ice cream cake and cake pop were finally almost done.

Bcos there was so much waiting, Daddy Lim even managed to send the car for washing. There was a washing place conveniently across the bakery. For RM20, several guys washed, cleaned and vacuumed the car.

We felt bad for the superb work that they had done for so little money and left them with a small tip.

The baking were finally done. We finally took the picture before continuing to snack now that the picture was done. Lol.

Being so near to the water park, the kids pleaded for round 2 drift cart. After which, the kids self-entertainment while waiting for Popo to tabao some delicious fries.

They looked like they were 打小人-ing right? They were actually whacking the ants with their slippers. Faint.

My brother got his car washed too. It was obviously too much for the sky to bear with 2 cleanly washed car so it had to pour. Lol.

The pouring rain made it hard for us to reach the 2nd destination - KTV. We were wet despite the umbrellas. It was seriously pouring. The 2 hours hiding in the KTV do us good escape from the rain.

We spent most of the time belting out popular songs. My brother had to do his customary chinese and cantonese oldies that he always do at every KTV session. Towards the end, Daddy Lim and the kids were doing Smashing Pumpkin and Linkin Park. It was my 1st time hearing people do rock songs in KTV. Haha.

The rain was done when we were done too.

The last stop of the day was the usual Korean BBQ joint that we always visit at Bukit Indah. The bulgogi was to die for. I know the weighing scale at home will be putting up a huge protest.

Dinner was great; the short break was fantastic. The trip home was smooth with little traffic at the immigration. We made it through both the immigration in under 30 mins! Woohoo!

Mummy Lim