Happy CNY 2011! I bet everyone around me is happily enjoying the long Chinese New Year holidays. Well, as for me, as I can't celebrate the festivities this year, the holiday period is just going be just like any other days for me. In fact, I find that as years go by, my excitement at the approaching CNY period seem to be dwindling. Perhaps as a kid, CNY means more - two and a half days break from school, memorising the various festive greetings together with my cousin, getting red packets, buying and dressing up in new clothes, gorging on festive goodies. In recent years, the only thing that remain constant is the getting red packets and gorging on festive goodies? It's like I don't really immerse myself as much into the festive mood anymore. I wonder if I'm the only one feeling this way...
Chocolate brioches
Anyway, here's some chocolate brioches pictures. After my previous attempt at
matcha brioches, I remade the recipe again within a week, but replacing the matcha powder with Valrhona cocoa powder. I shaped them into smaller rounds to make 12 brioches, and used a regular muffin pan to bake these (easier to wash up). Taste-wise, I prefer the matcha ones over these. But it's just me. :)
