Apam Polka-Dot = Delicioso

On Thursday, 13th October, I decided to learn and try to make Apam Polka-Dot, it is one of the best desserts that we have in Malaysia. I decided to make this dessert because my mum always does it if we have a special dinner or if we want to give something to our neighbours and when my mum does it I always eat a lot of them since they look so small, cute and delicious. I just can't resist them. 

 

First, I find the recipe using the internet, which actually were not very much. Then I asked my mum how to mix them, and I kept asking questions to my mum all the time. It helps a lot. That's what we call learning. However, even I kept questioning my mum, it took me a long time to make this apam because it is complicated especially when I had to put it in the cups and make the dots. The other thing that was kind of hard for me as well was to divide the mixture into two and to make the division equal because we need to have two colours or more to make this apam. I only had two colours because if I had more, it would have been even more complicated for me. But maybe next time I would do it with more colours which is going to be more colourful. 

The CAS learning outcomes that I achieved by preparing this are :

• I increased my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth because I have never known that I could do this dessert since when I looked at my mum when she was doing it before, it looked very complicated. 
• I undertaken new challenges when I was doing the dots since you cannot press the syringe too hard or it won't be a dot.
• I planned and initiated activities since I searched for the recipe, went looking for the ingredients and made this dessert.
• I developed new skills as I was doing the dots because in the beginning of it my dots weren't accurate and they weren't even dots and I improved by doing it more and more.