Cookies: Freestyle

Just back from Cameron on pass weekend. Initial plan to make a delicious cake with using strawberry. Unfortunate  the cake taste not good...

Sadly dun know how to settle the cake. Finally decide make it into cookies. The answer is "Yes". It is much more better with bake the cake into cookies and add some chocolate chips.

On the next day, I tried again with topping some Almond flakes, Pumpkin seed and little sesame seed. This one yummy~~~ Thumb up!!

My note:
Dun bake strawberry :P

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Traditional cake: "Chai kue"

 Traditional cake: "Chai kue"

This is one of my favorite traditional cake ...for this moment or may be just last for 3 months. My neighbor share with me her recipe and the method to prepare this "kuih" (cake). I though it is easy because the procedure looks simple and my neighbour recipe include a method call "quite a bit" (agak-agak).

Initial look like a simple recipe, my neighbor make 100 pcs "kuih" within 2-3 hours by herself. My project total use 4 person to finish this job (only 50 pcs "kuih"). Hahaha...really not a easy job. My husband help me to prepare the dough, my mother in law help to make the judgment - "agak-agak". Overall, the taste much more better than previous homemade one. But still have more thing need to improve/revise such as range of wafer, flour ratio, cooking time and others.

I like this experience and it is a good family gathering activity.

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Cup cakes: Banana Cake

Banana Cup Cake

Ingredients:
180g butter/ margarine
180g casto sugar
2 eggs
4 ripe bananas (~1 cup)
1/8 tsp banana essence, optional
3 tbsp milk, mixed with 1 tbsp lemon juice

A (sifted)
240 plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1tsp baking soda

Decoration:
2 ripe bananas, sliced
1/2 lime

Method:
1.cream butter and castor sugar till light. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
2. mix in mashed bananas, banana essence, sour milk and A till well-combined.
3. Pour into a greased and lined 25cm x 15cm/10"x6" loaf tin or paper cups.
4. Sqeeze lime juice over banana slices, arrange banana slices on top of the cake as decoration.
5. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180oC for about 20-25 minutes till cooked and golden brown.
6. Remove cake from the oven and leave to cool before serving.

Note:
a. 8" cake mould, use 20cm/ 180oC, 40-45 miutes
b. use fully ripe bananas to give it the rich banana flavour.

My note:
I should sift the baking powder and baking soda before use it inorder to have an equivalent dough.

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Cake: Chocolate moist

Chocolate moist

Ingredients:
a. Sugar 70g
    Butter 150g
b. Egg 2 nos
c. Flour 120g
   Coco powder 40g
   Soda bicarbonate 6g
d. Fresh milk 200ml

e. dark choholate bar 250g
    whipping cream 140g
    butter 20g

Method:
1. cream ingredients A until light and fluffy.
2. add in ingredients B slowly, cream until smooth and light.
3. add in ingredients c and d alternately, mix until well-blendded.
4. pour it into greased and lined 7" mould.
5. baked 180oC for 35 minutes.
6. cook E until boil and leave aside to cool at room temperature.
7. topping the E on the cakes.


My note:
This is first time try to make chocolate moist. This recipe is easy and tasty. Yummy~~
I cut the cake into cube form before topping the ganache. But my cake outlook a bit not nice. Should I buy a better cake knife? My daughter taste one and she like it so much. I plan for Sunday breakfast but somehow my husband and daughter finished it as supper. Luckily I did keep some into refrigerator... hehehe...

I tried this recipe again after couple of days. This time I change the coco powder brand, and additional add in some raisin, apricot and almond flakes. At the same time, baking time change from 35 minutes to 30 minutes. Thumbs up!! It is really fun with modified the recipe :p.

Next plan:
Next round will try sandwich the cakes with ganache.

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Cup cakes: Blueberry-jam cup cakes

Blue-berry-jam cup cakes

Recipe by Hslingkitcen

Ingredients:
a. Butter 100g
    Castor sugar 60g
b. egg 2 nos
c. lemon grind 1/2 tsp
d. plain flour 100g
    baling powder 1 tsp
e. blueberry jam 50g + lemon juice 1 tsp

Method:
1. cream butter and sugar until creamy and fluffy.
2. add in egg one by one and mix until well-combine.
3. add in lemon grind.
4. add in ingredient d and well-mix.
5. pour batter on cup mould and add in ingredient e on top of the batter.
6. bake at 160oC for 20 minutes.

My note:
I tried this recipe, taste good. However, I think is a bit oily.

Next plain:
Try reduce the butter to 80g. :)

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