Holiday Delight

Nescafe chocolate moist cuppies with chocolate ganache and butter cream. Chocolate cake recipe was posted earlier, click  here , it's a very nice and moist cake. You can bake in a 9" cake pan, slice into 2 and sandwich with ganache, cover the top and side with ganache, decorate as desire. Nescafe can be replace with any espresso or cappuccino coffee.

To make the rosette use the star shape nozzle, refer the youtube for the step of making rosette.

Biskut Semperit

A little over baked :(

Pipe out the dough using the cookie mold in a long strip on a grease tray.

The cookie dough is quite soft so use a spatula to cut the dough and push a little to the left and right.

This is the cookies mold that I use. One is standard size and the other is a mini size.

Ingredients

4 oz butter
1 egg
4 oz icing sugar - sift
2 oz fine sugar
9 oz self raising flour
4 oz corn flour
chocolate rice for topping

1. Sift the corn flour and self raising flour together.
2. Cream butter and icing sugar, fine sugar until light and creamy.
3. Add in the egg and beat until well blend.
4. Add in the flour and mix well.
5. Pipe out the dough on the grease pan and top with chocolate rice.
6. Bake at 160 deg c for 15 mins or until golden color.
7. Cool completely ad store in air tight container.

Dry Curry Chickpeas

Ingredients

300gm chickpeas
2 tbsp curry powder
1 cup curry leaves
5 dried chillies
1 onion - diced
1 tbsp mustard seed
salt to taste
A little oil

1. Wash and soak the chickpeas for 1 to 2 hours
2. Boil the chickpeas with water for 5 minutes then transfer to slow cooker
add 1 to 2 tsp of salt. Cook for 5 to 6 hours or until soft. Then drain off the water.
3. Season the chickpeas with curry powder.
3. Soak the dried chillies in hot water for 20 minutes, remove seed and cut
into smaller pieces.
4. Heat up the saucepan, add oil. Fry the onion, dried chillies until fragrant.
Then add the curry leaves, mustard seed and fry till fragrant. Add in the
chickpeas and stir fry for a few minutes, add salt to taste.
5. Serve hot or chill.

Recipe source from Quay Po Cooks with some changes.
Thanks to Quay Po for sharing this delicious snack.

There's a worm at the bottom of my garden

His name is wiggly woo, all that he can do is wiggle all day and wiggle all night

And his name is wiggly, wig-wig wiggly woo... LOL de-stress myself after a hard day work.

Black pepper Sausage Bread

Cinnamon bread
2 tsp brown sugar + 1 tsp cinnamon powder = mix well and add raisin ( optional )
1. Roll out the dough to rectangular shape, spread the cinnamon filling.
2. Roll up like swiss roll, cut into 3 parts. Put the cut side face up on the grease pan. Prove 30 mins, egg wash and bake 15 mins.

Basic Bread

Ingredients

400gm bread flour
60gm sugar
2 tsp instant yeast
2 tsp bread improver
200 mls milk
1 egg ( beaten ) reserve some for egg wash
60gm butter

1. Sieve the flour, add sugar, yeast,bread improver and mix well.
2. Add the egg, milk, knead into a dough and add butter.
3. Knead until the dough is smooth, cover and prove for 1 hour.
4. Punch out gas, rest 5 mins. Divide the dough into 14 portion, rest 5 mins.
5. Roll into round ball add filling or any desire shape .
6. Put in a grease pan,cover and prove 30 mins.
7. Brush with egg wash.
8. Bake at 190 deg c for 15 mins.
9. Remove from oven and cool on wire rack.

If using breadmaker

1. Add the ingredients to the bread pan in the order as suggested by the manufacturer of your breadmaker brand.
2. Press dough function, when ready remove from bread pan.
3. Divide the dough into 14 portion, rest 5 mins. Roll into round ball add filling or any desire shape, cover and prove 30 mins.
4. Brush with egg wash.
5. Bake at 190 deg c for 15 mins.
6. Remove from oven and cool on wire rack.

Pandan Bread

Before bake, I forgot to egg wash the bread.

Fresh from oven

Recipe source from Jodelibakery
Ingredients

500gm bread flour
100 mls milk
130 mls pandan juice(or replace with 1.5 tsp pandan paste with 130 mls water)
1 egg - beaten ( reserve some for egg wash )
80gm sugar
3 tsp instant yeast
30gm butter
Desiccated coconut or freshly grate coconut

Topping

25gm instant custard powder
90mls pandan juice( or replace with 90mls water mix with 1/2 tsp pandan paste)

1. Sieve the flour, add sugar, yeast, and mix well.
2. Add the egg, pandan juice and milk, knead into a dough and add butter.
3. Knead until the dough is smooth, cover and prove for 1 hour.
4. Punch out gas, rest 5 mins. Divide the dough into 14 portion, rest 5 mins.
5. Roll into round ball.
6. Put in a grease pan,cover and prove 30 mins.
7. Brush with egg wash, pipe the custard topping on top and sprinkle some coconut.
8. Bake at 190 deg c for 15 mins.
9. Remove from oven and cool on wire rack.

If using breadmaker

1. Add the ingredients to the bread pan in the order as suggested by the manufacturer of your breadmaker brand.
2. Press dough function, when ready remove from bread pan.
3. Divide the dough into 14 portion, rest 5 mins. Roll into round ball, cover and prove 30 mins.
4. Brush with egg wash, pipe custard topping on top and sprinkle some coconut.
5. Bake at 190 deg c for 15 mins.
6. Remove from oven and cool on wire rack.

Topping

1. Mix the topping until smooth and thicken.
2. Pipe on top the bread as desire.

Note: You can omit the pandan juice and replace with pandan paste

Braised Peanuts

Ingredients

500gm raw peanuts/ shandong peanuts
1 pc cinnamon stick
2 pcs cloves
2 pcs star anise
1 pc dry  orange peel or liquorice ( optional )
1 tbsp black sauce
2 tbsp soya sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
600 mls water
salt & sugar to taste
a dash of pepper
1 tsp chopper garlic

1. Wash and soak peanuts for 1 to 2 hours
2. Boil peanuts for 5 mins, discard the water and rinse the peanuts.
3. Boil the peanuts with water, cloves, star anise, cloves, orange peel
for 10 mins. Transfer to slow cooker and boil in slow cooker for 4 to 6 hours
until soft.
4. Heat a little oil in the pan, fry the garlic until light brown.
5. Add the peanuts and all the sauce. Add salt and sugar to taste. Add a dash of pepper. Stew the peanuts on medium heat for about 5 mins or until the sauce is quite dry.
6. Serve hot or chill as appetizer or eat with porridge.

Meet my new friend......

Let me introduce my new friend to all my readers,friends & family. Ta...da.....

The tortoise family.

Before steaming look so smooth.

Look at my retarded tortoise after steaming, my son said it look like baby dinosaur. LOL

Texture of the bun was good, very soft.

Sweet potato bun recipe source from Table for 2
Wendy, thanks for sharing this recipe.

Marble Banana Cake

Ingredients

250gm butter
240gm sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1 sachet 3 in 1 nescafe + 1 tbsp hot water (or any espresso coffee)
2 tsp cocoa powder
3 eggs
4 ripe banana - mash (then add 1 tbsp lemon juice)
240gm self raising flour - sift
1/4 cup milk

1. Preheat oven to 180 c and grease 8" cake pan,.
2. Mix coffee, cocoa powder with 1 tbsp hot water,
3 Cream butter & sugar until light & fluffy.keep aside to cool.
4. Add eggs one at time until well blended.
5 Add vanilla essence,stir in banana and fold in the flour
alternate with milk.
6. Divide the cake mixture to 1/3 and 2/3. Mix the 1/3 with coffee mixture
and mix well.
7. Scoop 4tbsp heap of white mixture into the pan, follow by 2 tbsp heap of
coffee mixture on top of the white mixture. Next 3 tbsp heap of white mixture, follow with 1 tbsp coffee mixture. The last quarter 2 tbsp of white mixture, follow by 1 tbsp cocoa, continue until finish.
8. Bake 180 c for 50 to 60 mins or until cook.
9. Cool cake on wire rack, slice and serve.

Chocolate Mahjong , anyone................

This mahjong chocolate mold are from China, my long awaited toy. Yes..... finally I manage to get it. Manage to get a friend to bring in for me when she import her goods from China.

I use white chocolate and strawberry chocolate to made the mahjong.
Had a hard time painting the design. I'm trying out various method to get perfection.

Look at my untidy work!!!! I had try out using wilton edible market, wilton colour, normal food colouring, melted chocolate with toothpick and fine brush.
I think I'll scrape out everything, melt the chocolate and redo again. Oh, some pieces are broken while I remove from the mold.

Let's play mahjong.

Weekend Delight

Pandan chiffon cake. Recipe from my previous post click here

Soya bean pudding aka tau huey . Recipe from from my previous post click here