MINI BURGER & FRENCH FRIES AND THANK YOU TO .........

First of all I would like to thank my new blogger friend a lovely & beautiful Malay lady who is a Malaysian Novelist cum Awarded Master Chef
Shahriah Abdullah a BIG THANK YOU TO YOU, MY DEAR.
It's really a big surprise to me, so gracious and kind of your complementing me in your humble blog. I love your posting, you put me in cloud nine, guess I might not be able to sleep tonight. LOL

Our lovely Shahriah is publishing her first cookbook, it'll be available in the bookstore very soon. She can bake and cook very well, her recipes are simple yet so mouth watering and tempting.

Above two pictures are her published Malay novels.

Cik Shahriah, this bouquet of beautiful roses for you, my compliments to you for being so kind and gracious of you to mention about my MAGIC BURGER in you posting. I'm very glad to meet you. For you my dear,

If friends were flowers,
I would not pick you!
I'll let you grow in the garden and activate you,
with love and care so that I can keep you
as a friend forever.

A big big cyber hugs from me.

Presenting my Mini Burger & French Fries... taa..da....

I skip the sesame seed on top the burger because my son does not like it.

Added some oats to resembles the sesame seeds

I'm submitting the following recipes for the April Fool Challenge in very Good Recipes. Closing date is 30th April 2012. The challenge is to prepare a dish with recipe that look like something but is actually made out of something completely different.
Actually this is my last minute decision to participate for the challenge. Hopefully it's presentable and appropriate for the challenge.

April Fool French Fries

Ingredients
2 slices of white bread (chilled in fridge till firmed)
Butter / margarine
Sugar

1. Cut the bread to the size of french fries.
2. Spread butter or margarine on both side of the bread.
3. Lay on greased tray, sprinkle with castor sugar.
4. Baked in pre heat oven 160 deg c for 20 mins until golden brown and crispy.
Don't forget to turn the french fries bread to get even color.
5. Leave to cool completely and store in air tight container.

 April Fool Burger Cake

Ingredients
210gm butter
210gm castor sugar
4 large eggs
300gm plain flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 tbsp milk
1 tbsp cocoa powder mix with 1.5tbsp hot water
1/2 tbsp apricot jam mixed with a little hot water to use as glue.

1. Mix the cocoa power with hot water into paste.
2. Sieved flour and baking powder twice.
3. Cream butter and sugar till light and creamy.
4. Add egg one at a time and beat till well blend but do not over beat.
5. Add vanilla extract.
6. Add flour alternate with milk and mix well.
7. Scoop out 1 small bowl of cake batter and mix with cocoa mixture, mixed well. Bake the chocolate batter separately. (For the burger meat)
8. Line the muffin cups with paper liners, scoop the cake batter into liners and bake at 160 deg c for 20 to 25 mins or until cook.
9. Leave to cool. Slice the vanilla cupcake into 2 pieces and the chocolate cupcake into 3 pieces. Glue the burger using apricot jam.
10.Assemble the burger using sugar paste as cheese, lettuce and chilli sauce.

I love the melting effect of the cheese

Yours truly took a bite of the burger...

April Fool Challenge

on Very Good Recipes

Wish me good luck!
Have a great week ahead to all my friends. Thank you for dropping by. Cheers!