"Busy Bee "was busy baking this season

All time favorite "Almond Cookies"

Butter cookies

Sugar Cookies without icing

Chocolate chips & Almond nibs cookies

Hmmm. Free at last from the hot oven!

Merry Christmas

This Christmas, there will be a special presentation by the Performing Arts Ministry of FGA on Christmas day. Do visit us at the Main Sanctuary at 8am & 11am for a special story entitle " This Little Child". I'm sure you and your family will be blessed. Click on the website below for further details .

http://www.fga.com.my


Merry Christmas to all.

McDougalls Chocoloate Chip Cookies

Chocolate chip cookies has been a wonderful snack for young and old. I baked these cookies using recipe taken from my favorite McDougalls . It is simple and easy to make. I've added 30 grams of hazel nuts to it's original recipe.

McDougalls Chocolate Chip Cookies

Secret Treasure

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Peach Cake

A piece of warm cake

I baked this cake using the apple strussel's cake based.Instead of cooked apples, I used canned peach. It tasted perfect!

1/4 is gone!

Fun Shee Thong Sui

Ingredients:

1 mediem size purple sweet potato

2 medium size orange sweet potatoes

3 pieces of old ginger (smashed)

4 to 5 pieces of pandan leaves

Rock sugar ( according to the sweetness you like )

500 ml water

Method:

Clean, de-skin sweet potatoes. Cut into small cubes. Set aside.

Bring water to boil. Add sugar, pandan leaves and smashed ginger. Cover pot with lid; simmer syrup for about 20 minutes.

Put in cut potatoes into boiling syrup. Boil for another 10 minutes or until potatoes are semi soft then turn off fire. Cover the pot and set aside. Serve 10 minutes later.

orange-choc marble cake

Ingredients:

60 dark Chocolate,chopped

125 gr Butter

250 gr. Castor Sugar

2 Eggs

310 gr Self Raising Flour

¾ cup Milk

1 tbsp Grated orange rind

1 ½ tsp Vanilla essence

Method:

Grease a 23cm square cake tin, line with paper; grease paper

Melt chocolate over hot water; cool to room temperature

Cream butter, essence and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add egg one at a time, beat well after each addition. Fold in sifted flour and milk.

Divide mixture into 2 bowls, stir in chocolate into 1 bowl and orange rind into the other. Drop spoonfuls of chocolate mixture into the corner and centre, then spoon the orange mixture into the spaces. Swirl knife through mixture once or twice.

Bake in moderate oven for about 30 minutes.

Passionfruits

Refreshing glass of drinks

I've seen these passion fruits being sold in the market but I've never tried buying it because I don't know how to eat it. Last week, I've decided to give it a try. The seller was very nice, he even taught me how to make drinks out of it. Indeed, it is a very nice drinks to have and especially nice when you know it's nutritional values. Check out the facts below:

http://www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov/month/passionfruit.html

Doughnuts

Fresh doughnuts without topping

Coated with fine sugar: My favourite

Ingredients:

300 grams High Protein Flour

2 tsp instant dry yeast

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp fine salt

3 tbsp icing sugar

2 tbsp milk powder

30 grams butter

1 egg yolk

130 ml water

Methods:

Mix all ingredients and knead to form dough. Cover dough with wet cloth and leave it to prove for 45 minutes or till it double in size.

Punch down then mould it to a ball and let it rest for another 30 minutes.

Roll it out into a thin sheet about 10mm thick, cut it with a doughnut cutter.

Place uncooked doughnuts onto a lightly floured baking tray, cover with a wet cloth and leave to prove till double in size.

Deep fry doughnuts in hot oil till golden brown then coat with fine sugar while still hot, or any desired topping.

Chocolate Fudge Cake

cake dust with icing sugar and top with almond

My inspiration

The recipe

Breeks Cafe

Last Friday,we went to Puchong IOI with only one thing in our mind……. Dinner! We were hungry and don’t know where and what to eat. We spotted Breeks Cafe and Seoul Garden. We couldn’t decide which one to go. As a result, we do the simplest thing….. One, Two, Zom! Guess what. Tim won the game and he chose Seoul Garden. Sadly, it was fully booked so ... No choice lor. Breeks Cafe!!!

It was indeed a very nice experience. The food was nice and the portion were huge. Tim had BBQ half-chicken , It tasted great and he was filled to the brim!. Ben just had his braces done up recently so Beef Lasagne was the softest choice of food. Ck and I had the same “Cajun chicken chop”. Dee..lee.. cious!

After the heavy dinner, we adjourned to Popular Bookstore. We bought some books and a music CD “Soul Jazz”. We then stop by at San Francisco Coffee for a “Buy I free I coffee”. Just couldn’t resist the smell of coffee beans and of cause the price!

We came home, turn off all florescent light and turn on the warm light in the hall listening to the new CD. Laying on the couch and had a cup of Chinese tea. Yeah! Nice family chill out on another Friday night!