Wednesday, November 24, 2010

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


The Recipe "enlarge"

Thursday, November 11, 2010

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!


Sunday, October 31, 2010

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.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

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.



Friday, October 8, 2010

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

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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.



Saturday, September 18, 2010

Chocolate Fudge Cake

cake dust with icing sugar and top with almond



My inspiration

The recipe