Friday, January 25, 2008

Chinese New Year Cookies - Kueh Bangket

Today is our second day of Chinese New Year cookies baking and will be the last, before we start our cake baking next week.

Sister mentioned that the sugee cookies which we baked yesterday were not sufficient for her distributions to her friends and relatives; so we baked second batch of sugee cookies and lastly - the Kueh Bangket. This is our first trial and little did we know the process was a little tedious ... anyway, we finally finished baking them. ^o*



Thursday, January 24, 2008

Chinese New Year Cookies - Sugee Cookies

My sis rang early morning to go over her place to bake cookies for Chinese New Year! Therefore, I went over and stayed for hours... ... the output of our joint efforts are bottles of sugee cookies!

Tomorrow will be another round of baking of cookies.... (@.@)








Sunday, January 20, 2008

Banana Cake With Chocolate

It's husband birthday today! As I am only in the beginner stage of baking, I decided to prepare a simple cake as well as to finish up the ripen bananas. I thought a plain banana cake appearance would not be so appealing... therefore, I ended up with this .... (after all, this is my very first DIY birthday cake) ...






Ingredients

255g butter
240g castor sugar (original should 255g sugar)
3 large eggs
41/2 tbsp fresh milk
5 large size banana, mashed (I use 1 to cut slices for cake decoration)
338g plain flour (I actually mix 200g plain flour with 138g cake flour)
11/2 tsp baking powder
11/2 tsp bicarbonate soda

Ganache
100 gm dairy whipping cream
100 gm melted chocolate
20 gm butter


Method


  • Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.

  • Add egg one at a time and cream until smooth and light.

  • Add in milk and banana, mix well.

  • Sieve in flour, baking powder & bicarbonate soda and fold in until well blended. Grease and line the baking mould. Pour the batter into the mould. B

  • Bake at 175C for 60 minutes or until bamboo skewer inserted to cake, comes out clean.

  • When cake is cool, slowly pour ganache over cake, store in fridge to chill the chocolate.


  • Wednesday, January 16, 2008

    Tuesday, January 15, 2008

    Sushi Sandwiches

    I have decided to simplify my blog posting and will not post the recipe of my cooking other than baking. Therefore this blog will be purely my personal journal with collections of photographs of what I prepared in my kitchen.

    This afternoon, I made these sushi for husband! A very lazy way of preparing lunch!



    Friday, January 11, 2008

    Peach Marshmallow Cake

    Here's the peach marshmallow cake which I've been wanted to try(since months ago)!!




    This recipe is from Hut of Cranberry!

    (A) Base
    200 gm digestive biscuits
    100 gm melted butter

    Crushed digestive biscuits and mix well with melted butter. Press into a 8” or 9" square or round cake ring. Refrigerate for later use.

    (B) Marshmallow filling

    10 pcs of marshmallow

    300 ml of HL milk

    80 ml of diary whip cream

    150 gm Peach Puree

    8 pcs of gelatine leafs

    60 gm sugar

    Put all the ingredients into a pot. Doubleboil over small fire until gelatine leafs, marshmallow and sugar are dissolved.

    (C) Gelatine Topping

    6 pcs of gelatine leafs

    200 ml of water (used 100ml sugar syrup from the can peach and 100ml water).

    Boil all ingredients until dissolved.

    Assembling the cake

    Pour marshmallow filling (B) into the prepared baking tin with biscuit base (A). Put in freezer until slightly harden but not totally frozen. Take it out and arrange sliced peaches. Put it back to freezer to harden a little. When slightly harden take it out and pour the slightly cool Gelatine (C) on it. Put in fridge to chill. Cut and serve.

    Tuesday, January 1, 2008

    Green Papaya And White Fungus Soup

    This is a Cantonese soup which I got it from my Cantonese soup cook book. I tried cooking this several times when I was residing at my old place where green papaya is readily available at one of the vegetable stall in our nearby wet market.

    It has been almost a year plus since I last cook this, as I have not come across any of the green papaya since I shifted! This is a very clear and nourishing soup which also aid in detoxifying our body. Enjoy! ^o^



    Ingredients

    1/2 chicken (chopped into big pieces)

    1 green papaya (remove outer skin, deseed and cut into big pieces)

    2 white fungus (soaked, removed the hard stem and tear into big pieces)

    some red dates

    a handful of wolfberry

    a pinch of salt (optional)

    Note: White fungus should only be added into soup 30 - 40 mins before turning off the stove. This is to prevent them from making the soup sticky and starchy if they are added too early.

    Happy New Year

    HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!....May this year bring good health, peace, prosperity and lots of happiness to everyone!

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