A friend prompt me about fruit tartlets, never did before, had a recipe, tried to do it. In the meanwhile, I am testing my new food processor to knead the dough, had a hard time with the food processor, went to shift the bowl clockwise to lock the mechanism, doesn't work, ask hubby to analyse for me... BoY! had to move and lock the bowl anti-clockwise, must remember.
I am quite satisfied with the result, no doubt the grapes is sour...
First a Happy & prosperous Chinese New Year and good health to everyone.
My youngest angel who is going to be 7 years old this year and now at the moment, her favourite is anything to do with rabbits. Even her hair clips is bunny. Both she and her mummy went shopping and bought a set of miffy plastic cutter for me to bake cookies, this is what she request for.... "Da Gu, can you made for me rabbit cookie" and I can't refuse any request from any of my angels.
I bake the cookies from this blog using the cutters they bought, had a hard time to cut the cookies (the insert is loose), manage to finish the lot.
After baking, I liked the teddy bear shape better than the rabbit, it looks cuter, that's what my daughter say so also. I loved the taste of this cookie, have a try, you will not regret it.
Recipe from the Blog
Animal Cookies
Ingredients
(A)
150gm Unsalted Butter
50gm Icing Sugar
50gm Brown Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla essence
2 Egg Yolks
1 Egg white
Pinch of salt
Pinch of Ground Cinnamon (optional) - I did not add
(B)
325gm All-purpose Flour / Plain Flour
50gm Milk Powder
30gm cornflour
½ tsp Baking powder
Method
Pre-heat oven at 180~C and line 2 baking tray with parchment paper or lightly greased it.
Beat (A) till light and fluffy.
Sift (B) and fold in lightly into (A) until a dough is form.
Roll the dough into 3mm thickness and use the animal cookie cutter to shape it. Place onto a greased tray or on parchment paper, bake for 20 minutes at 180~C.
Set on the wire rack to cool before storing into air-tight container.
After having the success in baking pandan lapis few weeks ago, I begin to have some confidence back in baking Lapis cake. Since 10 over years back, when I have Ariston oven, I can' even bake a decent lapis.
This is my second Ariston oven, and upon advise of my friends, I play with the temperature and placing the tray on different rack level position and I have found the technique in baking lapis in this present oven. Although it's still not so perfect, but is better than I can't get a decent one.
One of my niece is going to Shanghai for her school work attachment and she is going to be away for 5 months. I gather the rest of my angels to have a dinner with her, and her request to eat pasta, and yesterday night, Eight of us (6 angels + 2 old folks) went to Cujini Restaurant at Club Street, Boy! we loved the food that we ate. Actually this is not a special day, it just an excuse to eat together.
Before, we went to the restaurant, 2 of the angels came to my house to watch 3D movies on my TV. Knowing that they liked to eat brownie, took out Daniel Tay's Dessert book and tried out the recipe, I did try one of the chocoate mousse in the book and I liked it. Found that the portion is too big, I halved the recipe and baked in a 8" x 11" x 1.5" baking tin.
Below is the recipe extract from the book
CHOCOLATE BROWNIE (JUST DESSERT BY DANIEL TAY)
325 g Plain (All Purpose) Flour
5 g Baking Powder
150 g Cocoa Powder
225 g Cream Cheese
860 g Sugar
½ tsp Vanilla Essence
10 g Salt
450 g Unsalted Butter
400 g Eggs
300 g Walnuts (chopped)
Butter for greasing
Preaheat oven to 180 degrees.
Sift flour, baking powder and cocoa powder into a mixing bowl and leave aside.
Place cream cheese, butter, sugar, salt & vanilla essence in another mixing bowl and whisked until well blended.
Fold in eggs into cream cheese mixture, then gradually fold in flour mixture, Add in walnuts and mixed well.
Lightly grease a 28 cm (11”) square baking tin with butter.
Level batter into tin and bake for 20 mins.
Unmould brownie and leave aside to cool. Slice before servings.
At last, my hubby got his wish, butter cakes, for a long time, he has been waiting and hoping that I will bake this for him.
Just feel like baking and wanna made some simple cakes and I surf the net and came across this website and was tempted to bake marble butter cake. I follow the recipe and the cake was good, he tasted and he liked it and ate a huge chunk. I have noticed that most guys they loved butter cake more than other cakes
Below is the recipe from the website cut and paste. Have a try
Marble Cake
makes 1 tall 8 inch square cake – mine is 3 inches high- do not attempt to make this in an 8 inch round pan – you were warned.
330g (about 3 sticks) unsalted butter, slightly softened
240g granulated sugar (less 10 gms)
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
300g cake flour
6 large eggs
2 tbsp milk (I use condensed molk)
1 tbsp cocoa powder
2 tbsp hot water
Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius or 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
In a medium bowl, dissolve cocoa powder with hot water. Set aside.
In the bowl of a stand mixer, on medium speed, cream butter and half of the sugar till pale and fluffy. Using a large rubber spatula, scrape bottom and sides of bowl, add rest of sugar and vanilla and beat until fully incorporated and all sugar has dissolved.
On low speed, add eggs one at a time, making sure mixture is smooth before adding the next one. After all the eggs have been incorporated, increase speed to medium and beat for 10 seconds.
Remove bowl from mixer, sift flour, baking powder and salt into bowl, and fold by hand with a large rubber spatula until almost fully incorporated. Add milk and fold until just smooth.
Add half of batter to lined cake pan, gently smoothing to the sides. Add half of remaining batter to cocoa bowl and mix gently. Add dollops of chocolate batter to pan, alternating with remaining white batter. Swirl gently in pan to create marbling effect.
Bake for 80-90 minutes, checking at the 70 minute mark with a toothpick or skewer, which, when inserted, should come out clean.
Cool in pan for 5 minutes before removing cake. Cool completely on rack.
First a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone and may the spirit oif christmas brings you adundance of Joy, Peace and love and the most imnportant is in the pink of good health.
Last few days ago, I have baked 4 loaves of fruitcake, given one to my mom, neighbour, cousin and I leave one for myself. This time round, the fruitcake, I have used Grand Marnier liquor to soak and dab a layer of liquor after baking.
The 3 fruitcakes given away, I only dab it's once, only for my fruitcake, I have dabbed it twice and I have tasted, I found that it's too strong a liquor taste, but this time round, I liked the look of the fruitcake than my previous one, most probably it's the amount of fruits that is put inside.
Yesterday, I bake a chiffon lemon roll and assemble into a logcake to be given to my cousin. I always appreciate my oousin and his wife for showing so much love and concern my parents, it just my small thought to show my appreciation to them. It may be not in my best of art and this is my first time making logcake and glad that using the fork to scrap the lines and actually hide alot of flaws.. hee! hee! Hope they like it.
