Kuih Cara Manis (mini pancake with melted sugar filling)

Ingredients :

2 C flour
2 C water
1/2 C coconut milk
1 egg
pinch of salt
some pandan paste or green food coloring

How to ?

First, u need to prepare the batter.. for me its a rather simple method.Dump... erk.. ok, put everything in a bowl and whisk everything until well incorporated.Well the faster way. u may use the technology... that is THE BLENDER.. either one ,OK ??This kuih is specially baked in the cara mould, but if u don’t have it... no worries.. just use regular small muffin pan but the results might not be the same..don’t blame me for that..for the same mould i can make the kuih bahulu, cara berlauk, akok berlauk or even mini apple pie with different shapes... worth the investment i must say...

Back on track...

After the blending/whisking moment... for better mixture u can set it aside for minutes then the batter will thickens slightly... not too runny nor too thick..

A must thing to do, heat the mould ON THE STOVE and grease some oil or it will stick.Low heat... not smokey hot..then pour the mixture into the mould and straight away ... in the middle of each kuih, top with a tiny teaspoon of sugar.Immediately the sugar will sink to the bottom and melting away.

Cover the mould with anything that fits so that the heat will stays inside and keep continuing cooking the kuih.I just use my old skool pot lid.precious....

The kuih will ready in few minutes.You’ll notice the mixture will shrink slightly and the green colour became darker.Fork it out, put on plate.While they still warm, sandwich them together .Done.

Salted Caramel Apple Pie

just wanna share this recipe that i ve made for tea... no much talking as i just came back from dentist.. urgh.... rotten tooth.. need to drink more milk after this... more calcium please... i made some changes to this recipe... got some leftover salted caramel from my last batch of macaron.. no ice cream to indulge with so it ended up with the apples instead.. its an express apple pie...wallah..the crust recipe was a long kept recipe since i was in high school.. taken from a classmate .. tg ...its a flacky, tender and golden recipe...

crust recipe :

2 C cake flour
1 C cold butter/shortening
2/5 cup cold water
dash of salt
flour for dusting

How to make the crust?

In a large bowl, combine flour and salt. Cut in cold butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.You can just use your finger tips but never with your palm as the heat will melts the butter into creamy texture. Stir in water until mixture forms a ball. Divide dough in half, and shape into balls. Once you have rolled out the dough, wrap it around the rolling pin and unroll it onto your pie pan.Once you have shaped it to fit the inside of the pan, take a fork and poke holes in the bottom of the crust. This will let the steam out as the pie bakes.

Tips :Never overwork the dough,the less handling the better for a more tender and flaky crust.

The apple pie filling :

3 granny smith apples cuts into chunks or thinly slice
1 tsp cinnamon powder
1 tbsp flour as thickening agent
Homemade Salted caramel sauce

**you can easily substitute the caramel sauce with 1/4 cup of sugar and 1/4 cup of brown sugar, 1/4 cup butter.Mix everything in a bowl.Set aside

How to assemble everything?

1. Preheat the oven. In large mixing bowl, mix all ingredients until apples are well coated. Pour into pie crust.
2. Pour over the salted caramel sauce onto the well coated apples. Place about 4 chunks of butter on top of apple filling(optional). This will give the filling rich flavor.
3. Roll out the remaining pie dough or you can make any shape u desire and place it on top. Brush top crust with beaten egg
4. Time to bake.Bake at 200ºC for 40 to 50 minutes or until crust is golden and apples are tender and juicy.Bon apetit.

Best Ever Princess Vanilla Cupcake.....

i can sense that there had to be a better cake than i tried many times before... always got distracted by the variety flavours and colourful cupcakes many can find.... but to be honest they never really got me so well...

this is my first attempt using the real vanilla beans that i bought bout a week ago...so fortunate, the cake was so light and moist... and the smell was divine...so delicious.. so here goes the recipe..

Ingredients

• 3 cups cake flour
• 1 tbsp. baking powder
• ½ tsp. salt
• 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
• 16 tbsp. (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 2 cups sugar
• 5 large eggs
  
• 1¼ cups buttermilk got no buttermilk ,i just use milk
• 1 tbsp. vanilla extract

Directions

1. Preheat the oven .Line cupcake pans with paper liners. Set aside.
2. In a medium mixing bowl, combine the cake flour, baking powder and salt. Whisk together and set aside.
3. Add the butter and sugar to the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment .Scrape the vanilla bean seeds into the bowl of the mixer with the butter and discard the pod.
4. Beat on medium-high speed for 3 minutes, until light and pale in color.
   
5. Mix in the eggs one at a time until incorporated.
   
6. Combine the milk and the vanilla extract
7. With the mixer on low speed, add the dry ingredients gradually and mixing just until well incorporated.
8. Filling each paper cup about 2/3 of the way full.
9. Bake 18-22 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow to cool in the pans 5-10 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completelyServe it with your favourite buttercream or frosting... but i'm a greedy person .. so, i just ate it straight away...cannot stand of temptation..delish...
   

Tres Leche (three milk cake)

What do I know about this humble cake??After watched the last season of junior masterchef Australia ..salute to those kids... i was eager enough to try out this cake... seems simple and not least milky... so i googled for the best recited recipes ( i hope )..found this one ..

verdict : if u don't like to drink plain milk before bedtime.... i bet you won't like this... with three different kinds of milk, top with, again.... cream... easy to say.. everything is about milk... but i loved this... simple taste with simple texture...

dare to try? here goes the recipe.... credit to mamapastel




Ingredients

• 1 3/4 C all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 6 eggs separated
• 1 1/4 C sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Soaking liquid

• 1 can evaporated milk (12oz)
• 1 can sweetened condensed milk (14oz)
• 1/3 C heavy cream

How to make the cake:

1. Heat oven to 350. Coat 10 inch round springform pan with no nstick spray. Line bottom of pan with waxed paper; coat paper.
2. Cake: Whisk flour and baking powder together. In bowl, beat whites until soft peaks form. Slowly add 1/4 C of sugar, until stiff peaks form.
   
3. In separate bowl, beat yolks with remaining 1 C sugar and vanilla until thickened, about 3 min.
   

   

4. Fold in whites, then flour mixture.
   

   

5. Pour batter into pan. Bake for 38 min or until top springs back when pressed.
   
6. Cool in pan for 10 to 15 min.

How to make the soaking liquid:

1. In bowl, whisk the milks together.
   
2. Take off waxed paper.With a fork, poke holes all over the top of cake.
   
3. Place cake back into the baking pan and carefully pour milk mixture over cake until all soaked in.
   

   

4. Refrigerate overnight or for at least 6 to 8 hrs.
5. Top with fresh whipped cream or you can also add fresh fruit to your liking, or other pie fillings.
   

   

Nigella Lawson’s Jam doughnut muffins

"Can you just not baking for a day?.. please.. have a rest.."that was what my husband said.. okay..i will, i hope... i dont know... yay..(hates cooking but loves baking..)
I promised my son that we’d make something together , chocolate chip cookies but since we were short on time I picked this as it’s such a simple recipe to knock out.

All you need:
I hate using kitchen scale, so i converted into cup measurement.. making my life easier..

1/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
2 cup self raising flour
1/4 cup corn or vegetable oil
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
12 teaspoons strawberry jam really depends on you on how much you wanted to

How to make?
i dont snap any picture to show you how.... as my husband asked me to make it in quick time so we can watch a dvd together..

• With a fork, beat together the milk, oil, egg and vanilla extract. Stir this into the flour and sugar to combine.
• Spoon the mixture into each muffin cup so that it's just under a third full. Then with a teaspoon add a dollup of strawberry jam, then top with more muffin mix so that the cases are just about full.
• Put them in the preheated oven and bake for about 20 minutes or until the tops feel springy and resistant and the muffins have puffed up into little toadstools.

For dusting/coating the muffin:
½ cup unsalted butter(melted) i spread some strawberry jam instead of using butter
½ cup granulated sugar

Simply dip into the melted butter ant then coat/dip it with sugar..Now you have it.. the strawberry doughnuts...delicious, scrumptious muffins..

Butter cookies II

Picture tells... my son invited his friend over to this cookies photoshoot

I would recommend to u to just ignore my earlier post recipe on butter cookies .I think this one is better.The difference between these two.... ok. no 1..... this one is more buttery flavour, no egg added so the texture is definitely not in common, but it quite crumble but melts in ur mouth... for sure this one they were all gone in a day alone.. all my kids loved it...so delighted ..

out of a block of butter (200gm) it only makes about 30 cookies.. never enough.. and please watch ur cholesterol level.Of course the secret is to use a good quality of butter and mixed it with passion n love.... credit to kitchen guardian

Ingredients

200g butter I used LURPAK or u can just use SCS

50g icing sugar

150 all purpose flour

50g corn flour
i add 1 tsp of milk powder for more richness

Method

• Preheat oven at 140C.
• Beat butter and icing sugar until pale and light.
• Add in all purpose flour that had been sifted with corn flour, in four additions....I folded the flour using my hands, lightly knead to incorporate the ingredients together until my hands are clean.
• Using a piping bag and a nozzle, I piped the batter on baking paper and bake for about 20 minutes and the cookies had turned light golden colour.
• Cool and store them away in cookie jars

Kuih Bahulu (almost like angel cake)

Nothing can beat traditional cakes...

Kuih bahulu is usually baked during the festive seasons such as Hari Raya and Chinese New Year.When i was a child, there is no mixer to beat the eggs until pale and fluffy.. i can still recall.. there was a tool like a huge spring with wooden handle a.k.a hand mixer and a large crock or clay jar a.k.a big bowl especially made for this kuih.There was lots of hardwork back days.Mom used to sundried the flour and bake it on the charcoal with the lid on, top with burning coconut shells. I would say they are little sponge cakes, crispy on the outside and spongy on the inside.Very yummy, light and mild taste .My son loved this very much better than any other fancy cakes..

So here goes the recipes... simple ingredients, no need to grab ur paper n pen..




4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 cup flour
pinch of salt
1 tsp of vanilla essence (optional just to get rid of the eggy smells)

How to make ?

• Preheat kuih bahulu moulds in the oven at 180'C
• Place the eggs and sugar in a mixer.Beat until you get a thick consistency.

• Then, add the flour in.Fold the mixture slowly .You don't want to deflate the egg too much.Pretty much done here...
• Grease the mould with a little bit oil to prevent it from sticking.Spoon in the batter into the mould until it's near full.
• Bake until golden brown about 10 to 15 mins. , fork the cake out and leave to cool .Since this is only a small mould, so u need to repeat the process of greasing,baking n taking it out continuously..