Category: My Kitchen

Recently, I experimented with tea and Milo to make easy and delicious beverages. It all started with a free sample of Lipton Tea Potbag Extra Kaw. Since I have Milo at home too, I tried combining both. All the recipes will require evaporated milk and condensed milk for the richness of the drinks.

Teh Tarik Kaw

First, I started with teh tarik kaw. Very sweet teh tarik it is. If you add ice, you can make 2 glasses. When the ice is diluted, it will be less sweet.

Less Sweet Iced Teh Tarik

Next, here is the iced teh tarik recipe for those who want their teh tarik less sweet and not as kaw. You can omit the ice if you don’t want it cold. If you have ice, it will be even less sweet. Just adjust accordingly to your preference. No hard rules.

Iced Milo

Meanwhile, here’s a recipe with no tea involved. If you want to do something similar to the Milo van’s Milo, you can try this recipe out. It tastes similar (don’t expect it to be 100%) to the Milo from Milo van that we used to have when we were in school. It must be served cold with or without ice. The Milo will be more diluted and less sweet if ice is added.

Chocolate Tea

Lastly, I’ve always been on the lookout for chocolate tea in local cafes but I couldn’t find any. Unfortunately, I always found chai latte instead of chocolate tea. My first taste of chocolate tea was in Chocolate Bean, Adelaide (no longer in operation). I liked it and always wonder how it’s made but never get around doing it.

Since I have Lipton Tea Potbag Extra Kaw now, I can try to make one. Prior to this, I tried looking for recipes online and found out that I don’t have the spices mentioned. Then, I found one that has almost everything I have and I adjusted it slightly. Instead of cocoa powder and sugar, I used Milo, evaporated milk, and condensed milk.

By the way, the cinnamon powder is optional. Feel free to skip it if you dislike spices. If you do so, the kick won’t be there, there won’t be depth to it. However, the taste is different from the one I had in Adelaide because I didn’t add all those additional spices. Still, it is still not bad.

There you go. I hope this sharing is useful. Do try it out and let me know how you like them. Remember that you are free to adjust the ingredients here and there to suit your own tastebuds. Have fun experimenting.

I have some leftover cooking chocolate left after making chocolate cake. So, I decided to make chocolate milk with it. The cooking chocolate itself is sweet enough so there is no need to add extra sugar.

Very basic ingredients. Just need hot milk with some cooking chocolate. A pinch of salt is optional. If you have chocolate sauce, it will make your life so much easier. Just hot milk with chocolate sauce. Mix them well. As simple as that!

By the way, isn’t the mug cute? I don’t think you can easily find this now. However, there are many similar couple mugs on Lazada. Do check them out if you want.

I will share a crunchy crab stick snack recipe with you in this post. This snack is popular among Malaysian households in recent years during CNY, Raya, or Gawai. You can find it in many households.

I always failed when making this snack. It will go soft once it’s cold. The cooking process is tedious and messy with so much oil needed too. Hence, I decided to try to oven-bake it after I got my new oven (Samsung 28L Convection Microwave Oven with Slim Fry SAM-MC28M6035KW) and it works! No need to worry about oil splatters and use very little oil. You know cooking oil is bloody expensive now! Not healthy to eat too much deep-fried food too.

The only problem with oven-baking is that you have to take time to arrange the crab stick strips on the tray one by one to ensure that it doesn’t overlap with each other. This takes time and if you want to make big batches, it will be very time-consuming.

You can also air-fry it but because the capacity of the air fryer is small, you can’t do it in a big batch. This will require more time. I’ve tried it with an air fryer before, but it’s not air-fried evenly because of the overlapping. The key is not to get it overlapped with each other.

I hope this video helps and happy trying!

Lastly, check out other CNY recipes for the coming celebrations. Hahaha! Not even Christmas and already preparing for CNY ;p

By the way, more recipes can be found on my YouTube channel too.

Was given a box of Dr. Oetker Nona Moist Cake Chocolate Mix early this year. it sure took me quite some time to have the mood to bake it. Here you go. It is very easy to make. Just follow the instructions on the box.

Then, I made it a little bit fancy by covering it with ganache. This is my first time making this kind of cake. Always see it online where people would poke the cake with lots of holes. Then, they poured the ganache onto the cake. Let the ganache make its way through the holes and you’ll get moist and rich chocolate cake. The chocolate would even flow out like lava.

Made the ganache with cooking chocolate and milk instead of cream. I thought it won’t work but it did. The consistency is just nice for it to flow into the holes. Here’s the video in case you want to make ganache without using cream.

Have you tried this brand of cake mix before? I’ve tried its Dr. Oetker Nona Buttermilk Pancake Mix (Buy here: https://invol.co/cl4ap37 ). Also, tried Dr. Oetker Nona Brownies (Marble) (Buy here: https://invol.co/cl8lio6 ) too.