Category: My Kitchen

Actually I found this recipe long time ago at Jen Jen’s Place and thought of trying it out but I’m so lazy. I save it as draft for so long.

Before CNY, I bought the Cheese Sticks from tHe Spring CNY Bazaar. It’s not sweet at all. I love it! I notice there’s black pepper in Cheese Sticks. Then I remember I saw black pepper listed in this recipe before. I think this is the recipe for it, should be similar.

Ingredients:

• 250gm Butter
• 600gm flour
• 250gm grated cheddar cheese
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1.5 teaspoon salt
• 1/3cup fresh milk

Instructions:

1. Mix flour, grated cheddar cheese, black pepper, salt and butter in a large bowl. Mix them well.
2. You can use your hand or the mixer at low speed. You should be getting crumble texture at this time.
3. Mix in the fresh milk and knead.
4. The dust the table and rolling pin slightly.
5. Take 1/3 of the dough and knead into a ball.
6. Flatten out on the dusted table using the rolling pin.
7. Cut into desire shape and placed on butter baking tray.
8. Baked in oven at 200 degree for about 15-20 minutes or until it is golden brown.
9. Remove from oven and let it cool on the rack. Keep in airtight container.

Such long awaited recipe that I had forgotten to share since last year ;p This is not a muffin, it’s actually a cake. It was only placed in a muffin cup. Who says a cake cannot be placed in a muffin cup? Here’s the ingredients:

• 220g butter
• 180g sugar
• 3g salt
• 3 eggs
• 200g low protein flour
• 50g wholemeal flour
• 3g soda
• 5g baking powder
• 80g mashed banana

Instructions:

1. Beat butter and sugar until well-mixed.
2. Add egg one by one and beat well.
3. Add mashed banana. Do it early in the stage when you prepare the ingredients and then after mashed, you can also add in vanilla essence. Don’t worry about it getting brown, the browner the better.
4. Mix salt, low protein flour, wholemeal flour, and baking baking powder together then add into the mixture and beat well.
5. Pre-heat the oven, 160 degree Celcius.
6. You can then place the mixture into muffin cup or tray, only fill the muffin cup or tray 70% full as it will rise.
7. Bake for 15-20 minutes with 160 degree Celcius if muffin cups are used. If tray, then 180 degree Celcius for 10-15 minutes. In fact it’s all depending on the size of the tray or the cup.

Don’t they look easy? The thing is that I hate the cleaning up part hehehe…

Finally I bake something! Actually I found the recipe online few days back and since it’s so easy to do, I decided to try it. The ingredients are so easy to get, why not? As usual, I just don’t know how to follow a recipe, I always stray. I added flour to this recipe that doesn’t required flour at all and reduced the sugar too. If flour isn’t added, you won’t be able to do much and I bet the texture will not be the same also.

Ingredients:
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup flour
1/2 cup castor sugar
1 large egg

Steps:

1. Mix peanut butter, flour, and sugar.
2. Add in the egg and mix them.
3. The dough is done when it doesn’t stick to your hand.
4. Make a ball and press it with a fork to form the pattern.
5. Preheat the oven at 350 degree Celcius.
6. Bake it for 8-10 minutes with the temperature of 350 degree Celcius or until you think it’s cooked.

• Just mix manually you don’t have to use mixer.
• You can skip the cup if you have baking sheet. I ran out of baking sheet.
• For cup, use the same cup for all the ingredients. If you are using a big cup, then all the other ingredients are to be measured with the same cup or cups of the same size. If small cup, then do the same also.
• Any type of peanut butter can be used, if you use lousy peanut butter, then it will taste lousy also.

It’s so simple and make less mess. Try it out. You can try the original recipe which doesn’t need flour. You can find the original recipe here.

Was given with some dragon fruits few weeks back and the texture and the colour were turning almost everyone off. I thought why not make dragon fruit jelly? At least it will be easier to eat than eating the whole thing just like that.

So I did… All ingredients were roughly estimated, well… I’m not the kind that can stick to a recipe ;p. If you want it to be sweeter add more sugar. As for the jelly(agar-agar) strip and water, I just followed the instructions on the packaging; as for the dragon fruit, I just use the whole dragon fruit, small one.

1. Boil the water.
2. Add in the jelly(agar-agar) strips.
3. Let it dissolves as much as you can.
4. Add in sugar, up to how sweet you want it to be.
5. Stir until the sugar dilutes. If there’s still some strips that can’t seem to dissolve, just scoop those out.
6. Add in partially/completely mashed dragon fruit. You can also opt to have it in cubes. It’s up to you.
7. Stir for a while until it boils.
8. Off the fire and transfer to the tray for cooling.
9. Once it’s cooled, place into fridge.

The colour is so strong! It’s natural colour so you don’t have to worry. I think you can use this colour for tang yuen or even cakes or cookies rather than using those artifical colourings. It even stained my fingers and took a while to get rid of the colour.

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Click for full pictorial instructions:
Remember I went to Anna Cake Training Centre for free demo with My Privilege Book coupon?

What I’m going to share with you will be a bit different from the pictorial instructions as during the demo, some ingredients were not included. Instructions given were slightly different too.

Cake ingredients:
Soybean milk 163gm
Salt 1/4tsp
Salad oil 125gm
Lemon juice 10gm
Baking powder 5gm
Cake flour 200gm
Egg white 500gm
Tartar powder 1/4tsp
Sugar 250gm

Filling ingredients:
Fresh milk 140gm
Instant custard powder 50gm

Remember to pre-heat oven.

Instructions:
A:
1. Pour soybean milk into mixing bowl.
2. Add salad oil.
3. Add salt.
4. Add lemon juice.
5. Mix well.

B:
1. Add baking powder and cake flour into the mixture.
2. Mix well and set aside.
3. Add egg white, tartar powder and sugar in new mixing bowl.
4. Beat till stiff.

C:
1. Combine about 1/5 of the mixture B with mixture A.
2. Mix well.

D:
1. Mix the rest of the mixture B with mixture C well.

E:
1. Pour into 2 baking trays. make sure they are smooth out and the batter fill both tray.
2. Bake in oven with 160 degree celcius for 16 minutes, heat setting from top and bottom or until golden brown.

F:
1. While it’s baking, prepare the filling. Mix fresh milk and instant custard powder and set aside. You can also opt for jam, cream, red bean paste or anything you like for the filling.

G:
1. Remove baked cake from oven and cool at room temperature before adding filling or deco.
2. Spread filling from F evenly on top of one the cakes.
3. Place another cake(baked side down) on top of the cake with filling.
4. You’re done!

If you want to decorate it with icing, whipped cream or anything, just go ahead, be creative.

According to Anna, this cake is very healthy cake. You don’t have to worry much about fat and cholesterol. Happy trying.