DONUT Mania!!!

Somehow, I wanna eat donut today..but I only want J.Co donut..but too far and too lazy..to drive, to go thru traffic at Bukit Bintang and to que..end up..make my own!

I copied the recipe from MyResipi.com..and to be specific from yuna@myresipi.com...http://www.myresipi.com/top/detail/208..

Quite satisfied with the result...soft..

New experience everyday!

Suddenly thinking of Kuih Talam Gula Melaka. One of my fav of Traditional Malay dessert. I had google the web and found the simple recipe.

Brown layer
1 cup of brown sugar
1/2 cup of sugar
5 cup water
(combine all the above and boiled it. Let it cool)
2 cup flour
2tbs cornflour
1tsp slake lime (kapur sireh)

Method:
Heat up the steam cooker and grease the pan
Combine all the ingredient and cook it for about 20 mins.
Once it cooked, scratch on top  with fork


Coconut layer
3cup coconut milk
1cup riceflour
1tsp salt

Method
In a separate bowl, combine all the ingredients
Cook it for about 4-5 mins
Then, pour it on the Brown layer
Cook it back in the steamer for about 20 min
Chilled it and eat it!

Nice to eat with our hot tea!

Birthday cake for my cousin

New experience everyday!

Yey! Baking cake for Nur Shahira @ Siti. Simple butter cake with blueberry cream filling and topping royal icing. It is for her 14th birthday.

I love the cake! The butter taste is so tempting! For the filling, I just added heavy cream with blueberry paste. The taste are just click! But, i still need to work on my finishing technique. Still horrible! Hope, I can achive it in next 2-3 months.

For butter cake recipe:

250 gm butter

230 gm sugar

4 large eggs

250 gm self-raising flour 

2 tsp vanilla essence

6 tbsp UHT milk

Instruction:

Heat oven 180 Cel. Mix butter and sugar. beat until white and fluffy. Add in eggs each  at a time, alternating it with flour. Add vanilla and milk. Pour batter in cake tine. Bake it!

Royal icing..at last

I always wonder how to make purely snowy white cream. I remeber I hd done it long time ago during my teen age but I just couldnt figure out! Well, last week I as usual watching Nigella episode at Astro 703 channel. Yes..my wish come true. She was teachung the technique to make the cream that I want..Royal Icing!!!! Yes..yes..yes..

The next day, i experiment it. Wallah...

Recipe for Royal Icing

2 white eggs

175gm icing sugar

2 tble spoon lemon/lime juice

method: whisk the white eggs until its fully. Normally the volume become double. Then pour in the icing sugar. Beat it with high speed until it become smooth and a bit thicken. Then pour in lemon/ lime juice. Remember, place the icing when the cake is cold. Do not place it during the cake still warm because the icing will melt. You can also color the icing with food coloring up to your desire.

Choc cup cake with butter icing

About my passion in baking cake, I should thanks to a friend of mine, Rizal. One day, he walked over to my desk (when I was working in Ridpest) and shered with me blog belongs to his friend. A few photos of nice+cute+wonderful cupcakes and cakes just simply stunning my attention.

Straight away after came back from office that day, I started baking again..I chose one of simple choc cupcake recipe from the net and I bake it rite away..all my tiredness of chaos and messy kitchen paid off after my first bite of the yummy moist choc cupcake with butter cream.....my hubby said well down and my MIL said good job too..Choc cupcake with butter cream

The recipe as below:

For the cake:

1 cawan serbuk koko

1 cawan gula pasir

1 cawan susu cair

1 cawan minyak masak

1 cawan susu manis

1 1/4 cawan tepung gandum

1tsp baking powder

1 tsp soda bicarbonate

3 biji telur

Method:
Campur koko,gula,susu cair,susu manis dan minyak ke dlm periuk dan masak sebentar atas api kecil sehingga semua larut.
Tepung,soda dan baking powder di ayak satu.
Telur dipukul kembang dan dicampur dng campuran koko tadi.Gaul rata dan capur tepung.
Gaul sebati dan tuang dalam acuan dan jangan sampai penuh sebab nanti adunan naik.
Bakar selama 20 mins at 170 degrees celsius

For BUTTERCREAM

1/2 cawan shortening

1/2 cawan mentega, dilembutkan

1 sudu the esen vanilla

3 cawan gula

2 sudu besar susu segar

Method:
Dalam mangkuk pembancuh, pukul mentega, shortening dan esen vanilla. Masukkan gula satu cawan dalam satu masa dan pukul sehingga rata sebelum masukkan gula yang seterusnya.
Masukkan pula susu segar dan pukul sehingga buttercream menjadi ringan dan gebu.

I cant remember from which website i got this recipe. Hope the owner do not mad at me since I share the recipe here. Anyway, this is really simple recipe and easy to do. Even kids can do it..I guess. What I mean is, for any one that just started to bake or just would like to try to baking, I shal lrecommend you this recipe. Ok..hv fun!