Princess Castle Cake

3 pieces 8" square vanilla sponge cake
500ml non dairy whipping cream
Strawberry essence
Wilton Pink icing colour
5 ice cream cones
Some pink candy rice or sand
4 strawberry wafer biscuit
Few square white marshmallow
Few gummy candies

3 days project!
To me this cake is not as pretty as I expected but to please little children
Is fairly good enough!!!haha....

To assemble the cake is so far so good & done well! But put the cream coat over 3-tier cake was rather challenging! To put cream over a cake is only for public function bcos it looks nice & presentable ! In private celebration the frosting is not favoured in my house!

Thank God for a revelation how to make a box to contain my tall cake & transport it to the school ( a walking distance though)! It took me 3 pieces of gift wrapping paper & a 13" paper cake box ( cut & remove the top lid). Use the 2 wrapping papers wrapped & sealed the cake box vertically ( to unfold 2" length at the end of the wrapping paper outwardly & the paper be able straight & stand) 1 wrapping paper folded into a lid-' to fit the tall box now!" While making this box midnight, the IKEA paper box flashing through my mindHaha... To save trouble u may opt IKEA!!!

Cheese Cake

Recipe taken from Jane's corner
(She makes variety of cheese cake & look very good! Do Hop over)




Cheese cake with Nutella Topping!

Ingredients:
(A) 200g Cream Cheese, 20g fine sugar
(B) 2 Yolks
(C) 25g low protein flour
(D) Whipping cream 100g
(E) 2 Whites，40g fine sugar

Method:
1.Preheat oven 160C with a tray of water ( water bath)
2.Line the bottom of 6" baking pan with paper.
3.Cream (A) until smooth. Add in (B) mixed well.
4.Add in (C) and mix until well blended.
5.Pour in (D) by batches and mix until well combined.
6.Whip Whites in (E) until foamy.
Add in sugar, whip until soft peak.
7.Gently fold 1/3 whites into yolk mixture until well-mixed.
8.Fold in the rest of whites. Mix well. Pour batter into baking pan. Place on top on water-bath.
9.Melt 10g of dark chocolate with 5g whipping cream. Paour chocolate mixture into a piping bag. Pipe lines on top of cake and use a toothpick to draw patten.
10.Bake in preheated oven for 60 minutes. Remove cake from oven and allowed to cool completely. Place cake in the fridge for 4 hours to chill. 11.Remove the cheesecake from the pan. Cut into slices and serve.

Topping
2 tablespoon Nutella
2 teaspoon whipping cream
Mix well & spoon into piping bag & pipe it in the top of cake!

Eggs tarts

为了孩子进好学校我们父母都想尽办法去争取！我家只有我几年就有很多打算A计划B计划的在盘转！最气的我老公不打紧的也不想配合我的AB计划！真的应了那句话＂船到桥头自然直＂儿子终于进入我们首选2间里的小学！若冒险去争取第一间名校，我得投下6个数字的现金搬家到学校附近，只为赌一个抽签的机会被入取！我家人都觉得太冒险了也没必要！怕到时没入取，反而一身债！不可以为了名额换来无谓的压力！
好了， 学校的事情都办妥了，开开心心作了蛋塔我家2小都爱吃！做了第一轮都一扫而光！我再做第二次小蛋塔！谢谢Qi Qi in the house 的分享！又快又好吃的蛋挞！真的值得一做再做！

Chai Kuih (traditional snacks)

This was my first attempt to make chai kuih after I noticed it is quite popular light snacks among the bloggers! What triggered me to start it was Sonia again emphasized that the skin was so soft by using teng flour ( a flour I never had one in my storage) & I decided no more postponed it or drowned it in my super long bookmarks!

Rather tricky to handle/ seal the skin in the beginning but once they were brought out from steamer I couldn't stop eating them!!! Very Worth it! Very good recommendation !

Sorry for the poor quality of photo shots, i tucked in few already then i realised i forgot to take picture. it was kind of hurry! haha... Sonia did a very perfect jobs the kuih & the photo too!

菠萝cheese 餐包

因为没有种中剩余，又想吃自家面包，趁还没送老大去补习班今天做了直接法餐包。冰箱里有一包装cheese片已经放很久了没人过问也未打开，
还是我来处理吧！
看到这鲜黄塑胶盘子吗？它的功能可大了！它是蚂蚁的敌人，因为蚂蚁永远无法爬上这盘子！开始我也不信，真的叻！从此我的糕点就能逃过被蚂蚁偷吃的命运！

面包团材料：

*320克高粉，40克幼糖，10克奶粉, 5克盐，6克酵母
*165克水，25克全蛋
*30克奶油

做法：

1。把所有材料除了奶油搅拌成面团，

2。再搅拌到有筋性时，才加入奶油，再搅拌至可拉开薄膜的阶段。
3。取出面团，放入已经抹油的大碗中， 让它发酵一小时成双倍大。
4。面团取出，排气，将面团分成16份(35g)，滚圆， 松弛10分钟，


内陷：
2片芝士(切成16片)
我觉得太少了，喜欢吃更多芝士朋友，可加多哦！ 

5。把内陷包好，封密，滚圆，放入纸杯，再发酵45分钟。

菠萝皮奶油材料：

• (A) 60克牛油，40克糖，vanilla essence  1小茶匙
• (B) 一粒全蛋
• (C) 60克低筋面粉
• 将(A)混合拌匀，加入(B)搅拌至光滑，然后加入(C)搅拌后，放入Piping bag&放进冰箱备用。

6。把菠萝奶油挤放圆形在面团上。
7。放入烤箱以170度20分钟。

Cinnamon Rolls

The other day I bumped into a friend & come to know she had just quitted her job and be full time homemaker ( home tutor too!) as her elder girl is going to enter primary school next year! I am very admired her courage & determination that she sacrifices her career for her children & family! I got the same " plan" but it didn't work out bcos I was / am worried .... Haha...$ not enough? Insecure without a job? Too young to be full timer mom? Patience to do all houseworks?
I can feel her joy being a full time homemaker..... So I still work it out my part to be a full time staying home mum in near future....
Let have something new that I have not tried before....cinnamon rolls... To encourage myself!

A) Water Roux:

50g Bread Flour，75g boiling water, use a spoon stir & mix well until forming a soft dough ball, wrap it with wrapping bag/ plastic and keep it in the fridge overnight.

B) Bread Dough:

7g Active Dry East, 240g Bread Flour, 60g Plain Flour, 60g Sugar, 2g Salt,

1 Egg

*40g Butter

Filling: 30gBrwon Sugar, 1Tbsp Cinnamon powder, 100g Raisin ( you may increase or reduce the filling amount is based personal favourite)

Topping: Egg yolk+1tsp spoon milk, almonds flakes

Icing sugar Syrup: 40g Icing sugar, 2tsp maple syrup,  1Tbsp warm water

Method:

 

1. Put A and B into the mixer, at low speed mix it well till it forms a dough (about 3mins) continue to knead at medium speed (about 3 mins).
2. Until the dough has become smooth and shine in surface, add in *butter, at low speed mix it and turn to medium speed continue kneading till the dough has no stick to fingers and reached thin membrane when you stretch-pull it.
3. shape the dough into ball and put it into a big container with well greased and let it proof it for 45mins or till double it size.
4. after proofing, punch down the dough, divide it into 4 portion equally.
5. take one portion and roll it into long oval shape, brush a layer of water, spread the cinnamon+brown sugar mixture on the it, follow by raisins
6. Roll up to downward till the end, seal the end well
7. Cut the roll into two with sharp knife, slightly press down the roll and put them into  the greased 8" round baking tin.
8. repeat the same for the other 3 portion of dough, and you will have 8 cinnamon rolls lined beautifully in the baking tin.
9. Let have last proofing for about 40 mins, brush with the egg+milk wash, spinkle some almonds flakes, bake at 180C for 20mins.
10. Remove from oven, slowly spread the icing sugar+maple syrup on the swirling line of the rolls.

Note: Don't pour all the icing sugar syrup at once if you don't like to have very sweet rolls.

Pan-fry radish cake 炸萝卜糕

吃了几天的西式糕点，想试试从小吃的传统糕点！下班后到Cold Storage 买了一条白萝卜和培根就马上行动！明天早餐就有好吃的啦！真谢谢这食谱的主人Jane 让我与家人可以吃到美味糕点！


炸萝卜糕 （食谱取自Jane's Corner加了少许改变）

材料：
350克白萝卜刨丝
虾米适量
低盐培根适量；切丝
250克粘米粉
40克木薯粉
1大汤匙澄粉或番薯粉
800克水

调味料：
盐1/2茶匙，糖1 大匙，胡椒粉1/2茶匙，一茶匙maggie鸡精粉，麻油数滴,炸小葱少许

做法：
1.将白萝卜丝煮软透明，水倒掉沥干备用。
2.将粘米粉；木薯粉及澄粉加入350m克的水用手搅匀备用。
3.起油锅，爆香虾米，加入培根
倒入白萝卜丝，加入剩余的水，再下调味料。
4.慢慢倒入面糊，小火不停的搅拌，至成浓糊状。
5.倒入涂上（炸小葱油）油的8”蒸盘里，大火蒸45分钟至熟即可。
6.完全凉了才切片。
7.用non stick frying pan, 少许油
将切片的糕小火煎炸（比较健康）
沾上辣椒酱和甜酱吃很不错哟！

Chili Dried Prawns Bread 辣椒虾米面包

Mother in law prepared a lot of sambal chili dried prawns the other day! I was so quick to think of making this bread with that water roux bread recipe from Jane's Corner! I try this bread recipe before with the filling of the bacon mashed potato & purple sweet potato ( both fillings recipe from Nasi Lemak Lover) ! It was really good! My family really love the breads!
I also made few breads with Nutella Choco filling for my kids! It was yummy !

Mashed Potato Bread

This is my 2nd try in making a bread! 1st time the bread was chewy & dry next day! I must really thank Sonia's mash potato recipe and Jane's Corner bread. The bread texture was so soft (even the next day) and the mashed potato with bacon was so tasty, both put together is more than perfect! A must try recipe! Thank to both Sonia's & Jane's sharing!

Note: the next day the bread is still soft and softer than the day before!Amazing! Must Try! 

Ma Lai Gao "Palm Sugar Cake 马来糕

I personally like food in dark color! Black noodles, black soya sauce fish & pork & chicken, dark chocolate cake , kopi O ( black coffee) are my favourite too! I made this cake not only for it's color & also the fragrance of the palm sugar! I love it as it was so soft & not oily at all!
Inspired by Tin Tin's Ma Lai Ko. I replaced the castor sugar to palm sugar (sieve it before use!) and 20g castor sugar (palm sugar not so sweet!). It was really good!

Peanut Chiffon cake

五月是最忙的日子了！儿子生日，班工室装修，母亲节，老师见家长，等等！停下做了这蛋糕！之前做了2次都失败，这次有预感可以成功！哈哈！不是啦，知道那里出错，知错能改，一定成功！我用了Jane's Corner 的抹茶 chiffon cake 的做法！把抹茶改为2tablespoon creamy peanut jam 就可以啦！我真谢谢Jane的分享，她的蛋糕手艺太棒了！师父级的水准！

Mini Carrot Cake

Mini Carrot Cake

When I first saw this cake that made of 350g carrots, immediately I favourited the recipe because it not only look good + cute, it is rather healthier snack for everyone! Thank Sonia Nasi Lemak Lover for her all time good recipe sharing! My husband ate 3 right after it fresh baked from oven, he really loved it & commented "Crispy out, softy inside"

Sonia used a very beautiful non-stick friand mould & out of no choice I used 3 different sizes of egg tart tin to fulfil my strong desire to bake this cake &  was very happy with the result!

Note: the cakes were still very soft next day (but no more crispy as it was freshly out of oven). I personally feel that it was a bit "oily" the next day. hmm... i will cut down the oil nex time....:)

Lemon Cream Cheese Almond Crumbly Cake

Before I started baking this cake, I quite hesitated to begin it because it would take extra efforts and works to complete it! But thank God, I finally did it and it turned out to be so good that I myself took extra bites (usually I take a bite only ;) & my family loved it too (as shown the next picture that half of cake gone after it was cool and ready to serve)!

Ingredients:

( I made half of the original ingredients and used 17" tube pan, baked 40-50mins)

Original recipe from My Kitchen Snippets

2 ¼ cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
10 tbsp(1 stick + 2 tbsp) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar ( I cutt down it to 3/4cup of sugar)
1 tbsp lemon zest
4 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups sour cream ( I used low fat yogurt)

Cream cheese filling:

8 oz cream cheese –

3 tbsp sugar
4 tbsp lemon juice

Lemon Sugar-Almond Topping:

1/4 cup sugar ( I used icing sugar)
1 1/2 tsp lemon zest1/2 cup sliced almonds

Banana Chiffon Cake

Banana Chiffon Cake 香蕉戚风蛋糕
I love to eat banana cake more than banana itself! Anyone? Honestly i seldom peel & eat bananas because I prepare to bake them after no one like to eat overripe dark skinned bananas in my house! Haha... & that will be a good excuse for me to "finish" them！
I will definitely repeat this recipe again whenever i have dark skinned bananas in my kitchen for it is easy & simple to do & a healthier one for everyone we love!
My husband &children love the cake in small paper case -cute & a just nice portion & grab & go, no sticky hand after eating.....

Recipe taken from Small Small Baker

Ingredients (makes one 17cm chiffon tin) or cupcake square papercups

40g egg yolks (about 2)
20g water
40g vegetable oil
55g banana, mashed
55g cake flour
85g banana, diced

110g egg whites (about 3)
55g sugar
5g corn flour

Method

1. Whisk egg yolks, water, vegetable oil and mashed bananas until well-mixed.
2. Add in sifted cake flour and whisk until well-mixed.
3. Add in diced bananas, mix well gently. Set aside.
4. In another bowl, whisk egg whites until foamy. Add in sugar gradually and add in sifted corn flour last and continue whisking until stiff peak form.
5. Gently fold in the egg white into the egg yolk batter (in step 3) in 3 batches.
6. Pour the batter into an ungreased chiffon tin. Give the tin a few slight knocks on the tabletop to remove air bubbles. Bake in preheated oven at 170 deg C for 35-40 minutes.
7. Remove from oven and invert the tin immediately onto a cooling rack.
8. Unmould the cake only when it is completely cool.

Butter Cream Cheese Mini Cake

After not feeling well- bad cough for almost 2 weeks, today I get to drag myself to bake a least a cake with a simple recipe! I chose the easy one that my daughter likes to have one of this mini butter cake when we have our lunch in this Hainanese restaurant in town after church!

I like the Fruity Butter cake of Anncoo Journal. She placed strawberries and blueberries on the batter, and the mini cakes were so beautiful and i was tempting to bake one myself because I want to have a quick bite on it. Here I adjusted her recipe and baked this simple one that's my daughter's favourite. One day I will try the fruity butter cakes. You should too!

Recipe

Ingredients:

     200g Butter
     50g cream cheese
     120g Icing sugar
     4 tablespoon milk

     1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
     3 Large eggs
     120g Plain flour
     70g Bread flour
     pinch of salt

     10-15g raisins

     Method:

• Lay paper cases on a baking tray and set aside.
• Sift plain flour, bread flour and salt together and set aside.
• Cream butter, cream cheese and icing sugar until light and fluffy at medium speed.
• Add eggs one at a time making sure to beat well after each addition.
• Add vanilla extract, mix till combined.
• Add  milk, mix till combined.
• Fold in flour in 3 batches with a rubber spatula, mix well.
• Mix some flour with raisins (so raisins will sink down at the bottom of cake) and pour into the batter and mix well. 
• Spoon/ pipe the batter into paper cases.
• Bake at preheated oven 180C for about 20 minutes.
• Leave cake to cool before serve.