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....:)