Green Tea Macarons

Green Tea Macarons

Baked another bacth of Green Tea Macarons. Successful!!! So Happy!!!

Ingredients

50gm almond powder

100gm icing sugar

5gm green tea powder

25gm icing sugar

50gm egg whites

Temp 150c for abt 6/7mins (Feet form), reduce 10c after every 1min till 100c and baked for total of 22mins

*Sprinkle the 100s & 1000s on the macs before popping them into the oven.

Chocolate Macarons with lemon curd

Chocolate Macarons

The lemon curd goes well with chocolate Mac. This is another bacth I tried today. Nearly half got no feet. Don't know what went wrong.

Ingredients
10g cocoa powder

50g Almond powder

80g icing sugar

25gm castor sugar

50gm egg white

Temp: 150c for 18mins

Coconut Macarons with lemon curd

Coconut Macarons

This is coconut macaron filled with lemond curd. Another attempt with fine feet. Happy still!

The recipe is adapted from 'I love Macaron'. Instead of using coconut powder. I used dessicated coconut (toast & grind)

Ingredient

20gm Coconut powder

50gm Almond powder

50gm egg white

80gm icing sugar

25gm castor sugar

Temp 150c for abt 7mins (Feet form), reduce 10c after every 1min till 100c and baked for total of 22mins

Lemond Curd

Still have some yolks left in the fridge. Other then using it for fried rice, I used it for lemon curd which can be use for mac later on. Happy!!! Finally can try out new cream for my mac.

LEMON CURD

Ingredient

20gm corn flour

30gm sugar (Original 50gm)

100gm water

1 egg yolk

2Tbsp lemon

1/2 lemon zest

Method

1) In a saucepan mixed corn flour and sugar together

2) add in water and stirred the mixture

3) Bring (1)(2) to boil under small fire and stirred continously till translucent.

4) turn off fire and stirred in the yolk

5) add lemon juice and zest

6) Serve when cool

Coffee Macaron

This is the 11th attempt: Coffee Macaron...very untidy feet. Look more like UFOs.....

Coffee Macaron

Ingredients

2 Tsp instant coffee powder

60gm almond powder

50gm egg white

100gm icing sugar

25gm castor sugar

Temp: 160c abt 18-20 mins

Macarons

I'm so happy!!!! This is my 10th attempts!!! Finally can see the feet!!!

Watermelon Kueh

Steamed Watermelon kueh
A very easy recipe. Will post recipe soon.

Steamed Pumpkin Kueh

Since dh don't like to eat sweet stuff, decided to steam this pumpkin kueh. This recipe was extracted from a book I bought recently from my KL trip.

Pumpkin Steamed Kueh

Ingredients
300gm rice flour
600gm pumpkin (remove skin and shred)
6 cloves of mushroom
100gm minced meat
900ml water

Seasoning
1 tbsp salt
½ tbsp pepper

Topping
Some white sesames
Fried shallots
Spring onions

Method

1) Rinse pumpkin, remove skin and cut into shreds. Rinse mushroom, soaked till soft & cut into shreds
2) Pour rice flour into a big bowl, add in 400ml of water & mix well
3) Heat the wok with 3 tbsp of oil, fried the shallots used for topping. Dished up the fried shallots and used the oil to stir fry mushroom, minced meat over medium heat until fragrant, then add in pumpkin and stir fry for 2 mins. Add in the remaining 500ml water, seasoning and cook for another 3 mins.
4) Gradually pour (2) into (3) and then stir cook till it become thicken. Pour the mixture into greased baking mould (or you can lay the plastic paper meant for kuek making) and placed into a preheat wok and steam over high heat for 40 mins.
5) Spread shallot, sesames and spring onions

Black Glutinous Rice Chiffon Cake

Black Glutinous Rice Chiffon Cake

Banana Chiffon Cake

Have been lagging in posting again! This time round will try to add in recipes. Okie let this be my first recipe posting.....BANANA CHIFFON CAKE..oops no picture to go with! Anyway this recipe is extracted from a Chinese baking book SY bought from me while she was at Taiwan early this year. I hope I am hardworking enough to continue to post recipe........ By the way I have reduce the amt of sugar since I don't like my cakes to be too sweet.

Banana Chiffon Cake
* yield 4 mini chiffon or 17cm chiffon
*Approximately baking time of 25-30mins for mini or 30-35mins for 17cm
*Oven temperature 170C
*Per slice of cake from 17cm chiffon (Can yield 10 slices) is about 148 kcal

Ingredients

Set A
Cake flour 90gm ( If no cake flour used 80gm plain flour add 10gm corn flour)
Baking powder 1/2 tsp
Salt a pinch

Set B
egg yolks 3 nos
Sugar 40gm (Original 60gm)
Oil 40gm
Banana 150gm @ 3 small nos
Banana essence 2 drops (Optional)
Lemon juice 1/2 tsp

Set C
Egg white 3 nos
Sugar 20gm (original 30gm)

Method
1) Preheat oven
2) Sieve Set A & placed aside
3) Mashed the bananas and added in the lemon juice
4) Whisked egg yolk and sugar in Set B till light clour
5) Add in oil & continue to whisk till smooth
6) Add in smashed banana
7) Add in Set A and blend well. Do not overmix. Set aside
8) Whisked egg whites till big bubbles appear
9) Add the sugar gradually preferably at 3 different time
10) Add 1/3 of whisked Set C into (7) & fold well.
11) Fold in the remaining whites into the batter.
12) Pour into mould (do not grease or lined mould) till 3/4 filled. Bang the filled mould to remove trapped air and they are ready to bake
13) Once baked, overturn the mould to cool and serve

Bake Donut

The coating of chocolate is difficult. Must use double boil method and ensure no water or vapor is drip into the bowl of coating chocolate

Avrem & Alden

This is decorated by Avrem

And this is by Alden. So which one is more creatvie?

Shephards Pie

This recipe is also very easy. Just need some minced meat, onion, garden peas, potatoes, fresh milk and butter.

Passion Fruits Chiffon Cake w/o make over

Pandan Chiffon Cake

Green Tea Chiffon Cake

My version of green tea chiffon cake. Probably have added in too much of the green tea powder. Strong and bitter taste.

Steamed Moist Chocolate Cake

This recipe is defintely a keeper. The cake is very moist!

Passion fruit Chiffon

This is for Mother's Day Celebration. PassionFruit chiffon topped with strawberry. Forget to take a picture when I cut it. Overall verdict is NICE!!! So happy!!!

Marble Cupcakes

Baked this batch for BIL engagement.

Used melted chocolate for the wording. Got hard time transferring it as the words break easily.

Hope they like it!

Tri Marble Cake

I tired out this cake to see how did the 'pattern' turn out. Satisfied!!!

Mee Suah Kueh

Strawberry Cheese Cake

Mango Mochi

Got the detailed recipe from here

http://irenechanwai.mysinablog.com/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=112096

Durian Puff

Triple layered Oreo Cheese Cuppies

Apple Crumble Cheese cake

My first attempt of this cake. I failed on the crumble part. Taste wise is still good!

Chocolate Chiffon Cake

Up loading all my bakes.....

I don't know how to create a category like what other bloggers are doing so I just upload whatever I have in my PC....

My New Pots of Orchid

Full house! Unless I buy another tray. It cost $25 per pc and can only hold up to 3 pots the most!


Jacky like this very much.



Pink orchid! I have never see this breed before

Potato Quail Eggs

Bought 100pcs of quail eggs from farm mart last weekend. Decided to make some potato eggs. Here it goes....

Cook Books and New Toys

Have bought a new cook book by Alex Goh ' BAKING CODE'. Can't resist the temptation after viewing it at Popular Book Store. Got it at 20% less so consider a good buy. Also have participate in SMH Oversea BP and bought some new 'toys'! I have also list down the prices for my own easy reference. Can't imagine I have spend so much on these toys!!!

2 Pcs silicone mat $15.72

3pcs set Spatula $10.15

9' silicone cake pan $12.77

cake tester $2.95

11' Fluted quiche pan $8.17

I have also bought a Silpat mat from another mummy. This mat cost me $35.52 !