Sunday, April 26, 2015

Homemade Cinnamon Sugar



Ingredients:
1/2 cup sugar
1.5 tbs cinnamon powder

Method (yields 2 bottle):
  1. Mix together and keep inside container for later use.

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Seafood Sang Mee

Ingredient: 
2 Crab meat
2 prawns
Fish cake, sliced
1 egg
pork, sliced
1 garlic, chopped
Mee kia
Oil
1 small bowl water
1/4 cube chicken stock
1 tbs oyster sauce
1 tsp light soy sauce
dash pepper
Starch (1 tsp cornflour + 1 tsp water)

Method (1 serving):
  1. Heat oil, deep fried mee kia. Be careful, it burnt out very fast.
  2. Dish out the oil and left 1 tbs in wok.
  3. Fried garlic, then pork, fish cake and other seafood.
  4. Add in water, stock and sauces.
  5. When boiled, add in starch and lower the heat.
  6. Lastly break in the egg and stir.
  7. Immediately turn of heat and dish out.


Monday, April 13, 2015

Marble cupcake -Great recipe!

This is a easy and nice cupcake recipe.
Moist and smell nice in the kitchen. One of my kids favourite.
Ingredients:
155g cake flour
1tsp baking powder (omit this if using self raising flour)
125g butter
125g sugar
2 eggs
1 tbs cocoa powder
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
3 tbs milk

Method (yields 5 cupcakes):
  1. Preheat oven at 170 degree.
  2. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
  3. Add in eggs and beat well.
  4. Fold in flour, add in milk and vanilla extract.
  5. Scoop out 1/3 portion of the mixture.
  6. Add in cocoa powder to the 1/3 portion.
  7. Scoop 1tbs batter into the papercup, add chocolate batter over it, top with butter batter again.
  8. Fill to 2/3 of the papercup.
  9. Use a chopstick to stir the batter in papercups lightly (2 round), don't overmix.
  10. Bake for 25-30mins or till skewer comes out clean.

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Cinnamon Roll with icing (5K Bread Dough)

This is one of the best bread dough I tried.
The bread is still soft on second day.

Icing- The butter had not fully softened yet.


Starter dough:
105g bread flour
45g cake flour
12g sugar
3g instant yeast
120g water

Main dough:
105g bread flour
45g cake flour
48g sugar
3/4 tsp salt
12g milk powder
45g egg
27g water
36g butter

Fillings: 
1-2 tbs cinnamon sugar (personal preference)

Icing ingredients:
1/2 cup icing sugar
1 tbs butter, softened
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbs milk
Mix all together


Method (yields 9 rolls):
  1. Lightly grease the a 9 inch pan.
  2. Mix the starter dough and allow to sit in a environment to rise till it looks like "honeycomb".
  3. Mix the main dough ingredients except butter. The initial dough will be very wet, it will be fine after several kneading. Knead till is soft and non sticky, incorporate butter and knead till it don't stick to the side.
  4. Allow the dough to rise till doubles in size.
  5. Punch down and roll dough flat in square size.
  6. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar on the dough, roll it like swiss roll. Cut it to 1.5inch thick.
  7. Place inside pan and let it rise (around 45-60mins).
  8. Preheat oven at 180degree, bake it at lower rack for 25mins.
  9. Remove from oven, pour the icing glaze onto the roll and let it cool.
  10. Glaze will hardens once it is cooled.

Icing recipe adapted from here.
5K Bread dough receipt adapted from here.






Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Sausage bun

I made this bread late night and the bread is abit tough early morning.
After reheat in oven, the bread is soft again.
Not a perfect recipe, will look around again.




Ingredients:
295ml warm milk
8g instant yeast
50g sugar
1 egg
55g butter, softened
6g salt
440g plain flour
20g butter, melted

Method (12 servings):
  1. Mixed yeast, milk, sugar together in a mixer bowl and rest for 5mins.
  2. Add in eggs, flour, salt and better.
  3. I use machine to mix evenly (the dough will be very wet).
  4. Cover the bowl and let it rest for 45mins (or till double its size).
  5. Punch the dough, covered and let it rest for another 45mins.
  6. Punch down again, knead to the shape you like and rest for another 30mins.
  7. Preheat oven to 200 degree.
  8. Bake bread for 12-15mins.
  9. When done, brush butter on top of it.

***Can keep unused dough in freezer after 2nd rest. I roll them to balls, defrost it, shape and rest for the 30mins before bake.

Recipe adapt from here.




Thursday, April 2, 2015

Black Sesame Matcha Ogaru Cake

This is a very light and fluffy recipe after several tried on others.
A keeper!
Ingredients:
4 egg whites
1/4 tsp cream of tartar
70g castor sugar

4 egg yolks
40g oil
70g milk
55g cake flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 tbs match
1 tbs black sesame (pound slightly)

Method (7 inch round pan):
  1. Preheat oven at 160 degree, add in 2 bowl water at the bottom tray 
  2. Beat egg yolk till pale, add in oil and milk and beat till bubbles.
  3. Add in the rest of ingredients till fully mixed.
  4. Beat egg whites till frosty, add in tartar and sugar and beat to stiff peak.
  5. Add 1/3 of the meringue to the mixture, mix and fold evenly.
  6. Add in the rest of meringue. do not over mixed.
  7. Lined the pan and pour the mixture in. 
  8. Tap the pan on table top a few times to level the batter and let the air out.
  9. Bake at 160 degree for 15mins, then lower down to 140 degree for another 60mins.
*Adjust oven temperature accordingly, different oven may varies.

Tips: Beat egg whites ill firm peak not stiff peak. Firm peak is between soft and stiff peak.