Almond Flakes Crisp

Its kinda disappointed. As this is not what I want it to turned out to be. I was watching this Cooking vcd and I am so excited about it but the outcome... hhmm.... but its crispy still and it have a strong aroma. Any how... I will try that again next time... till i get wat I want.. Never give up... Heres the recipe... I was thinking was serving it with the ice cream.. hehe.. but not tonite..

Ingredient:

2 egg whites

100g castor sugar

1/4 tsp vanilla essence

50g plain flour

100g almond flakes

25g melted butter

Method:

1. combine egg white and sugar and lightly whisk it.

2. add the sifted plain flour and stir

3. add vanilla essence, then the almond flakes and stir again.

4. lastly, add in the melted butter. Let the batter rest for an hour.

5. on a tray place the parchment paper and brush some oil on it to prevent the batter sticking on the paper and later spread the batter as thinly as possible.

6. bake in the oven for 15 mins on 200 deg. cel. and later let it cool and start munching it.

Red velvet Cupcakes with cream cheese frosting

Oh... my 1st oct baking. haaiizzz... so fun, so tiring, so worth it. F have been sendin me this recipe and saying his frens would like me to try this cupcake recipe. I was like .. eehh..... OK... as I thought cup cakes and muffin is almost the same... so I just didnt bother much at all. Just last week, F is saying his fren requested me to do it for their hari raya mini potluck... I was a bit lazy tat time cos i have church service for the thurs and fri and weekend going to Miri for opne house and Sunday having wedding dinner... I was like .. Gosh. do I have the time. But there goes... Fri nite after my service, I told F , I want to try to make it now. So i make my first batch. with ugly frosting.... and my second trial, it on sunday afternoon after my trip from Miri, and I spend more time on the frosting.. and some weird patterns have been created. hahaa... the most impt thing is to make sure the person eating it is enjoying... I m proud to says there all like it... so i m satisfied. here comes the recipe..


Ingredient:
1 1/2 cups of sugar
1/2 cup of butter, room temperature
2 eggs, room temp.
2 1/3 cups of cake flour
2 tbsp of cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup of buttermilk
1 tbsp red colouring
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp distilled white vinegar

Method:
1. pre heat oven to 180 deg. cel.
2. beat the butter and sugar in the cake mixer for 3 minutes on medium speed until light and fluffy.
3.add the egg one at a time, beat until each is fully incorporated. be sure to scrape the sides of the bowl to have even mixing.
4.In a large bowl, sift together the cake flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
5. In another bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, vinegar, vanilla extract and red food colouring.
6. Add 1/4 of the dry ingredients to the egg batter and mix, then add 1/3 of the wet ingredient. continue adding dry, wet and ending with the dry ingredient.
7. scoop into the cupcakes papers, about 1/2 or 3/ full.
8. Bake for 18-22 minutes or until a toothpick come out dry n clean. Rotate the pan after 15 minutes to ensure even baking.
9. Allow to cool for few minutes in the pan then put on the wire rack to cool completely. Makes about 15 to 18 muffins size cupcakes.


Frosting ingredient;
1/2 cup butter
250g cream cheese
1 1/2 cup icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract

Method
1. Cream the butter and the cream cheese together, using the cake mixer and hand mixer for few minutes till it incorporated. scrape down the side for even mixing.
2. add the vanilla extract.
3. add the icing sugar, pipe onto the cooled cupcakes.

happy trying!~!

steamed tofu with minced chicken

the uncooked version
the outcome of the dish.


Its a healthy dish... chix breast meat being minced and japanese tofu.
simple dish and a simple recipe.

Ingredient:
2 rolls of japanese tofu (if possible, use tofu without egg)

300g minced chicken
1 big clove of garlic (chopped)
1 big onion (chopped)
50g shredded carrot
1 tsp salt
a dashed of pepper
1 tsp sesame oil

1 tsp cornstarch


method:
1. cut the tofu to few pieces and lay on the glass/ceramic plate.
2. mixed all the chicken, garlic, onion, carrot, salt, pepper and sesame oil. All these ingrdient mix in a big bowl. and lastly add on the cornstarch.
3. get a piece of tofu and place the chicken mix on top of the tofu (shown on the 1st picture) and continue doin it and placed the tofu side by side.
4. steam the tofu on medium heat for 20 to 30 mins. And its ready to serve.

the black black thingy on top of the dish is fried onion. i think its overy cooked... hehe...

so called buffalo wings

seriously, i really need to learn how to take a good pictures.. hahah... how come when i see this picture in the digi cam , it looks so mouth watering.. after loading it. gosh.. wat happen... argghh.. hahhaa..

well.. there is no recipe for this buffalo wings tat i make.. reason.. simple.. i cheated.. haha.. i actually bought the buffalo wing powder in the supermarket and just mixed it with the wings... i m such a cheater... but the wings tasted so so so good... um... i think i still have half a pack of the powder left..

just to share the picture only. I believed I have been checking out the recipe of buffalo wings, guess I dun seems to find the ingredient in the supermarket or maybe I m too lazy to look for it.. just plain lazy.. haha.. tats it.. i m a cheater and a lazy person.. gosh...

chicken shepherd's pie

I wonder this considered as chicken shepherd's pie or not.. it dont look attractive enough. Hmm... better improved my phototaking skill.. hehe...

Actually, I have requested a DJ Marilyn from pilihan fm to send me the recipe. hahaha.. tats was cool.. really thank her for that but i didnt fully follow her recipe.. just add and deduct some ingredient.. tats is called creative ya.. hehe

here comes the recipe.

Ingredient:

A)

3 to 4 potatoes (boiled and mashed)

B)

1tsp olive oil

1pc onion (chopped)

2 clove garlic (chopped)

250g minced chicken

100g white button mushroom (chopped)

1tsp sesame oil

1/2 tsp of soya sauce

a dashed of pepper

a dashed of salt

1 tbsp cornstarch

C)

100g cheddar cheese (shredded) or mozzarella cheese.

Methods:

1. boiled the potatoes till very soft and later mashed it.

2. line one layer of mashed potato on the casserole.

3. Pre-heat the oven to 180 deg. cel.

4. Heat oil in a saucepan, add in garlic and onion, stir-fry it, add minced chicken till half cooked. Add in button mushroom, sesame oil, soya sauce, pepper and salt. stirred the chicken mixture till cooked. if too watery add in cornstarch to thicken it.

5. spread the chicken mixture on the 1st layer of mashed potatoes. Top the remainin potatoes on the mixture.

6. drizzle the shredded cheese on the top and baked in the oven for 20 mins on 180 deg. cel.

carrot cake

I have been very busy packing up for the new house.. just thinking, i wont be having any time to bake anything. But my mind keeping thinking abt the carrot cake recipe tat i have just print out from office and its in my office bag. So I was checking out the fridge, and wah lah.. carrot at the edge of the fridge.. haha.. and i was digging out all the ingredient needed for the carrot cake. And I was lazy to fix the cake mixer.. so i just hand whisk.. yes.. manually.. hahahaha.. i m at the super lazy stage but still wanna bake it.. Planned to use half of the ingredient, but my mind is half functioning, end up using the complete ingredient.. so was thinking.. wat the heck.. just go ahead and try an error. here are my recipe...

Ingredient:

2 cups of flour (i used cake flour) but i think best is use all -purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

1 1./2 tsp cinnamon powder

2 tsp salt

2 tsp bicarbonate soda

2 cup brown sugar

1 cup oil

4 eggs

1 cup chopped walnuts

3 cup grated carrot

Directions:

Mix dry ingredient; add oil and blend. Add one egg at a time and keep on mixing with my spactula. Add carrots and nuts and mixed all together. Rub some butter on the cake pan ( i used a rectangular size - 13X9) or round pan..

bake for 45 minutes at 170 deg cel. Take out from the oven. let it cool and cut in half before putting the cream cheese frosting.

cream cheese frosting :

1 pack of cream cheese-25og (at room temperature)

1/2 cup whipped cream

1/4 cup icing sugar

2 tsp vanilla

Mix all ingredient together till smooth and spread on the cooled cake. can sprinkle some more nuts on it to make it more crunchier..

hubby is the guinea pig.. so watever i bake, He will be the one who tried it first.. he likes it.. hehe.. worth the tryin then..

Apple strudel with custard

I have been longing to make this apple strudel for ages... got the recipe from online but there is no simple recipe for the puff pastry. There using Filo sheet which i dun really know wat that is and I think its not selling in Brunei. So I have to google alot of puff pastry recipe.. there are some simple recipe but not detail enuff. And quite recently I bot the recipe book of Agnes and there is this pics demo of the puff pastry... but still its not enuf detail for me and then watching AFC, the show "sugar" host by anna is superb... she can make the puff pastry making so easy. And today, I have to dare myself to make it. Everything have to be done step by step and I make a messed in my kitchen. I m so happy that I done it. After hubby trying the 1st piece, he asked me to call my frens to come over and try it. They like it. So I m satisfied with my baking. But I think I wont start making the dessert for the time being.... too much of a work..

Puff Pastry Ingredients:

240g flour(all purpose), pinch of salt (sifted togehter)

50g butter

1tsp lemon juice mixed with 150ml cold water

180g pastry margarine (i used butter)

Method:

1. place flour and salt in a mixing bowl. rub the butter until it resembles bread crumb

2. add in lemon juice and water, knead for 5 minutes till it form a smooth dough. (i just love the touch of the dough.. so soft)

3. cover with cloth or maybe use the cling wrap to cover it and place to the refrigerator for 30 mins.

4. roll out the dough into 1 cm thick. rolled it to a cross shape (+) so that u can place the pastry margarine or the butter in between. cover the pastry margarine or butter with the dough. Make sure its fully sealed up if not the butter will spill out.

5. Start to roll the dough with the rolling pin to an oblong shape. (start with the center then slow rolled up then rolled downward). After rolling, make a 1/3 fold at both ends so it will form 3 layers. Use a cling wrap and chilled it for 15 mins.

6. Bring out and rolled the dough again with the same 1/3 fold and bring to chill for another 15 mins. the reason for chilling again and again is because the butter will melt with our warm hand.

7. Again for the last fold is a bit different. Its a 1/4 fold and it will form 4 layers. Chilled again then ready to be used.

Actually, better choice is go youtube and search for pastry making.. better demonstration.. hahha...

8. B4 baking, bring out the pastry and cut into 3 pcs. and rolled it flat. Place the dough on the buttered baking tray. Bake for 30 mins on 200 deg. cel.

Custard Cream ingredient:

2 egg yolks

1/3 cup sugar (maybe can lessen a bit)

2 tbspn plain flour

1 cup milk

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

1 tbsp melted butter

method:

1. mix egg yolk and sugar in a pot till creamy.

2. sift in the flour mix well.

3. add warm milk into mixture and stir well.

4. place pot on low heat and stir the mixture continuously. add in vanilla and continue stiring till thickens.

5. remove the pot from the heat and stir in the melted butter.

6. cool the custard cream in the refrigerator to let it thicken.

Apple filling ingredient:

3 apples

35g butter

90g castor suar

3 tbsp blended almond

half a lemon juice and lemon zest

1 tsp corn flour

method:

1. slice or cube the the apple.

2. heat the pan and add the butter and let it melt. add the apples and stir till the apple coated with butter. Allow the apple to be cooked about 7 to 10 minutes. stirred continuously.

3. in a small bowl, mixed the corn flour, lemon juice and zest.

4. once the apples cooked, stir in sugar and continue stirring till the sugar melted.

5. add the almonds and continue strring for a few minutes.

6. add the corn flour mixture and stir. allow the sauce to thicken and remove from heat.

7. chilled it b4 using.

Final finishing...

Place one puff pastry on a plate and layered with the apple filling (i whipped some cream and layered it b4 placing the apple), then place the 2nd pastry and layered with the custard and place the last piece of pastry. dust some icing sugar on top.. looks nicer..

Jeanette, I finally make it.... hehehehehe....