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Sunday, October 30, 2016

Halloween 2016

Happy Halloween everyone!
My favorite time of the year to put on my creative witch's hat and have fun with my kids.  The cuppies are too cute to be scary 😃.
 Let's take a look.













Saturday, June 25, 2016

Marble Pound Cake

If you are looking for a moist, soft and chocolaty marble cake, look no further. This is THE one! Thanks to Anna Olson, I have found the perfect marble cake.

This cake is not too big or too rich. It is certainly moist and soft and the size is just right.








3/4 cup (185 ml) unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2/3 cup (160 ml) sour cream
4 oz (120g) bittersweet choc, chopped and melted

1. Pre heat oven to 160 degree celsius. Grease 9 x 5 inch loaf pan and dust with flour, tapping out any excess.
2. Using electric mixer beat butter and sugar untill light and fluffy about 2 mins. Add eggs one at a time, beating wella after each addition. Stir in vanilla.
3. In separate bowl, sift and whisk flour, baking powder and salt. Add this to the butter mixture, alternating with sour cream and blending well after each addition, starting and finishing with flour. Scrape half if this mixture into another bowl.
4. Melt the chocolate and add warm chocolate to one bowl of the batter and stir until blended. Dollop vanilla batter and chocolate batter in alternate spoonfuls into pan.  Use a paring knife to swirl the batter.
5. Bake the cake for 60 to 70 mins until a tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool cake for 30 mins in the pan, then turn cake out to cool completely.

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Sugee Butter Cake for Mother's Day

It's Mother's Day today!
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all of you wonderful mothers out there. This is an extra special day to be pampered.








My day started a day earlier.  My family treated me with a scrumptious BBQ steamboat dinner last nite and gave me a present too. A cake recipe book called Grandbaby Cakes by  food blogger Jocelyne Delk Adams. A great book with good recipes.  I am happy.  Thank you my lovelies! 😙

So today, I made myself this moist and soft Sugee Butter Cake with Rum. Mmmm...yummy! It's a big cake. So I decided to bake it into two small trays and gave one to my good neighbour.  So, not only am I happy but my neighbour is too.

Well, let's get on with the recipe shall we?  Right! All you need is:

300g butter
260g caster sugar
1 tsp salt
5 eggs
190g plain flour
1 tbsp baking powder
300g semolina
300ml fresh milk
1 tsp vanilla (I used 2-3 tbsp of rum)

1. Soak semolina with milk for 6 hours.
2. Grease and line 9 inch baking pan. Pre heat oven to 180 defree celcius.
3. Beat butter and sugar and salt until light and fluffy.  Add eggs one at a time, beat well after each addition
4. Stir in semolina and vanilla or rum. Fold in sifted flour and blend to mix.
5. Spread into baking tin and bake for 40-45 mins or until cake is done.

Enjoy with a cup of hot tea! 😆

Monday, April 25, 2016

Golden Bundt Nutella Cake

After many many months of busy weekends, finally I managed to bake this lovely plump looking bundt.

I was thinking of making marble cake using nutella instead of cocoa powder or chocolate. And I also wanted to make a bundt cake. So here's nutella marble and bundt cake in one!

This recipe is actually a plain pound cake but I added a couple of tablespoons of nutella to some of the batter for the marble effect.

It's a simple recipe and pretty fast to make.  Do try if you like a quick and yet delicious cake.  But, let me warn you. This is a large cake.



Golden Bundt Cake with a twist of Nutella

Pre-heat oven to 180 degree celsius
10 inch bundt pan spray with oil and coat with flour

3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
4tsp baking powder
1/2tsp baking soda
4 large eggs
1 1/2 cup (375 ml) mayonnaise
1/2 cup (125 ml) sour cream
2tbsp lemon zest
1 1/2tsp vanilla
4tbsp nutella

1.  In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder and baking soda.
2. Add eggs, mayonnaise, sour cream, lemon zest and vanilla to flour mixture.
3. With an electric mixture beat the batter at medium speed for 1 min. Scrape the sides and mix at high speed for another min.
4. Divide the batter into half and mix one half with nutella.
5. Spread batter into pan alternate with nutella batter and bake for 40 - 45 mins or until done.






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Sprinkle the top with some icing sugar if you like.  Serve with a cup of hot tea. Yumm!

Monday, January 4, 2016

Garlic Barbeque Pork Belly (Char Siu)

Happy New Year everyone!
Wish that 2016 will be a better year for all with all good blessings in health, luck, love, happiness and fortune!

To start off the year with more new recipes to try, here's the recipe for Char Siu which means barbeque.  This dish is very popular with the Chinese and we love this simple to make char siu.  If you have a big family, it's cost saving to make this as the ready-bbqued ones are expensive.

Basically it's strips of pork belly marinated with the garlic bbq sauce done the chinese way and then pan fried.  This is yummy eaten  with hot steaming rice.

All you need is:
Garlic Char Siu Sauce
2  whole gatlic, chopped
3 tbsp oyster sauce
4 tbsp light soya sauce
3 tbsp chinese wine
2 tsp five spice powder
500 ml water
1tsp cornflour mixed with 1 tbsp water for thickening

600 gm pork belly


Heat up 2 tbsp oil and saute chopped garlic until fragrant.  Add in the remaining ingredients and bring to boil. Lower heat  and boil for another 5 mins and thicken with cornflour mixture. Off heat and let cool.

Once cool, marinade the pork belly with this sauce for 3 hours or overnight.

Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a non stick pan and fry the pork belly for 5 mins on each side. Add 500ml water and bring to boil. Lower the heat and continue to cook untilmthe pork is tender and browned.  Once well cooked, dish up and let cool before slice it thinly before serving. 





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