Cotton Cheese Cake

A simple cotton cheese cake to serve my friends when they were
at my new home. I transformed it to a simple birthday cake with
some oreo biscuits decor when knowing one of the girls turning
11 that week. This came a surprise birthday treat to her and
hope she has a simple but memorable birthday.
Happy Birthday, Cheryl...

Cake recipe can be found in hearty-bakes.

Serikaya Cake (steam)

Another very soft and moist steam cake. Original cake recipe
can be found in y3k . Try it out...
Below recipe I did some slight changes to suit my taste.

Ingredients

A: 230g butter
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
5 eggs

B: (sieved together)175g plain flour
1 1/2 tsps double-action baking powder

C: 140g condensed milk
150g kaya
125g Horlicks
80g black treacle (replaced by Gula Hitam Browning)
200ml evaporated milk
some macadamia nuts (chopped)

Method:
1. Line and grease a 9" round cake tin. Heat up steamer.
2. Beat butter and vanilla essence in a mixing bowl
until creamy. Add in eggs one at a time.
Gradually add in ingredient (B) and ingredient (C)
alternately until well-combined. Pour into prepared tin
and sprinkle with nuts.
3. Steam for 1.15hr to 1.30hr or until skewer comes out
clean when inserted into cake's centre.

Steam Moist Chocolate Cake

The weather has been very warm, but it does not stop me

from baking chocolatery cake. Instead of baking it in

oven, this cake call for steaming. I guess steaming cake

will not be as 'heaty' as oven baked cake?

This cake was indeed moist and soft. It was recommended

to me by one of my baking friend, Yew Yen. Thank you

for sharing this great recipe :)

Ingredients:

185g butter

250g fine sugar

200ml evaporated milk

2 eggs

125g plain flour

70g cocoa powder

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

Methods:

1. combine sugar, evaporated milk, vanilla essence and butter in a saucepan.

Stir over low heat till sugar dissolved and butter has melted. Remove from heat.

2. Add the beaten eggs into the slightly cooled mixture and stir till well mixed.

3. Sift flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and soda into a large bowl.

4. Add eggs mixture over the flour. Stir till well mixed.

(Batter should be runny).

5. Lined and greased a 9 inch baking tin

6. Pour batter into baking tin and place into a steamer.

7. Cover the top of tin with a piece of aluminum foil.

8. Steam over medium heat for 45 mins.

9. Cool the cake in pan before turning out.

Recipe by Anita Khaw

Blueberry Scones

Make scones using Richard's recipe and replace cheese with

fresh blueberry. Too bad, my girls do not like scones, poor

mummy here has to swallow about 24 scones.....Luckily

managed to get rid some by giving colleagues and friends :)

Old Fashion Butter Marble Cake

This suppose to be a butter cake, but I find it too plain, so
decided to add some coco powder to some batter and mix
it. And it become marble cake!

Chocolate Gateau Cake

My initial plan was to bake Tiramisu cake without alcohol for my elder darling girl 13th birthday. But due to tide schedule I had, I changed to this Chocolate Gateau Cake last minutes. She liked it so much that she had this cake almost all by herself (of course not at one go). The only thing that I felt bad was not decorate and present this cake better..

Tiramisu Cake

Tiramisu...this cake has been sitting in my bake list for long.
Since the day I had learnt this cake from Richard, I had bought
some of the ingredients from him then. Finally I decided to
bake this cake for my dear R's birthday today. Though the alcohol
in the cake was not suitable for children, but my girls still
had 2 small pieces each. And they requested me not to put
alcohol the next time, so they can eat more....Upon request,
I will soon bake another non-alcohol tiramisu cake for them...

Blueberry Muffins

When blueberry having offer last weekend, my dear husband
bought it without hesitant. He knew that I would need it for my
cake (so sweet of him). But I had enough of Fruity Pastry Cake
for the moment, cos I have bake 4 such cakes over 2 weekends.
So in order not to let the berries rot in fridge, I go thru my file
and decided to bake this 'To Die For Blueberry Muffins'. This
muffin has always well-like by my family. Hope it is the same
to you too..

Ingredients:

190 gm all-purpose flour

150 gm castor sugar

3 gm salt

9 gm baking powder

80ml vegetable oil

1 egg

80 ml milk

145 gm fresh blueberries

Topping

60 gm caster sugar or brown sugar

90 gm all-purpose flour

3 gm ground cinnamon

60 gm Butter, cubed

A pinch of salt

Methods:

1. Preheat oven to 200C.

2. Combine 190gm flour, 150gm sugar, salt and baking powder.

Set aside.

3. Add egg into milk and combine with oil.

4. Pour the wet ingredients into flour mixture. Stir to mix well.

5. Fold in blueberries.

6. Fill muffin cups to 2/3 full, and sprinkle with *crumb topping

mixture.

7. Bake for 20 - 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or till done.

* To make crumb topping :

1. Mix together 60gm sugar, 90gm plain flour, 3gm cinnamon,

60gm butter, a pinch of salt. Mix with fork and sprinke

over muffins before baking.

Chocolate Cream Cheese Cake

I got this recipe from myculinaryjournal quite some time
ago. It has been sitting in my file till today that I decided
to clear my Philadelphia cheese which I bought some
time back. The texture is rather moist too. But it required
quite a long baking time than it was stated in the recipe.
It took me about 1hr30 mins to bake. Result is very
good. Everyone likes it very much, will definite bake
this again.

Recipe

Ingredients A:

250g cream cheese

60g castor sugar

1 egg

Ingredients B:

180g butter (I use 150g)

150g castor sugar

3 eggs

3 tbsp cocoa powder

120g self-raising flour

1 tsp baking powder

Method:-

1. Beat ingrediten A till light and fluffy. Set aside.

2. Ingredients B, cream butter and sugar. Add in eggs

one at a time. Add in combined dry ingredients (Flour,

cocoa powder, baking powder). Mix well.

3. Pour half chocolate batter into 7" square tin. Then pour

in cream cheese mixture. Pour the remaining portion

if chocolate batter.

4. Baked in oven at 180 C for 1hr 30 mins.

5. Cool well and store cake in the fridge.

White Chocolate & Nuts Cookies

Believed me or not. I got this recipe from a kindergarten boy, Moses.
He has given me a few pieces to try, and goodness! A young boy like
him can bake so well! I asked him if he is willing to share his recipe
with me and he happily obliged. Good boy! Haha....

Recipe:

Ingredients

A:

250 gm butter

125 gm soft brown sugar

B:

2 eggs

1 tbsp vanilla essence

C:

350 gms plain flour

1 tbsp soda bicarbonate

(I find the taste of soda too strong, should it be 1 teaspoon?)

1/4 tbsp salt

D:

180 gm of white chocolate, chopped coarsely

100 gm almond nibs (roasted)

Method

(Preheat oven at 170C.)

1. Whip ingredients A together till white and fluffy.

2. Add egg, one at a time. Mix well before another egg.

3. Whip the mixture till creamy, then add vanilla essence

4. Add in ingredients C and D. Whip mixture till well combined.

5. Use a teaspoon to scoop a cookie size and place on greased tray.

(Place apart, not too close)

6. Bake for 20 to 25mins

7. Leave cookies to cool before storing.

Fruit Pastry Cake Again!

Yes, I made this again. Simply too good to resist. This time, I
added strawberries to it. Unfortunately, the strawberries are
sour, but it blend well with the cake :)

Awards Received!

Thanks fatmum for dedicating these 2 sweet awards to me again.
I will work harder to bake more so as not to disappoint you *v*

Hereby, I would also like to dedicate these 2 awards to:
hearty-bakes
lindataycorner

Fruit Pastry Cake II

I baked one round 9" and one square 8" cake. The cakes
came out so well that I decided to bring one cake to my
office to share with my colleagues. Everyone in office was
'wowing' and complimenting on such a nice bake done.
Can't denied that it boost up my confident level :) Will
sure bake some more to share with my parents this coming
weekend too...

Fruit Pastry Cake I

This cake was highly recommended to me by hearty-bakes.
Looking at the nice bakes by her, I could imagine the fruity
aroma lingering in the air. I immediately book marked it and
buy the necessary ingredients needed for the cake. I followed
the recipe closely as not wanting to waste my fresh blueberries.
And whats more, I am baking 2 cakes at one go. Thanks to
my Ariston maxi oven.

Paper Sponge Cuppies

I have been MIA for long time. Busy, busy, busy...
Finally settled in new home with my new oven built. Wanted so much to bake something, but simply do not have time and energy to do anything. Reading fellows baker's blog is the greatest pleasure and mind relaxing for me during this period. Wished I could have ample strength and energy to start baking that moment.

To warm up my new oven, I have chosen Paper Sponge Cuppies from hearty-bakes .Texture is indeed very very soft and sweetness is just nice. I could have poured too much batter into the papercup, ended up with the cake rising too high and cracked...Nevertheless, thanks Jess for sharing this great recipe.

Creaming Lesson 5

Creaming Lesson 8

Fondant Rose

Getting ready for my last creaming lesson with Richard Goh.
After attending his lessons for so many months, not only I learn
lots of baking skills n tips, I have made lots of friends there. Its
really good to see everyone coming to class sharing their bakes
and also sharing where to get good bargains for baking essential
stuffs. No deny that everyone is enjoying learning and chatting
there. I definitely going to miss everyone and hope that we will
meet up some other days.

Below is the fondant roses I rushed to made last night. Recalling how
to mould these roses which I had learnt 2 years ago. Though the
roses is not in perfect shapes, but still this is hand-made.:)
This is to decorate my last lesson - Wedding Tiers Cake.

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