Saturday

CAKE POPS



Recently I was inspired by BAKERELLA's cake pops collection and so I made these cake pops the day before new year's eve as a NEW YEAR'S GIFT for my society-mates. At first I almost gave up and everything was in a mess(i was having PMS that time LOL), but still the result was unexpectedly nice =] 

Chocolate cake pops
1 box chocolate cake mix (cook as directed on box for 13 X 9 cake)
1 can chocolate frosting (16 oz.)
1 package chocolate bark (regular or white chocolate)
wax paper,lollipop sticks

1. After cake is cooked and cooled completely, crumble into large bowl.
2. Mix thoroughly with 1 can cream cheese frosting.
3. Roll mixture into quarter size balls and lay on cookie sheet. 
4. Chill for several hours. 
5. Melt chocolate in microwave per directions on package.
6. Roll cake pops in chocolate and stand them up straight until firm.




Sunday

Made PIZZA Yourself


pizza!!!!!!!
More cheese!!Extra cheese!!!!!
My brother and i prefer extra cheese pizza and my mum hates cheese a lot.
She thinks cheese taste bad and smell stink!
She really don't know how to enjoy cheese....
But eating cheese is really going to gain me lots of weight!!

I'm made my own pizza with  my mum.
Is really tasty!!
And my mum sprinkle really small amount of cheese strips..
 i could count with my fingers!
But this is one of the reason why I finished one followed by one
 without feeling guilty as it is healthy and low calories.


Whatever pizza
ingredient:

A:
200g flour(sieve)
1 tsp instant yeast
a pinch of salt
1 tsp of sugar
i tsp oregano
1 tbsp olive oil
110 ml water


B:
1big onion
1 tomato

3 pcs chicken ham
green,yellow,red pepper
mozzarella cheese
pineapple
tomato puree




1.Mix ingredient A together to form a dough.
Place the dough in a big bowl and cover it with a  piece of wet cloth.
Leave it for thirty minutes
2.Roll out and place on the baking tray.

3.Brush the tomato puree evenly. Put all the ingredient B(cut into cube) on the it.
4.Bake at 180 degree for 20 minutes.


this is really easy to make!

PIZZA PIZZA PIZZA PIZZA PIZZA PIZZA PIZZA PIZZA PIZZA PIZZA

BON APPETITE

Saturday

GRANNY's apple Pie

Apple pie for my dearly MS. XAVIAR~
Recently, she was planning to slim down. I hope she doesnt slim down, she looks nice and cute now!!

This receipe was taken from one of my receipe book which the author is graduated from Le Cordon Blue,paris(One of my dream school!!)


I really hope that my mother will allow me to fulfill my pastry chef dream. She advised me to get a university degree first.Arh.....

So should i study culinary management or food science and nutrition?????Confusing....or just pastry.... 





RECIPE: apple pie



INGREDIENTS:
SKIN OF THE PIE:
puff pastry
sponge cake thin layer  (optional, to let the pie crust be more crispy)

THE FILLING:
apple(remove the skin ,diced into cubes)          3
unsalted butter                                                      30g
sugar                                                                       45g
water                                                                      1/4 cup
cinnamon                                                                optional
raisin( soaked in rum)                                          optional 
                     

egg(beaten)
peach jam

METHOD:


  1. Preheat oven to190 degrees celcius. Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add water and sugar, and bring to a boil. Reduce temperature and let simmer about 15 minutes.Add in cinnamon and rum raisin , let aside.
  2. Flatten the puff pastry into the pan by pressing firmly on bottom and side (do not over stretch).. Fill with a thin layer of sponge layer (optional) and pour in the apple filling. Cover with a lattice work of puff oastry. Brush the egg liquid over the puff pastry to give a shinning appearance after baked.
  3. Bake 50 minutes in the oven. Cook the Peach jam with some water until boil and slightly thick. Brush the cooked jam on top the surface of the pie to give shinny and mouth watering appearance.



AN APPLE A DAY KEEP THE DOCTOR AWAY!!!!!


I bit the pie just to try the taste, but...................i finished the whole pie.
This pie really delicious!!!!!

Friday

Simply Healthy OAT TART

I was sick of eating those dull tart.
Why not try something more healthier and tastier one?
TA TAH~~~~~~~~
THE HEALTHY TASTY OAT TART
Try this recipe instead of using those normal dull tarts~









RECIPE



INGREDIENTS :
75g    plain flour, sifted
125g butter
50g    brown sugar
120g quick oat
20g    rolled oat
egg    1

METHOD:
Beat the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.Add in egg and continue beating. Add in Flour , quick oat and rolled oat , stir evenly.
Flatten them into every mould and make few tiny hole on the bottom by using forks.
Bake for 10 minutes,170 degree celsius.




Try the Custard Fruit Tart Recipe now!!

Monday

mom's favorite POTATO tart


yoohoo~~ Is TART again!!!

My mom really felt proud of her tart i could see in the way she say ~haha
"These tart are my friends' favorite!! Everyone crave for it whenever i baked for them!!"she said to me.
This tart really didn't disappoint me as i thought its taste might be unacceptable.
A salty but not sweet TART?!? And it doesn't looks like my favorite Shepherd Pie...
Anyway~I don't mind~ As long as it's tasty!!!!!!



Ingredients


TART SHELL

butter 250g
icing sugar 125g
1/2 egg
flour 500g


1. Cream the butter, sugar till fluffy and white ( about 7 to 10 minutes in high speed).
2.Add in eggs and beat again.
3. Fold in flour and make them into a paste.
4. Press the paste fitly into the mould.

  

INGREDIENTS
make about 15 tarts


butter                       120g
caster sugar              115g
potato(mashed)        250g
eggs                         3
plain flour                 110g
baking powder         1 teaspoon
salt                           1/4 teaspoon
vanilla essence          few drops
tarts shell                  about 15



1. Sieve the flour, baking powder and add in salt.
2. Cream the butter, sugar, mashed potato till white and creamy (about 12-15 minutes).
3. Beat in eggs (one at a time).
4. Fold in the flour mixture with wooden spoon or mixer.
5. scoop or pipe the mixture in to the tarts shell.
6. Bake them at 170 Celsius degree for 25 to 30 minutes, then off the top heat and use only the bottom heat bake for 15 to 20 minutes.



Is really tasty~~
I scooped a chocolate ice cream on top the tart, like the way of brownie with ice cream~
A nice try!!!! I sell them and a quite big amount of cutie custard tart with three flavor (chocolate, strawberry, vanilla)during my school anniversary fair as my class was running an ice cream cafe~~
What a pity that i'm busy with my band show and i didn't shoot those who bought and felt satisfying with my tarts!!!!
Van sold some mouth watering dark chocolate muffin too!!! Hers are really delicious!!!!

here are some photo of part of my ice cream cafe ( although the stage was not that pretty, but it was built by all of my classmate!!is really a great job!!!)

I was the second girl from the left( a guitarist).
Here's the pic VAN & I were in!!!!
I'm the one who carrying "REDDIE" (red elect. guitar) and  VAN was standing at the right side~~
and the girl between us was really funny with her sitting posture.
I didn't shoot the bar of our cafe, is really cool and nice!!


Friday

Hearty Potato Mushroom Soup


I made this soup this afternoon for my mum~ I learned this recipe on a TV cooking show, the soup is so success and delicious!!!!The one thing is there is no whipping cream adding into it, Oh! I LOVE IT!!
My mum loves this soup so much, if she knows i'm using her ice blender to blend this soup, she's gonna kill me...
Keep the secret...




RECIPE: Potato mushroom soup
Serves4-5
INGREDIENTS:
3 potato
2 big red onions
a packet of fresh mushroom

low fat milk
1/4 chicken stok cube
black pepper
oil
water
METHOD:
1. Slice the potato, onion and mushroom.
2. In a pot, heat the oil and add in the sliced onion.Add in the potato and stir continuosly until fragrant.
3. Add water till cover all the potato and onion in the pot.
Reduce the heat. Cover and simmer for 20 to 30 minutes or until the potato is soft..Allow to cool slightly.[pic1]
4.
Place a saucepan on a medium heat and add 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Add all the sliced mushroom and one teaspoon full of black pepper and 1/4 of the chicken stok cube. Don't worry about putting too much of pepper, it helps to kill the heavy smell of raw mushroom.
5. Cook the mushroom until dry and slightly turned brown.Set aside.[pic2]
6.Place the slightly cooled potato mixture in a food processor and blend until smooth.
7.Return the mixture to the pot, adjust the seasoning by adding a pinch full of pepper and a pinch of chicken stock if necessary. Reheat then stir in the mushroom and milk (ratio of mixture:milk is  1: 3/4).
8.Stir continuosly . Once boiled , bubble appear, turn off the heat and serve.

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So healthy, So tasty.

Monday

Anyone wants Scramble Egg?

I was back from Shanghai this summer holiday.
Kinda cool trip to go there and explore lots of food and nice place.
My daddy really can EAT. He seems like craving for delicate all over Shanghai since he started working in there few years ago.
The best thing was , i can go over there every holiday. Hoping that my father could work in Paris as that was the place i really want to go, a food Paradise??[but...impossible]

As this is the eggs' week, I have chosen a delicate-Scramble EGG, which i have it in Singapore Changi Airport.




The restaurant is called TCC. Seems like I'm going there frequently. Their cakes are so attractive to me, I had  this-" Devil Chocolate" in the midnight about two in the morning. Oh mine, That's the reason I failed to lose my weight. I'm willing it for the sake of this cake.Haha . I love chocolate so so so much!!!



I had my breakfast again in TCC when i was back from china.I ordered something i really cant remember the name, is a kind of puff with asparagus.

Mouth watering breakfast , isnt't it~ 
VAN luv to say " mouth watering"

I shall share my trip and food in Shanghai later on.


Sunday

CHINESE EGG TART蛋挞


Am i really crazy for egg tarts?? I have been making this for a few weeks!!
This recipe is given by my mummy~ Is kind a different from the previous portuguese egg tart i made, same do the name of tart~




RECIPE







INGREDIENTS A (THE TARTS):
skin a:
150g plain flour, sifted
20g custard powder , sifted
30g icing sugar, sifted
60g shortening
2-3 tbsp water
SKIN B:
90g plain flour, sifted
60g shortening
INGREDIENTS B (THE EGG FILLING):
3 eggs, beaten
120g of sugar add in
250ml hot water, sifted and cooled
1 tsp vanilla, 1 tsp white vinegar
little yellow colouring
METHOD:
Skin A: Mix and knead until smooth.Divide into 15 parts.
B: Mix and divide into 15 parts.
Wrap B with A. Roll into a long shape, roll up tightly like swiss roll. Roll into a round piece and line onto the egg tart mould.
Preheat oven to 180degree.
Mix and strain filling. Fill the dough with the egg mixture (about 80% full).
Bake the Portuguese Egg Tarts at 180 degree for about 15-20 minutes or until the filling is set.

something to remind, when rolling the skin, don't roll until too thin, prevent skin B from coming out.
Remove any of the tart from the oven when its filling is set to prevent the filling from puffing up as we are not making portuguese egg tarts=)


IT'S A CHINESE EGG TART!!!!

Saturday

scramble egg with salted vegetable

Had scramble egg with  salted veg...it's a chinese basic home dish,it is easy to cook!
What u need is egg,salt,sugar,pepper and salted veg.

Beat egg,salt,sugar,pepper and salted veg together...

later heat up the pan and add some oil..

then pour the egg mixture on it and keep turning it till it is done!



Simply Egg Pudding


Finish making your egg tarts and nothing to do with the remain egg filling??
 I got this idea of making it into a simply egg pudding when i was at the age of eleven, haha(Ops, the age of hunting for junk food). I bought this same egg pudding in  ShenZhen, China.
Seriously, I prefer eating the filling more that the outer pie tart.
 Now I'm making it for the first time and it taste same as I bought in China!!
 Good dessert for those prefer eating portuguese egg filing, haha.






RECIPE





(make about 10)

INGREDIENTS 
4 egg yolks
1/3 cup of sugar (or slightly less if you don’t like your Portuguese egg tarts too sweet)
1/3 cup of heavy whipping cream
1/3 cup of milk
3 drops of vanilla extract
METHOD:
Use an electronic hand beater to blend Ingredients B. Beat for about 3 minutes and strain the filling through a strainer. Set aside.
Preheat oven to 400 F. 
Fill the egg mixture about 80% full.
Bake them at 400F for about 15-20 minutes or until the filling turn brown.


Click here for the Portuguese Egg Tart recipe

Easy isn't it. 
Simply the BEST.