Almond Cake (Without Baking Powder)

This cake look delicious, but actually I failed this baking because I simply change the ingredients. The cake need 150g of ground almonds, but I only have 50g at home, some I am very "clever", replace the ground almonds with flour, then the cake become too "hard".

Forget about the failed cake, here I share the actual recipe. ^^

Ingredients:
A: Bottom: biscuits 120g, unsalted butter 20g, egg white 20g
B: Cake: sugars 90g, 3 whole eggs, salt 1/4t, milk 50ml, unsalted butter 35g, orange zest, flour 50g, ground almond 150g
C: surface: almond flake

Directions:

1. Crush biscuits, melt butter. Mix the melted butter, egg white into the crushed biscuits, flatten into the model. 
2. Melt B butter.
3. Mix sugar, salt and whole eggs, add the milk and melted butter, then add orange zest, continue to mix well.
4. Sieve the flour and ground almond, mix well and pour into (1).
5. Cover the surface with almond flake. Bake with 180°C for 20 minutes or until surface golden brown.

Fresh Orange Jelly

I found there are 2 orange keep in my house refrigerator during weekend, I just think of doing fresh orange jelly. This is my own recipe without refer to any source, surprisingly the taste was good ^^

Ingredients: Fresh Orange Juice, Sugar, Water and Gelatine.

Directions:

1. Melt sugar and water.
2. Mix (1) with Fresh Orange Juice and Gelatine. Mix well until Gelatine completly melted.
3. Pour (2) into mold, set aside until cold, put into refrigerator about 2 hours.

Note: My sugar and fresh orange juice mix is 300ml, Gelatine is 3/4t

Chinese Pancake

This is one of the famous food in Malaysia, you may find this everywhere especially pasar malam, pasar pagi or etc.

Ingredients:
A: high-protein flour 1 cup, flour 1 cup, sugar 3 tablespoons, instant yeast 1 tsp, water 1 and 3/4 cup.
B: baking powder 1 tsp, baking soda 1 / 4 tsp, oil 2 tablespoons, water 1/2 cup.
C: peanut, sesame, sugar

Directions:

1. Mix A, set aside for one hour.
2. Mix B into 1, mix well.
3. Heat pan, add a layer of oil, pour amount of the mixing, pan fry until bubble hole appear on the surface, covered with peanut powder, fold.

The appearance not look a like, but taste is the same ^^

Recipe Source: 阿芳的糕与粿

Chinese Version:中式松饼~面煎粿~ 

Mini Green Tea Cheese Cake

My first learn baking is unbaked cheese cake, but i failed. So, I try again after a long break.^^

Ingredients: Biscuit 40g, butter 20g, Cream Cheese 200g, sugar 40g, milk 100ml, gelatine 1t, green tea powder 2t.

Directions:

1. Crush biscuits, melt butter. Mix the melted butter into the crushed biscuits, flatten into the model. 
2. Melt cream cheese and sugar, stir well. Add milk and continue stir. 
3. Mix green tea powder and continue stir, lastly add gelatine and stir until gelatie dissolves. 
4. Pour the mixing into the model prepared in (1), put into refrigerator for about two hours.

Chinese Version: 迷你抹茶芝士蛋糕

Recipes Book Shopping

Recipes book purchase while waiting my parents complete their medical check up ^^
I hope I will master in baking after complete reading the books. (Just kidding :p)

Dried Beancurd Ginkgo and Barley Dessert

This is one of my favorable dessert, we call this as "Fu Cuk Bak Guo Yi Mai Tong Sui" in Cantonese.

I am using electronic pressure cooker for dessert cooking,  it was so easy. Only need to prepare amount of dried bean curd, gingko, barley, melon sugar, pandan leaves and water, use the "Soup" function in the cooker, cook for 30minutes.

Chinese Version: 腐竹白果薏米糖水

Pumpkin Puff Pastry

I prepared extra pumpkin paste for my last week dessert Pumpkin Sesame Cookie, there are some pumpkin paste left in my refrigerator, so I plan bake a puff pastry with pumpkin paste.

The method is similar with Apple Puff Pastry, just a bit changes in ingredients.

Ingredients: Puff Pastry, eggs, pumpkin paste, sugar, Parmesan cheese powder.

Directions:
1. Mix pumpkin paste, sugar and Parmesan cheese powder.
2. Fill the puff pastry with pumpkin filling, brush the edges with egg mixture.
3. Fold the puff pastry, pressed with a fork to seal.
4. Slightly cut the puff pastry with knife, brush the egg mixture evenly.
5. Preheat the oven in 190°C, bake 20 minutes or until golden brown.

Chinese Version: 南瓜千层派

Pumpkin Cheese Sesame Cookie

This recipe is similar with Pumpkin Sesame Cookie by using the remaining pumpkin paste after my Pumpkin Puff Pastry baking ^^

Ingredients: the remaining pumpkin paste (refer to Pumpkin Puff Pastry), glutinous rice flour, flour, white sesame

Directions:
1. Mix remaining pumpkin paste with glutinous rice flour and flour.
2. Divide the dough into six equal parts, gently knead the dough into round shape, coated with white sesame evenly.
3. Put the dough onto the baking pan, flatten the dough.
4. Preheat the oven in 150°C, bake 20 minutes or until golden brown.

Yeah, done it! I prefer this method, If you prefer to use pan fry method, you may refer to Pumpkin Sesame Cookie.


Mom said I have improve a lot since the last time, also because I have added Parmesan Cheese Powder into pumpkin paste, the taste become nicer. ^^

Chinese Version: 芝麻芝士南瓜饼

Almond Pastry

I bought two packets of Puff pastry recently but set aside in the refrigerator for some time. I wish to bake Apple Puff Pastry but I was too lazy. I found a lazy way recently, I can bake the puff pastry without spend too much time.

Ingredients: Puff pastry, egg white, sugar, almonds flake

Directions:
1.Mix sugar and egg white. Set Aside.
2. Cut the puff pastry into rectangular shape, brush (1) onto puff pastry surface evenly, put the right amount of almond flake.
3. Preheat the oven in 190°C, bake 20 minutes or until golden brown.

Recipe Source：孟老师的下午茶

Chinese Version: 杏仁酥片

Cranberry Honey Cake

Ingredients:
Cranberry, 1 egg yolk, 1 whole egg, 50g butter, 50g flour, 1 / 4 teaspoon baking powder, 10g ground almond, 25g honey

Directions:
1. Mix egg yolk with whole egg, stir well. Set aside.
2. Softened butter at room temperature, then sieve the flour and baking powder and mix well.
3. Mix the flour and butter with mixer until the paste was smooth.
4. Gradually add (1) and mix.
5. Mix ground almond and honey. Continue mix the paste with mixer.
6. Scrape the paste into paper mold. Covered with cranberry.
7. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C, bake 20 to 25 minutes.

Pumpkin Sesame Cookie

This recipe is adapted from 孟孟夫人咖啡座. I have done some modification because my house has limited ingredients.

Ingredients : 100grams mashed pumpkin, 20 grams sugar, 40 grams glutinous rice flour, 40 grams flour, white sesame.

Directions:
1. Mashed the steamed pumpkin. Mix with sugar, glutinous rice flour and flour.

2. Divide the dough into six equal parts, gently knead the dough into round shape, coated with white sesame evenly.
3. Heat the pan with some oil, put the dough onto the pan, flatten the dough.
4. Fry the dough with low heat until golden brown.

Chinese Version: 芝麻南瓜饼

I like Millet

My family like to mix the rice with millet during cooking. The reason is we read a news reported that millet has very high value of nutrition.

I done some reading on internet, found that millet originate from China about 8,000 years ago. Millet which is rice in vitamin B1, B12 and etc, several times much more compare with rice, its effectively help to prevent indigestion and mouth sores. The organic salt content of millet also higher than rice. Millet able to relieve wrinkles, dark spots, pigmentation effect, I think this is the most favorable function for women.

Millet + Rice

Millet, actual look

 This is the brand that my family purchased

Chinese Version: 就是要吃小米

Green Apple Cinnamon Marmalade

Due to Taiwan's plasticize issue, I try to avoid processed food. So the first step, I try to do marmalade by myself.

Ingredients: 4 green apples, 1/2 Lemon, cinnamon, Sugars
Directions:

1. Clean the lemon, squeeze the juice, set aside
2. Green apple, peeled, cut into cubes, blend with blender.
3. Mix the blended green apple and lemon juice, boil it with medium heat.
4. Turn to low heat, add sugars and cinnamon. Keep boiling and stir constantly with wooden spoon.
5. Continue stir until the sauce become dense and creamy.
6. Bottling the marmalade, inverted half an hour*, and let cool.

* This step is to use the marmalade heat to kill bacteria in the bottle.

Chinese Version: 青苹果肉桂果酱

With similar step, you may try different favor. I tried Pineapple as well. However, I prefer Green Apple Cinnamon Marmalade the most.

This is my Pineapple Marmalade.

Chinese Version: 凤梨果酱

Fructus Momordicae Winter Melon Dessert

Mom said that I participate in Penang Bridge Marathon yesterday, she afraid I would get sick. She said since the Fructus Momordicae brought during Guilin trips last August still not yet finished, so she help me to prepare Winter Melon early morning and get my help to cook Fructus Momordicae Winter Melon Dessert.

Ingredients: Winter Melon, Fructus Momordicae, Sugar. 
Directions:

1. Winter Melon, peeled, washed, cut into slices. 
2. Fructus Momordicae, peeled, washed. 
3. Mix (1) and (2) into electric pressure cooker. 
4. Use the "Soup" function of electric pressure cooker to start the cook, it takes 30 minutes. 
5. After the dessert cooked, add sugar. 

It is very simple to cook with electric pressure good! ^ ^

Chinese Version: 罗汉果冬瓜糖水

Apple Puff Pastry ~My all time favorite pastry~

Ingredients: Puff Pastry, eggs, apples, sugar, butter, cinnamon powder, potato wheat starch

Directions:
1. Apple, cut into cubes. Mix with sugar and cook until the apples soften.

2. Mix (1) with butter and potato wheat starch, cook until the water dries up.

3. Remove (2)  from heat before adding cinnamon powder, mix well, set aside.

4. Fill the puff pastry with apple filling, brush the edges with egg mixture.

5. Fold the puff pastry, pressed with a fork to seal.

6. Slightly cut the puff pastry with knife, brush the egg mixture evenly. 

7. Preheat the oven in 190 ° C, bake 20 minutes or until golden brown.

Chinese Version: 苹果千层派

Brownie ~My all time favorite cake~

The brownie is sliced from a type of dense, rich chocolate cake, which is, in texture, like a cross between a cake and a cookie.

Ingredients:
150g Flour
150g Cooking Chocolate
150g Unsalted Butter
3 Eggs
30g Milk
80g Caster Sugar
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/4 tsp Baking Soda
10g instant coffee powder (the original recipe use 20g unsweetened cocoa powder, since I do not have this ingredients, I replace with instant coffee powder)
Walnuts

Directions:

1. Sift the flour, baking powder and baking soda in a large bowl. Set aside. 
2. Melt the butter, sugar and cooking chocolate in a microwave or using double-boiler method. Mix with instant coffee powder, stir well.Set aside. 
3. Wait until (2) is slightly cool, separate in three times, add the whole eggs. Stir well. 
4. Pour 1/3 of (1) into (3), then add milk and mix well. Mix the remaining flour. stir the mixture gently in irregular direction until the the mixture combine well. 
5. Pour the mixture in baking tray. 
6. Sprinkle the walnuts evenly on top of the mixture. 
7. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C, bake for about 20 minutes. 
8. Let the brownies completely cooled before cutting. 

Chinese Version: 新手。布朗尼

Red Sweet Potato and Pumpkin Dessert

Since I buy the electric pressure cooker, I always cook dessert because it is too convenient.

This weekend, I found there is red sweet potato and pumpkin in my refrigerator, I feel quite match with these two ingredients, so i just mix both together.

Ingredients: Red Sweet Potatoes, Pumpkin, Water, 2 Pandan Leaves, Sugar.

Directions:
1. Red sweet potato and pumpkin, peeled, washed, cut into cubes, mix in the pot, pour the right amount of water.

2. Included the pandan leaves.

3. Use the "Soup" function of electric pressure cooker to start the cook, it takes 30 minutes.

4. After the dessert cooked, add sugar.

Chinese Version: 红蕃薯南瓜mix糖水