Orange Mamon Cake

I found this baking recipe from my mom recipe collection book. She kept this recipe for 10+ years and never try out. I decided to try out last weekend :)

Ingredients:
A) 4 egg yolks, 20 g sugar, 3 tbsp orange juice
B) 100g flour, 1/4 tsp baking powder (mix and sifted), 1/4 tsp salt, 1 orange zest.
C) 4 egg white, 1/2 tsp cream of tartar, 50g sugar
D) 50g melted butter

Directions:
1. Beat A till fluffy, add B and blead evenly.
2. Beat C till stiff and confine, add (1) and D
3. Scoop batter into paper cups until 3/4 full. Bake at 180°C for 20 minutes.

According to original recipe, baking powder should be 1/2 tsp, but I only figure out my baking powder on left 1/4 tsp when I prepare the ingredients, because of no time to buy new baking powder, I try to put only 1/4 tsp and luckily it work.

Regarding the sugar, original recipe was 40g for "A" ingredient and 60g for "D" ingredient, I cut of too much and my fresh orange juice was too sour cause the whole cake become "sour mamon cake".

Overall, this cake still consider delicious. ^^

Recipe sharing in Chinese：[烘焙。蛋糕] 香橙松软小蛋糕 Orange Mamon Cake

Yogurt Apple Cake

This was the first cake I bake when I bought a new electric oven few years ago. The cake was failed that time because I totally don't have any knowledge on baking.

After few year, at least I know some basic skill on baking, so I try to bake this cake again. Yeah, I was successfully! ^^

I forget where the original recipe from, I have done some modification based on the original recipe, here is my modified recipe.

Ingredients:
250g Butter, 160g Sugar, 5 eggs, 135ml Yogurt (I am using Cranberry flavor Yogurt from Nutrigen Liteyo), 320g flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp sodium bicarbonate, 3 apples cut into cubes, cinnamon powder, sultanas and rum.

Directions:
1. Soak sultanas with rum.
2. Sift flour, baking powder and sodium bicarbonate, set aside.
3. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
4. Add the egg one by one into (3). Cream until smooth and light.
5. Add (2) and yogurt alternately, mix till well blended.
6. Mix apples cubes, cinnamon powder and sultanas (do not include rum) into (5).
7. Pour the batter into a greased 9" round mold.
8. Bake at 180°C for 90 minutes. Test with skewer, the cake is ready when the skewer comes out clean.
9. Glaze the cake with apricot jams (or any flavor will do), set aside, allow the cake to cool. 

*Note: You might need to cover the cake with aluminium foil after baked around 40 - 50 minutes.

This cake taste good even after kept for one day.

French Apple Pie

This is my favorite baking--French Apple Pie.

This recipe adapter from Agnes Chang baking video.

Pastry：
200gm flour, sifted
100gm butter
60gm castor sugar, sifted
1pc egg yolk

Filling：
70gm butter
40gm castor sugar
1pc egg
70gm ground almond
20gm flour, sifted
3 pcs green apple, cut into pieces
2tsp marmalade

Directions：
1. Pastry
  a. Mix flour and butter.
  b. Add sifted castor sugar, continue mixing.
  c. Add egg yolk and mix.
  d. If failed to become dough, add a teaspoon of egg yolk and continue mixing. Repeat this step until it become dough.DO NOT add water into dough.
  e. Cut the dough into pieces, put into model.
2. Filling
  a. Mix butter and castor sugar.
  b. Add egg, mix well.
  c. Add ground almond and flour, continue to mix until the filling become“drop consistently”.
3. Pour the filling into the pie model (with pastry covered). Green apple put on top of the filling.
4. Bake for180°C, 35 – 40minutes.
5. Apply marmalade on the baked pie.

Chinese Version：[烘培。派] 法式苹果派，[烘培。派] 法式苹果派（2）

Mini Coffee Buns

Such a long time I didn't bake any bread because I am lazy recently.

Let see my baked buns:

Refer to《孟老师的100道面包》 and《阿芳的3杯面粉72变》, I decided to bake according to the ingredients available in my refrigerator.

Bread Ingredients:
A: High Protein Flour 2 and 1/2 cup, Whole Wheat Flour 1/2 cup, Instant Yiest 1and 1/2t, Coffee 1/4 cup, Water 1 cup, Brown Sugar 1/4 cup.
B: Unsalted Butter
C: Cranberries, Raisins, Milk, Butter

Directions:
1. Mix (A) to dough, add (B).

2. Wait 60 minutes for yeast process.

3. Mix Cranberries and Raisins.
4. Decorated your dough.

5. Yeast process for 50 minutes. Brush with mil before bake.

6. Bake for 170°C, 30minutes
7. Brush butter on the baked buns.

Chinese Version: [手工面包] 咖啡小面包

Wed = Pink Day @ Baskin Robbins

I knew this promotion long time ago, but I always can't find a good timing to visit Baskin Robbins on Wednesday.

Then come to 11 April 2012, It was national public holiday for all states and territories of Malaysia to celebrate the installation of the new King of Malaysia. This public holiday fall on Wednesday.

Finally I found a good timing to visit Baskin Robbins. I show my pink colour recycle bag to enjoy the deal. I ordered Brownie ala Mode, pay single scoop price to enjoy double scoops ice cream. The price after tax is RM12.70.

This was my Blueberries Yogurt and Mango Yogurt ice cream with strawberry and walnut toppings.

Free Lunch!

Yesterday, there was free lunch from company at Cafe Oriental Hotel Sunway Seberang Jaya Penang. The food there not bad, but the variety of food is limited. I like the dessert very much especially the banana pie. ^^

Crème Brûlée Cheese Cake @ Secret Recipe

I just realize there is Crème Brûlée Cheese Cake sold at Secret Recipe last Friday.

I only spend RM40 at SR and pay with Citibank credit card, then this cheese cake is free. (valid until 30 June 2012)

Nian Gao Spring Roll

"Nian Gao" is popular food during Chinese New Year. It is considered good luck to eat "Nian Gao" during this time, because "Nian Gao" means "higher year" in chinese. The Chinese word "Nian" means "sticky", is identical in sound to "year", and the word "Gao", meaning "cake" is identical in sound to "high". As such, eating "Nian Gao" has the symbolism of raising oneself higher in each coming year.

Traditionally, we serve "Nian Gao" together with shredded coconut or stick the "Nian Gao" with Yam and Sweet Potato, then deep fry. But those method are not healthy, I tried to wrap the "Nian Gao" in spring roll and pan fry, it sound pretty good.

First prepare the spring roll wrapper, I bought KG Pastry brand, "Nian Gao" slices and drain. Wrap the "Nian Gao" with spring roll then pan fry until golden brown.

Spring roll wrapper

KG Pastry spring roll wrapper

"Nian Gao" washed, sliced, drained

Done ^^

Organic Japanese Restaurant@Sushi Kitchen

My friend bring me to an organic Japanese Restaurant at Sungai Ara during the third day of Chinese New Year. This restaurant serve veges foods.

I like this corner, an oldies feel~

It's refillable green tea

This is ORGANIC Spirulina Curly Noodle Soup, it taste like Shoyu Ramen, they just replace Ramen with Spirulina Curly Noodle, no bad.

Happiness Bachelor, six different sushi, the sushi is changing everyday, really nice, I like this.

Enoki Porridge, the porridge with Enokitake, personally feel the taste a bit salty.

Above food cost me RM41.60, it is an organic Japanese Restaurant, I think the food is value for the price.

Sushi Kitchen's FB：http://www.facebook.com/sushikitchen
Sushi Kitchen's Blog：http://sushi-kitchen-cafe.blogspot.com/

Kueh make from Tepung Hun Kwee

While I was young, I always though this is Kueh Agar-Agar, now only I know this kueh is make from mung bean flour. It is easy, let' try ^^

Ingredients: mung bean flour(tepung hun kwee) 1/2cup、sugars 1/2cup、 water 3cup

Directions:

1. Mix mung bean flour with 1/2 cup of water, stir well. 
2. 2 and 1/2 cup of water boil with sugars, then mix with (1), stir the mix until become thick paste. 
3. Pour into the greased flat plate , cut into pieces after let cool. 

My Company Year End Lunch

This year, we held the year end lunch at The Golden Triangle, Juru Auto City.

We booked for a la carte buffet with the price of RM54++, because this is "eat all you can" package, we order a lot of food. We have 18 people separated in 2 tables, each table ordered 21 dishes.

Here is the dishes, some photo is blur, may be I am too hungry until can't catch a good photo.

Mieng Kham

Method: Wrap the ingredients like peanuts, onion and etc with daun kaduk(wild pepper), put some syrup then you can eat already.

Tom Yam Sea Food Soup

Squid Salad

Mango Salad

Wing Bean Sambal

Egg Plant Basil Leaves Minced Chicken

Green Curry Chicken

Thai Cashewnut Chicken

Laotian Namprik Chicken

Tempura Squid

Sotong in Spicy Thai Sauce

3 Flavoured Fish

Choo Chee Fish

Deep Fried Spicy Soft Shell Crabs

Claypot Tang Hoon Prawns

Butter Pineapple Prawns

Thai Curry Powdered Prawns

Pakapau NZ mussel

Vietnamese Fried Tang Hoon

Thap Thim Krop

Glutinous Mango Rice

Almost all people ordered Umbra drink ^^

I also ordered a white coffee. I am kind of poison by caffeine, almost every meal need coffee.