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

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 ^^

Whole Wheat Cheesy Bread

Such a long time I didn't bake any bread. The major reason because it was raining day recently. But now, the weather look good, so I decided to bake a whole wheat bread.

Bread Ingredients:
A: High Protein Flour 100g、Whole Wheat Flour 130g、Instant Yiest 1t、Milk 150ml
B: High Protein Flour 100g、Honey 20g、 Salt 1/2t 、Milk 50ml
C: Unsalted Butter 20g

Directions:

1. Mix A，wait 90 minutes for yeast process. 
2. Mix (1) into B, mix until the dough smooth, add unsalted butter. 
3. Mix (2) until the dough able to stretch, wait for yeast 60 minutes. 
4. Roll (3)，rest the dough for 15 minutes. 
5. Decorated your dough. 
6. Yeast for 70 minutes. 
7. Bake for 180°C, 30minutes. 

There are Cream Cheese inside, because I don't want to waste the Cream Cheese left over after Mini Green Tea Cheese Cake baking, so I mix the Cream Cheese with sugars and Cinnamon, acts like the paste for this bread.

Source: 孟老师的100道面包

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.

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)

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.

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