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.

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 ^^

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. 

Delicious French Desserts

The first day of 2012, I went for shopping with my friends. After finished shopping, we went to a lovely French desserts shop for tea time. The shop named 42°La bohéme, located at Penang.

42°La bohéme, the shop hidden in the old clan building

Eco friendly environment

Interior - is an old house

Our Drinks - Coffee, RM5/cup

Our Drinks - Orange Juice, RM6

The menu for drinks

We order a Quiche Lorraine, RM12

Must try this Crème Brûlée, RM12

The food menu

42°La bohéme
Address：42, Jalan Sri Bahari, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia
Contact：017-9762153
Business Hours：Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm

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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)

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

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

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