Mochi

Mochi balls - anyone!
Ingredients:
15g plain flour
20g rice flour
40g glutinous flour
30g sugar
135g milk
3 tbsp oil


Filling : Depend on individual. I'm using homemade red beam paste
and mung beam paste for filling, really yummy.


Cook glutinous flour : 20g glutinous flour wrap with aluminum foil put in the
300°F oven for 15-20mins. These cooked flour is for
dusting and to handle the stickiness of the dough while
wrapping the dough with the filling.


Methods :
Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and whisk until everything cooperated then sieved it until no lump in the batter.

Steam the mixture for about 30mins, set aside and cool it. While the dough still warm, knead it until a soft and smooth dough form, covered in a container and set it in the fridge overnight.

Divide the dough into 10 equal portion and fill with the prepared filling then chill it in the fridge. The Mochi balls ready to taste!

Whole wheat basic sweet bun

My homemade peanut & almond butter :-)



One of my favorite bun, very simple and yummy with my homemade almond butter, can't wait until tomorrow morning.....breakfast!


Ingredients:

170g bread flour
130g whole wheat flour
40g plain flour
20g soy flour
70g brown sugar
6g yeast
200ml water
A pinch of salt
38g olive oil
1 egg

** 5g butter melted with 10g of milk for brushing the buns immediately when it right out of the oven.

Basic sweet bun methods and bake for preheated oven 350°F for 16 mins.

Birthday cakes

A birthday cake for myself :-)




A simple birthday cake for my brother and my brother in-law's birthday. Wishing both of them very happy birthday and many in returns....!












An agar-agar Barbie doll cake for Torng's birthday (my niece)....1st attempted on agar-agar cake, not too bad, right!!!

Hummus

Home make hummus with corn chips or crackers always very nice!

This recipe source from Ina Garten from Barefood Contessa(she is one of my favorite food network star)


Ingredients:

1 cup garboza bean( reserved the beans liquid)
2 tbsp tahini
3 tbsp of fresh lemon juice (1 lemon)
A pinch of salt
2 gloves of garlic
8 dashes of tabasco(may be more or less depend individual)
2 tbsp of garboza liquid(I used plain water)

Methods:

Put all the ingredients in the food processor and mix it until well combined. Then ready to serve with corn chips or crackers.

Tau Sah Piah (Mung Bean cookies)

Since migrated to United States, I've missed a lot of Malaysian good foods especially this Tau Sah Piah is one of my very favorite, I can easily gobble many pieces at a time....very scary!

This is not a complicated cookies to make but indeed is time consuming.


Recipe sauce : Nasilemaklover

Fillings:
400g mung bean (soak overnight and steam it until soft)
1 1/2 tsp of white pepper
2 tsp salt
250g sugar
2 tbsp cooking oil and 10 shallots (thinly sliced, fry & grind it)

Dough A :
125g flour
35g shortening
35g cooking oil

Dough B :
250g sifted flour
1/2 tsp sugar
65g shortening
120ml water

Method :

Cook the steamed mash mung bean with all the filling ingredients together in a non stick pan until it would be able to form a ball, remove from heat then add in the fried shallot and mix well completely. Divide the filling into 34 portions.

Prepare the dough A & B the same method in a separate bowl. Mix all the prepared ingredients together and set aside for 20 mins. Divide the dough A & B into 34 portions.

Wrap dough A with dough B then roll it out a long rectangle shape, later roll up the dough like a Swiss roll, repeat this step twice.

After repeated the step, roll a circle of a dough, put the filling and bring together all the edges, seal it and egg wash it.

Put into the preheated oven 350°F and bake for 28mins (temperature depend on individual oven).












HAPPY BAKING......!

Macaroons

I don't think that no one would never love these delicious dessert. I love it
because of its chewy texture and the attractive colors but the sweetness just can't afford to have it one more :((

My Melissa & Sam love it very much....teenage girls, who doesn't like it!

Macaroons

Ingredient:
1 Egg white
50 g powdered sugar
50 g almond flour
30 g Sugar


Method:

Mix well powdered sugar & almond flour in food processor

Beat egg white and gradually add in sugar until soft peak form

Mix mixture of almond flour into egg white ( about 3 times)

Mix until it turns glossy.

Into piping bag and pipe on a round circle (about 18 to 20 pieces)

Leave uncovered for about 20 mins or until skin formed (depend on room temperature)

Preheat oven 350°F then turn down to 300°F then put the macaroons into oven and bake for 16mins (about 8mins turn the baking sheet once).

Monitor your own oven temperature is very important for macaroons.
*use double baking pan*

For filling of the macaroon is just depend on individual, you can make it or buy the ready made like peanut butter, almond butter, nutella or etc....


Happy baking:::)!

Pandan Chiffon Cake

Chiffon cake is always my favorite but not my 2 girls, may be because I've been making it quite often at one time until they said...again! Hehehe!

It's been a while I didn't make this cake already and today I feel like making something, so here it comes....

This recipe is from Wendy Lau( a friend from Malaysia), she taught and showed me how to make this cake many years ago, thanks for her kind sharing.

Ingredients :

7 eggs yolk (cold from fridge)
160g self raising flour (I'm using plain flour +1tsp baking powder)
180 sugar (I'm using 160g brown sugar)
100ml coconut milk
25ml pandan juice
1/4 tsp salt

7 eggs white
1/4 tsp cream of tartar

Methods :

1) Whisk eggs yolk with half of the sugar until sugar dissolved then add coconut milk, pandan juice and mix it together later add in the flour(3 times) until everything well combined and set aside.
2). In another bowl whisk the eggs white with cream of tartar and gradually add in the other half of the sugar until soft peak form.
3). Fold 1/3 of the egg whites into flour batter by using spatula, gently fold and follow by the rest of the egg whites.
4). Pour into the prepared tube pan and knock on the table couple times to release the air bubble. Into the preheated oven 350°F for 41minutes (Temperature depend on individual oven).
5). Overturn the cake immediately out from the oven.