Oreo Muffin

Tired this recipe today using recipe from Hut of Cranberry .

You can create many different type by using this basic recipe.

Yes, indeeed it's soft & fluffy inside and it's not too sweet with these tiny Oreo.

It's quick & easy steps with the below few ingredients :-

Yields : 13 muffins

Ingredients:

(A) 290g plain flour, 1 tbsp baking powder
(B) 230g caster sugar (I used 210g as i don't like it too sweet)
(C) 3 eggs, 120ml fresh milk, 200g of melted butter ( i used canola oil) & 1tsp vanilla essence
(D) Handful of tiny oreo biscuits

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 190deg.
2. Sieve ingred (A) into a big mixing bowl. Add in ingred (B), mix well.
3. Add in ingred (C) slowly, beat with a ballon whisk to combine ingred. Don't over mix.
4. Spoon no. (3) into paper-lined tart moulds till three-quarters full. Arrange on a baking tray.
Fill up full if you want a high dome.
5. Insert 2 Oreo into each muffin and then put in mid rack of the preheated oven to bake
for 20-25 mins . Cool on wire racks.

Japanese Rice roll (饭团)

I assume that my nieces are tired of eating porridge everyday so i made some Japanese rice rolls this morning for their lunch.

These 2 little mosters were overjoyed and keep rushing me to finish off to make this colour roll.

I used eggs , tuna & ham for the fillings and roll up with dried seaweed sheet. The roll was not wrapped tight enough and the fillings tends to drop out when bited. For yr information, this is the 1st time, i cooked Japanese rice, Perhap need to reduce alittle water to get firmer rice .

So here it goes, Quick & easy :- Japanese Green tea to go along with these rolls.

This also can be a quick snack for kids during school excursion or family picnic where this can be packed ahead.

Lavender (薰衣草) Cookies

Yes, lavender cookies..i dare not try recipes that using lavender as many feedbacks that it taste like soap and a bit of bitterness aftertaste.

As it's said in this article whatscookingamererica, a little goes a long way, so decide to try this recipe by Fresh from the Oven.

The dough was a bit too wet after 30 mins of refrigeration so i addeded 1 tablespoon of flour and

put in the freezer for another 15 mins. Perhap i have added too much butter due to the guessimation of tablespoon.

I 've also cut down the amount of lavender to half and the result is too mild of smell and abit too sweet for me.

However, it's defintely a keeper for festival baking's gift

Glutinous Rice

Hi, i'm back.......

Well, back to my kitchen again after long 'Holiday'..

Too many recipes to try on and i chose to start with today's topic.

As a cantaonese, our family love this traditional Tim Sum snack made from G. rice. I like anything which made out of it like Bak Chang, Law mai Kai, Lotus leaf rice, thai mango rice pudding etc.

I followed to this recipe http://jodelibakery.netfirms.com/ but made a little modification.

I mixed all the stir fry ingredients with the uncooked rice and then steam it at 1 time and also replaced the chicken granules with 1/2 tsp of salt.

The rice is really smells good with all the chinese sausage and mushroom when it's cooked piping hot from the wok. You can add any topping as you wants depend on your preferrance. With topping of deep fried shallots, braised peanuts & spring onions, i can't wait to finish it off.

Will be back soon...

Sorry, has been missing for quite some time due to some Job changes...i promise to come back soon...see u then !!

Chocolate Fresh cream Cake

Made this simple cake today for my brother's birthday

Feuillitine filling layer with Chocolate sponge cake.

As you can see , I still need more practise on the creaming :P.

To my dear brother,

Happy Birthday to you, TW.

All the best wishes to you.

Durian cream puff

Made these Mini cream puff last weekend.
Use custard filling with some durian meat added.

I had tried few recipes before but couldn't get the best result
as the consistency of the batter is important for the puff to rise.

This time, i try to judge myself instead of following extactly to the recipe.

And the result is satifactory.
Golden Brown firm crust with soft texture inside.
Cool on rack before piping in the filling.

Yummy...best after chilled.

Fruit Tarts

Wanted to bake something new beside Cakes N Breads,

so decided to make some fruit tarts.

Spotted some fresh strawberry on sales while do marketing at NTUC this morning

so decorated them with some Kiwi n canned Peach.

See ..Nice colour combination with creamy custard.

Best serve after chilled.

I've been Tagged !

Meme

I've been tagged by http://www.sweetnessdivine.blogspot.com/

Do a meme for the first time in my blog life.

Thank you so much.

The topic is - Five facts about myself.

The Meme rules:

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.

2. Share 5 facts about yourself.

3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).

4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.

Five facts about myself:

1. I'm kinda person always do things at last minutes. Even to bake a simple cake yet to decide at last minutes to get all correct ingredients.

2. I'm very homely person. Always wanted to enjoy staying at home with my nieces.

3. Dream to own a cafe which i can bake fresh bread n Cake daily when retire. Hope still have that passion at that time.

4. Been spending most of time reading others' blog to see how interesting life can be.

5. Like to travel esp. to Japan . Like their culture and food. At the moment, saving up for next trip.

At this moment, I would like to tag:

Cherry's Kitchen

Deliciou Weekender

FlowerBee

Steam Taro Cake (Wu Tow Ko)

Picture of a taro

Finished Product: Steam Taro Cake

Managed to get fresh Taro (Yam) from Wet market today and decide to make this as it's one of my favourites food.

Taro cake (wu tow ko) is a very popular Chinese breakfast or snack dish where you can found in the morning markets food centre and dim sum resturants.

Main ingredients are Taro, rice flour and dried prawns, preserved meat(Lap Cheong), mushroom and garnish with shallots, red chili and parley.

They're normally serve in pan fried or steam version and goes well with sweet soy or chili sauce.

Here's the link:-

STEAMED YAM CAKE (HONG KONG STYLE)

http://jodelibakery.netfirms.com/