Indian Sweets - Laddu

This is my favourite indian sweet... its called laddu. My grandma is an expert in doing this. Usually, when you buy this at shops, it very very sweet but with her yrs of experience in making this... wow its just so delicious and perfect! I gotta learn it from her soon...

No Bake Oreo Cheesecake

HmmmM... I've not posted anything for sometime.. well made oreo cheesecake sometime back. Its my first attempt so does not look so professional hahaha. In terms of taste, I think it was not bad but there's room for more improvement. The recipe actually does not require the oreo base to be baked but ya itchy fingers ... i baked it so as a result it was quite hard. When i tried to cut, the base crumbled a lil. Guess I gotta learn from mistakes.

Chocolate cupcakes topped with whipped cream

Baked these babies for my friends a few days back... I have baked these chocolate cupcakes 3 times so far and this time round, the cupcakes had a rich taste of chocolate.. YUM YUM. Instead of topping them with butter cream icing, I topped them with vanilla whipped cream. Hmmm, but haha made a mistake by over beating my whipped cream so the icing seems a lil watery. So guess gotta learn from mistakes...

Hand painted photo frame

Went to ikea last week sunday and bought some inexpensive photo frames. Instead of leaving it plain, I decided to add some colours and designs to it...Ya, I know that this is not part of my test kitchen but ya this are somethings that I enjoy doing.

Crispy Chix with Celery and Carrot

I just thought of this dish randomly so I decided to cook this for his family. Simple crispy chix with celery and carrot.... how simple and delicious. I had a few pieces of Japanese crispy chicken in the fridge so I used it to add some flavour to this dish. I fried the chicken first, then chopped it up into strips and added it to the celery and carrot. A simple stir fry dish:)....

Classic Cheesecake

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Before baking
























After baking
























The Gorgeous Classic Cheesecake!























Simply Sinful!


O yes... I also baked Classic cheesecake yesterday with sil... I have always wanted to bake a cheesecake and finally I made it. The results were appealing. It was so creamy, rich and most of all scrumptious hahaha. O yummy.... this is what I can say!
I had to use sour cream for the cheesecake but I substitute it for yogurt mixed with 1tsp of lemon juice. If you can't find sour cream at yr local supermarket, you can use yogurt as well. So let me share with u the pics and recipe.



Here's the recipe for:

Classic Cheesecake

Ingredients: (20cm)

Biscuit base:
150g digestive biscuit crumbs
65g - 75g melted butter

Filling:
500g cream cheese at room temperature
100g sugar
3 eggs
1.5 tbsp cornstarch
220g sour cream ( I substitute it with yogurt with 1tsp lemon juice)
125g whipping cream
2 tbsp condensed milk
1 - 2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp lemon rind
1 tsp vanilla essence

Method:
1. Mix biscuit crumbs with melted butter. Toss biscuit crumbs into a lined 20cm cake pan and press firmly. Bake biscuit base at 160C for 12-13 minutes. Cool for use later.
2. Cream cheese with sugar till smooth and creamy.
3. Add in egg one at at time and beat till well blended.
4. Using low speed, beat in the sour cream, whipping cream, condensed milk, lemon rind, cornstarch, lemon juice and vanilla essence.
5. Pour cheese filling into biscuit base.
6. Bake at 175C - 180C for 50 - 60 minutes.
7. Put it outside to chill.
8.Chilled completely cooled cake in the fridge overnight before serving.

Pandan Muffins

I was just browsing thru aunty yochana's blog when I stumbled upon this pandan muffin recipe. Hmmm, muffins... had so many bad baking experiences before. Most of the time, the muffins just becomes very hard after baking. But this recipe, was a success. 12 beautiful and tasty muffins. But I made a mistake... I baked it a bit longer than stipulated so it was a lil dry. But ya.... its k... was good in terms of taste.

Deepavali cookies...

This is the first year I baked cookies for deepavali. I must say that it was tiring but definitely it paid off cause all of the cookies were delicious but still looks non professional... Of course if not for the help from my bro n sil I would have taken ages to bake these cookies. Since this is my first time, I bake very basic cookies such as pineapple tarts, cornflake with nuts cookies, Kueh makmur and hahaha cookie din? Yah I don't know what the exact name of this cookie but we decided to called it that cause we had a difficult time squeezing it out of the pump. But ya... a real big thanks to him:) Here are the cookies that we baked.






























Cornflake with nuts cookie





























Din Cookie:)





























Kueh Makmur





























Pineapple Tarts

Spring Rolls

Curry Chicken filling





























Turnip with prawn filling





























How to roll?




























Wet the tip and seal the spring roll





























The final results! Yummy

Made spring rolls this evening with granny. I made 2 different types of fillings. Minced curry chicken and turnip with prawns. Both flavours were delicious but I liked the turnip with prawns better.

Here's the recipe for:

Minced Curry chicken


500g of minced chicken
1/2 tbsp garlic paste
1/2 tbsp ginger paste
1 onion chopped finely
1 1/2 - 2 tbsp curry powder
1 tsp salt


Method:

1. Add oil to a skillet and fry the onions.
2. When the onions are slightly cooked, add in the garlic and ginger paste.
3. 2 mins later add in the curry powder and stir.
4. When the oil starts separeting from the mixture, add in the minced chicken and salt.
5. Let it cook.
6. After the chicken is cooked, place a small amount on the spring roll wrapper, roll it and fry it.


Here's the recipe for:

Turnip with prawns

1 medium sized turnip (grated)
8-10 prawns(bite size)
2 tbsp garlic chopped finely
1 tsp salt

1. Heat oil and fry garlic till fragrant.
2. Add in prawns, salt and grated turnip.
3. Onced cooked, place a small amount on the spring roll wrapper, roll it and fry it.

Lamb kebabs and steamed corn

I cooked this 2 months back with my sweetheart. We were lazing around the house when just out of no where we decided to cook for the whole family.. so we drove down to cold storage to grab some ingredients. I must say that the lamb kebabs, the steamed corn with salt and pepper tasted awesome. We had no recipe book with us and my sweet heart came up with the seasoning recipe on the spot.. haha.. should say that my sweetheart is a good cook too.

Marble cake

I love this marble cake...! Marble cake is actually just 1 portion plain butter cake and 1 portion chocolate cake. The taste of this cake was just nice.. not too sweet and not too dry.

Here's the recipe for:

Chocolate Marble cake:

175grams of unsalted butter
175grams of caster sugar
3 eggs beaten lightly
150grams self-raising flour
25-30grams cocoa powder

Method:

1. Cream butter and sugar till fluffy.
2. Add in eggs little at a time.
3. After it is full incoperated, fold in the flour.
4. Then, spoon half the mixture into a separate mixing bowl.
5. Fold in the cocoa powder into one of the portion.
6. Place spoonfuls of each mixture alternately into the baking tin, then use a skewer to create the marble effect.
7. Bake for 35-40mins at 180 degrees.

My First Bake

This is my first post. I have always wanted to start this blog and here i go... This easy chocolate cupcake is the first successful bake ever. I've tried baking so many times but it always fails... Not giving up hope, I tried baking this.. hmmmm to my surprise it tasted great. I topped it with chocolate butter icing which i must say that it was very very sweet. To make it look pretty, I decorated it with some MnMs, sprinkles and oreo wafer sticks.

Here's the recipe for:

CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES:

110grams unsalted butter
110grams caster sugar
2 medium eggs
75 grams self-raising flour*
25-30grams cocoa powder*

*sift the flour and cocoa powder

Method:

1.Cream the butter and sugar until fluffy.
2.Gradually beat in the eggs 1 at a time until fully incoperated.
3.Fold in the self-raising flour and cocoa powder.
4.Scoop the batter into small baking cups.
5. Bake for about 20 minutes at 180 degrees.