Sour Cream - Blueberry Crumb Cake

"Sour cream and lots of butter make the cake tender and moist and offset the bold, tangy flavor of gleaming fresh, juicy blueberries. A crunchy cinnamon-infused crumb topping cloaks the cake, adding a buttery caramel flavour"

And yes, as described by Tish Boyle, these cakes had a crunchy top and they were really moist and tender. A quite unusual combination but they were quite welcomed by us... hehehehe...

I had replaced the sour cream with low fat yoghurt as my yoghurt was expiring soon, and this also explained why I had attempted this bake... Oopsie...hehehehe... I had also reduced the sugar level if you do not wish your cake to be too sweet like me.

Recipe as adapted from The Cake Book by Tish Boyle

Yeilds a 9-inch square cake

Ingredients:

Crumb Topping

121g all purpose flour

50g caster sugar

80g firmly packed dark brown sugar

1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp salt

100g unsalted butter, melted

In a medium bowl, stir the flour, sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt until well blended. Add the melted butter and mix with the fork, stirring until the butter is absorbed and the dry ingredients are uniformly moistened. Set aside.

Sour Cream Blueberry Cake

181g all purpose flour

1 1/4 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

142g fresh or unthawed frozen blueberries

242g sour cream

1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

142 unsalted butter, softened

200g sugar

2 large eggs

1. Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 175C. Butter and flour the bottom and sides of a 9 inch square baking pan.

2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt until well blended.

3. In another bowl, toss the blueberries with 1 tbsp of flour mixture until the berries are coated; set aside. In a small bowl, whisk together the sour cream and vanilla extract; set aside.

4. In the bowl of an electric mixer, using the paddle attachment, beat together the butter and sugar at medium speed until light and fluffy, 4 to 5 minutes. Beat in the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping down the side of the bowl as neccessary. At low speed, beat in the flour mixture in three additions, alternating it with the sour cream in two additions. Using a rubber spatula, fold in the blueberries. Scrape the batter into the prepared pand and smooth the top with a spatula.

Sprinkle the crumb topping evenly over the batter, breaking up any large lumps with your fingers.

5. Bake the cake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Place the cake in the pan on a wire rack and cool completely.

6. Cut the cake into squares and serve from the pan.

Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Cupcakes with Hershey's Chocolate Frosting

Happy Happy Sweet 2nd Birthday to Bake-Along.

Time flies and it had been 2 years unknowingly. Getting to know the wonderful hosts, Lena, Joyce and Zoe and the other bakers whom had baked along with us. I must say from this, I had learnt many more cakes that everyone had shared. 

Thank you to all and our Bake Along hosts for all these wonderful recipes, attempts and most of all, company:))

So here we have along with the Bake-Along 2nd Year Anniversary, a "Perfectly Hershey's Chocolate Chocolate Cupcakes with Hershey's Chocolate Frosting.
I realised I had some cocoa powder in my office desk and "it" caught my attention with its this recipe from Hershey's Cocoa box.

Basically this is just a mix in everything recipe. I made a messed as I had poured 1 cup of oil instead of half cup.. So no choice, I had to prepare another portion to balance it. BUT, I messed up by putting half flour.. Anyway, somehow or rather I did made it right.. But getting a very watery consistence batter was what I had gotten and I was quite skeptical about it.

So these were how my "cupcakes' looked like and though they looked abit "ugly", they tasted fantastic!!!

It had a steamed cake texture, soft and moist, very unusual from the cupcakes that we would usually baked.

And after some "makeover", they looked much prettier. These chocolate frosting were also made with Hershey's Cocoa...And I must say... they were great!!!! They were simply heavenly chocolate!!!!

These moist chocolate cupcakes had all thumbs up from everyone!

So... lets not wait no more!!!!

Try them and you will know what I mean...hehehehe...

Recipe as adapted from the Hershey's Cocoa Box :-p

Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Cupcakes

(measurements in brackets are in my own modifications)

Ingredients:

2 cups sugar (256g)

1 3/4 cup all purpose flour (224g)

3/4 cup Hershey's cocoa (96g)

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

2 eggs

1 cup milk (236ml)

1/2 cup vegetable oil (114ml canola oil)

2 tsp vanilla essence

1 cup boiling water (236ml)

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 350F (175C).

2. Combine all dry ingredients in a lagre bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla essence and beat on medium speed for about 2 mins. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour into cupcake cases about 2/3 full.

3. Bake for about 22-25 mins or until a wooden pick inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cool for 10 mins before frosting.

Perfectly Chocolate Chocolate Frosting

(for about 30 cupcakes frosting)

Ingredients:

1 stick butter (113g)

2/3 cup Hershey's cocoa (I use abt 50g for half frosting portion)

3 cups powder sugar (384g)

1/3 cup milk (79ml)

1 tsp vanilla essence

Method:

Melt butter. Stir in cocoa. Add in powdered sugar and milk, beating at medium speed to spreading consistency. Add more milk if needed. Stir in vanilla essence.

So come along and join us with our Bake Along Hosts: Lena, Joyce and Zoe and the other bakers in this cupcake theme. :-D

■Pioneer Woman Cinnamon Rolls■ Yummy Yum Yum ■

Yummy Yum Yum!!!

I am in for a big treat!!!!

These Pioneer Woman Cinnamon Rolls were really FANTASTIC!!!

Being a bread-idiot as usual, I hadn't been much successful in baking 90% of the bread attempts. Do not ask me why, I am as ??? as you are... I have seen many people baked wonderful, soft & delicious bread, but just not me... Probably it is just me.. hahahaha....:-p

I came across these Pioneer Cinnamon Rolls some where, but I can't remembered exactly where, but for sure, I had landed in The Little Teochew, and then Pioneer Woman Cinnamon Rolls.

However, these Pioneer Woman Cinnamon Rolls were really great as no kneading was needed.. And that's is just what I wanted. Even though no kneading was needed, I still had a little hiccups of rolling the dough somehow.. OK OK, I know, it was REALLY just ME!!!
I was supposed to spray the rolls before baking them, so as they would not become too dry. However, I did not have the water sprayer, so ended up a little too dry on my cinnamon rolls.

These are the rolls before and after bake.

As you could see, I did not manage to roll up nicely, and end up a little "off" the "rolls" shapes.

After the make-over with the lemon icing, these rolls looked pretty good, weren't they??

These rolls had a very soft-like bread texture and I was really impressed with them...!!!

Warning!!!!

These Cinnamon Rolls ARE DANGEROUS as they are very additive. You just can't help popping in one roll after another.

Unfortunatley, only my helper and myself were enjoying these rolls.

The big boy & the 3 girls were hiding as far as they could from these rolls:-D

For Pionner Woman Cinnamon Rolls notes, please click HERE

Recipe

(Adapted version from The Little Teochew)

(with my own measurements in blue)
1 1/3 cup whole milk (315ml)
1/3 cup vegetable oil (75ml canola oil)
1/3 cup caster sugar (45g)
1 1/2 tsp dry yeast (instant yeast)
2 2/3 cups plain flour (+ 1/3 cup) (340g + 45g)
1/2 tsp baking powder

1/3 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
100g unsalted butter - melted 

1/2 cup brown sugar (100g)
Adequate Cinnamon powder 

Sultanas, as desired

Method:1. Mix the milk, vegetable oil and sugar in a pan.
2. Scald the mixture (heat until just before the boiling point). Turn off heat and leave to cool for about 30 mins.
3. When the mixture is lukewarm to warm, but not hot, sprinkle in dry yeast. Let this sit for a min.
4. Add 2 2/3 cups of flour. Stir mixture together. Cover and let rise for at least an hour.
5. Add 1/3 cup of flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir mixture together. At this point the dough will be quite sticky, you could cover the dough and put it in the fridge until you need it – overnight or even a day or two. This will give you a firmer dough. Just keep your eye on it and if it starts to overflow out of the pan, just punch it down.
6. When ready to prepare rolls: Sprinkle rolling surface generously with flour. Form a rough rectangle with the dough. Then roll the dough thin, maintaining a general rectangular shape.7. Drizzle melted butter over the dough. Now sprinkle sugar over the butter followed by a generous sprinkling of cinnamon powder and sultanas.
8. Starting at the opposite end, begin rolling the dough in a neat line toward you. Keep the roll relatively tight as you go. Next, pinch the seam of the roll to seal it.
9. Cut the roll to approximately 1 inch thick and lay them in a greased baking tray. Leave a little space in between the rolls for them to rise.
10. Let the rolls rise for 20 to 30 mins or until they look bloated, then bake at a 180℃ pre-heated oven until light golden brown, about 20-25 mins.

Deep Chocolate Pound Cake - Bake Along #42

.A chocolate cake is always a favourite for the girls. Topped with lots of chocolate chips on it plus a deep chocolate color. How would this pound cake fare with my 3 little testers???

Well, I guess it is 1 out of 3 testers, Nat, liked this deep chocolate pound cake. Perhaps it is not too sweet as Nic had commented. Mimi just took a small little bite and shoke her head... 

How like that????

 For me, I had halved the recipe and made abt 2"×7" size pound cake. Besides that, I had also cut down quite a fair bit of sugar. As I had read from Joyce & Lena that the honey taste was too overwhelming, I had went slow with just a merely 1 tbsp of honey.

This pound cake had a very thick amd dense texture, no wonder the other 2 girls do not like them. As for hubby and myself, though the pound cake wasn't sweet, we thought it tasted quite alright and we should be a little healthier by eating a lesser sugar cake...hehehe...:))

Recipe as adapted from Bon Appetit Desserts

Ingredients:

(With slight modifications)

280gm top flour

1 tsp baking powder

3/4 tsp salt

1/4tsp baking soda

1/2 cup yogurt/sour cream(125g)

1/2 cup whole milk(120ml)

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder(32g)

1tbsp honey

2-3 tbsp boiling water

1/2cup sugar(65g)

113 gm unsalted butter, softened

2 large eggs

1/2 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips(75g)

Method:

1. Position rack in the center of oven, preheat to 350F/175C. Lined a 9"x5"x3" loaf pan.

2. Whisk flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda in a medium bowl. 

3. Whisk yogurt and milk in another small bowl. 

4. Sift cocoa powder in another bowl and whisk in honey and boiling water until smooth. Cool completely.

5. Using electric mixer, beat sugar and butter in a medium bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in 1 egg at a time, occasionally scraping down sides of the bowl. Add cooled mixture, stir until smooth, occasionally scraping down bowl. Beat in flour mixture alternately with yogurt/sour cream mixture in 2 additions each until just blended. 

6. Stir in chocolate chips.Transfer batter to prepared pans, smooth top and bake until tester inserted comes out clean, about 1 hour.

Do join Joyce, Lena & Zoe in this Bake Along and other bakers who had try this challenge as well:)) Have fun:))

Banana Nut Bread - Bake Along #40

Wait for me... Wait for me...

Finally bake the Banana Nut Bread in time to join in the Bake Along #40.

I think recently I had been baking quite a lot of bananas recipes and I really enjoyed tasting them.. Oops, but I think I have to go on a diet...hehehehe

Instead of using butter, I had replaced it with canola oil.

This bread still turned out very light and moist, a really bread texture.
I had halved the recipe and baked in a 2.5" x 7" rectangular tin and a little small little cuppie as you can see in the pictures above & below. We do quite like this Banana Nut Bread.

But should I classify this Bread under Bread or Cake???

Banana Nut Bread (The Williams Sonoma Baking Book)

makes one 9 by 5 inch loaf

(I have halved the recipe and replaced the following in brackets)

95gm unsalted butter (40ml Canola Oil)

170gm sugar (65g sugar)

280gm mashed bananas (150g bananas)

3 large eggs, lightly beaten (1 1/2 egg)

125ml buttermilk (65 ml milk)

2cups plain flour (125g flour)

1tsp baking soda (1/2 tsp baking soda)

1tsp baking powder (1/2 tsp baking powder)

1 tsp ground nutmeg (1/2 tsp cinnamon)

1/2 tsp salt (1/4 tsp salt)

100gms walnuts (Chop coarsely) (50g walnuts)

How to bake:

1. Preheat oven to 180C. Grease and lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.

2. In a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment, beat together the butter and sugar on medium speed until creamy, about 1 min.

3. Add the bananas and eggs and beat until smooth. Add the buttermilk and beat until just combined.

4. In a bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, nutmeg, salt and nuts. Add the flour mixture to the banana mixture and beat just until combined. The batter should be slightly lumpy. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.

5. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. It should be no more than two thirds full. Bake until the top is dark golden brown and dry to the touch, about 55-60minutes.

6. A cake tester inserted into the center of the cake should come out clean. Let the bread cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then turn it out onto a wire rack and let cool completely.

(As I had replaced the butter with oil, I had mixed the milk & sugar, stir to get the sugar a little dissolved. Add in the egg, oil and banana, stir till corporated. Add in all the sieved flour mixture. Stir well to get a smooth, lumpy batter)

Storage tip: Wrap the bread tightly in plastic wrapper and can be store in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.

Do hope along to our host of Bake-Along: Joyce, Lena & Zoe's blog & rest of the bakers whom are joining us in this theme. Have fun:)

Earl Grey Chiffon Cake

I was browsing through my phone's gallery and I realised that I had missed out this fantastic chiffon cake.

For Earl Grey Tea Lovers, here's another great recipe.

 I have gotten this recipe from one of my new chinese baking books. And as usual, I am always picking out recipes that I fancy. Hehehe... ... 

 This Earl Grey Chiffon Cake was indeed GREAT!!!

Having a soft, fluffy texture as any other chiffon cakes would have.

With all its simple ingredients, what are you waiting for???

Ingredients:

(Yeilds a 17-cm Chiffon Cake)

35g egg yolk

25g sugar

30ml canola oil

35ml water

45g plain flour

5g earl grey tea 

(i use about 2 bags as i prefer stronger taste)

100g egg white

25g sugar

Method:

1. In a mixing bowl, put in the egg yolk and sugar. Mix until the sugar is slightly dissolved. Add in the water and the oil. Mix until it is foamy. Add in the sieved flour & earl grey into the egg yolk mixture. Mix until well combined.

2. In another mixing bowl, whisk the egg whites until foamy. Gradually add in the sugar and whisked until stiff peaks.

3. Take 1/3 of the egg white meringue and mix into the egg yolk mixtire. Blend well. Pour the mixture into the remaining egg white meringue. Mix well until well corporated.

4. Pour the batter into a 17-cm chiffon tin. Smooth the top of the batter and knocked out any excess air.

5. Bake in a preheated oven of 170C for about 25~30 mins. Remove from oven and turn over the tin to cool. Once the cake has cooled completely, unmould the cake from the tin.

Banana Macadamia Chocolate Chips Cake, A Healthier Choice (Vegetarian-No egg, No Dairy)

Nope... I am not a vegetarian, in case you wondered why these days I kept baking vegan cakes....hehehe...

It is going to be a good long 15 days for the Chinese Lunar New Year and the last day will ends on the 24th Feb, 初十五。And I am sure by then, everyone of us would have gained a little more weight than usual due to the goodies and the delicious delicacy during these periods... I am probably 1 of them too... Oops... kekeke....

So today, I will like to share this great recipe from Alex Goh's, Fabulous Cake Business.

His Eggless Banana Cake, he claimed that this cake is moist and dense, and moreover, his cake recipes never failed any....

 I had to try this recipe, also partly because I liked to use up my 2 over riped bananas... LOL...

I had baked it in a 7" inch round cake pan and 3 regular sized muffins. I personally felt that it will be better if you could baked them in muffins as it will take shorter time in baking and it is more easily consumed... In fact, Nat had taken 2 of the muffins after I had baked them, I was glad as she told me that she loved these muffins as they were so yummy...♡♡♡

Well, she was right... Straight after I had taken the pictures of the cake, I had taken a bite of it... Yes, it was indeed, moist and dense, with the macadamia nuts and chocolate chips in the cake....ooooh.... it was just plain awesome... Though I had cut down about 50g of the sugar, the cake tasted well because of the sweetness of the overripped bananas. My friend had also tried one and he said they were fabulous!!!

A very light, moist and dense cake is what I had gotten here...☆

So, what are you waiting for... Start now and eat a little healthy today...♡

Recipe as adapted from Alex Goh's, Fabulous Cake Business

(With slight modification to change this cake to a Vegan Cake)

Ingredients:

(A)

160g Banana, mashed

1 tsp lemon juice

1/2 tsp baking soda (omitted)

(B)

180g butter (replaced with 180ml canola oil)

170g sugar (I cut down to 125g)

(C)

160g milk

1/8 tsp banana flavour (omitted)

(D)

250g plain flour

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

(E)

15g plain flour

150g raisins

(For (E), I had totally omitted all & changed to my preferred choices, 75g chopped macadamia and 50g chocolate chips)

Method:

1. Mix (A) until well blended & set aside. Soak the black raisins in (E) in water for about 10mins & squeeze it dry. Toss them with flour.

2. Beat (B) at medium speed until light and creamy. Gradually add (C) and beat until light and smooth. Mix until well combined.

3. Add in (D) in a few batches & mix until well blended.

4. Pour batter into a 7" cake pan and bake in a preheated oven of 180C for about 50-60mins or until a skewer stick comes out clean.

(As I had replaced butter with canola oil, I had mixed the milk, sugar and oil in a big mixing bowl. Mix well to get the sugar a little dissolved. Add in the flour and combined well.)

Melting Almond Cookies - All ready for CNY perhaps??? (Revisited)

Melting Almond Cookies.. ...

These are what we wanted isn't it...???

I had made these cookies last Chinese New Year, and now another year had gone, and it's a brand new Chinese New Year...

These Almond Cookies are not one to be missed... I loved them very much as they are very easy to make, and best part is, it is soft and it melts in your mouth... Everyone had praises for these cookies. Even my helper told me to keep some for her...

Unlike the usual almond cookies that are coated with egg coatings on the top, these almond cookies are the original as they are. Try reducing the sugar as I find them abit sweet for me:)

Otherwise, enjoy baking these cookies...:-D

BUT BEWARE....
These cookies are dangerous... You can't stop eating them. You just want to pop more one after another...
hehehehe...

Recipe as adapted from Nonya Recipe Book

Ingredients:

100g icing sugar (75g)

150g plain flour

( I used self-raising & omitted baking powder & baking soda)

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

50g almond powder

150ml canola oil

1 tsp vanilla essence

Method:

Mix all dry ingredients into a big mixing bowl, combine well.

Add the vanilla essence and oil, and knead into a dough.

Roll it out and cut into desired cookie moulds.

Bake in a preheated oven of 180C for about 15-20 mins.

Allow to cool and store in an air-tight container.

My Not-So-Red-Velvet Cupcakes

Two and half weeks more to Christmas Day, and I was thinking what gifts I should prepare... I thought I should try baking a Red Velvet Cupcakes with Frosted Cream Cheese as a gift, instead of stressing myself of what gifts I should get.

Browsing through a few recipes for these Red Velvet Cupcakes, I decided to use this recipe that I had came acroos from Baking Wonderland. This recipe did not use cocoa powder, and only red coloring. Modifying the recipe a little here and there gave me these cupcakes today...

But these cupcakes ain't that velvet as they should be... It was probably due to too much cocoa powder I had added in... However, the cupcakes texture were excellent, soft & moist:-)
As for the cream frosting, I thought they were a little too sweet for me, but they overall complimented well with the cupcakes as I had reduced the sugar amount.

Here if you may see, the Red Velvet Cupcakes looked more like Chocolate Cupcakes instead:-p

Never fear!!!! I will make another attempt soooooon..., hehehehe....:))

Meantime, do enjoy these little cuppies 1st.....!!!

Here is the actual recipe as adapted from Wai Soh Man from Baking Wonderland

(with slight modifications)

Ingredients:

165g flour (150g flour + 1.5 tbsps cocoa powder)

150g sugar (125g)

1/2 tsp baking soda

pinch of salt

1 egg

150g corn oil (canola oil)

118g milk

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

1/2 tsp white vinegar

1/2 tsp lemon zest

dash of red coloring

Cheese topping

100g cream cheese

15g soft butter

50g icing sugar

Method:

1. Combine flour, sugar, baking soda & salt. Sieve & set aside.

2. Combine remaining ingredients and mix well. Fold in the flour mixture from step 1. Mix well till smooth & velvety.

3. Scoop batter into paper cups, 75% filled, and bake for about 25-30 mins in a preheated oven of 170C.

To prepare cheese topping, combine ingredients and mix well till smmoth. Place mixture into a piping bag and pipe as desired.

Have fun with these cuppies while I will attempt another cuppies soon:)

Chocolate & Coffee Cupcakes

Recently Nat had a change of taste bud... Suddenly she just like coffee flavor. Amongst my 3 gals, she is the one who has an exotic taste, like enjoying durian, coffee, enjoying even red wine & beer... Hmmm, that's pretty unusual for a little girl though...

Nevertheless, she had been quite supportive of the bakes that I had tried, and she will always be the one whom is willing to try, unlike Mimi, who used to "test" my cakes, simply just tell me these days that those cakes are not her favourite.. :-p

These Chocolate & Coffee Cupcakes were quite tempting.. Being chocolate & coffee..

But I guess I didn't fare quite well on these cupcakes.

Firstly, I felt that my chocolate flavour wasn't too much

Secondly, the coffee smell was there but not too satisfying to me

Thirdy, my cupcakes came out abit hard

... ...

But the consolation was, the coffee cream was yummy!!!!

I used my own combination of the whipped cream + instant coffee mix, and topped with chopped peanuts!
hahahahahaha.....

If I hadn't mentioned those cons, these cupcakes would look extremely fantastic isn't it???

Recipe as adapted from Kevin Chai:

Ingredients:

250g butter

180g sugar

4 eggs

200g plain flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp baking soda

150g melted chocolate

2 tbsp canola oil

30ml kahlua

Method:

1. Beat butter & sugar until fluffy. Add in eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.

2. Fold in sifted flour, baking powder & soda.

3. Stir melted chocolate with canola oil, then pour into flour mixture with kahlua, mix well.

4. Spoon the mixture into the cases. Bake for 20mins in a preheated oven of 175C. Remove cupcakes & cool on a rack.

Coffee Cream:

200g butter

150g icing sugar

1 tsp instant coffee powder

100g melted chocolate

Prepare the cream by beating butter, icing sugar and coffee powder until light & smooth. Stir in melted chocolate and pipe on top of each cupcake. Decorate with chocolate.

Soft & Fluffy Banana Cake- Yummy!!!

My friend Eileen had passed me a great recipe for banana cake again... As long as it is any banana recipes, I guess it will be anybody's favourite as well.

Eileen had found this great recipe from Wen's Delight, and she told me that I must try this recipe as it was really soft & yummy... Having the basic fruit, banana, at home, I went off to bake this cake. And it was indeed delicious. It wasn't that oily, it was really soft... Hahaha, so I had baked this cake a couple of times as it was quite a hit. The gals liked it too. The 2nd time, I had tried baking with chocolate chip rice, and they were also delicious.. I even had a few pieces myself too...

A nicely baked top and a soft, fluffy texture banana cake...

YUMMY!!!!

Recipe as adapted from Wen's Delight:

Ingredients:

2.5-3 Eggs (I used 3 eggs)

130g Sugar (I used 125g)

200g Banana (Ripe & cut into small pcs)

150g Top Flour (I use cake flour)

1/2 tsp Baking powder

1/4 tsp Baking soda

100g Corn oil (I use canola oil)

1/8 tsp Banana essense (optional)(I omitted)

Method:

*Preheat oven to 160 degree C.

*Grease & line a 8" round tin with paper.
1. Sieve flour, baking powder & soda together. Sieve twice & set aside.
2. Whisk eggs, sugar & banana at max. speed till stiff/ribbon stage.

3. Fold in flour & mix well. (Can use spatular or hand to mix)

4. Add in oil & mix well till batter is shiny & flowing.
5. Bake for 40 - 45mins.

Steamed Pandan Peanut Cupcakes

I have a busy weekend... I had been to SG Popular Book Fair at the Expo Hall on Saturday. But it didn't thrill me much as the cookbooks were as cheap as they were supposed to be... So yesterday, I headed down to JB and I decided to go to thier Popular Fair at Danga City Mall. I did not know where it was, but luckily the lady boss of the nail shop was kind enough to let me use her wifi to check the location. It was pretty easy to find the mall in the end. And of course I had grabbed at least 7 books which were so valued for money!!! Needless to say, my gals & my niece bought their loot as well...

Adding another steamed cupcake to the November Aspiring Baker's theme, this is a Steamed Cupcake I had gotten from Alex Goh's Steamed Cake.

These cupcakes had caught my attention as it was pandan flavor and they looked very pretty. But of course, Alex Goh put red bean filling whereas hubby suggested to use peanuts instead.

It was a little difficult to put the peanut fillings in the centre as "it" will "run" everywhere else in the cupcakes... So I had actually "dug" a hole in the centre and put in the peanut fillings, and fill them up with the remaining batter.

So, what do you think of them?

Recipe as adapted from Magic Steamed Cake by Alex Goh
(slight modifications)

Ingredients:

(A)

4 eggs

250g sugar

1/2 tsp salt

120ml canola oil

(B)

2 tsps pandan juice

few drops of green coloring

200g coconut milk

(I had used 2 tsp pandan paste instead of the pandan juice & green coloring)

(C)

400g flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

(I had omitted all and used self raising flour instead)

Method:

1. Whip A until sugar dissolves and slightly thicken. Add in B, mix until well blended.

2. Fold in sieved C, mix until well blended.

3. Pour the batter about 1/3 of the 7cm cupcake mould lined with paper cup. Steam for about 2-4mins.

4. Remove from heat and place the peanut fillings in the centre & press lightly.

5. Top with the remaining batter and steam for another 15-20mins over high heat.

Fillings can be omitted or changed to your preferred fillings like red bean paste, etc.

Have Fun:))

I am submitting this to Aspiring Bakers #25 – Steaming Hot Cakes (November 2012) hosted by Miss B of Everybody Eats Well in Flanders. 

Steamed Chocolate Cupcakes

Yes, Steam Cakes are indeed in trend this month in my home... And I am enjoying it very much. I had given alot of steamed cakes to my friend, and her hubby mentioned that I seemed to be enjoying doing so... So I told my friend, this month onwards my daughter will be starting her school vacations, plus my boss is not in SG, so taking all these time available to bake again...

I had bought this "Steamed Cakes" recipe book when I was in Penang last October, but I had never tried any of the recipes since I bought it till today.

From this book, I had selected the Steamed Chocolate Cupcakes as the ingredients were rather basic. Some of the other recipes required evaporated milk and condensed milk, which I wasn't too keen in them.

A full ingredients could actually fetch quite a number of cupcakes, depending on the size of your paper cups.

*Note: It is better to use those "paper" cupcake cases as compared to the other cupcake cases as the paper cups will "opened" up during steaming.

These steamed chocolate cupcakes were not too bad. I had modified some of the ingredients. Cutting down a huge amount of the icing sugar, using margarine instead of butter, and replacing the hot water with milk too. The cupcakes did turned out well, soft and moist, but a little not so sweet.. So perhaps I should increase a little more sugar...hehehehe...
The gals loved these cupcakes too. I was glad that they liked it. Mimi had 2 of them and she said it was yummy. My friend who tried the cupcakes said they were delicious as well.

Would you like to try one as well?

Recipe as adapted from the Steamed Cakes by Mdm Zubaidah Bte Chepa

Ingredients:

Yields about 16 medium size cups & 16 mini size cups

250g superfine flour (I use self raising flour)

1 tsp baking soda (omitted)

75g cocoa powder

350g icing sugar (I used 200g)

250g butter (I used margarine)

3 eggs

1 bowl of hot water (I used 250ml cold milk)

Method:

1. Beat butter & sugar until smooth.

2. Add in the egg one at a time, mix well at each addition.

3. Add in the flour+cocoa powder, alternating with the milk. Mix until well blended.

4. Pour batter into the paper cup cases and steam over high heat for about 10mins.

(If you are using my ingredients, you can fill the batter till full as the cupcakes will shrink a little after removing from heat)

I am submitting this to Aspiring Bakers #25 – Steaming Hot Cakes (November 2012) hosted by Miss B of Everybody Eats Well in Flanders