Cupcake For Rin

Rin is my GF, i knew her around 4 years ago.. when she and me studied at same school in Singapore.. when she first came to the school, she sat with me and from there we became friend till now.. Rin, happy b`day to you. hope u always healthy and all the best.

She love Durian (most difficult), Hand Bag, Strawberry and Lemon..


HAPPY B~DAY RIN

Smiling Onde Onde

In bahasa they called this as Onde Onde Ketawa, ketawa means smiling.. quite easy to make, i made only half recipe!


Ingredient:
Resource - NCC
500 gr Plain Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder Double Acting (BPDA)
150 gr Caster sugar
50 gr margarine
1 tsp vanilli
4 egg

1 cup water
100 gr sesame
1L cooking oil

Method:
* Mix plain flour and BPDA, set aside.
* Beat butter and sugar until smooth, put the eggs one by one while remaining whipped until fluffy. Turn off the mixer unit.
*Pour the flour into egg mixture, stir well and slowly until can shape it. make it round like a ping-pong balls, dip briefly into the water immediately roll over white sesame.
*Fry in skillet with oil and fire a lot of moderate to bloom and khaki.
*Lift. Drain. Cool and store in a jar.

Green Bean Soup

Just a simple and easy dessert at home.. :)

Grean Bean Soup
Ingredient:
- 300gr of grean bean
- 3L water
- 1-1.5 cup of plam sugar
- 1/2 cup of caster sugar (optional, depend on your taste)
- 6 pandan leave
- pinch of salt

Method:
- wash the bean, throw all the bean skin which fload in the water.
- cook the grean bean with 2.5L water , till its cook. Set aside
- In another pot, cook the plam sugar with 500ml water and pandan leave. let it boil. sieve.
- Add the sugarplam syrup and salt into greanbean soup dan let it boil for awhile.

Chawanmushi

Chawanmushi is an egg custard dish found in Japan. (ya everyone knew that, aren't they?)
its smooth.. unlikely my previous steam egg which moon's skin hahaha.


Chawanmushi ala wawa
Ingredients
(makes 4 cups)
- 3 eggs
- 250ml bonito stock/chicken stock
- 1 tsp sugar
- 2 tsp sake or white cooking wine (optional)
- 3/4 to 1 tbsp light soy sauce

Filling:
i used what i have in fridge.
- 3 crab stick
- 2 shintake mushroom (cut into small pieces)
* feel free to add other ingredients (such as prawn, chicken, Imitation sharks fin, gingko nuts etc)

Directions
1. Break the eggs into the bowl. Gently stir the eggs with a pair of chopsticks using a cutting action.
2. Add the rest of the ingredients to the eggs mixture, Blend the mixture till fine.
3. Place crab stick, chopped mushroom at the bottom of each cup and pour the egg mixture over (do not fill to the brim, leave some gap on top).
4. Cover the cups with lids, transparent food wrap or aluminum foil (do not leave an opening).
5. Steam the cups over high heat for about 10 mins. To test if the chawanmushi is cooked, insert a bamboo stick into the mixture: if a little clear liquid comes out, it is cooked.

Chicken Katsu

I made this for dinner. Easy to prepare and not messy :) i dont really like Japanese raw food (i dont like it at all) like raw fish, seaweed, mmm sotong???, but their cooked food are OK for me. i had this recipe long time ago.. Now then i try :)


recipe coming soon!

Black Sesame Cheesecake

For sesame lover I'm sure you will like this.. :)

Cake ingredient:
- 120g sponge cake mix
- 2 egg
- 30ml water
- 30gr butter (melted)

Cheese filling:
- 350g cream cheese
- 80g caster sugar
- 2 tsp gelatin powder
- 2 tbsp water
- 350g fresh cream (whipped)
- 30gr black sesame (toasted, blended) next time will add more

Method:
1. To make sponge cake, beat sponge cake mix, egg and water in a mixer with high speed untill light and fluffy. Turn to low speed, mix in melted butter until well blended.
2. Spread butter into 18cm (7") square baking tin and bake for 20 mins. Remove from oven and cool completely. split into 2 layers.
3. To make filling, beat the cream cheese and sugar till soften and smooth.
4. Melt gelatin powder with water over double boil. Stir into cheese and fold in whipped cream until well blended. Divide to 2 portion.
5. Add in blended sesame into portion cheese form sesame cheese mixture. The other reserve for original flavor
6. To essemble, place a slice of sponge cake into baking tin. spread with half of sesame cheese mixture, follow with half original favor. cover with another slice of sponge cake. Then spreat with remaining of sesame cheese and original flavor. cover and keep in fridge overnight.

CreMoc* Puff

CreMoc* Tiger Soes (Cream Mocca)

Ingredients for Puffs:

• 130g Butter
• 1 1/2 Water
• 1 tbsp Sugar
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 180g plain flour
• 5 egg (M)
• 1 sdt Vanilla Essence
• piping bags & nozzles

Topping Tiger

• 100 gr Butter
• 60 gr Cooking Oil
• 2 egg
• 90 gr sugar
• Mix everything till well blend add in:
• 40 gr milk powder
• 280 gr plain flour

Filling:

• 300ml dairy whipping cream
• 2 sdm mocca paste
• choco powder (if u like)
  Method
  - whipping cream + mocca paste+ Choco powder whip it.

METHOD:

• Pre-heat oven at 200c. Grease baking tray or place a sheet of non-stick baking sheet on it.
  Melt butter, water, caster sugar & salt in a pot under medium heat until butter is dissolved, then turn off the fire.
• Turn on the fire again at low heat. Fold in sifted flour, cook until the mixture to form a soft dough, remove from heat.
• Transfer hot dough into a mixing bowl, pour in vanilla essence & beat for a few minutes to reduce the temperature of the hot dough.
• Mix in eggs one at a time, beat thoroughly for each addition. Beat the mixture become a smooth batter. (When mixing in the eggs, make sure the temperature of the hot dough will not cook the eggs)
• Transfer smooth batter into a piping bag & pipe out the batter onto the baking tray. Using spoon take 1 scoop of Tiger Topping.cover the top of puff.
• Bake in the pre-heated oven for 20 minutes, reduce heat to 170c & bake for another 10 minutes.
• Let the baked puffs to cool on the cooling rack.
• Pipe the Cream filling into puff

Macaroon Classes!

I told u i going to attend the macaroon classes right? the class its really fun, the friendly teacher and student. but too bad.. we only can get around 10 pcs of macarons :) nevermind.. we can make alot at home.. :)
Of course this is not my macarons! i took picture from Flickr

Lets picture talk here..

Steam Cheese Brownies

Monday i receive a call from Silver (my x manager).. she said.. "lynn ajohn will celebrate his b`day on Wednesday..can make cake for him?" so Tuesday, after work i make the cake. as the cake i cover with cheese.. i cant put in in fridge..! otherwise cheese will become hard.. :( i wanted to put some strawberry in the center of the cake..but i cut the strawberry too thick, theres a gap between two cake.. so i smashed the strawberry (become like paste) !! stupid me! so the cake is ready.. and i leave it at room temperature overnight!

afternoon at office.. i smelled the strawberry smell quite strong so i asked my friend..
she said "ohh no u shouldn't just anyhow smashed and put the strawberry in, room temperature some more" she asked me to take out the strawberry.. i said I CANT because I'm at office now..
so right away i put the cake in fridge.. hope everything will be find tonight! :) i already asked silver to buy small cake for spare! :)


PS: Sometime i feel i really not into baking! cooking better..! Struggling between Pastry or Culinary!

Choco Cheese Bread

I still have bread flour.. so i make this Choco Cheese Bread.

Basic Bread (20pcs) @50gr

Ingredient:

• 500gr Bread Flour
• 250gr Cold water
• 90gr Sugar
• 15gr Milk powder
• 13gr Yeast
• 1 egg
• 40gr butter
• 1/2 tsp Salt

Method:

Mix the yeast and egg together. Blend in the remaining ingredient for form a dough about 6 mins. Cover with a damp cloth and leave aside to prove for 30 mins. continue kneading for 2 mins. and remove from mixer.

Filling: as u like.

Choux Pastry

1-22 November 2009 one of Indonesian Forum (NCC) have Choux Pastry(Soes) competition.. Check it out here!! I made this for fun. i dont even dare to submit my work as they are really really pro and good! i still need to do alot of home work!

I used Cream Puff recipe.. u can design as desired!

and for the Ganache:

• 200ml whipping cream
• 250 gr Dark COoking Chocolate

Microwave it for 5 seconds, take it out stir and add another 5 seconds repeat it till its smooth.