DIY Home-made Mixed Fruit Cake

Ingredients:

Mixed Fruits - 300gm

Flour - 200gm

Baking Powder - 5gm

Butter - 150gm

Sugar - 150gm

Egg - 3 eggs

Method:

1. Beat butter & sugar together until light and fluffy

2. Beat in eggs 1 at a time

3. Sieve flour and baking powder

4. Fold flour and baking powder into mixture

5. Add in mixed fruits

6. Pour contents into baking tin

7. Bake in oven at 180 degrees celcius for 1 1/4 hours

Hokkaido House - Gratin Sauce for Bread

This one is really simple to make, provided you have an oven. It takes only 1 minute to place your bread in your baking bowl, add in the sauce and send into the oven for 15 mins. Wala, your meal is ready!

The sauce is actually a mixture of carrot, potato, cheese and milk. Sounds pretty healthy too.

Midnight Baking

Was into the baking mood after tasting Mummy Lian's Devil's Food Cake. It was so yummy that I forgot to take a pic.

SMART ger also had a try in baking over Labour Day... that's her Raisin Cookie. Taste not bad too... it is the chewy type of cookie.

Since my oven has been left idling for some time, I decide to make Butter Cookies last night. Oh boy... it was 2am+ by the time I cleared up.

Since I did not have any Mixer, it was pure manual labour trying to cream the butter and sugar till fluffy. My arms are slightly aching now.

See my cookies with almond and cashew nuts? Looks good? But in actual fact, it wasnt as good as it looks. As the dough was too big thick, the center sections of the cookies were still moist. But R and I still ate them anyway.

Bought a mixer today and it definitely made work lighter and faster :) Finished baking at 12am+ a while ago.

Decided to improvise a little, and so I added cocoa powder and turned the butter cookie recipe into chocolate cookie recipe.

The cookies are much smaller learning from yesterday's lesson.

See the 3 dark dark cookies? They are further improvised into Cashew Choco Cookies and Almond Choco Cookies.

Anyone wants to try?

Here's the recipe:

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup and 1 teaspoon butter
• 1/4 cup and 1 teaspoon white sugar
• 1/4 egg
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

• In a large bowl, cream together the butter and white sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the egg, then stir in the vanilla.
• Combine the flour and salt; stir into the sugar mixture.
• Cover dough, and chill for at least one hour. Chill cookie sheets.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Press dough out onto ungreased, chilled cookie sheets.
• Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until lightly golden at the edges.
• Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks.

Source : www.bakery.sg

Chocolate Fondue

F invited P, JL, D and me to her place for a Fruit Chocolate Fondue session. Yummy!

I was hoping to see the chocolate fountain but it turned out to be this cute little thingie (which looks like an aromatherapy burner) ....

First, we melted the cocoa block in a separate bowl over a bowl of hot water.

These fruits are ready to be fondued - banana, chiku, strawberry and Korean pear.

Hmm... we also had mashmallow. Forgot to take pic of it.

Next, we heat up the chocolate by placing a tealight below. Then dip the cut fruits into the chocolate.

It was GOOD!

Jos' Japanese Lunch

Was thinking - shd I go tapau or shd I cook? Since the weather looks like a killer, a packet of ramen (actually it is only instant noodle) is enough to make me happy. In the end, I whipped up my own little Japanese Lunch. keke.

Here's what you need....

1. Japanese brand Nissin ramen

2. Japanese Ready-to-Eat Curry

3. Miso Soup Paste

And then, here what you get :)

A Japanese Lunch complete with ramen, curry & miso soup.

Total preparation time : 3 mins for ramen, 2 mins for curry and 2 mins for soup.

Total damage : less than $6.