Yi Ba

Today, i have adapted Aunty Yochana's recipe to make the Hainanese Yi Ba, the fillings is coconut cooked with gula melaka, ginger, peanut and seasme seed.

The skin is made of glutinous flour. I like Aunty Yochana's recipe as it was clear, detailed and most importantly is that most of her recipe that i have tried so far are successful. Even sometimes, i consult her via emial, she will answer my mail, this make me very happy.

Ingredients for fillings:

200gm grated coconut

50gm gula melaka - palm sugar

30gm brown sugar

1/4 tsp salt

50gm roasted peanuts - chopped coarsely

25gm roasted seasame seeds

Pastry dough:

250 hot boiling water

250gm glutinous rice flour

1 tbsp sugar

a pinch of salt

4 tbsp Oil

Banana Leaves

Method:

- Fillings: fry all the ingredients together till dry

- Dough: mix glutinous rice flour, sugar, salt and oil together

- Pour hot boiling water into glutinous rice flour mixture and stir with a chopstick till it binds into a dough. Cover for 10 mins with a wet cloth

- Pinch some dough and wrap up with the fillings

- Wrap up with banana leaf and mark a red dot on top of kueh

- Steam for 15 mins

Double choclate chip muffin

on 18.11.09 evening, i have made this muffin using wen's recipe which she has learnt from Valeries Kong. I have cut the sugar by 20g and the sweetnest is just nice to us. My boy loves it so much.

Ingredients:

A. 170g self raising flour, 70g cocoa powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda

B. 180g chocolate chips, 200g sugar

C. 2 eggs, 240g buttermilk, 120g melted butter, 1tsp vanilla paste

Method:

1. Sift A into a bowl, stir in B

2. Whisk C and pour into 1. Mix with a ballon whisk

3. Scoop mixture into a muffin cup and top with chocolate chips if you want

4. Baked at 180deg for 20 mins

Baked Cherry Cheesecake

On Saturday afternoon, i had made this cherry cheesecake which i had bought a can of cherry quite some times ago from Ng Ming Huat Bakery. Finally, i made this item out.

This was a recipe learnt from Aunty Yochana.

I have bake a 9 inches sponge cake using Optima flour and pour in the cheese mixture with cheery on it and steambake for 1 hr @ 160c

Orange Buttermilk Cupcake

On 12.11.09, while waiting for my daugther to finish her maths assesement, i have make the simple cupcake using Aunty Yochana's recipe.

Ingredient:

250 butter

200 sugar

125g butter milk or Yohurt

3 eggs

217.5g of cake flour

1tsp of baking powder

1tbsp of grind orange

1tsp vanilla essence

Method:

1. Cream butter, sugar & vanilla till creamy

2. Add egg one by one

3. Add in yohurt, grind orange, lastly stir in flour

4. Scoop into cup paper and bake at 170C for 15-20 mins

Sarawak Serikaya Cake

On Sunday afternoon, i came home from my mum house at 4pm. And decided to try on this steam cake which my colleague has given me the Gula Hitam for more than half a year.

This morning i bring to office and tried and found that it was on the sweet side, very rich and overall is soft texture. May be next round, i will cut down on the used of kaya and condensed milk. As i still find this is not the correct recipe that we are looking for, being too rich.

Actually, all these while, myself and my colleague Jamie is looking for this recipe, it seems like no one willing to share. I am using Home Kreation's recipe as below:

Ingredient: 5 eggs,

160 sugar (I used only 149g, will further cut to 80g next time)

250g butter

1 tsp villina

1 tsp ovelette

150g kaya (i used 130g)

200g condense milk (i use d170g)

170g plain flour

150g holick (plain)

80-100g of Gula Hitam

170g of nestle cream ( i replace by 5 tbsp of evporation milk, as i forgot to buy)

Method:

1. Beat butter, sugar, ovelette and villina essence in high speed for 5 minutes

2. Add in egg one by one

3. Stir in kaya, condense milk in low speed

4. Stir in holick and flour

5. Pour in a 8" tray and steam for 2.5 hour till cook

* Today, one of my colleague whom got the recipe but insisted that the recipe cannot share to any of us, she just glance thru my recipe and commented that hers has no nestle cream added, no ovelette and the condensed milk and holick content not that much. She suggested me to use steam bake in the oven would be better as it would not so wet and it cooked faster, steamed bake for 1.5 hr and use skewer to check , if not cooked, baked for another 15-30mins will do. This is the way to safe fire as steaming process need up to 4 hrs as per a lots of bloggers given.

Double chocolate chip chiffon

I have baked this cake using Rei's blog recipes, as i found out that her expertise on chiffon cake is very good, detailed and she done a lot of variety. I decided to make this as this is my first try on this flavour. See the picture, you will know her recipe is good, i will sure make for this again.

Fine butter cake

Tonight, i bake this butter cake which adapt Florence's recipes to bake 2 loaf of cake for my children, one is plain and the other was with Pistachio nut cream.

This is a very rich cake which using whipping cream, butter, eggs, cakeflour, corn oil.

This is a sure keeper recipe.