Daisy Mocha Cookies

I'm not able to take photo for the 1st time I baked this cookies and now, I baked it for the 2nd time ^.^

I volunteered myself to bake a Pandan Chiffon Cake for the teacher so that the children can enjoy it when they have their Children's Day (1st Oct) celebrated earlier, on 28th Sep 2009.

This cookies was their favorite when I 1st baked them and let my daughter brought them to school and share with her friends ^.^ How I know it's their favorite? Cause daughter came back and tell me "Teacher never give me the cookies, teacher said I can eat at home and my friends can eat mine. But nevermind mommy, home still have, I can eat later, nevermind." ^.^ So, I top-up with this cookies other than cake.

It smells nice, taste nice and looks nice... hahahaaa..stop making compliment and let's take a look on the pictures taken:


I used flower-shape cookie cutter last time, but i decided to use the heart-shape also this time as it will give me a bigger piece of cookies ^.^

It should be thicker but I make it thinner as it would be easier for the kids to bite ^.^ It contains chocolate rice as well! Hope they enjoy the cake and cookies!

Orange Chocolate Chips Cookies

I love browsing HappyHomeBaking blog as I can feel the sweetness and happiness every time she wants to prepare/bake something for the love ones =)

I prepared this cookies based on her recipe (Drop Cookies) but I replaced the vanilla extract with orange essence so that it would smell like orange (which my kids love it but they not able to eat orange cause it will cause the phlegm).

It really taste great! And not hard for them to bite ^.^ I even give it to my soon-to-be-one-year-old baby boy! hahahaaa.. He enjoys it!

Happy! Happy! HappyHomeBaking replied my concerns:
There could be a few reasons for the burnt edges:

- You could have left the butter too soft before creaming. It should be still firm and yet will not give a glossy appearance when you use it to cream it with the sugar.
- You may have over-mixed the batter (butter/sugar mixture), it should be fluffy and not appear greasy/creamy & soft. Over mixing may cause the cookies to flatten out and thus causing the edges to get burnt.
- Not sure whether you do this, but do not place cookie dough on warm baking tray. The tray should be cool off before using. The heat will cause the cookie dough to spread out before it goes in the oven.
- You can try chilling the dough in the fridge for 30 mins before baking.
Hope this helps.

I'm so happy to get reply from HHB and I'm planning to bake this cookies again this weekend cause it's "out-of-stock" already ^.^

Orange Chocolate Butter Cake

I was trying to get rid of the butter smell so that grandma-in-law would at least try a piece (cause she dislikes butter). But mission failed. Ok, at least I know I can stop trying to make her try :P

The orange essence flavor overtakes the chocolate and we can only smell the orange essence :P even though I did put fresh orange juice together with a little orange essence. Overall, the original Orange butter cake would be nicer :) and my maid also has the same feedback.

The marble pattern is nicer compare with the previous time as instead of using 1/3 of the batter to mix with cocoa powder, I used 2/3 :P

Let's take a look of the cake before cutting into pieces/slices:


Here's the photo of slices of the cake:


Not very satisfy with this cake as butter cake should have the taste of butter...but this one.. really just the orange essence :P
I told myself will bake the delicious-yummy orange butter cake these few days!

Orange Butter Cake

Yippie! One of my favorite too though it's a bit fattening ^.^

It was still wet although I've followed the recipe's instruction to bake at 160C for 55-60 minutes (I set to 60 minutes). So, my maid set it to bake for another 15 minutes covering with aluminum foil to prevent the top from "burning" :P

But it's still wet... so my clever maid set it to bake again (if you've read my previous blog about Banana Cake, you'll know why.)... But this time, she set the temperature to 180C (similar to Pandan Chiffon Cake) and bake for another 10 minutes.

Hurrai!!! Yummy-delicious orange butter cake as shown in the photo:


The texture was just nice and not too "solid" compare to what I baked (Butter Cake) few days ago.

This will definitely be my top list whenever I want to bake a butter cake ^.^

Not eat-able - My Oven

Yes, this is uploaded so that I will not forget what my oven name whenever people prompt me the question.

I've never used the grilling function so far, will try it one day.. the day that I sacrifice a chicken ^.^

So far, no complain on this oven. Easy to use and cleanup. It comes with black baking pan and reversible rack.

Thumbs up!

Not eat-able - New digital camera

Hahaa... sorry that I squeezed this into my "baking blog". I just want to share this with all of you: new digital camera bought by hubby for ME and.. my lovely daughter. She already told me that she wanted to bring to school tomorrow ^.^ *show-off*

I've told hubby that I wanted a digital camera so that I can have a nice shoot of all the "products" even the lighting was not good or it was at night. Furthermore, the canon digital camera that my brothers bought for me as wedding gift (4-5yrs ago) was broken. So, it's time to get new one also. We can take plenty of photos of our kids as well ^.^

He knew Canon brand's better but he said he dislike "canon", so he bought Sony :P The quality of the images is good (of course, 10.1megaPix marrr) so far and even my daughter of 4 yrs old knows how to operate it =)

I think it's quite worth the price. My daughter chosen the color although hubby likes metal/silver look. Thanks daddy!

"Seri Muka" - Pandan Glutinous Rice

My 1st Nyonya Kuih result as shown in the picture on the left. Taste nice and easy to prepare! I will definitely bake this again as it's life-span only 2 days ^.^ (finished within 2 days) hahahahaaa....

The only comment from grandma-in-law is: Next time we can try to put more glutinous rice and reduce the pandan layer, then we can make more! :D She loves the glutinous rice, she said it was "Q-Q" (means... not too soft and the chewiness is just nice!

I wanted to bring this back to office and share with my colleague who borrowed me the recipe from Agnes Chang but so sorry that it was gone so fast :P

I will bake this again and let her try next time!

Note added on 13 Nov 2009: I did bring some of the Seri Muka that I've baked to let my colleagues try and they revert nice ^.^

I did it again recently and taken a photo to share.


This time, I've increased the glutinous rice as my grandma-in-law prefer the glutinous rice to be thicker. I also like the glutinous rice to be thicker as it would be a bit too sweet if the top layer too thick ^.^

Banana Cake

I do not like the outcome of the banana cake but my maid, oppositely loves it!
It contains strong butter smell beside the banana original smell ^.^



The texture was not fluffy enough and I think because I added too much banana (20g more than the recipe) ^.^ *my bad*

Actually due to the "banana paste" (banana that I squeezed into paste-form), I had to put the cake back in the Oven for another 20minutes.... and when I cut into slices, grrhhh.. the cake still "wet-wet"... I ended up cut all the banana cake into slices and put all of them into the Oven for the 3rd time and hurrai! It's done finally.

Take a look of the Banana Cake:


I only tasted half piece of the banana and I packed all to my relative staying close to us (we live @ 18th floor, she lives @ 22). My maid loves it, so I keep 1/3 of the cake for her and it only left 2 pieces when I come to work this morning ^.^

Banana Cake II:


I've tried out another recipe and I'm falling in love with this banana cake! Everybody loves it!

Butter Cake

I love this I love this and I'm happy!

Actually I do not like the strong smell of butter but I like butter cake (strange hOOOorrr)... especially those given from full-month or wedding (过大礼) ^.^

"woOOooo... sui hOOOrrr" (in hokkien means pretty hoOOor), my grandma-in-law 1st expression when she saw I move one piece of the butter cake... my maid also given the same comment.. I'm contented ^.^

Let's take a look of the whole cake right after taking out from the oven:


However, after cooling, it became like this:


And this is "a piece of cake":


I was so eager to try the orange flavor right away, but my grandma-in-law keeps asking for pandan cake... :P So, I pulled the break and call for time-out and let my maid "took the order" and baked the Pandan Chiffon Cake.. and it tastes nice! Good job ah-sih (my maid's name).

We stopped baking for the day as we already baked 1 Banana Cake, 1 Butter Cake and 1 Pandan Chiffon Cake.

Victoria Sandwich

Actually can't really called it "sandwich" as I didn't try to cut into 2 layer and apply jam/cream :) Why? Cause...

1. I need to bake for another cake on the same time, so no time to do this.
2. My initiate attend is to do the crispy sponge cake slice as finger-food for my kids, so don't really want to make sandwich.
3. I used different pan instead of the recipe's 8inch-round-pan :P So, the cake kind of slim to be cut into 2 layers :D

Here's the result before and after cut into slices:


Slices:



The above slices is not slim enough. I actually divided them into 2 groups. One which we can still taste the victoria cake, the other half I cut them into slices and put them into oven again for 40minutes @ 130C to make them crispy =)



Confession:
This wasn't my 1st attempt but 2nd. As I didn't manage to take a photo of my 1st attempt production, I took it on my 2nd attempt =)
The 1st attempt cake texture was solid/hard as my mixer "out-of-services" half way beating the egg+sugar :P so, my cake was not fluffy :S That's why i turned all of them into crispy sponge cake during my 1st attempt.

As for 2nd attempt, I like both cake and crispy texture... so I made both ^.^

This is extremely easy to bake, 4 ingredients: sugar, eggs, flour and vanilla extract (but I substitute with orange essence) ^.^

Coconut flakes cookies

Wondering I should call it "coconut flakes" or "dessicated coconut". It came in a package in dried-form, first time i saw this :P I came from Malaysia and normally we will get this fresh from the coconut through the shredding machine.

I bought it last month to decorate the pandan-layered-cake that I baked. So, I still left A LOT of it and wanted to do something about it.


I remembered a recipe that bake coconut cake but end up, it was calling for sweetened-dessicated-coconut :P don't know how to "sweetened" it :P Then, I found a recipe that bake the cookies. Here's the outcome:

I added some chocolate rice and colorful sprinkles to make it look nicer. At first, I put it in a small cupcake paper. But it ended stick on the paper. Then I put it on the cookie-sheet and lazy to apply the butter which the recipe instruct to do so :P So, I end up be a good gal and apply the butter cause the 2nd attempt, some of the cookies still stick on the cookie-sheet :D

Taste nice but a bit too hard to chew for kid. But the smell of coconut will "attract" you keep going for it ^.^

Orange butter cupcakes

Managed to bake this last weekend after my son's birthday. My mixer was spoilt and I brought back to repair but instead, they change a brand new mixer for me.. happy!

Cause I do not want to bake anything related to cocoa cause kind of bored :P so, I bake this orange butter cupcakes which my daughter loves orange. But... because it will cause phlegm so I "ban" her from drinking or eating orange. I guess eating orange cupcakes will not cause the phlegm? hahahahaa... an excuse? dunno...

Here's the look (not able to shoot it nicely using mobile phone cause holding youngest boy with me :P)


And here's the photo taken after youngest boy and me eating half of the cupcakes :P


The texture was soft and suitable for baby (not baby lar..but kids ) cause it's easy to bite and it will melt in the mouth =) The recipe didn't instruct to add sultana, but i got it on hand and my kids love it also, so i added into the batter. I even add in some chocolate rice to the other half of the batter :D

Will definitely try this again whenever I'm bored with cocoa/chocolate, not bored eating, but bored baking using cocoa/melting the chocolate :D
Maybe I'm too tired to spend time after burning few days taking care my kids that all fall sick (fever, cough & flu) the same period of time. Not enough rest/sleep but want to bake sometimes for them to eat as they don't have appetite to eat their meal ^.^