Banana Chocolate Chip Cupcakes (an update)

I make this for Nina's birthday. This time it came up soft and fluffy. The secret - very ripe banana and I added in 3 tbsp of milk. The batter is a bit thick, that's why I added in the milk.

I use buttercream icing, nozzle (wilton 233 and I cant remember the other one to make drop flower).

The recipe can be found here.

Custard Cupcakes

Found the recipe from here. Sound so delicious, after a few weeks of looking at the recipe, I made a batch of it last night. The result: 1) the look not so pretty, mine overflow and a bit brownish on the top. I can always conceal it with the icing. 2) the taste - it was so good, so fluffy and soft. I can taste the custard. Best of all, the color is so pretty, smooth yellow in the inside.

The recipe:

Ingredients:

1 cup of flour
1 cup of custard flour
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of butter (softened it)
4 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda

Instruction:

1) shift flour, custard flour, baking powder and baking soda. Put aside
2) Beat butter and sugar until it cream
3) Add in and beat one egg at the time
4) Finally, add in the flour. Mixed well
5) Put them the cupcake casing
6) Bake for 23 minute at 175C

Bread Pudding

There would normally leftover bread at our house. Previously, we would save the bread and feed them to the fishes at Taman Bukit Jalil. Well, the kids are excited first, feeding the fishes. After a while they got bored of it, no longer excited like every time we announce that we would go to Taman Bukit Jalil. Now, I just turn the bread into the most delicious bread pudding. It is a tad too sweet for some but the cinnamon and the raisin balanced the taste. I even made custard sauce to go with it. The taste is just heavenly for a sweet tooth like me.

The recipe (I got it from here):

Ingredients:
6 pieces of bread
3 tbsp of butter
1/2 cup of sugar (original recipe: 3/4 cup of sugar)
2 cups of milk
1 tsp of cinnamon powder
1 tsp of vanilla essence
4 eggs
1/2 cup of raisin (or up to your liking)

Instruction:
1) spread butter on the bread
2) break the bread into small pieces ( I just cut them into half) and arrange them in the baking dish, layered them with raisin. Put aside
3) Beat the 4 egg, add 2 milk, sugar, cinnamon and vanilla essence
4) Pour into the bread. Press with fork to make sure the bread absorb the milk.
5) Bake at 180 C for 45 minutes or until golden brown.

Custard sauce:

he he he This is a cheating custard sauce!! Pour milk into pan, stir at slow fire, add sugar, vanilla essence and custard flour. The amount is "agak-agak"! Stir to make sure it did not cuddle. If it does, strain it using strainer Anyway, it tastes as good!!

Pan cake

I make for breakfast on Friday morning. I search through the internet and most of the recipe requires about 4 cups of flour. I dont want to make that much!!

The recipe ( I get it from somewhere but forgot to note down the url, with due respect, this recipe belongs to whoever post it there):

1 egg
3 tbsp butter, melted and cooled
1 cup of flour
1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup buttermilk (I used milk instead)

Directions:

1) Whisk egg and cooled butter lightly in a bowl (make sure the egg and butter are at room temperature)
2) Sift together flour, sugar, baking soda and salt
3) Add dry ingredients to egg mixture
4) Stir until batter is well mixed
5) Add buttermilk* (I used milk) and stir again until mixed, batter will be lumpy.
6) Pour a scoopful laddle onto preheated griddle
7) Cook until bubbles appear all round, then turn over and cook until golden brown.

*the original recipe:

to substitute buttermilk: 1 cup of milk and add with 1 1/3 tbsp cream of tartar. Allow to stand for 5-10 minutes.

note: I also found somewhere, we can also used lime juice or vinegar to replace the cream of tartar.

To me, milk is good enough!!

Cinnamon Rolls

This is the most successful attempt I have made. So far, it turned out very good every time I did them. But I still need to find out how to maintain the softness and the glaze after it cools down. Best eaten when it is still hot. The smells of fresh cinnamon rolls in the morning beats everything else, even nasi lemak or roti canai!!

Here it goes (I get the recipe from here):

Ingredients:

1 package of active dry yeast
3/4 cup warm water
1/4 cup white sugar
3/4 tsp salt
1 egg room temperature
2.5 cups of bread flour

1/4 butter (softened)

Mixed together and leave aside:

1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 cup brown sugar

Instructions:
1) In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Let stand until creamy about 10 minutes. (I put a 1tsp of sugar to further activate the yeast)
2) In a large bowl, combine the yeast mixture with the sugar, salt, egg and 1 cup flour; stir well to combine. Stir in the remaining flour, 1/2 cup at a time, beating well with each addition. When the dough has pulled together, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and knead untill smooth and elastic, about 8 minutes. Cover with a damp cloth and let rest for 10 minutes.
3) Lightly grease an 8x8 inch square baling pan. Roll dough out on lightly floures surface to 1/4 inch thick rectangle. Smear the dough with butter and sprinkle with cinnamon and brown sugar. Roll up the dough along the long edge until it forms a roll. Slice the roll into 16 equal size pieces ans place them in the pan with the cut side up.
4) Cover pan with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight or cover and let it rise at room temperature until it doubled in volume, about 45 minutes.
5) Preheat oven to 200 C. Bake rolls until golden brown about 17~20 minutes.

Chocolate Moist Cupcakes

I also made these for Izzaty's birthday party. I made a big heart shape chocolate moist for her too but did not have the time to take the photo. The cake fell onto the floor (the whole thing!!) and had to be thrown away into the dustbin. Ini case bibik kelam-kabut dengan Izzaty & Sarah, sampai jatuh cake tuh!! Anyway, I dont have the time to bake another cake so off I went to Secret Recipe to buy the Chocolate Moist Cake!!

This particular recipe is dump everything in and mix. No eggs are used.

Recipe - I got this from here.

1.5 Cups of flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup water
1 tsp vinegar

Mix all of the ingredients well with mixer. It should be brown and smooth. Free from lumps. Bake at 175 C for 25 minutes.

Water can be substituted with milk. Oil can be substituted with melted butter.

Frosting:

I think the best frosting is Chocolate Ganache. If you have the equipment to fill the cake with the chocolate ganache is much better!! For Izzaty's birthday party, I used the chocolate buttercream frosting, decorated with pink flowers and green "ranting". Actually this was my first attempt to decorate cupcake. Never able to reach to frosting phase as the cake normally gone by the time I am ready to frost the cupcakes.

Banana Choc Chip Cuppies

I got this recipe from a website (http://cuppincakesforyou.blogspot.com/) but modified it to make my own. The taste is heavenly, the look is ok but the texture may be a bit "apam like" to some people. So if you want a fluffy one, this is not the one. However, I have done it a few times and each time, it came up differently. It depends on how ripe the banana is!! This particular one, I made for Izzaty's birthday party.

The recipe:

Banana Chocolate Chip Cup Cake

1.5 cup flour
1 cup banana (I use ripe pisang berangan)
1/2 cup butter
1/3 cup sugar (you can use 1/2 sugar but it is tad too sweet for me)*
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 egg
Chocolate chip (to your liking)

*original recipe use 1 cup of sugar but it was so sweet. I guess she used pisang montel.

Instruction:
1) Shift flour, salt and baking soda. Put aside
2) Cream butter and sugar. Then add in egg and vanilla
3) Add in the dry items into the mixture in 3 stages. Mix well. I use the electric mixture.
4) Add in the chocolate chip.
5) Scoop the mixture into the cup
6) Bake for 20 min at 180.

The recipe gives about 16 cupcakes but it depends on the size of your cup.

Frosting:

Use the cream cheese frosting

1 pack of cream cheese
1/2 cup of butter
icing sugar ( frankly I have no idea how much I put in)

Mix until smooth

My new passion!!

This will kick start my new passion - baking. Been wanting to do it for quite some time now.

More to come - all about Sugar!!!