Apple Crumbles

I am guilty, guilty of not able to take the photo and upload the photo. Firstly, my camera run out battery. Then I am just simply lazy to take the photos. So, I am guilty. Anyway, I made Apple Crumbles last Sunday. No, I do not have the photos.

It was an ok effort by me. I bake the Apple Crumbles in the microwave convection oven, so it did not have the brown effect of the crumbles.

Anyway, here is the recipe:

Filling:

4 apples ( I use Granny Smith)
1 tsp of ground cinnamon
25 g brown sugar

Crumbles:

175 g self raising flour
110 g of almond with skin
75 g of butter (cut into small pieces)
2 tsp of ground cinnamon
110 g of brown sugar

Instruction:

Peel and core the apples. Cut it into small pieces. Mixed with brown sugar and ground cinnamon. Put into baking dish and put aside.

Rub butter with flour until it turn into crumbles like form.Pour everything (except the almond) into a bowl. Put almond into food process and grind it into small pieces. Pour the almond into the crumbles and mixed.

Pour the crumbles onto the apples (loosely, do not press into the apples). Bake for 40 min at 180 C or until golden brown.

Apple Pie & Ice Cream - the perfect marriage

Ok, sound very ambitious. After almost a month of not doing any baking and updating this blog, I made two dishes that are perfect for each other last weekend. Yes! TWO dishes.

No photo yet but will upload later.

Apple Pie

4 Granny Smith Apple (of small size)*
1/3 cup of sugar
1/2 of ground cinnamon

200 g butter (original recipe use 250 g)
500 g of multipurpose flour
5 tbsp of ice water
1 egg (lightly beat)
a pinch of salt

Instruction

Peel and core the apple. Cut it into small pieces. Pour in sugar and cinnamon into the apple. Cook on slow fire until soft. Put aside to cool.

Rub butter with flour until it turns to breadcrumbs like dough. Put in egg and ice water, knead until it become soft dough. Cover with damp towel and let it rest for 15 to 20 min. I put it in the fridge.

Divide the dough into two parts. One part is about 2/3 of the dough and the other is about 1/3 of the dough to cover the pie later.Roll the dough into round shape, enough to cover about 8 inch pie baking dish.

Put in the filling prepared earlier into the baking dish. Brush off the rim of the dough with egg wash. This will act as a glue for the cover.Roll the other dough into round shape and cover the pie. Brush the pie with egg again. Make 4 small incisions on top of the pie to let out the steam from the pie during the baking process.

Bake for 45 min ~ 1 hour in 200~180 C or until golden brown.

Milo Ice cream

300 g coffee mate
2 cup of fresh milk
75 g of castor sugar
2 tsp of gelatin
2tbsp of hot water
150 g Milo (instant cocoa powder)
choc chip or rice

Instruction

Dissolve coffee mate, sugar and milk. Add in Milo. Stir until no lump. Put aside.
Dissolve gelatin with hot water. Add into the milk mixture. Stir. Strain through a strainer and put it in the freezer until half frozen. Whisk until it double in volume. Freeze again until half frozen. Add in chocolate chip or rice or raisin. Stir again. Freeze until firm. Serve with apple pie or eat on its own!!

It is so heavenly!....

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!!