Category: Desserts

Desserts

Orange Flavoured Caramel Egg Custard

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This is a super simple recipe my mom taught me when I was a teenager. Its caramel with custard, steamed and then refrigerated, and then eaten for tea.

I hated steaming because well, I am too lazy to take out the humongous steamer out. So I baked this. The result was tasty but it didn’t have that silken texture. It was pockmarky and dense. Hahaha..but still lovely enough, even for my mom.

All I did was in a bowl whisk 5 eggs with sugar (I estimated, but I reckon about 3/4 cups) and then added a bit of vanilla essence (extract of course better if you aren’t Muslim). And then a whole can of Carnation milk. I squeezed in a whole Sunkist orange with its zest into the mixture. Before that, I melted a cup of sugar till its caramelized and poured that into my pyrex bowl. I added the mixture to the bowl and then baked it till done. And then refrigerate.

Desserts

Ondeh-Ondeh

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The weather is absolutely abominable. It’s so humid and hot I can barely breathe. The rain just now only gave such a short respite and now it’s stuffy stuffy stuffy. So here I am on the comfort of my bed with the fan blowing just inches away from my face updating all the food I’ve cooked but had no time to update.

I’ll start off with ondeh-ondeh. My favorite kuih, or one of my favorites. Anything gooey and chewy …

I didn’t know that ondeh-ondeh is made from sweet potatoes. The key is to use the correct flour. It’s actually oh so simple to make but to get it looking just perfect and gorgeous takes some skill and practice. I need those.

I microwave steamed 3 Jap sweet potatoes and then mash them up. After weighing them, I added an equal weight amount of glutinous rice flour into the mixture. But before that I added a bit of panda juice and green food coloring. Form into a dough.
Pull off a bit of dough and roughly form into a ball, make a well in the centre of it and add your crushed gula melaka. Now, I use only gula melaka from melaka. And lucky for me, the Sec 2s go there every year and so this year, I'll get my yearly supply of top quality gula melaka from jonker street. Woots! ANYWAY as you can see it's so easy to make that The Little Girl made 15 of these.
This were not easy to roll. Next time, I won't crush the gula into powder but cut them into pieces so they'll be easier to stuff.
Boil them (don't overcrowd) and once they float to the surface, scoop them out. Do not over boil.
Once done, roll them in pandan steamed salted shredded coconut. From this picture, you can see that some of the ondeh-ondeh looked like they had leaked. They weren't leaking but that since there was gula melaka on the outer part of the ondeh-ondeh, it melted also when boiled.
Cakes and Cookies, Desserts

Banana Chocolate Chip Chocolate Muffins

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I just finished making these to bring to the meeting tomorrow. I must say, this was super yummy. I reckon anything with banana in it is yummylicious.

I used Nigella’s recipe. Well, sort of. As a shortcut, I used self-raising flour, so I saved two steps. I also added in a teaspoon of paprika powder, for added depth. And then, this is why I think it’s yummy, I used 5 whole super ripe bananas. Yums. But I did double the ingredients. OK, the recipe for these lovely muffins I made is:

Dry

1. 13/4 cups (times 2) self raising flour

2. 1 heaped tsp sea salt

3. 6 tbsp cocoa powder

4. 1 cup castor sugar

5. 1 tsp smoked paprika

Wet

1. 2 eggs

2. 1/3 (times 2) sunflower oil

3. 2 cups whole milk

4. 2 tsp vanilla essence

Mix the wet into the dry. Stir in the mashed bananas. And then fold in one packet of chocolate chips. These are best eaten warm.

 

Bread and Batter, Desserts

Aebelskievers

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Ah…aebel- or ebel- skievers. ‘Little pockets of love’. I’ve been rather obsessed with these pancake puffs after watching Aaron Sanchez lauding them, so much so that one day, when I saw the pan at TOTT, I had no qualms parting quite a sum of my money so that I could sleep better than a baby. But before I went to sleep, I had to make these little love pockets.

The batter is simply a pancake batter except that you have to separate the yolk from the white and beat the whites till your arm aches. Even then, you’ve got to continue beating (with your other hand, of course) till that one aches too. The final result will be puffy white clouds. After that, you mix the yolks with some sugar and then add in 2 cups of milk, 2 cups of plain flour, 1/2 tsp each of baking powder, baking soda and salt. Lastly, fold in the egg whites.

The fun part is filling the holes with the batter and thinking of what filling you want to put in. So far I’ve used lingonberry jam, nutella, banana, banana and nutella, and cempadak. All yummy. I’ve even made them plain for the little boy.

Use two toothpicks to flip them over.

 

Dust with powdered sugar and drizzle maple syrup over.

By the way, if you google this, you’ll learn that this is the national breakfast dish in Denmark and there are ways how you can make them perfectly round. I’m going to use my new pan with the holes to make some other Asian delicacies too. One day.

 

Cakes and Cookies, Desserts

Banana Walnut Muffin

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The Source: Tyler Florence from The Food Network

The Recipe

1. 2 cups all purpose flour

2. 11/2 tsp baking powder

3. 1/2 tsp salt

4. 4 bananas

5. 3/4 cup brown sugar

6. 2 eggs

7. vanilla essence

8. 1 1/2 sticks butter (around 180g or so) melted and cooled – I zapped it in the microwave for 20 seconds or so at high

The Method

1. Mash 2 banana with a fork.

2. In a bowl, beat 2 bananas and the brown sugar with an electric mixer for 3 minutes. Add melted butter, eggs and vanilla essence. Beat well.

3. Add in the dry mixture till well incorporated.

4. Fold in the mashed bananas and walnuts.

5. Bake at 190 C till done.

The Taste

1. Moist and banana-ish.

2. Nutty

3. Not outstanding but a keeper, especially as gifts