Fish baked rice

Rem to add salt to taste

Adjust cream and water to suit the quantity of rice

do not add all the rice at one go...add half and mix

make sure the rice absorb the sauce

if there is not enough sauce, adding all rice at once will cause it too be too dry....

Almond butter cookies

the temp of the room is impt
it is good to make the dough in the air-con environment if possible
this will make the dough easier to manage as butter will not melt easily

also keep some flour around to dust the rolling pin, cookies cutters and table for making cookies

challenges include (1) ensuring the thick of each dough is about the same size
this will make sure the final cookies are of similar thickness for presentation

(2) keeping the cut-out dough to the cookie shape....consistency for presentation too

as the dough maybe a bit soft in the hot sg climate, it is difficult to keep to the shape after cutting it out....similar to making pineapples tarts....

Kueh Baulu

look like i may have found the reason for the less-than-desired sponginess of the kueh baulu
i probably followed the wrong recipe
will adjust the next round and see how

researching

on how to make kueh baulu softer....

was it not enough beating of the eggs?

or was it left in the air-con room for too long....

Kueh Lapis

Learning point - sieve flour and baking powder before adding into the batter

Learning points from Cornflakes crunch

do not use dark color honey

dont bake too long

Hot Cross Bun

Ingredients

* 500g bread flour

* 40g butter (or shortening)

* 280g water

* 90g sugar

* 11g yeast

* 6g salt

* 1 egg (~65g)

Can make around 15 buns of large size (60-80g) or 30+ buns for small size (<30g).

If you prefer buns with fillings like curry, prawn chilli, then make the large size.

Cookies

Batik Cake

I actually did not come across this cake before until today...

how interesting...

Preparing to bake

too bad i didn't manage to get a pic of the cake upright when it came out of

the oven.

view from the bottom

verdict: I didn't like such type of soft on the inside cake.

Sweet Bun

Points to note
1) do not press on the dough that has rise - this will cause the air to be release and the bread wont turn out to be nice when bake.
2) do let the final bread dough rise twice in size before baking

Birthday Cake

Ingredients

1. 90g flour
2. 100g Sugar
3. 4 eggs (medium to big) about 65g per egg type
4. 1 tsp baking powder
5. 90g butter
6. ½ tsp vanilla essence

Instructions

1. Beat sugar, eggs and vanilla until creamy
2. Fold in flour and baking powder
3. Melt the butter and add into the above mixture
4. Bake for 15mins in 175ºC

Final touch-up:-

use chocolate for the eyes and nose. jam or cherry for the mouth.

whipped cream with coloring for the hair....using piping bag (self-made with baking paper will do)

Bread Bun

1) after using dough hook to mix them, there is no much kneading needed

2) leave the dough aside for fermenting...observe for double in size

can consider putting dough in plastic bag to speed up the expansion

3) then take the dough and roll them into the size required, cn be 20g, 30 or 60g depending on your personal preference for the size of bun

4) put them neatly on baking tray (do not add filling yet)

5) do not add any flour at this stage

6) try to do them in an air-con environment

7) leave the tray aside, wait for the rolled dough to double in size (do not stay in aircon now to speed up)

8) once it is double, quick add in the filling, can be sauages, curry, plain (with sweet cross on top)

9) bake them...baking time will depend on the size of the bun

Good Luck trying

Kueh Lapis

After my 3rd try with making lapis, i am writing down the observations i recorded:-

1) make sure not to overuse the egg whites

2) whisk egg whites with sugar

3) whisk egg yolks with sugar

4) mix spice, butter (cut into tiny cubes), vanilla essence

5) sieve flour with baking powder

6) blend in egg white, egg yolk and flour into butter mix

7) make sure the air bubbles are cleared

8) ensure standard amount each layer

9) top layer slightly overbake for appearance

Nasi Lemak - chilli

cooking chilli

partial ingredients

Nasi Lemak - final presentation

Ikan Kunning

how to fry the fish

1st lesson on kueh lapis