#19: Durian Pengat

All durian lovers you are gonna love this! Durian Pengat is a Nyonya dessert (as I have mentioned, its nyonya craze this week guys!) that uses durian, coconut sugar and coconut milk for its flavour. I really love how these two fruits come together and give such an aromatic fragance. I am a total durian freak and I love coconut too so this naturally became one of my favourite dessert after I tasted it.

The dessert consist of coconut milk, gula melaka (coconut sugar), durian puree, durian pulp and fresh whole milk. The steps are rather easy but the results are good. However, due to the richness of it, it is advisable to serve them in shot glasses.

Note: Excessive amounts of it will make people feel that its disgusting. Small amounts of it taste the best!

So just serve them like this:

oh and remember the strawberry!

one more picture!

and thats all (: till next time!

#18: Pulut Sambal

Its Nyonya craze this week! I really enjoyed myself making all these nyonya food. Definitely more work is required in making Nyonya food. I need to chop, blend, fry, steam, so many more steps as compared to making just usual baking food.

However, its really aromaticand the results of the food today was definitely rewarding! For this pulut sambal, I used a recipe from one of my friend's sister in law and made some changes to suit to myself. I love how the Prawn Sambal turned out so I am giving the recipe here:

100g of Small Prawns (Xia Mi)

13 Cloves of Garlic

8 Cloves of Shallots (Might want to increase it to 10)

1 Chilli Padi

6-8 Big Chilli

130-150g of Vegetable Oil

2 tablespoon of sugar

2 teaspoon of salt

All you need is to blend everything together then fry it with the vegetable oil and then add sugar and salt then fry them to dry

My aunty actually suggest some meat to be added inside! I shall try it someday. The Prawn Sambal is really good, it will go really well with porridge! The sambal that I made is not really spicy so if you want to go for the kick then you can add more chilli padi or more big chilli!

So here are the pictures:

this is the prawn sambal when I just added them to the pot!

then this is after I fry them dry!

this is the rice, I added coconut, it looks a little blue because I added some food colouring, we are suppose to use clitoria flower extract but I didn't have time to find the flower!

Now its the final product!

And more of it!!

I wrapped some with banana leaves, not very pretty but its not bad for first attempt I guessed! Thats all today!

#17: Strawberry Milk Whoopie Pie

This is another recipe or adaptation from sprinklebakes, officially one of my favourite bakers now! I love her recipes, just tweaked a little here and there to suit to my preference!

I wanted to use the ice-cream pie mould that Susu bought for me, but I had to throw away my first batch of pies (which I used to test the temperature of the oven). However the subsequent batch turnout pretty well.

And based on all the reviews its really good! So here they go:

and more... I added the cream in between them and some cappuccino chips to add more flavour!

#16: Tonkatsu Ramen

I wanted to make this a week or two ago but I didn't manage to get the recipe right! This time round, I went to a Japanese store and got a packet of their instant ramen. The packet consists two servings of ramen and its actually quite nice (and of course filling!)

I added some ingredients! I am never against the use of instant things but I always feel that there's a need to add some extra kick to the instant food!

So, I added, bacon, chicken, corn and of course some spring onions!

Wonder when will I be able to make the real tonkatsu ramen! I will keep trying

#15: Pancakes

Always a favourite breakfast of mine, easy to make but delicious to eat.

I will definitely make this for my children next time (before they go to school) and tell them that, Mummy's pancakes are nicer than that of the M*******'s! Haha!

I took about half an hour to 45 minutes to prepare and cook all of them! The best part is you can even make this in advance and just throw them into bags in the freezer. Then, when you want to eat them, just popped them into the oven for a couple of minutes and they will taste as good!

I used the recipe from joyofbaking (credits to joyofbaking) and did some modification. I prefer a lighter texture so I replaced half of the flour with top flour which has a lower protein level so that the pancakes will be softer! Then I chose to add vanilla bean paste! Look at those black speckles, those are the vanilla beans which give off that nice fragance to the pancakes!

Then of course after cooking them, we must top them off with the traditional maple syrup and butter.

And of course, one more picture!

Alternatively, you can choose to go for sprinkles, chocolate sauce so on and so for! There's so much choices to choose from!

Looks yummy doesn't it!

And if you are looking for more varieties of pancakes, you can add blueberry, chocolate, banana...the list goes on. I will be trying the IHOP pancakes recipe soon! I really love the pancakes from there! Kinda miss it now!

#14: Matcha Cheesecake

I was just searching for recipes to make this weekend! I managed to find one that looks really appealing to me: Matcha Cheesecake.

Its a Japanese soft cheesecake, with green tea powder on the top! However I haven't been able to find the appropriate green tea powder thats not bitter! So maybe its better off just eating the cheesecake alone! But its really soft and sweet:) Love it much:)

First, we start off with the cheese batter (consisting of butter, cheese and milk!)

then we baked the mixture after mixing with rest of the ingredients (ie flour, eggs and cornstarch)! and we have the cooled cake! NICE:)

Then we cut the cake up to squares and sprinkle the green tea powder on top (yes the bitter green tea powder!)

and more of it!

Thats all for today! Love the texture and the smell of the cake! Oh by the way, I adopted the recipe from sprinklebakes and make some changes to hers. I love her! She's an awesome baker and her recipes are really good. :)

#13: Mentaiko Pizza

I really love Mentaiko Pizza from Waraku Pizza and I have been dreaming to come out with a recipe that it similar to that of Waraku's.

I made this last year during my anniversary for picnic with my boyfriend. Sad to say, I haven't made them for some time. But I have to say they are real good stuff.

All you need is either a pizza dough or a flat burrito, some mentaiko, some japanese mayonnaise and mozzarella cheese. Its easy but it really tastes good. To mimic the Waraku version, all you need is some sliced potato on the pizza! But I prefer to remove the potato totally and just have the pizza with mentaiko thats all!

*Pardon me for the lousy photo.

Another one of it!

More time please

Was supposed to bake over the weekends. However, my weekend is totally burnt out. With SLF and BF215 exam on Saturday, I totally didn't have time to bake:(

Hoping to whip up something before I go school tomorrow!

Was looking at pancakes, I hope I can wake up to do them!

Credits to joyofbaking

Hopefully more time this weekend!

Cute Cookie Cutters

Just received this not long ago, I opened them today and I fell in love with them!

Can't wait to use them, pity I won't be baking and selling for Christmas! I will be making my way to the beautiful city of London and celebrating pre-christmas there! EGG-CITED!

There's four designs: Reindeer, snowflakes, gingerbread man and leaf!

More of it!

And this is how it looks on the reverse side. Unlike normal cookie cutters, these cookie cutters will create a mark on the cookies! Thats why I bought them!

Then the cupcake cookie mould! It can be used to make cake pop! Coolios right?

So all you need is some chilled mixture of the cake batter and squeeze it into the mould then you will get some cake pops in the shape of cupcakes!

Can't wait to use them!!!

#12: Chashu Pork

I tried cooking tonkatsu soup base today. But sad to say, I failed. The first part of the soup went pretty well but just changing it to a tonkatsu soup base didn't turn out that well.

However I still made Chashu Pork that was meant for the tonkatsu ramen! That turned out pretty well. I like the smell and the tasteof the meat. However, the meat that I bought has a little less fat! So maybe pork that has more fats will taste softer and nicer!

And more of it!

thats all for today!