Bagels

Which flavour do you fancy? Kumquat or Blueberry bagel? I love both! =)

Recipe adapted & modify from here

Kumquat Almond Tea Cakes

Kumquat Almond Tea Cakes

(Recipe adapted from Wendy)

Ingredients:

Kumquat compote
240g kumquats
120g Sugar
240g Water

1. Half kumquats & remove seeds. Cook kumquats, sugar & water into a saucepan until the kumquat looks glossy & soft. Remove 18 pcs of halves & puree the rest with some of the syrup. 

35g plain flour
50g ground almond
½ tsp baking powder
60g butter
50g caster sugar 
2 eggs
65g kumquat puree
  
poached kumquat halves 

Method:

1. Sift flour & baking powder. Mix with ground almond, set aside.
2. Cream butter & sugar until light & fluffy. 
3. Beat in eggs one by one, beating well after each addition.
4. Put in (2) in 2 additions, mixing well after each.
5. Mix in kumquat puree.
6. Divide batter equally into prepared tin & top with a kumquat half
7. Bake in a preheat oven @ 180 degrees for 15mins.

Chocolate Chips Cuppies

Chocolate Chips Cuppies

(Recipe adapted & modify from Jane's Corner)

Ingredients:

(A)
2 eggs
100g sugar

(B)
80g oil
100g milk

(C)
150g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
20g cocoa powder

(D)
1/2 cup white chocolate chips

Method:

1. Whisk (A) together.
2. Add in (B) & mix till combined.
3. Sift (C) & add in (2)
4. Stir in (D).
5. Bake in a preheat oven @ 170 degrees for 20mins.

 I used my leftover lemon curd butter cream to pipe the roses *^_^*

Jelly Noodles

 Its Monday again! I had a pack of agar agar powder sitting in my cupboard, so I gotta put that into good use. Tada.... see my two bowls of jelly noodles. Yes, the eggs & vegetables are made from jelly as well *^_^*

This bowl of jelly noodles is mine as I don't take any chilli ;P

My hubby's jelly noodles with chilli added! hehehe ;)

Happy Birthday!

Made this cake for a gal who is a Hello Kitty fan & is celebrating her 21th birthday

Made this Lemon Curd Mango cake for a gal's 20th birthday

Awfully Sinful Oreo Cheesecake

Its Monday again! Time to clear my fridge to use up left over ingredients. Let's see... what should I bake? Hmm, I have some chocolate butter cream, fresh cream & vanilla cinnamon syrup. I had recently bought a box of Oreo cookies & cream cheese. Oh well, I'm making an awfully sinful Oreo cheesecake!
 
Oreo Cheesecake

(Recipe adapted & modify from Baking Library)

Ingredients:

Base
200g Oreo cookies finely ground
80g melted butter
*Mix together & pressed into an 8" tin. Chill in fridge until ready for use 

Cheesecake filling:
500g cream cheese, softened
100g chocolate butter cream
50g castor sugar
200ml sour cream (2 Tbsp lemon juice + 200ml whipping cream)
2 Tbsp vanilla cinammon syrup
3 eggs, lightly beaten
100g oreo sandwich cookies with peanut butter cream filling, coarsely chopped 

Method:
1. Beat cream cheese, chocolate butter cream & sugar until creamy.  

2. Add in eggs & beat until combined. Add in sour cream & vanilla extract till cheesecake filling is smooth.

3. Fold in the coarsely chopped cookie bits & pour filling onto biscuit base.  

4. Bake @ 150 degrees C for 1 hr 15 mins in a water bath. 

The Oreo crumbs in the middle of the cake look a bit too plain for the cake, so I added a 'Happy Birthday' cake topper (top photo) when taking photos. It does looks better =)

Can't resist this sinful cheesecake.... I am already 'sampling' it while taking these photos!

Curry Buns

Bun recipe here

Made some Chocolate Chip Cookies Dough Cupcakes as well.

Cinnamon Vanilla Poached Pears

Cinnamon Vanilla Poached Pears

(Recipe adapted from Wendy)

Ingredients:

5 small pears

500mls water

100g sugar

1 vanilla bean, scraped out the seeds

2 Cinnamon stick 

2 Tbsp lemon juice

Method:
1. Combine everything except the pear into a small pot.
2. Peel pears, rinse & put them into the pot immediately.
3. Bring to a boil & lower to a simmer for 30mins until pears are tender. 
4. Fish out the pears & turn heat to high to reduce to about 1 cup.
5. Keep pears together with syrup & chill.

 

Sakura Cookies さくらクッキ

 

Sakura Cookies さくらクッキ

(Recipe adapted & modify from dailydelicious)

Ingredients:

90g salted butter
50g sugar
1 egg yolk

120g plain flour
16-20 Sakura

1 tsp vanilla extract

Super fine sugar, for sprinkle on top of the cookies

Method:
1. Soak the salted Sakura in a bowl, cover with enough water overnight to reduce the salt from the Sakura. Drain the Sakura & discard the water.

 

2.  Beat butter until soft, add in sugar & beat until light in color. Add the vanilla extract & egg yolk, beat to combine.

 

3. Pour the flour into the bowl & knead lightly until smooth.

 

4.  Roll out the cookie dough &  cut with desired cookie cutter. Put Sakura on each cookie.

5. Bake in a preheat oven @ 180 degrees for 15mins.

 

6. Sprinkle with extra sugar immediately after out from oven. 

Chocolate Wassant