Traditional Logcake

My Birthday Celebration with Totoro Catbus!

Happy Birthday to me! *^_^*

Merry Christmas!

Roar!

Christmas Tree Salad

How about making some potato salad & decorate it with mushrooms & broccoli for this coming Christmas dinner for your friends & loved ones?

Christmas Fruit Cake

Christmas Fruit Cake

(Recipe adapted from Anncoo Journal）   
 
Ingredients:
500g mixed fruit 
100ml Rum 
2 Tbsp orange juice
*Combine everything & let it soak overnight in the fridge.  

250g butter
125g sugar
4 eggs
200g plain flour + 1 tsp baking powder
100g chopped walnuts   
Orange juice& zest from 1 orange
extra rum 

Method: 

1. Cream butter & sugar until light & creamy.
2. Add in eggs one by one, beat well after each addition. Add in orange juice & zest. Mix well.
3. Sift flour into the butter mixture & beat on low speed until no clumps are seen.
4. Fold soaked fruits & all the remaining liquid into the batter. Add in nuts.
6. Pour batter into pan & bake in a preheated oven @160C for 40mins.
7. Remove cake from oven & immediately drizzle Rum over hot cake. 

 

 See, I added in a big 'Christmas tree' on top of the cake

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Christmas Stollen

Christmas Stollen 

(Recipe adapted from carol)   

Ingredients:
160g bread flour
140g plain flour
3/4 tsp yeast
2 eggs
40g sugar
90g milk
80g shortening

160g mixed fruits soaked in 50g Rum (do 1 week in advance) 

Method
1. Put all ingredients into a mixer & knead into a dough.
2. take out the dough from the mixer & knead in the mixed fruits slowly.
3. Proof the dough for 1hr.
4. De-gas the dough & roll it out into a slightly rectangle shape. Fold dough lengthwise. Proof again for 1hr.
5. Bake in a preheated oven @ 160C for 20mins.

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Rainbow Flower Garden

Ah Pooh

Ah pooh cake for my niece's 4th birthday!

 My niece brought her piglet to the chalet to celebrate her birthday *^_^*

Counting down to Xmas~ Ho Ho Ho!

 

Kinako Pumpkin Waffles

Kinako Pumpkin waffles 

(Recipe adapted & modify from Bernice Kitchen)

Ingredients:
200g pumpkin puree
50g brown sugar
2 eggs
150ml soya milk
100g plain flour
100g kinako
120g Liv salted butter, melted  
*Batter is slightly thicker due to the kinako
*Serve waffles with gula melaka syrup

Method:
1. Whisk pumpkin puree, eggs & milk in a bowl.
2. Add in sifted flour & kinako. Mix until well combined.
3. Add in melted butter.  

Rugelach

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Rugelach

(Recipe adapted & modify from here)

Ingredients:
Dough
115g cream cheese, soften
115g Liv unsalted butter, soften
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup plain flour

Fillings 
creamy peanut butter

Method:
1. Add flour & salt in a mixing bowl with soften cream cheese & butter. Knead into a dough & divide into 2 portions. Placed in fridge for at least 2 hrs.

2. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough into a circle. Spread peanut butter over the dough.

3. Using a pizza wheel, cut the dough into 8 wedges. Starting at the base of each triangle, roll the dough up so that each cookie becomes a little crescent. Arrange the roll-ups on baking sheet. Repeat with the 2nd portion of dough.

4. Baked in a preheated oven @ 170C for 20mins.

 

Have a Beary Happy Birthday

Did this cake for a friend's son 1st birthday! =)