scrumplicious orange cranberry muffins

Adapted my own version from here and I simply love these muffins with the burst of orange and cranberry flavors with every bite!

• 60 grams of salted butter
  
• 50 grams of caster sugar
  
• 1 egg
  
• 80 grams of flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
  
• 5 tablespoons of unsweetened 100% all natural orange juice
• suitable amount of dried cranberries

1. heat the orange juice and dried cranberries over the stove till warm and remove from fire
   
2. cream the butter & sugar until pale and fluffy
3. add the egg to butter-sugar mixture and beat till creamy
4. sift in the flour & baking powder into the butter mixture and mix until just combined
5. add in the cranberry mixture and mix lightly
6. spoon into muffin pan and bake at 170C until golden brown

Makes 12 mini muffins

mini chocolate lava cakes!

A 200% keeper from Paula Deen (below is the actual ingredients i used)

• 120g of mini chocolate chips
• 120g of salted butter
• 1/2 cup plain flour
• 3/4 cup icing sugar
• 2 eggs
  
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 200C
   
2. Melt chocolates and butter in the microwave or in a double boiler. Add flour and sugar to chocolate mixture. Stir in eggs until smooth. Stir in vanilla. Divide batter evenly among a muffin pan
   
3. Bake for 8 minutes. Edges should be firm but the center will be runny. Run a knife around the edge to loosen and invert onto dessert plate.
4. Top with vanilla ice cream or raspberry sauce. (Topping optional).

Makes 17 mini muffins

mini banana walnut cakes

I love the bite-size and this is amazingly moist and flavorful! Thanks to food network

• 1 1/4 cups plain flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
• 2 large eggs, at room temperature (i omitted this)
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (i used 3/4 tablespoon)
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature, plus more for preparing the pan (i used canola oil)
• 1 cup sugar (i reduced it to 1/4 cup white sugar + 1/4 cup brown sugar)
• 3 very ripe bananas, peeled, and mashed with a fork (about 1 cup) (i used 2 large bananas)
  
• 1/2 cup toasted walnut pieces

Makes 16 mini muffins

easy chewy fudgy brownies!

I halved this recipe for a 9x9 inch pan, also reduced the sugar to 160g instead of 200g. And it turned out to be as the title says - chewy & fudgy brownies! <3

baking love

Been busy trying out various recipes. Some successful, some not quite...nonetheless i am still very much on the lookout for easy and yummy recipes!

1. German Cookies (9/10 Yummilicious!). Recipe courtesy of Small Small Baker. Flavors I tried - original butter, chocolate & coffee walnut. I still like the original buttery ones best :D




2. New York Cheesecake. Uber easy recipe from my cousin's friend

Ingredients
3 cream cheese, total 750 g (philadelphia)
0.5 cup sugar
Butter (approx 125 g)
3 eggs
Biscuits (15 pcs) - either Plain soda or digestive

Steps
Crust :
Crumble the biscuits
mix biscuits with butter (on hot pan) until well blended
transfer above ingredients onto pan and press firm
bake for 10 mins at 180 DegC
remove from oven and set aside to cool

Cheese cake :
Defrost the cream cheese until soft (room temperature)
Mix sugar and cream cheese until well blended (in one direction)
Add eggs, 1 at a time, and beat till well-blended

Pour ingredients (B) onto crust (A) using an 8-inch springform pan
Bake for at least 40 mins (preheat oven to 350F / 180 DegC
remove cheese cake from oven , leave to cool
Refrigerate for 6 hours, before serving

3. Really really really fluffy homemade pancakes! Courtesy of the chef with the sexy voice - Chef John of FoodWishes

super duper easy apple muffins :)

Thanks to the girl who ate everything. I halved the sugar and the sweetness turned out juz nice for my palate. This makes a really good comfort food!

Aglio Olio

Made this today for dinner and I must say that it taste good! In future can simply satisfy my craving at home =)

Ingredients:

• 1. Garlic
• 2. Red Onion (i added this coz not enough garlic)
• 3. Chilli Padi
• 4. Olive Oil
• 5. Salt, Pepper
• 6. Spaghetti

Method:

1. Cook the spaghetti according to package instructions in a pot of boiling water (with salt and oil added). Drain when cooked.
   
2. Slice up the garlic, red onion and chilli padi (i removed the seeds)
3. Heat up a generous amount of olive oil (i used extra virgin olive oil since that's the only one i have at home), turn down the fire to low and add in the garlic slices
4. When the garlic slices are turning slightly golden brown, add in the red onion (this browns really fast)
5. Stir around till the red onion and garlic slices are golden brown, add in chilli padi and ham
   
6. Stir for approx 10 seconds and add in the spaghetti
7. Add salt and pepper to taste and serve!
   

Rock buns long time no see!

I distinctly remember this item from my home econs class back in sec 1 (or 2?) and I really loved it back then. Did a search thru google, found this recipe and here's the end result! <3


Some conversions I made...
200g of plain flour = 1 and 3/4 cup of plain flour
100g brown sugar = slightly less than 3/4 cup brown sugar

Tried this out on Saturday. A few changes I made:

1. reduced the sugar to 3/4 cup (still a little too sweet, might reduce it to half cup next time)
2. reduced the number of eggs to 2, and added water instead after folding in the flour coz I realised the mixture is too dry
3. added the vanilla extract last coz I totally forgot about it

Also, instead of using a mixer, i used a spatula to mix up the stuff.

During the baking, the top part dried up too fast...maybe I need to adjust the rack position halfway through the baking process....in all, it's not a howling success but i would give myself a 60/100 for this try coz I quite enjoy the cake myself though it's not v pretty looking and might have some inconsistencies in the overall cake texture :P

my fave girls

@ Arbite on 7-7-2011. miss them so so so so much.....

fluffy pancake recipe

got this recipe from a friend...gotta try it out soon coz his pancakes look so nice & fluffy!

1 1/2 cup flour
400 mils Butter Milk *secret ingredient*
2 Tbl spoon castor sugar
1 Egg

Optional:
1 tea spoon vanilla essence
Chocolate chips (about 3-4 each pan cake)

Chocolatey Goodness

Found this recipe online and made it today. Success! But I dumped in the entire bar of butter (227g) :P

my korean lover

Fantastic.Awesome.It's effing Good!!!!! Love him to bits!!!

Thanks to Gina for the best seat ever. So many cute moments
1. him saying "i'm so egg-excited" while swaying his butt
2. him changing backstage and moving the cam away
3. him saying "hold on 1 second" when the sound system cocked up and "one more time" as he repeated It's Raining
4. him having fun with his dancers & dancing to very different moves at the encore section
5. him singing "instead of saying goodbye" opera-style & cutegirl-style
6. him coming down to shake our hands
7. his uber-awesome and slick dance moves & fantastic vocals
8. his "woohoo", "yahoo!", "argh", "roar" sounds as he moved and sang
9. him teaching us the hand movements
10. him saying "i love chilli crabs...and butter crabs", "i'm going to show you everything"
11. and sooo many many more!!!!

Limits

You are turning 30, not 3. Please grow up, and PLEASE grow some sensibility that's befitting of your age as well. I don't know what kind of soul-searching or fixing-your-life can you possibly achieve by staring at your computer day in day out. If you want pple to trust you, you have to prove to them that you are worth that trust.

And btw, our house is not a garbage dump or a flat that you are renting. You can do whatever you like in your OWN house in future, but now, please respect the pple living with you.

I am losing my patience.