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