"Chun Bing" feast--- Spring biscuit roll.

I was trying to make dinner a big more fun. So i made all the ingredients and pan fry the home made biscuit- "bing"..so my hubby and sons and just pick which ingredients they want to be in their roll.

Enjoy!!!!

Pan fry biscuit, carrot, stir fry meat, stir fry lotus, five-spiced tofu , egg and chilli

Animal steam buns

To improve my picky kids appetite, i tried to make things into shapes hopefully he would eat it..
These bun is make using any regular steam bun recipe. Please check my other post. After the dough was risen, you just need to shape it into different shapes and steam.

I called them Animal Theme Buns.......

Snail

Piggy

Porcupine

Fish

Bunny

Birthday cake

This is the birthday cake that i made. Is it pretty?? It used the roll cake/ sifone cake recipe. The only different is you have to bake two 9 inches cake and stack them together.

Ham and green onion bread

These bread smell good and taste good. They were made using ham and green onion. Plus, the bread did not turn out hard at the following day. Yummy...

For recipe, please drop me a message or comment.

Home made donut ( deep fry)

My son loves to eat donut. Sometimes store bought donut is a bit too sweet with so much icing on it. So i try to make it at home. It turns out great...the only thing is the donut does not taste as good if you let it out overnight. It is soft and tasty if you eat it right away!

Look how it turned out!

This is the donut cutter that i used. You can find it at ebay or bed bath and beyond.

Recipe:
14oz active dry yeast
1/4 cup warm water
1.5 cup warm milk
1/2 cup white sugar ( adjust accordingly if you have a sweet tooth)
a pinch of salt
2 eggs
1/3 cup shortening/ butter
5 cup all purpose flour

Methods:Mix all the ingredients together using stand mixer. When it form a dough, let the mixer mix for additional 10-15 minutes.
Cover the dough and let rise until double in size.
Preheat the deep fry.
Roll the dough flat and cut with donut cutter.
Deep fry the donut until golden brown.
Serve warm.

You can also sprinkle some icing sugar on top or any other frosting as you desire.

Valcano bread

Bread

I have been trying to make some white bread loaf on my own, but it seemed like i am not in a very much luck. This one turn on ok, but the look is not as nice...at least not the one that i expect to have.

Hopefully next time i could have a better luck !!

Ice Kacang



Ice Kacang

 Ice kacang

I have been craving for ice kacang for a long time, thus with limited ingredients, i made it on my own...only have red bean, sweet creamy corn, "a tap chi" and ice...

Ocean theme bread

My son went to beach recently and he loved to pick seashells, saying something about ocean. I thought why don't i make soemthing about the ocean abd maybe he would like it and eat it..he is a very picky boy!!

Ingredients:
270g bread flour
30g cake flour
30g sugar
1 egg
1 egg for brushing
1 1/2 teaspoon yeast
30-50g of butter (can subsitute for 2 tablespoon of oil)
150ml milk or water

1. Combine all the ingredients in the mixer and mix for 20 minutes or until a dough is formed. 2. Pre-heat the oven ( 350 F ) 3. Let sit and rise until double in size. 4. Shape into any desire shape. Brush with an egg. 5. Bake at 350 F for 20-25 minutes until golden brown.

I was making mang chang kuih for breakfast the other day.

Look good???

Cheesecake in shot glasses ^_^

I went to the outlet the other day and saw some cute shot glasses. And it is very popular now to make dessert out of it. I was tempting to try it and so i bought some of the shot glasses. This time i am layering the cheesecake...

How does they look? Good? Maybe next time i can try other recipe..

Angry bird cupcake ..eww.eww..

After i saw a posting about angry bird cupcake, i was like i must make this for my son. Yea.. he loves it and he was helping me making them and giving some instructions. The next day, when he was enjoying his angry bird cupcake for breakfast, he was like :" Mom, we are going to make spiderman cupcake right?" I was like. "No..i do not know how to make it." Then he said," You know how to make everything..." Guess i have to make spiderman  cupcake next time ... Well, fancy cupcake really triggers his appetide, he has eaten for quite a few since they are ready!

Recipe adopted from Mimi bakery house

Ingredients:
3 cold eggs
1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
3 tsp baking powder
150ml fresh milk (can substitute with soy milk if you child has dairy allergic)
220g castor sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract

Methods:
1. Put all the ingredients and mix until well blended.
2. To make the body
        3 tablespoon of red color batter
        3 tablespoon of blue color batter
        3 table spoon of yellow color batter
        3 tablespoon of black color batter ( i did not have black color so i use chocolate powder)
3. To make the peak
       2 tablespoon of orange color batter
4. To make the eyebrown, use the batter of black color.
5. To make the belly
         3 tablespoon of original batter
6. After all done, steam for 15- 20 minutes or until done.

Note: I double to recipe to make 16 cupcakes. I kept the bottom part original color and layer some red, yellow or blue color on top of it to make the body.

Pork floss bread

奶油蛋筒

This recipe is for party, fast and easy. Also, it tastes great too :-)

I bought the store made pastry sheet. Easy and nice...

1. First cut the pastry sheet into long rectangular shape. The roll the sheet to the pre-make cone shape mold. Or you can buy the mold.

2. Preheat the oven to 375 F.

3. Bake until golden brown. Cool it.

4. Beat the heavy whipping cream and sugar ( depends on the sweetness that you like) until soft and thicken.

5. Put the cream in the hole of the cone shape biscuit.

6. Serve

~Happy Valentine Day ~

Yesterday was Valentine Day. My hubby gave me a bonquet of flower. Looks good.... :-) I cooked lobster, sushi, sausage wrapped with bacon and vege for our dinner. We thought of having dinner out, but with two kids, it is quite challenging. Plus, restaurants would be very crowded. Oh, there was wine too! I did not include in the picture!!

My son's day care was exchanging valentine. He was excited and kept on asking if i brought his valentine so he can gave to his classmates. My younger son's class also exhcanging valentine, and he is just 17 months.. oh my.. cannot believe that!! He cannot even understand what is valentine.... all he knows is i got a candy and i am going to eat it !!! LOL ...



My son helped make the card and candy with his hand writting on it. He was given it to MrS. Benford, the owner of the day care which he has to shake hand with every morning and evening when we pick him up. While he was writting the note, he was like ..Oh..yea..the scary one!!! Apprently he does not like her that much!




These two are for his class's teachers- Ms Sarah and Ms. Angela... we bought chocolate for his bother's teacher and his enrichment class teacher. It just time consuming to make evreything at home.



Pork floss bun

This bread is using "tang zhong" method. The result was it is soft ... taste great! Close to the store bought bread .. so far, this is the most successful bread that i have ever made. The most precious thing is the bread can stay soft up to 3 days without refrigerator/freeze. It means a lot to me because i really do not like to freeze the bread and re-bake it for serving!!!

Recipe is as below. I did not make white bread but i modify it to the shape that i wanted.

Water Roux (Tang Zhong) Method
Adapted from The 65 C Bread Doctor, by Yvonne Chen
Note: The starter can be kept in the refrigerator for 3 days

Water roux starter
Bread flour and water in a 1:5 ratio
In a microwaveable bowl, mix the bread flour and water. Put in microwave and cook for 30 seconds. Then take it out and stir. Repeat the steps until the bread flour and water become thicken and it should leave a trail if you draw a line through it. Set aside to allow it to cool to room temperature before using.  Store leftover starter in the fridge for up to 3 days.  Discard when it turns gray in colour.

For the bread
Note:  The following recipe yields 2 loaves of bread or approximately 12 buns depending on the type of buns you’re making.
144 g water roux starter (recipe above)
540 g bread flour (for bread flour substitute, see here)
86 g granulated white sugar
8 g salt
11 g instant dried yeast
86 g eggs (approximately 2 eggs)
59 g whipping cream (or substitute with milk)
65 g milk
49 g unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
1 egg, whisked for egg wash

Procedure

1. In a large bowl, mix together the bread flour, sugar, salt, and instant dried yeast. 
2. Then mix in the eggs, cream, milk, and water roux starter.  Form it into a ball and transfer it to a generously floured surface.  Knead in the butter. 
3. The dough will be sticky and the kneading process takes a bit of time, but you could use a bread machine instead of kneading it by hand. 
4.  Knead the dough until it passes the windowpane test (ie. stretch the dough out thinly and when you poke your finger through it, you should be left with a perfect circular hole as opposed to randomly torn dough). 
5. Place the dough in a lightly oiled bowl, cover it with a tea towel, and allow it to rest at room temperature until it doubles in size, 40 minutes to 1 hour.
6.  Separate the dough into the number of pieces that you need (ie. divide it in half if you are making 2 loaves of bread or form it into 12 separate balls if you are making 12 buns) and allow it to rise for 15 minutes, covered loosely with a damp tea towel at room temperature.
7. Then shape the bread as desired and place it onto baking sheets or into loaf pans as applicable.
8.   Cover loosely with a damp tea towel and allow to rise until doubled in size, about 1 hour at room temperature.
9. Preheat the oven to 350 F. 
10. Brush the surface of the dough with a thin layer of the egg wash and bake the bread until golden on the outside and just cooked through (approximately 30 minutes for loaves of bread). 
11. Remove from the loaf pan or baking sheet and allow to cool on a wire rack.

Hot Dog Bun

Since i am back from holiday, i would like to bake some bread and see if the taste is similar to what i bought from my country. Well, the looks is good, the taste is ok but the fluffyness is not the same. I am not sure why. Anyone know?? Tell me.....!!!

How is it looked? Good? My son likes it and he ate few of them.... maybe hot dog is his favourite :-) For recipe, email me at cloudofthepinksky@gmail.com



Food that i brought from Malaysia

 I went home last December ... and look! I have brought back some snack for
my own craving :p




  Dodol

Cake pop

This is a popular and easy to make dessert to bring to a party or as treat during holiday.

It is easy to make. I made it using the cake pop mold. For the cake recipe, please refer to roll cake or muffin post.

After the cake is baked, cool it down. Melt the chocolate chips in the microware. Dip the lollipop stick into the melt choclate and press it into the center of each cake ball. Repeat till all cake balls are done.Let it cool for a while so that  the cake can stick to the stick.

After that, dip the cake ball into the melting chocolate and coat it evenly. Repeat until finished. Let it cool down if you would like to decorate with other color of candy melt. Or else sprinkle it with color sprinkle.

Homemade Chilli paste

Ingredients:

1 small packet of dry chillies

3-4 stalks of lemon grass

Methods:

In a large bowl, cut the chillies into half and soak into hot water until soft. Drain the seed and water together.

Transfer the chillies into a blender. Meanwhile, wash the lemon grass and cut into small pieces. Put them into the blender as well.

In the blender, put some waterin and start the power.

Blend until it looks smooth.

In a sauce pan, put 3 tablespoons of oil. When it is heated, transfer the chillies paste and stir fry it. Add some salt and oil according to your taste/like. (Oil and salt can serve as preservative)

Let it cool down and transfer to a clean glass jar.

Mickey Mouse Birthday Cake

My son 3rd birthday, i decided to bake a Mickey mouse birthday cake for him as he loves Mickey so much!! Sure he was, he enjoyed the cake and wanted to blow the candle over and over again.

Ingredients:
4 eggs
1/2 cup cake flour + 1 teaspoon of tartar cream
1/2 cup sugar
2-3 drops of vanilla extract
Mickey mouse cake mold
Betty crocker white and chocolate frosting
Strawberry jam

Methods:
Separate the egg white and egg yolks. Use a stand mixer, beat the egg white and sugar at high speed until it looked like foam and fluffy. Transfer to another bowl.(A)

Beat the egg yolks at lower speed, when it looks yellownish and a bit foamy, add in cake flour and vanilla extract. Combine with (A) and mix them gently.

Pour the batter into the mickey mouse mold. Bake 2 layers so you can layers up the cake. Bake at 350 C for 20 minutes or until the toothpick came out clean( ovens may vary).

Cool the cake. Spread one layer with jam/ frosting of your choice ( i used strawberry jam) and top it with another layer. Carefully frost the entire cake with the white and chocolate frosting. Then you can draw out mickey's face using decorating tip.

If you prefer cool cake, put it into refrigerator before serving.

Note: This cake is not as big as uou see, if you want to make a bigger cake, please double the ingredients.