Sugi Cookie

Sugi Cookie

200g Ghee Butter

500g Plain Flour (sifted)

150g Icing Sugar

3/4 tsp Salt

1 tsp Vanilla Essence

2 tsp Bicarbonate Of Soda

Melt Ghee and leave to cool. Add vanilla essence, flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and sugar. Knead into dough. Put dough into fridge for 10 minutes or so to stiffen a little. Roll dough into small 20-30 cm balls. Bake in preheated 180 c oven for 30 minutes. Remove and leave to cool before storing into cookie jar.

I made my sugi by using a round measuring spoon(table spoon size). I line the spoon with cling wrap and shape the dough into half round shape.

Hot Dog Potato Bun

Hot dogs are not easily available here, I use this tin frankfurts which serves the same purpose. Some hotdogs are thick. I slice this can hot dog into half length wise.

Hot Dog Potato Bun

Ingredient

2 1/2 cups plain flour

2 tbsp melted butter2 tbsp sugar

1/2 cup mashed potatoes (boil potatoes beforehand. Mashed and cooled)
1 egg
1/2 cup warm water
2 tsp instant dry yeast
1/2 tsp salt

To glaze bun
1 egg yolk
2 tbsp milk

Sesame seeds

I use bread machine for dough processing

Dissolve yeast in the warm water and set aside. Put into bread machine; flour, mashed potatoes, butter, sugar, egg, butter, salt and the yeast dissolved in warm water. Set bread machine in dough mode and leave it to complete its cycle.
When dough is ready, remove from bread machine onto flour dusted surface. Divide dough into 12 portions. Roll each portion out into long bun shape, place hotdog in the middle of the dough and wrap the dough around it. Place long bun on a greased baking tray. Finish the remaining dough and place each alongside each other and leave to prove for 30 minutes. Egg wash the bun and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Bake in a 220 c oven for 20 minutes. Remove and cool off alittle before serving.

Sometimes it is not easy to make these long buns in the same length. I wonder anyone has some tips for it?

Home Made PizzaMania

This Pizza dough recipe is my sister's personnal best. Her kids and hubby chump down plenty of it and still wanting more. She is my inspiration when it comes to playing flour in the kitchen, she is my guru.

She finds it very convenient for a quick snack at home when the kids are crying for food after school. She keeps her freezer stock up and stand by!

Home made Salami Pizza

Dough Ingredients

31/2 cup Plain Flour

1 tbsp yeast

2 tbsp oil

1 tsp salt
3 tbsp sugar

1 1/2 cup water

Pizza Toppings

Tomato Puree

Salami pieces( I use the sandwish prepack salami)

Mozzarella Cheese

Put all the dough ingredient in bread machine and set it on dough. Allow the machine to work one cycle only (that is when machine has stopped for its first kneading and proving. as soon as the machine begine to knead again, stop the machine) Otherwise can be knead by hand until elastic and prove for 45 minutes. Remove from machine, cut into two portions and shaped into pizza shape. Bake it in a preheated 180c oven for 5 minutes and removed from oven. Spread tomato puree on top of the pizza. sprinkle salami pieces on top and then follow by mozzellela cheese. Return to oven for 10-15 minutes or until pizza is brown and crispy.

For freezing, do not return pizza back into oven after the 5 minutes. wrap and freeze. Have to twarh pizza dough before spreading tomato puree.

Note: Can use any topping like tuna, ham or even veges, anything to one's liking

This is the baked pizza(5 minutes). At this point, I can either spread stuff on to bake or freeze them for future consumption.

Butter Cream Buns

Butter Cream Buns

Ingredients

2 3/4 cup Bread Flour

1 cup Plain Flour

1 tsp Bread Improver

1 tsp Salt

1 tbsp Milk Powder

2 tbsp yeast

1/2 cup Sugar

1 Egg

350 ml Cold water

1/3 cup Melted Butter

Butter Cream Filling ingredients

130g Gee butter

100 g Sugar

130 g Milk Powder

1 Egg

Mix ingredients together and put in the fridge for later use.

1 egg and milk for egg wash

Chuck everything except the water into the Bread machine and set on dough mode. While it is kneading pour water gradually into the machine. Add enough water until dough is firm but not dry. leave machine to complete its cycle.

When machine stopped, remove dough and divide into seven equal portions. Roll out each portion and place fillings in the centre. Pinch dough into a ball and place in a round baking mould. complete the rest of the dough and place in the baking mould in the shape of a flower. Leave to prove for an hour.

Brush dough with egg wash and sprinkle with seseme seeds and bake in a 190c oven(preheated) for 15-20 minutes. Remove from oven and allow it to cool a little then serve.

Note: I noticed if I put the butter cream in the fridge for a while before hand makes the filling more firm to shape into a ball thus easier to wrap in dough.

Little Tales

Last week or so I tried to make a tapioca cake. As ususal busy in the kitchen creating another master piece of myself( or trying is more exact lah). Everything seemed in order and measuring away....Finally it was place in the oven. Came out good shape but abit pale. Never mind, thats what the recipe says; would be pale. So I brown it with the top grill. Mmm, looking good too.

Not a pretty sight when I cut into it though! Wow, u think bricks are hard! My daughter mentioned a solution out of good gesture. She said"mum, Dont worry, the birds in the back garden have sharp peaks, they could eat them for you!" Well, thats exactly what I have done, fed the wild birds. I am sure they enjoyed it because they too, finish the cake for me! What a wonderful ending to another disaster!

Nine Layer cake

Its my second time trying this recipe. I have alter the ingredient by adding milk into it. The result is not as good as I have anticipated but hey, can do lah Will improve the recipe in the future, promise!
My kid loves it, she peels them everytime. Good fun for kiddies.



Nine Layer Cake

Ingredients
250g Tapioca Flour
90g Rice Flour
150 g Sugar
200 g water
100 ml Coconut cream
100 ml Fresh milk
1/2 tsp pandan essence
1/2 tsp banana essence
Blue and yellow food color(or any color)

Mix tapioca flour, rice flour, sugar, water, coconut cream and milk in one big bowl. Divide the mixture into three equal portion/bowls. Add pandan essence into one portion, banana and yellow coloring into another and blue into the last portion.

Pour one layer of mixture about 2mm thick onto steam mould when steamer is boiling and steam for 4 minutes (start with any one mixture as you wish). Alternate with different color mixture when each layer has been steam for 4 minutes until all mixture is used up. (I normally end up with more than nine layers)

Remove from steamer and set aside until fully cooled before slicing and serve.

Banana Cake

This cake is a wonderful success for me. keep trying different recipes but this is the one for me. It was all "sold out" (eaten) within a day, hee. A success story always makes me happy...

Banana Cake

Ingredients
125 g Butter

250 g Sugar

2 eggs

200 Self raising flour

1 tsp Baking Soda

1 tsp banana essence

100 ml Low fat milk

300 g mashed bananas

Preheat oven to 180c

Cream butter and sugar until pale and smooth. Add in one egg at a time. Add mashed bananas follow by baking soda and banana essence. Add flour gradually while whisking. Lastly add low fat milk. Use a deep pan loaf baking tin and bake in a 180c oven for 45 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool before slicing and serve.