my little favourite DIY

It's another Bake Along event and this round is Joyce's pick. She picked the world quickest yeasted coffee cake. I glad she pick this because this is new to me and i get a chance to experience something new.   When I first look at the recipe, I have no idea how it is done nor how does this cake look like.  I hopped over to Joyce's blog -hers looks nice and soft .  Zoe's blog - hers looks soft too with super yummy topping of gooey caramelize walnuts and Lena's blog - hers looks fun and cute..she made hers in a small portion of 5 small round buns/muffins. After checking out how does this yeasted coffee cake look like and also the recipe I decide to follow Lena's, simply because my family is small like hers...=D  I  follow carefully every step in her recipe. When i have mixed well the dough i found that the dough is very thin about 1cm thick..i was wondering will the dough rise..but after baking it.. The cake comes out to be really nice, the dough is ...

I am trying out this cream puff recipe for the first time. This recipe is really not bad at all.  It is almost fail proof..hehe  I will definitely make this again. It is soft and nice even the next day. I make into swan puff with custard cream... I made into simple ones with coffee custard cream.. I made into simple ones with vanilla custard cream... I made into fruit basket with custard cream... Cream Puffs recipe source: YT Kitchen's Collection (快乐厨房杂志- ,vol:24) I make half of this recipe...^^ Ingredients: 1. 400g water         6g salt     240g salad oil (i used butter) 2. 320g bread flour 3.      10 eggs to do: 1) Boil water, salt and oil in a sauce pan. Rolling boiled. 2) Add in flour all at once and stir to combine. Stir until mixture will leave from the side of the pan. Let this mixture cool a little until about 60c. 1.. After cooked the flour will look in big crumbly pieces 2.. Af...

  Second month of MFF is Sarawak month and I’m excited it is about my state (Sarawak). Happy to say Feats of Feasts will be hosting this entire September month. I grew up in Miri, Sarawak and I love my town.  Now it is upgraded to city few years ago.  In Miri we have lots of natural ingredients, like wild vegetables, fruits, seafood, a lot more and we even produced crude oil here in Miri. That is why Miri is named Oil Town. I am going to share a specialty of Sarawak and its a favourite of mine as well. 'Kelupis' it is a gllutinous rice mixed with coconut milk, wrapped in a piece of leaf and steam until it is cooked. That piece of leaf is a special leaf named daun nyirik. It produce a kind of really nice smell when it is use to wrapped the glutinous rice and steam. ~ This is the wrapped kelupis ready to be steam for 30 minutes ~ ~ This the unwrapped kelupis serve with mutton rendang ~ I learn this recipe from a Malay friend (Jamaliah) she teach me how t...

After browsing thru Masterchef website, I am confuse which recipe to choose. This recipe is great, that recipe is awesome and a lot more. Finally, i chose this recipe from Junior Masterchef  2011 - recipe by Steve, Junior contestant. ~ I found that this apple stack is really good, the buttery flaky pastry with the soft cooked caramelize cinnamon scented apple and the coffee flavour cream  ~   ~ Sprinkle with icing sugar ~   Peel and sliced apples, add in cinnamon powder and brown sugar mixed and cooked with butter to soften the apples. Set aside. ~ 1) Rolled the chilled pastry between 2 plastic sheets into 2mm thick 2) Cut into equal size retangle 3) Place on grease and lined baking tray  ~ ~ This pastry piece looks flaky and taste buttery ~ SAS Steven's Apple Stack recipe here   Ingredients: Pastry 1 cup plain flour 1/2 cup self- raising flour 1/4 cup corn flour 1/2 cup castor sugar  90g butter. roughly c...

Today is Mid autumn or moon cake festival  . I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my friends and everyone out there a warm  Happy Mid Autumn Festival....^^ My boys is so busy getting ready their lanterns for this Mid Autumn Festival. They have a fews that uses little light bulbs which is given by friends two years back. I will let them play with it and kept it for the following years to come or until it can't be use. Hehe ..recycle the lanterns..save the environment and save money..lol This year Sam have a special handmade lantern that he made in his Tadika. 今天就是中秋节了, 我想很多朋友们已经准备好月饼和灯笼了吧? 我家的宝贝们很兴奋的把前两年朋友送的电子灯笼搬了出了. 老二呢..就在幼儿园带了自制的灯笼回来.. 我在这祝所有的朋友们有个.. 平安快乐的中秋节...= ) ~Blue pea flower Crystal(Jelly) mooncake..type 1  蓝花水晶(菜燕)月饼..第一样~ ~Blue pea flower Crystal(Jelly) mooncake..type 2 蓝花水晶(菜燕)月饼..第2样~ ~ Soaked blue pea flowers in hot water to release the blue colour in the flower... 把蓝花浸泡在热水中让它散发它的颜色~ Thanks to Vi...

Last two weeks is a very tough week for my family. My father in law was admitted into general hospital (gh) because of his appendix.  He was having a very serious stomach ache that very morning. We sent him to gh instantly and he was diagnose acute appendix problem. He have to be operate immediately (to prevent it from busting) but something is wrong somewhere so he have to wait to observe. He was on drip that day and thank God his pain gone after the drip.  He was then operate the next day and get rid of what should be done. Again thank God he is now discharge from gh and resting at home.  ************************************************************************* Back to what i am rushing now. This is the Bake Along #32. I have a new helper this time to join me in this Bake Along #32. I hop around among our blogger friends who have made this Everyday Yoghurt cake. I found there is two sides, one is like and the other is so so..lol I myself found this cake is nice...

Angku kueh, this is a nyonya kueh (soft cake) Traditionally, it is in red colour but today there a lot of us are more health conscious. More of us prefer to have natural colouring to be added to our food. Natural colouring like colour of Bunga Telang (blue), red yeast rice (red), beet root (purplish red) , pandan leaves and  green tea  (green), and etc. This is my Pandan Angku..'ang' means red and 'ku' means tortoise = red tortoise soft cake(Isn't this a funny translation??...=p)  This is a Nyonya sweet dessert. Today my Pandan Amgku is green colour and. Here for the red ones. Pandan Angku recipe source:  a book of Nyonya Delights Ingredients A: 350 g glutinous flour 50 g castor sugar 250 ml water 100 ml thick coconut milk 50 ml pandan juice(i used 10 piece of pandan leaves, cut into sections , add 30ml of water to blend) 100 ml corn oil (i used only 2 tbsp) Ingredients B: 50 g rice flour 120ml water 1 tbsp wheat flou...