Oreo Cupcakes

Made some Oreo cupcakes for the kids since I have little time spend with them recently.... Sheena requested some as her friend also order a few from her....

Was referring some Oreo cupcakes recipes online and found my version Oreo cupcakes too simple.... So decided to make something special...

These are the one before baking.... It's actually a slice of Oreo biscuits below and another slice with the cream on top... Since the biscuits comes with creams, I cut down the sugar level from the original recipe by "Mimi bakery house"... I like her recipe because she use lesser sugar and also the texture of her cakes are softer.... 

Ingredients : (original recipe)

Butter : 120g

Sugar : 130g (I used 110g)

Eggs : 3

Self raising flour : 200g (I used 200g of super grade fine flour & 1/2tsp of baking soda)

Baking powder : 1/2tsp

Milk : 60ml

Oreo biscuits : 100g ( crushed, with creams)

I added 1/2tsp of vanilla essence, and 1 drop of "brown" coloring.... 

Method : 

Preheat the oven at 180 degree Celsius.

Cream the butter & sugar until white and creamy.  Add in the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Add in the milk, vanilla essence and the brown coloring and mix well, follow by the flour in 3 portions.  Lastly, fold in the Oreo crumbs.

Open up the Oreo biscuits, put the side without the cream at the bottom of the paper cup, scoop in the batter into the paper cups about 80% full and press the other side of the Oreo biscuits with cream onto the batter.

Bake it for 25-30mins or until golden brown.

See the outcome??? Sheena said the cake is so nice, the cream is like melt into the cake like sugar frosting, and the Oreo on the top and bottom is so crispy and the crushed Oreo is so crunchy... 

Try it... It is definitely a nice cupcakes...

(FYI : my cakes are lesser in sugar coz my kids and hubby don't like sweet stuff)

Resduced sugar Rainbow cake

Omg!!! I made it this time.... I really made it...

My girl celebrated her 16th birthday party at Safra Jurong BBQ pit.  She requested a "Rainbow Cake" for her birthday.  I made a trial one few weeks back, but it was way too sweet for the family.  This time, I cut down the sugar level for about 25g per layer, in all, 6 layers, I cut down about 150g of sugar for the whole cut... 

The cake is really nice, I decorated with some "Smarties Chocolate" and some "Rainbow Rice"... Whipping cream also cut down to thinner layer, the cake is really much healthier on the sugar compare to bakery found outside.... 

Oops!!! I changed the rainbow color position with the yellow and green... Suppose to be yellow first then green... A careless mistake....

I made it... Thanks to Cynthia Lim from "The Baking Biatch" recipe that I adopted from it, and he guidance from her too... 

Thanks...

Kueh Dahlia aka Daisy Biscuits

Didn't really bake a lot this week because of the horrible haze... Wasn't breathing well enough as I am asthmatic, but I realized that actually if I just sit down and do nothing, I feel more breathless and also restless.  So, even with a super heavy haze today, I got up of my chair and bake... In fact, when I make myself busy with baking, I feel better... So, if you are asthmatic, as long as your asthma does not attack you, you should not be just sitting there and do nothing, get yourself busy, and you will feel better...

My hubby was complaining there isn't any "snacks" for him to eat when he watches soccer at night... So I decided to bake something very simple and I believe not only he will eats, the kids will also finish it in no time..

Kueh Dahlia, or Daisy Biscuits are actually very popular during the Hari Raya, normally the Malays will either bake or order this cookies for the festival.. 

Before baking... Instead of using cherries, I used chocolate chips (I forgotten to get any cherries from the supermarket :p) 

Using the "pump" that I bought from JB, the pump is a challenge, coz the pump is small, and it is very stiff, I have to use my "bull strength" to pump each flower.. Hubby says I should buy a butter cookies presser next time for this cookies... Yah!!! I have a sponsor for that.... 

After baking... The texture is so soft yet crispy... It really melts in your mouth... I baked about 60 of it (the recipe is for 40, but I made smaller).. Before baking, I thought its enough for hubby 2 nights supplies for his soccer snacks, after baking, I realized it looks like very little,,, I told him I'm going to bake the second batch, but he says no need, its enough for him....

The moment I reached home, before the match, at 10pm... All gone.... Well......

Anyway, I'll bake again next week... More this time.....

Adopted the recipe from cornercafe.wordpress.com/

[Ingredients]

170g (6 oz) butter, softened

105g (3.75 oz) caster sugar, sifted

1 egg yolk

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

170g (6 oz) cake flour, sifted

85g (3 oz) custard powder, sifted

5 or more red glacé cherries

[Preparation]

1. Preheat oven to 170°C. Have the butter very soft almost at the verge of melting but not melted; in winter cold weather, place butter in the microwave at its lowest setting and heat at 30 second-interval until the required consistency. Cut each glacé cherry into 8 tiny pieces.

2. Beat butter and sugar until pale and creamy. Beat in egg yolk and vanilla. Lastly fold in flour and custard powder until a soft but stiff dough formed.

3. Transfer dough into a piping bag fitted with a 2cm star nozzle. Pipe out daisy shapes about 5cm wide each. Place a tiny cut cherry in the middle of each flower.

4. Bake for about 15 minutes, or until firm; don’t let the biscuits brown too much.

5. Remove from oven and let cool before storing in airtight container.

Special color for my rainbow cake

16 June is my dad's 63rd birthday.... I was trying to do something special for him this year as he is someone who is not fancy with sweet cakes... Went thru a few recipes online... Found this "Rainbow Cake" interesting and very challenging... So, I decided to bake him a "Rainbow Cake" for his birthday... Did a trial one which wasn't that successful because of sugar wasn't really well controlled (too sweet)...

This one, the trial one... Too sweet & lesser layers... 

His actual one... Sweetness not so, but still have to cut down a bit more... 

Know what??? My dad ate the cake... In fact, every year during his birthday, we bought from the bakery, he will only either eats the fruits or just the chocolate on top of the cake... But this time, he ate 1 BIG slice of "Rainbow Cake"... 1 BIG slice... He said nice and the sugar level is acceptable.... My hubby says sugar still high, must cut down more.... 

I'm so happy... I can bake my very own birthday cake, still, I have to master more on the frosting and the decorations skills.... My next cake will be my girl's 16th birthday party cake on 29 June... Same, she requested "Rainbow Cake"... This time will be must bigger... I really have to keep my fingers cross... Wish me luck everyone...

My very own chocolate twist loaf

TGIF.... It's Friday... Yes.... 

Using my last sachet of yeast left in the cabinet... No more buns for the time being... (Been baking a lot of buns recently)... This time, I try loaf bread.... Plain loaf too boring... Left a bit of chocolate powder, use up la.... Plain chocolate?  Chocolate powder not enough also??? Aiyah!!! Twist it and can have both plain and chocolate.... 

When I was rolling the dough, the work was tough.... The dough tends to bounce back and I have to use alot of strength to widen it... After a few rounds of rolling, I cut into 3 portions to pleat it like my gal's hair... Let it rinse the 3 round....  Put to bake and it become like this...

See??!!!  Taste is good and the bread is so fine and soft.... Don't need to spread anything on it and it taste perfectly well... 

Ingredient :

Tangzhong of 25g of flour & 125ml of milk

375g bread flour

100g flour

35g milk powder (omitted as use milk)

75g castor sugar (use a bit more for sweet taste)

3/4 tsp of salt (omitted)

1 sachet of yeast

1 egg (lightly beaten)

150ml warm milk

40g butter

Up to date now...

I was very pissed of with this friend whom I know for more than 20 yrs last night... Reason??? I don't feel like saying coz I think it's not worth for me to mention her here... 

After a night sleep, I have decided to bake again to make myself happy..... Some of you may use exercise to make yourself happy, some may eat a lot of junk food.... Some even went shopping to spend alot of money to buy branded goods to make themselves happy... Me?? Bake... I will feel very happy to make myself happy... Real happy...

I made tuna buns today, using the same tangzhong method and chunks tuna... The outcome is still the same... Soft... I have been falling in love to bake bread nowadays....

Roti boy or Roti mummy

Went thru some bread recipes online, came across something call roti boy coffee buns.... At first I thought it is going to be something only a bakery chef can do it... Well... After reading thru at few times (I wasn't that hardworking when I was in school), I tried it out.... 

Using Owl 3in1 white coffee for the top and I may say, I passed... Again, with my 3 kids + 1(hubby) at home, it finished off before the next day...