3/8/2017 Deco steamed Cupcakes

Deco Steamed Cupcake

Servings: 4 steamed cakes

Ingredients:

½ cup cake flour (½ cup = 60 g)

1 tsp baking powder

1 large egg

2 Tbsp milk

1.5 ~ 2 Tbsp granulated sugar

1 Tbsp neutral flavor oil (vegetable, canola, etc)

(B) For the details and designs

Black batter: 0.5 tsp black or dark cocoa powder + 2 tsp basic batter

White batter: 0.5 tsp corn flour + 2 tsp basic batter

Brown batter: 0.5 tsp cocoa powder + 2 tsp batter

(C) For the BEAR (brown batter)

Brown: 1 tsp cocoa powder + 1/2 of the remaining basic batter

Steps:

1. Cover the lid with kitchen towel to prevent condensation from the lid from falling on to the steamed cakes (please don’t skip!). 

2. In a medium bowl, sieve in cake flour and baking powder.

3. In a small bowl, whisk the egg, milk, sugar, and vegetable oil together until combined.

4. Pour the egg mixture into the flour mixture and mix until smooth.

5. Put a cupcake liner in cupcake mould and divide the basic batter into the 2 cupcake liners and the brown batter into another 2 cupcake liners. (about 80% full)

6. Making the color batter for piping drawing:
~Black batter – Scoop out 2 tsp of basic batter and add in 0.5 tsp dark/black cocoa powder. Mix well and transfer into a small hand rolled piping bag made from parchment paper.
~Brown batter – Scoop out 2 tsp of basic batter and add in 0.5 tsp cocoa powder.  Mix well and transfer into a small hand rolled piping bag made from parchment paper.

7. Pipe the details using the various colours. Try to keep the drawing in smaller size and lines fine.

Tip: If you really make a mistake, you can use toothpick to help adjust or even scoop out the batter a little.

8. Place the steam cakes on a steamer rack and steam at medium low heat for 10 mins.

Point:
** It is good to place each of them in a holder/container. This prevents the cup from expanding too much, keeping your design intact. 

** Please ensure that the pot is high enough as the cakes will rise when steamed.

** In addition, highly recommend to cover the pot lid with a steamer cloth to prevent water from dripping onto the cakes. It will spoil the design and may cause sinking, or the cake to split apart. 

9. Make the ears of the characters. Pipe the coloured batter from step 6 on good quality parchment paper. I usually like to pipe extra so that I can pick and choose the ears that look good and with the right size.

10. Steam each for about 2-3 mins. I place the parchment paper on a small flat plate or tray to steam on the steaming rack.
11. Using a small sharp scissors, cut a shallow slit where the ears are to be and slot them in to complete the characters

How to draw on cupcakes

如何制作在造型杯子蛋糕

蛋糕的弹度 spongy of the cupcake

蒸造型杯子蛋糕
材料:低筋粉 60g
无铝泡打粉 1茶匙
牛奶 2 汤匙
糖 1.5 ~ 2 汤匙
蛋1隻 (約60g)
植物油 1汤匙

做法:
1）蛋加糖拌勻加入牛奶攪勻後,篩入粉類拌至沒有粉粒,最後加入油拌勻。
2）倒入模中,以中小火蒸10分鐘即成。

寶寶海南雞飯

材料：

1/3杯 壽司米/白米

3只小雞腿/1只雞腿

4個新鮮/乾的香菇

5克無鹽奶油

1粒小蔥頭

2片姜

1/2茶匙 少鹽醬油/液體氨基或少許鹽

胡椒粉少許

一些蔥花/蔬菜

1/3杯 雞湯/清水

2片班蘭葉/香蘭葉（沒有的話，可以不放）

步驟：

1 ）浸泡白米約30分鐘。

2 ）把蔥頭剁細。

3 ）把生薑切成片，把鮮菇切成顆粒。

4 ）把鍋加熱，倒入少許橄欖油，爆香蔥頭和姜。

5 ）加入雞肉和香菇翻炒至淺金黃色。

6 ）倒掉浸泡米的水，把白米放入油鍋裡然後加入鹽或少鹽醬油和胡椒粉。

7 ）加入奶油翻炒幾分鐘，熄火。

8 ）舀出米飯和雞肉，放入電飯鍋，倒入1/3杯的雞湯/清水蓋過白米。把班蘭葉紮好，放在米飯上面。

9 ）像往常一樣在電飯煲煮飯或放進蒸籠，大火蒸15-20分鐘即可。

BABY Hainanese Chicken Rice 

Ingredients:

1/3 cup sushi rice / white rice

3 pcs chicken drummets / 1pc chicken drumstick

4 pcs fresh shitake mushroom/ dried mushroom

5g unsalted butter

1pc shallot

2 slices ginger

1/2 tsp liquid amino or pinch of salt

dash of pepper powder

some green onion / vegetables

2 pcs pandan leaves

1/3 cup chicken broth / water

Steps:

1) soak white rice for 30mins - 1 hour

2) chop shallots finely

3) cut ginger into slices, dice the mushroom

4) heat pan with low fire, add in a little olive oil, sauteed shallot and ginger till fragrance

5) add in chicken and mushroom, stir fry till light golden brown

6) throw away the soaked water, pour the rice into the pan， follow by salt/liquid amino and pepper

7) add in butter and stir fry for few mins, off fire

8) transfer the rice and chicken into rice cooker, pour adequate water to cover rice, tie the pandan leaves and put on top of the rice

9) cook rice as usual in rice cooker or steam for 15-20mins.

Breakfast: Cheese egg sandwich
早餐：奶酪煎蛋三明治

2/8/2017 pumpkin pancake 南瓜煎饼

Pumpkin Pancake
Ingredients:
50g Cake flour
50g shredded pumpkin
1/2 tsp aluminum free baking powder
1 pc Egg
1 tbsp organic cane sugar
1/2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tbsp fresh milk

Steps:
1) beat egg and sugar with electric mixer till fluffy
2) add in milk, oil and pumpkin, stir well.
2) sieve in flour and baking powder, stir well.
3) heat pan with little olive oil and wipe off with kitchen towel
4) Use 1 tablespoon measuring spoon to scoop a spoonful of batter into the pan , cover with the lid. About 20 to 30 seconds, a number of holes on the surface of the pancake shall form, open the lid and it is ready to overturn the pancake
5 ) cook for another 30 seconds and done
6) cold down pan before repeating steps 4-5 until all batter is finished

P/S:
1) The above recipe yield 10-12 small pancakes, using same volume of batter each time, pancake size will be more evenly ~
2 ) Do not put too much oil , you can drop a few drops of oil on the pan then wipe evenly by a kitchen towel paper.
3 ) Always use the smallest fire to avoid burnt.
4 ) To make nice dorayaki, the cool down process must not skip!!

 the pumpkin batter 南瓜丝面糊

small size pancake 小煎饼

 big size pancake 大煎饼

南瓜煎餅
材料：低筋麵粉50g，南瓜刨成丝50g，無鋁泡打粉1/2茶匙，蛋1個，植物油1/2 湯匙，鮮奶1湯匙，蔗糖1湯匙

做法：
1) 用攪拌器把雞蛋和蔗糖打發（大約1 分鐘）
2）加入鮮奶，油和南瓜丝，拌勻。
3) 篩入麵粉和泡打粉，攪拌均勻。
3) 加少許油在熱的平底鍋裡（全程用小火），再用廚房紙巾擦勻。
4) 用１湯匙的量匙，分別挖一勺麵糊放入鍋中，蓋上蓋子。約20~30秒鐘左右可見到蛋餅表面出現若干小洞、打開蓋子並可以翻面了。
6) 翻面之後也同樣煎半分鐘左右即可出鍋。
7) 將平底鍋放在濕布上降溫，再放回爐上。重複步驟4-5，直到麵糊全部用完。

～＊＊本人的小貼士＊＊～

1）以上食譜大約可以做10-12個小的煎餅，每次勺同樣的分量，煎餅的大小就會比較均勻啦~
2）油不要放多，可以滴幾滴油在鍋內之後，用紙巾擦勻。
3）一定要用最小火。火一大就容易煎焦。

bento of the day

Snoopy Bento for my 4yo girl..

Rice Bento with tomato prawns, okra, omelet.

是日便当

最近天气真的很炎热啊！

史努比也来吃块西瓜吧~ 呵呵！

白米饭团

番茄洋葱草虾

水煮秋葵

迷你蛋卷

Steam Onion Juice 蒸洋葱水

做法请按以上链接

please click on above link for recipe

My Princess - 4th Birthday PICNIC PARTY小公主的生日野餐派对

After having great suggestion from my friend and Hubby to have PICNIC PARTY, we finally decided to celebrate our girl's birthday at the Pullman Putrajaya Lakeside.

I have invited a few good friends with their little ones and we are total 7 adults and 5 little ones in this Picnic Party.

I have planned the food a week ago and started making the fondant figurines of PAW PATROL few days ago. Everything was planned nicely and the only bad thing was my hand wounded by knife during cutting out the seed of the avocado.

Overall we all had fun especially the kids. Little Princess was super excited that day and had her dry swimming on the sand too.

We arrived at the lakeside around 9.30am and went home at 2pm. It was quite hot weather compared to our first picnic here one month ago. 

My home cooked FOOD for the Picnic Party:

1) Old School Buttercream Cake with PAW PATROL figurines made by myself  using fondant (Marshall, Rubble, Chase and Skye)

2) Bacon Spaghetti

3) corn salad

4) Young coconut fruit salad

5) cream cheese ham sandwich

6) fruits in skewer sticks

7) apple potato salad

8) baked honey chicken wings

9) red eggs

10) Jelly in cups

11) mini egg frittata

12) pop corn

13) cheese cookies and oat cookies (in goodie bag)

14) died fruit tea (for mommies)

15) banana, small oranges

16) hot coffee and hot rose tea

Old School Buttercream Cakes

Sponge cake

Ingredients:

(A) 4 egg yolks

75ml corn oil

130ml milk / water

150g self raising flour

(B) 4 egg whites

80gm sugar

Steps:
1) Mix ingredients (A) till smooth. Add in enough water to form a smooth batter.

Not too thick or too runny.

2) Whisk ingredients (B) till stiff. Mix (A) to (B) and mix lightly. Pour into a 11×14 inch lined tray and dropped the tray on the table a few times. Bake at 180° for 20-25 mins. Let it cool.

Buttercream
(Can be stored in room temperature for a week)
Ingredients:
200g Marjerin
80g Unsalted butter (room temp)
180g golden Syrup (originally was 350g)

布城（布特拉再也城 Putrajaya）有个人造沙滩，位于铂尔曼布城湖畔大酒店（Pullman Putrajaya Lakeside Hotel）旁。铂尔曼布城湖畔大酒店很靠近PICC （Putrajaya International Convention Centre）之前有带小公主去PICC看班尼表演（Barney show)。

       在PICC附近便可看到一座很漂亮的酒店~ 铂尔曼布城湖畔大酒店（Pullman Putrajaya Lakeside Hotel）。可以把车子停放在酒店内的停车场，但需要步行好一段路程才可抵达人造沙滩。我们把车子再行驶前一点走到Kompleks Sukan Air转进右边（如照片显示）就可以把车子停放在人造沙滩旁。这地方就很方便，尤其是需要提拿蛮多的东西。停车的附近就有梯阶可以直达人造沙滩。

        人造沙滩旁有间蛮干净的厕所，小孩玩沙或玩水后，可以在这里清洗干净。这里的风景很优美，远处可以看到属于酒店建造的瞭望台和布城水上运动场的场馆（Kompleks Sukan Air Putrjaya）。

第一次来野餐时是朋友提议的，非常谢谢Vanessa介绍我们来这个那么好的野餐地点，让孩子们和大人都可以在椰子树下阴凉地享受优美的风景，明媚的阳光，快乐的玩沙（可惜不能玩水，因为水池的水质关系而关闭）。

所以当我们正烦恼着在哪里替小公主庆祝4岁生日，老公就想到野餐了。这是我和老公人生的第一次生日野餐派对曳！！！

在我的朋友和老公建议之后，我们终于决定在 Pullman putrajaya lakesaid 为我家4岁的小公主庆祝生日。我邀请了几位好朋友，我们共有7名大人和5名小朋友参加了这个野餐派对。

我一周前已经计划好了食物的餐单，并在几天之前制作了PAW PATROL的翻糖小公仔。

我家的野餐派对食物：

1）用自己制作的PAW PATROL翻糖小公仔（Marshall，Rubble，Chase和Skye）的老式奶油蛋糕

2）培根意大利面

3）玉米沙拉

4）嫩椰子水果沙拉

5）奶油起司火腿三明治

6）水果串串

7）苹果马铃薯沙拉

8）烤蜂蜜鸡翅

9）红鸡蛋

10）杯子果冻

11）迷你烤意式蛋

12）爆米花

13）奶酪饼干和燕麦饼干（in goodie bag）

14）乾水果茶（给妈妈们）

15）香蕉，小橘子

16）热咖啡和热玫瑰茶

 前方就是洗手间哦~
the washroom just not far away from the picnic area

 我们的车子就在这儿，然后从那梯阶走下来。
our car was parked up there, then walked down from that staircase

走下梯阶，向人造沙滩走去
from the car park, we walked to this direction and down to the staircase.

19/7/2017 snoopy bento with minced meat tofu

今天的妈咪有睡迟了~ 昨晚收拾厨房里的一些便当用具到很夜，所以今天的精神有点不足。但是宝宝的食物也不能忽略。。于是快手快脚地做了个简单的香蕉杯子蛋糕，史努比肉碎豆腐便当和鲜橙奶昔给小公主。

Very embarrassing to say that, mommy was lazy to wake up again this morning ended I started to cook at 5.50am. Fast hand fast leg to cook rice, put my gal's clothes to laundry, take out minced meat from freezer, mashed the banana, made banana cake, cook the minced meat tofu, blend the Orange milkshake, take out the banana cupcakes from oven, continue the remaining cookie dough from yesterday, shaped and baked, assemble the Bento, boiled the quail eggs. DONE.

Today i used 1/2 of the recipe and yield 3 pcs cupcakes

baked at 175'C for 15 mins only

(100g batter each)

Banana Cake

Ingredients

½ Tbsp. butter for greasing the baking dish (i didn't)

1 ⅔ cups (208g) all-purpose flour

½ tsp. salt (i put 1/4tsp)

½ tsp. baking soda

½ tsp. baking powder

½ cup (113 g) butter, soften

50g cane sugar

2 large eggs, at room temperature

1 Tbsp. cooking oil (vegetable, canola, grapeseed oil)

1 tsp. vanilla extract

3-4 ripe bananas (about 200g)

½ - ⅔ cup raisins (optional)

1 additional banana for topping

Steps:

1) Preheat oven to 175°C and grease an 8” square baking dish with butter (bottom and sides).

2) In a bowl, combine flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder and whisk all together.

3) In another bowl, combine soften butter and sugar and whisk well.

4) Add eggs, oil, and vanilla extract and beat with the whisk until well blended.

5) Mash bananas with a fork and mix into the egg mixture.

6) Add the flour to the banana mixture and stir just until blended. Add raisins, if you prefer.

7) Pour the batter into the prepared pan, spreading it evenly with the rubber spatula. Slice 1 banana thinly into rounds and decorate on top of the banana bread.

8) Put the pan in the oven and bake at 175°C until a toothpick inserted into the center of the bread comes out clean, about 1 hour.
9) Remove the baking dish from the oven and let cool for 20 minutes. If you don't eat right away, wrap each slice or the whole cake with plastic wrap. Store at the cool place and enjoy within 2-3 days. 

baked in 9" square pan on 25/5/2015

4/7/2017用了2个5寸的圆蛋糕模，175‘C烘烤35分钟

香蕉蛋糕
材料：
少许抹烤盘的奶油（我没抹油，也很容易脱模）
208g 低筋面粉/普通面粉
1/4茶匙 海盐
½茶匙 小苏打
½茶匙 泡打粉
113克 无盐奶油，软化
50克 有机蔗糖
2个大鸡蛋，室温
1汤匙 植物油（玉米油，米糠油，葡萄籽油）
1茶匙 香草精 （我没有放）
3-4条 熟的香蕉（约200g）
½ - ⅔杯 葡萄干（我没有放）

另外1条香蕉，切片，铺在蛋糕面糊上面

做法：
1）预热烤箱至350°F（175°C），并用奶油（底部和侧面）涂上一个8“方形烤盘。
2）在一个大碗中，混合面粉，海盐，小苏打和泡打粉。
3）在另一个碗中，将软化的奶油和糖搅拌均匀。
4）然后加入鸡蛋，植物油和香草精，搅拌均匀。
5）用叉子把香蕉压成泥，加入蛋糊中，拌匀。
6）把粉类加入到香蕉蛋糊中，用橡皮刮刀，轻拌混合。 （不要过度搅一面起筋）
把葡萄干加入（可不放）
7）将面糊倒入准备好的蛋糕模，用橡皮刮刀把表面抹平。将1条香蕉切片，装饰在香蕉面糊上。
8）送入已经预热175°C的烤箱里烘烤约1小时。 （如果分2个蛋糕模烘烤的话，时间可以缩短，烤35分钟即可），用竹签插入蛋糕，出来是干净的就是熟透了。如果表面不够上色，可以把烤盘移至上层，让蛋糕快速上色。
9）从烤箱中取出烤盘，待凉20分钟。如果不立即享用，用塑料包裹每片或整个蛋糕。存放在阴凉处，2-3天内享用。

snoopy bento 史努比便当

Minced meat Tofu

Ingredients:

100g minced meat

1 box organic soft tofu

some carrot

1 cloves garlic

2 small scallion

1 tsp liquid amino

Some oil

Dash of pepper powder

1tsp corn flour+2 tbsp water

Steps:

1) crush the garlic and scallion, slice the carrot

2) heat pan, add some oil. sauteed garlic and scallion till fragrant then add in minced meat and stir fry.

3) add in carrot and tofu and continue stir frying.

4) add 1/4 cup of water and cook till boiling.

5) add in liquid amino and dash of pepper powder. add in the corn flour mixture to thicken the sauce.

6) off fire and done.

肉碎豆腐

材料：

100g 豬絞肉/肉碎

1盒 有機軟豆腐

一些 胡蘿蔔

1片 蒜米

2粒 小蔥頭

1茶匙 液體氨基

一些 植物油

胡椒粉 適量

1茶匙 玉米粉+ 2湯匙水

做法：

1）剁碎蒜米和小蔥頭，胡蘿蔔切片。

2）把鍋加熱，倒入一些油， 蒜米和小蔥頭碎炒香，然後加入豬絞肉拌炒。

3）加入胡蘿蔔和豆腐，繼續拌炒。

4）加入1/4杯水，煮至沸騰。

5）加入液體氨基和胡椒粉。然後加入玉米粉混合物，煮至濃稠。

6）熄火，完成。

昨天没有用完的杏仁燕麦饼干面团，今天做成手指饼干形状。

remaining cookie dough from yesterday and i made it into finger shape cookies.

Almond Oatmeal Cookies recipe / 杏仁燕麦饼干食谱

https://haruko5350.blogspot.my/2017/01/almond-oat-cookies.html

我使用的无盐寿司紫菜

the seaweed that i use in making sushi or shaping