Tuesday, 27 September 2011

More Walnuts and Cinnamon!!

More cinnamon and walnuts. I am in love with these two ingredients! They make a perfect combination! Still remember the cinnamon rolls I made a few months ago? The filling was filled with raisins, but this time, I replaced the raisins with walnuts and it tasted good!!

I made two different type of shapes. One was placed in the round pan while the other one was placed in a rectangular pan.

The dough that was sprinkled with brown sugar, cinnamon powder and walnuts and later rolled up.

And you get this after you cut the roll into pieces. 

All proofed and ready to go into the oven.

Same goes to this. 

The result. Absolutely delicious!

Version 1 (Squarish??)

Version 2 (Flowery??)

Sunday, 25 September 2011

Cinnamon Swirl Muffins

Hey everyone! Sorry for not updating the blog for quite some time. I want to share some photos of my cinnamon muffins with my friends and readers. The uncle and aunties at my workplace tried the muffins and they liked it! 

Making the batter was easy with the help of my grandma and my sister. 

The first layer of the swirl. 

The second layer after putting some brown sugar on the first layer. 
     
Topped with another layer of brown sugar. 

Then, the brown sugar is swirled with a satay stick to give the swirling effect! 



This is how the muffin looks like after baked.
Muffins and wholemeal bread for breakfast. 
I baked two loaves of wholemeal bread on that day too. Which is why you can see the wholemeal bread in the last photo. 

Thursday, 1 September 2011

What's for this weekend?

Chocolate Walnut Muffin

This was supposed to be posted up 2 weeks ago...but I haven't got the time to write the caption of the photos...until today.


Want some??



Bailey waiting to test my muffin, but... no chocolate for dogs.
After 10 minutes in the oven.
                                         
20 minutes later...


Can't I get just a little bit? Pretty pleaseee..


With the recipe book behind


Last photo of the day.
The appearance of the muffin was nice but unfortunately not the taste. It was very plain as I cut down the amount of brown sugar...
Lesson learnt... next time follow the recipe! :)

Sunday, 21 August 2011

Pinky Cream Cheese

Still remember the 2kg cream cheese I bought last month?

I used up 1kg and the balance was spoilt..Thanks to the pink microorganism which I have no idea what is it...It seems like my microbiology knowledge I learned during my degree has gone down the drain. haha...

Gross or nice? 



The 800g cream cheese is now in the garbage dump somewhere in Penang.

Tuesday, 16 August 2011

Coffee Walnut Muffins

Hello everyone! I am back again with more yummy stuffs!

This time I made muffins..I bought this recipe book for quite some time and didn't manage to try out the recipe until last week. I finally took out the book and tried one of the recipes. 
I decided to bake coffee walnut muffins since I have all the ingredients needed. 
This recipe can make 12 pcs of muffins.

Ingredients needed:
125g walnut halves
150g butter
150g granulated sugar
3 egg whites
4 egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla extract
150g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder

For the coffee icing: ( I skipped this part, too lazy to do the icing)  
1 1/2 tablespoons milk,
lil bit of butter
1 tablespoon instant coffee
200g icing sugar, sifted
1 tsp vanilla extract


Get ready to chop the walnuts!
 1. Chop the walnuts into size that u desire.

Chop! Chop! Chopped walnuts

150g granulated sugar to be melted with the butter
 2. Melt the butter and sugar in a pan with low heat. Bring it to boil and cook for 2 minutes. Avoid burning the mixture by stirring constantly. Set aside.

Melted butter with partially melted sugar 
 3. Whisk the egg whites in a clean bowl until stiff peak forms.

To test whether the egg white is well beaten, use a chopstick or knife.   
 4. Add the egg yolks to the cooled butter sugar mixture. Add in the chopped walnuts, vanilla extract, flour and baking powder. Finally, add in the whisked egg whites.


 5. Spoon the batter to prepared muffin paper cups.


6. Bake the muffins at 180 degree Celcius for about 20-25 minutes.



The leftover batter, which is why the smaller size muffin

I added a few walnuts on top, looks good right?



Remarks: The muffins I made had no coffee taste as I skipped the icing part. You can add coffee granules to the mixture instead if you do not want to have the icing. 

Tuesday, 9 August 2011

My 1st time baking Polo bun.....

I was very excited to bake my polo bun but the results? Not as good as I expected, maybe because of the recipe I followed was not really good. (Blaming the recipe, :D) Anyway, photos of my polo bun below...please do not laugh when u see the bun. They don't look like polo bun! I duno I have to score the topping with knife in order to get the pineapple pattern until I see other recipes. 


Topping made of butter, flour, sugar .....


The dough after second proofing

The glazed dough
There is a blister on the dough. haha
The soldiers wear their helmets now.

And sent to the battlefield for war!

Looks like they had failed to defend their country. Lost! haha..

The injured and dirty soldiers, lethargic after the war. 

I baked until so brownish, I thought the topping will crack and thus, give me the pineapple pattern. =_='''
Will try again next time.