My first attempt making bread back in year 2011

After browsing through my archived photos in my computer and since this blog has been quite dead for awhile, I decided to share this on my blog. Guess what?! Photos of my first attempt in making bread. I have no idea how to knead the dough, how much water to add to the flour and how the yeast actually works but I decided to give it a try. My grandma helped me in kneading part. She has a little bit of experience and I trust her because her dad used to bake bread and I heard from her that my great grandfather was quite good in making bread. Interesting right? 

Want to know the results? Continue reading....

My dough didn't rise or double in size after 40 minutes of proofing. Oops, I guess my hot water killed all the yeast. Didn't know what to do next, couldn't do much to save the dough, so I chucked it to the oven and bake.

After 15 minutes, not excited, not anticipating any good results as I expect to throw away the bread.

Took out the bread from the oven, the bread was hard. Smell and tasted like raw flour. 

My sister came out with a brilliant idea. We drew funny facial expression on the bread.

Egg-like bread.

 

Similar facial expression? >_< 

Even my furkids are not interested in those bread. If they are interested, you won't get to see the above similar facial expression photo. So what to do with the bread?

My dad and I cycled up to Air Itam Dam from our house and brought the hardened cute bread to share with the strays at the dam. Sharing is caring right? 

It was a wise decision to attend a basic baking class after this attempt. My baking skills has improved tremendously and most importantly, my family and I (including my four furkids) get to eat healthy homemade bread, no preservative, no bread improver and softener. 

Chocolate cake with almond topping

Golden Rise House is back again after 6 months of break! This time, I am baking chocolate cake and I have not been baking chocolate cake for quite some time. Luckily it tasted good and my family like it!

Chocolate batter

Finished product with almond topping

Recipe for this chocolate cake

Ingredients

2 1/4 cups all purpose flour or cake flour

1 2/3 cups granulated sugar

3/4 cup butter or 170 g butter/margarine (room temperature)

2/3 cup unsweetened baking cocoa

1 1/4 cups water

1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

2 large eggs

Beat all the ingredients in a large bowl and pour the batter in a pan.

Baking temperature: 175C , Baking time: 30-35 minutes

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??)

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. 

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! :)

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.

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.