All about Cakes & Cookies Baking

[BlurBee]

Funz:

She decided to attempt a basic butter cake instead. Turned out pretty well considering that this is her first attempt and without any help from me or my helper. She even creamed the butter without using the mixer, all arm power.

Wow, arm power. :salute:
Nice one! :drool:

[Blessed Homemaker]

Recipe for cake or SMBC?

LKVM:

Blessed Homemaker:

The 3rd cake I made, for school's celebration

Frosting: blueberry SMBC

looks vvv nice :drool: :drool:

Can I have the recipe please. :boogie:

[cherrygal]

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[Funz]

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Freshly baked choux waiting to be filled

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Chocolate custard for the choux

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All done, filled and glazed.

[luckyme]

OMG! :yikes: Funz, your choux looked very delicious leh! :drool: Can share recipe? :please:


Oh yes, do you have any traditional pandan cake recipe?

[Funz]

luckyme:

OMG! :yikes: Funz, your choux looked very delicious leh! :drool: Can share recipe? :please:


Oh yes, do you have any traditional pandan cake recipe?

I don't have a pandan cake recipe on hand. You can try this for the pandan cake recipe.
http://ieatishootipost.sg/2010/05/how-to-make-pandan-chiffon-cake-almost.html

For the Choux, here goes

Choux
Ingredient
150g Flour
90g Salted Butter
250ml Water
10g Sugar
4 eggs

Method
1. Sift flour and mix with sugar
2. Boil water & butter
3. When butter is melted, dump in (1) at one go. Stir immediately until
dough is form & leaves the side of the pot.
4. Cool it
5. Beat in eggs 1 by 1 and until mixture is smooth and glossy
6. Pipe or spoon onto tray. About the size of a small lime and 2 inches apart
7. Bake for 10 mins at 190 degree celcius and another 15mins at 170 degree
celcius
8. Slit bottom immediately to release steam
9. Cool completely before piping in filling

Fillings
Ingredients
2 eggs
500ml Chocolate Milk
120g sugar
2 tbsp all purpose flour
2 tbsp cornstarch
60gm bittersweet chocolate
1tsp vanilla extract

Method
1. Bring milk to boil
2. Meanwhile beat eggs and sugar until pale
3. Mix in flour and cornstarch
4. Pour some boiling milk into the egg mixture while stirring
5. Continue adding and stirring in the milk until all the milk is added
6. Cook the custard until it simmers and no longer floury
7. Stir in vanilla extract. Add chocolate and let it sit for a while before stirring.
8. Mix well and leave to cool before piping.

Chocolate Glaze
Ingredient
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp fresh milk

Put all the ingredients in a pot and melt it using the double boil method. You can add more milk if you find the consistancy of the glaze too thick. Once done, simply dip the choux in the glaze and leave it on a tray to set. Chill them before serving.

Notes:
1. when cooking the dough for the choux, use low fire and even after the
dough leaves the sides of the pot, cook it a while more until there is no
floury smell.
2. I am using a convection oven so I lower the temp by 10 deg.
3. intead of slitting the bottom of the choux, I slit the top and filled the
custard from the top, thereafter the slit is covered by the glaze. If slit the
bottom, some of the filling tend to ooze out.
4. Recipe calls for 120g of sugar for the filling, I used only 100g
5. Line your tray with baking paper or oil it and dust with flour. I did not and
the 1st tray of choux got stuck.

[Village Girl]

Funz


You choux are great. Looks yummy. How many can you made with the recipe given. It seems a huge plate.

[Funz]

Village Girl:

Funz


You choux are great. Looks yummy. How many can you made with the recipe given. It seems a huge plate.

30+ I think. Did not do a count but I ended up with 2 trays after DD and DS ate a few along the way while filling and piping.

[Funz]

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Orange Chiffon Cake

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Yuzu Chiffon Cake

DS is into citrus chiffon cakes lately. DS is kinda picky and on the small and skinny side. Food doesn't usually interest him so when he says he feels like eating something, everyone usually go out of their way to get it for him. We can easily find pandan chiffon, coffee chiffon, chocolate chiffon but could not find orange chiffon. So I dusted the cobwebs from my tube pan and baked DS the cake he was craving for.

Somehow, convection ovens do not bake nice looking chiffon cakes. The cakes tend to crack even when I set the oven to the minimum temp. Oh well, doesn't matter as a chiffon cake is always presented bottom up.

[Chenonceau]

Oh gosh! Funz... I didn't realize that you bake like a pro! :udawoman:


Here is my recipe for low carb almond meal bread in the bread maker.

http://petunialee.blogspot.sg/2012/07/recipe-for-low-carb-almond-bread.html

The photo is here...
http://petunialee.blogspot.sg/2011/12/almond-meal-bread.html