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Blueberries Madness Cupcakes

2007-08-19T08:17:00.000-07:00

Last week I had tried to bake something.So off I went baking. Everything went out well initially. Until the second I took the casserole off from my oven to find out half an hour later that the cake was still not fully baked inside. So when I tried to take it off from the container it all went sploshed into the plate like a mudslide. Sighhhh!!!

I was really disgusted and don't mention all my hard work, all I knew it all should went into the bin (that was without any doubt). And well I couldn't really make myself to talk about it even to HIMSELF. The house was fulfilled by a nice aroma unfortunately nothing to be found to match the nice cinnamon smell. What am I baking? No I won't tell what I was baking. So forget about it by all means.

I was darned frustrated. But guess it was not for long. I learnt my lesson well for the day. Firstly, the top part of my oven was never meant to bake cake. And to bake a good cake I have to know my oven well. Because believe me no matter how good is your oven is said to be there are still different zones like hot zone and cool zone - which will give some kind of impact on your cake.

Ok! That was that. Yesterday I was determined and ready to bake again. People said practice makes perfect so true is the saying. Don't believe me? Here are some eye candy of my blueberries madness cupcakes.

These cupcakes are perfect for breakfast. As I had gradually lessen the amount of sugar in the recipe. HIMSELF ate 2 cupcakes straight away when he came home. And that batch that he ate had just been took out of the oven for 15 minutes all fresh and lovely! He love it and the only comment is more blueberries next time around. Well guess that's not a problem at all dear! Yeay!!!

Right so much had been said. Here is the recipe.

Blueberries Madness Cupcakes

(This recipe yield 12 cupcakes)

2 eggs

1 cup of milk

1/4 cup melted butter/margarine

1 1/2 cups multipurpose flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup white sugar

(if you prefer it sweet adjust to 3/4 to 1 cup of sugar)

1 cup fresh blueberries

(could be substitute with canned blueberries)

Method :

a. Heat the oven to 250 degrees

b. Next, in a small bowl beat eggs, milk and melted butter

c. In a large bowl mix flour, baking powder, salt and sugar

d. Mix the two bowl together and add in the blueberries. Mix all the ingredients till it blends.

e. Fill up muffin cups till 3/4 full. Bake for 20 minutes at 250 degrees or till toothpick come out clean when it is prick into the cupcake.

Mee Bandung

2007-08-19T05:23:00.000-07:00

I had Mee (noodels) Bandung for yesterday dinner. I was actually having this craving for Mee Bandung. At first I thought it will be hard to produce a mee bandung but well I was wrong. The recipe proof it is just like any other malaysian food recipe. So off I went cooking!

Mee Bandung

(This recipe serve 2)

Fresh noodles/mee
Beef fillet (thinly sliced)
200g of Squid
4 spoons of dried prawn pouded
4 cloves of shallots
2 cloves of garlic
2 spoonful of chili paste (adjust accordingly to your liking)
A spoon of oyster sauce
2 spoonful of tomato sauce
Vegetables - I used chinese cabbage, carrots and tomatoes
2 eggs
A little bit salt
A little bit sugar
1 spoon of corn flour
Spring onion to garnish
Fresh chili to garnish (sliced)

Method :

1. Heat some oil and fry the pouded garlic and shallots till fragrant.
2. Add in chili paste and pouded dried shrimp
3. Put in beef fillets and let it boils for awile
4. Next are oyster sauce, tomato sauce, salt and a little bit of sugar
5. Add in all the vegetables and squid let it cook for awhile
6. Add in corn flour that had been dissolve in water to thicken the gravy
7. Put in the eggs and let the gravy stand for few minutes
till the eggs are fully cooked. Don't stir.
8. Dish noodles (that had been soaked into warm water for 3 minutes) into bowl
and put the gravy on top
9. Garnish with onion spring and chili

The result :

Not that bad at all, don't you think?

However, I had to admit it was far off from Mee Bandung Muar. Yikesss!!! the sound of it makes me drool really. That is the best Mee Bandung in Malaysia without doubt!

Nutty Banana Chocs Cuppies

2007-07-29T00:04:00.000-07:00

Lately I had this burning desired to make yet another cooking experiment - and to be exact I wanna bake cupcakes. I had never bake anything by myself as far as I could remember - it always with somebodyelse all this while.

Last Friday, all day at work I had been thinking the perfect recipes for my first ever cupcakes - because I knew HIMSELF will be not at home that evening (he went out fishing again with his mate). And boy it definitely would be a perfect time for me to start experimenting.

I had been doing research for sometimes but well I had never really bake any cupcakes. To be frank what I'm really attracted to was of course not about eating the cuppies but more about seeing it on my kitchen table with all fancy decoration - and a nice review from HIMSELF of course will be helpful and so that I will baked again next time.Hahahhaha.

So after work, with so much excitement I went shopping for my cupcakes ingredients...and unfortunately I had to go to every other supermarket here in Rathmines to get all the things that I needed. That was quite tiring! Owhhhh!!! I should be shopping a day earlier next time around.

However I was determined that I should be baking cupcakes that evening. And so baking I was!
Here is the recipe (in case somebody else got the itch to bake cuppies - just like me).

Owhhh I called the recipe Nutty Banana Chocs Cupcakes

Nutty Banana Chocs Cuppies

This recipe yields 12 cupcakes

1 1/2 cup of all purpose flour
3/4 cup of sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 bananas
1 eggs
1/4 cup of vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup of milk
hazelnuts
1 teaspoon grounded cinnamon

1. Whisk flour, sugar, baking powder and salt
2. With blender or food processor blend the banana and milk,
till all bananas get mashed up
3. Combine mashed bananas, egg, vegetable oil and vanilla,
mixed it till everything got blend together
4. Add hazelnuts that had been finely chopped and cinnamon to the mixture
- whisk it
5. Scoop the ready mixture into cupcakes paper
6. Baked at 300 degrees for 20 minutes

(you know it's ready when the toothpick come off clean
when you poke into the cuppies)

For the Chocolate topping

10 ounces bitter chocolate
1/2 cup of heavy cream
1 teaspoon of butter
1/4 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of milk

1. Heat up the cream until it's boiling at the edge of the pan
2. Pour the cream on top of the chocolate and whisk the ingredients together
Let it set for a minute
3. If the chocolate didn't melt, put the bowl into another bowl of boiling hot water
Keep on whisking till it blends and add up the butter as well
4. Next pour in milk and sugar and use electric mixer to mix the ingredients together
5. Stop when the mixture get a little bit lighter in color
6. Let it cool off for an hour or two
before topping it to the cupcakes

Result : as per photo attached, I think it was not so bad at all. Considering this was my first try out and it was yummylicious! and the cupcakes were moist. I got a good review from HIMSELF too :) Will bake again next time and maybe next time around will asked for reviews from others too!