Strawberry Carrot Cake

I've made this Strawberry Carrot Cake sometime bake, but I'm too busy to but it up on the blog. Having balance strawberry from another cake, I decided to put it into my favorite American Carrot Cake. The frosting look fantastic for with bits of red strawberries. However I couldnt taste strawberry from the cake. Mhhhh... I wonder how I can improve the taste of strawberry?

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Funny 3D face..

Shoe Storage

Human Tetris

Mini Cakes

Mini Cakes. Working on my creativity on decoration. How do I fare?

Christmas Log Cake

Mini Christmas Log Cake

Christmas Log Cake with the remaining grapes from my sis birthday cake.

Sister's Birthday Cake

My Mother and I baked these cake for my younger sister's birthday. The fillings are these sweet grapes. Hope she like it.

Sponge Cake Decoration Class

These are my cakes from the classes.

Baking a Wedding Cake Video

Baking a Wedding Cake Video

Cheese Snow Skin Mooncake

The latest trend of mooncakes adds cheese in them. Either they have the york replace with cheese or Cheese filling with varity of flavors. I've decided to make Whisky Blueberry Cheese and Chocolate Cheese Mooncake. Here's the result.

Strewberry, Kiwi Jelly Cheesecake

Yet another experiment with cheesecake. This time is the Strewberry, Kiwi Jelly Cheesecake.

I remembered a similar cheesecake eaten during a family dinner. So I decided to improvise it from a respberry jelly cheesecake recipe. So who's gonna be my tester this time?

Eu Yan Sang Clinic

I was impress with Eu Yan Sang Clinic. They have the CRM system which requires to take the payients blood pressure and entered to the system. I had a sprain ankle and the picture shows the medicine package for each dose. All is impressive as well as the cost of S$40 :)

Coffee Cheese Cake

The latest try on cheesecake is Coffee Cheese Cake. It was a challenge to remove the cheesecake from a ordinary pan. I need to invest on a Springform Pan next time. This time i decorate the side of the cake with ground hazelnut to camouflage the sides.

Oreo Cheese Cake

My niece that wanted to bake the New York CheeseCake, thus I improvise the recipe by added Oreo cookies. Oreo Crush are added into the cake and with some help from my niece it's decorate with more Oreo Cookies.

Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

My mum is into healthy living recently after her Chang Mai detox program. They have learn to have fruits before meal. Thus one day she bought a whole bunch of Plantain Banana for us. I have yogurt cream cheese with jam and banana for breakfast. Soon all the banana turn too ripe that I've decided to bake Banana Cake since plantain banana is best used for baking. This banana has a firm texture and a mild flavor, similar to a squash, the flesh of this banana contains less sugar but more starch than other varieties.

Too bad there's no pictures of my baking. But Kenneth and my colleagues all said it's good. I did some variation to this recipe with less sugar and adding cinnamon to it. Below is the original recipe from http://www.exclusivelyfood.com.au/2006/07/banana-cake-recipe.html

Ingredient:
125g butter, softened (if using unsalted butter, add 1/4 teaspoon salt with the flour)
330g (1 1/2 cups) sugar
280g very ripe, mashed banana
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs
100ml buttermilk
225g self-raising flour
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Method:
Preheat oven to 160 degrees Celsius fan-forced. If you don't have a fan-forced oven, preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Grease and line a 22cm diameter springform pan.

Place butter, sugar, banana, vanilla and eggs in a food processor.

Process for about 2 minutes. Scrape down sides of processor. Add buttermilk and pulse to combine.

Sift flour, salt (if using) and bicarbonate of soda together into a large bowl. Add flour mixture to food processor and process until just combined.

Pour batter into prepared tin.

Bake for about 50-60 minutes, or until a skewer or knife inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.

Leave cake to cool on a wire rack.

Spread cooled cake with cream cheese icing. Store cake in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

Cream Cheese Icing
90g cream cheese, softened
45g butter, softened
210g (1 2/3 cups) icing sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice

Beat cream cheese and butter with an electric mixer until creamy. Add sifted icing sugar and beat until smooth. Add lemon juice and beat to combine. Spread icing over top and sides of cooled cake.

Yogurt Cream Cheese

Wats next after yogurt? I decide to search the internet for making cream cheese. EASY! Just place the yogurt into a cloth over a strainer and leave in in the fridge overnight to drain off the liquid. Walla! You have cream cheese!

However, the taste is like yogurt and only the texture is like cream cheese. Mmhhh.. Anyone can share with me how to make a good homemade cream cheese?

Baking Soda, Cream Of Tartar, Baking Powder

Baking Soda, well known as bicarbonate soda. It is a alkaline compound , usually sodium bicarbonate. It neutralise acids in dough or batter. This encourage batter to rise in the oven. The bi-products of this reaction are water and carbon dioxide. It is usually used along with baking powder in cakes with acidic ingredient like sour cream, honey, molasses, fruit and buttermilk. It also encourage browning.

Cream of Tartar is an acidic salt, potassium bitartrate. It's role is to stabilise beaten egg white and improve the texture of egg-foam cakes.

Baking Powder has a mixture of chemicals that react to tied carbon dioxide when liquid is introduced. It consist of an acid salt, an alkali, and a filler, usually cornstarch, to absorb moisture and prevent the compounds from reacting in the jar.

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Making Yogurt

I've always thought making yogurt is difficult. Seen in the shops selling yogurt powder and books that comes along teaching you how to make a successful yogurt. I tell myself what a hassle, just buy from the supermarket. They're even cheaper!

Than one day when I chat with a Indian colleague, she told me that their family always made home yogurt for dinner and drinks. It started me thinking of making it myself. And there goes the process of using full cream powder to mix with boiling water to make liquid milk and than cooling it to the right temperature before adding the yogurt into the mixture. This take at least an hour to prepare. This method is only suitable to make plain yogurt. It was successful for a few times, but as time pass I just lost the interest due to the long process.

Many years has past, now my mum has learnt from my aunt a simpler way to "make" yogurt. This time we can make banana, strewberry and chocolate yogurt. Please note, this method is only suitable in temperate countries only. Take your favourate cold milk, pour a portion that you will like to make into yogurt. Than take two teaspoon of plain yogurt and mix them well. Cover them up on tight lit and leave them at room temperature until it turns semi solid. This takes afew hours. After which you can place them into the fridge until it's ready to be eaten.