3 ingredients sponge cake

I got this recipe from a Japanese pastry book.
- 3 eggs (weight 65 g each with shell)
- 60 g coarse sugar
- 50 g cake flour, freshly sifted

Method :
1. Prepare all the ingredients and preheat the Oven to 180C
2. Line a 28 X 28 cm baking pan with parchment paper or an 8 inches round pan for a round shape
3. Prepare a pot with simmering water
4. In a clean stainless bowl, whisk the egg  and add in the sugar. continue whisking by placing the stainless bowl on top of the simmering water that have been prepared before. Wish until the the eggs mixture is warm.
5. One the eggs mixture is warm, put the pot with simmering water away. Using a mixer, beat on high speed for about 5-6 minutes, or until ribbon stage. Lower the mixer speed and continue beating  for another 1 minute.
6. Fold in the sifted flour, fold for not more then 10 folds.
7. pour into the prepared baking pan, bake for 10-12 minutes, depend on your oven.
It need only 8 minutes in an fan on oven.
8 . cool down the baked sponge cake on the cooling rack.

Crepe

yield 10 layers of crepes, bahasa klik SINI
43 g unsalted butter, melted set aside
360 ml fresh milk, cooked below boiling point, set aside and let it cool slightly
3 eggs (65 g each)
110 g all purpose flour
30 g coarse sugar
salt, pinch

warm milk

melted butter

Method:

1. Using a hand mixer, beat the egg, pour in the sugar, continue beating on medium speed for 3  minutes, turn the speed to low, add in salt, butter , milk and flour beat until the batter smooth, cover with cling wrap, and let it set in the fridge for 2-3 hours.

Egg with sugar

Pour in melted butter

add milk

2. Bring it out from the fridge, allowed the batter to set into room temperature for 1 hour. A cold batter might cause the crepe to stick to the pan.

batter in non-stick pan

3. cut 10 long stripe of parchment paper
4. heat up a non-stick pan, at medium low heat ,apply a little oil, use a kitchen towel to absorb over poured oil, pour in 50 ml batter, swirl to cover the surface of the pan.
5. pour in 50 ml batter , cook until it turn slightly brown, turn the crepe over not longer then 10 second, remove it, and put 1 long stripe parchment paper on each layer, so that the crepe will not stick to one another. Continue the  same process for the rest of the batter.

Hohoho Merry Christmas

School Holiday (in Singapore) and Christmas is at the corner, want to have some bonding with your child? You can do some Christmas decoration by re-using toilet paper roll and Felt. You don't need to break your bank to do that. This is a no sewing craft.
You need :
- toilet paper roll
- felt, Red, green and white, or any colour which you like
- a pair of scissors
- a pen knife
- a hot glue gun
- measurement tape

1. Cut a line in the middle of the paper roll, dividing it into two. (size of the segments do not matter).
2. Using a measurement tape, measure the circumference  and the length of the paper roll

 

3. Cut the felt according to the measurements, giving/adding an allowance of 0.1 inch at each side for the gluing (which will be done later)

4. For the Santa's Belt, cut a strip of felt 3/8 inches wide, and as for the length, the size of you previously measured circumference.

 

 

5. Using a hot glue gun, help your child to glue the red felt to the paper roll segment, then glue the green belt and the white colour buckle to the roll. (Instruction on how to cut the buckle are shown in the above picture)

Here is a picture of how the final product should look like.
Merry Christmas all. Ho Ho Ho

Beef ball

BAHASA klik SINI

I have been trying making beef balls for a few times, the result was well, 'so so' , because meat balls need to be springy .
But I didn't give up .So started again to  collect all the  knowledge , practice it  and combine it . here the know how

Yield:  22 beef balls
Basic ingredients:
300 g shin beef, cubed into 1 X 1 cm
1 egg white (direct from the fridge)
1/2 tsp white pepper powder
1/2 tsp salt, or to taste
1 ice cube
2 tbsp. tapioca flour

- Meat chopper
- Ice, for ice bath the freshly made beef balls

Method :

1. load all the ingredients into the meat chopper, chop for 15-20 minutes, or until the meat really fine.

2. Prepare ice and water in a big bowl for ice bath, using  your hand and spoon mould the beef ball, lower into the ice water bowl.

3.boil water in another pan, lower down  the beef ball into the boiling water , cooked beef balls will float. Serve with noodles , vegetables or whatever you like.

rainbow cake

Bahasa klik SINI

Rainbow cake!. Most kids will screamed with delight when they got one.
the recipe below only yield one colour, for home baking the best way is doing one colour at a time. bake 6 consecutive times to achieve  the complete rainbow colour

175 ml egg white
1/2 tsp cream of tartar, sifted
100 g icing sugar

Dry ingredients:
25 g milk powder
65 all purpose flour + 10 g corn starch, sifted 
Wet ingredients:
75 g butter
1 tbsp condense sweeten milk

food grade jell paste colouring, red,orange,yellow,green, blue and purple
Prepare a 22 X 22 X 4 cm baking pan, grease the inner surface with butter evenly,line the bottom with porchment.  powder with thin all purpose flour.

method :

Preheat the oven to 180C/356F

1. Combine milk powder with all purpose flour and corn starch, sprinkle with a table spoon of icing sugar.
2. In a electric mixer beat butter for 1 minutes, add in  condense sweeten milk , continue beating until the mixture become light and fluffy (about 6-8 minutes), set aside to be use later
3. Pour in the egg white into a stainless steel/ glass mixing bowl,beat slowly for seconds, sprinkle the cream of tartar, (omit the cream of tartar if you are using a cooper bowl), add the gel paste colouring at this stage, beat a few seconds till you get your desired shades. Lower the icing sugar spoon by spoon (while electric mixer keep running), increase the speed to high and beat the egg white until soft peak.
4. fold in 1/2 part of dry ingredient, fold  1/2 cup of the batter into the wet ingredient, fold the mixture back into the batter, continue fold in the other 1/2 part of dry ingredients.
5. Spread batter into prepared baking pan, bake for about 10-12 minutes, or insert a knife into the centre of cake, it should come out clean. leave to cool on a wire rack.
6. continue with the 5 colours left

To assemble the cake, apply Swiss Meringue buttercream in between each layers, refrigerate for 1 hours. Decorate as desired.

swiss meringue buttercream

175 g coarse sugar
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
125 ml egg white
150 g unsalted butter, at room temperature
  75 g Crisco shortening
1 tsp vanilla extract

Using a Bain Marie method, in a mixing bowl combine the sugar with cream of tartar, stir in the egg white (the water bath about 60C). stir the mixture continuously until the mixture reach 50-55C . Remove from the water bath, using a electric mixer, beat on high speed for 5 minutes, lower the speed beat for another 5 minutes, until room temperature and stiff.

In another mixing bowl, cream the butter at medium-low speed, add in the Crisco shortening and vanilla extract until light and fluffy. fold in 1/4 of the meringue into the butter mixture, continue fold in  the rest of the meringue.
 

 

Anchovies, olive fried rice

Try this awesome fried rice for the first time was at my friend's son wedding, one of my friend  teach me how to home cook it.

Ingredients:

1 cup of rice , 3/4  cooked (at the same day)

3 shallots, finely chopped
1 garlic, finely chopped
1 + 2 tbsp cooking oil
1 salted egg, chop the yolk
1 egg
1 tbsp fried ikan bilis  (silver anchovies)
1/2 tsp light soya sauce
 pinch of white pepper powder
1 tbsp Olive vegetable    

silver anchovies / ikan bilis/ikan teri

Method :
1. in a wok, heat the oil (stove on high temperature).
2. using a fork , mix the egg with salted egg, pour into the hot wok, stirring vigorously until it cooked, set aside.
3. Using the same wok, on high heat, add additional 2 tbsp of cooking oil, stir fried shallots and garlic until fragrant, lower the 3/4 cooked rice, stir for about 2 minutes, Add light soya sauce, white pepper, stir for another minute.
4. add Olive vegetable, stir for another 2 minutes, add fried ikan bilis, do some quick stir , pour into serving plate, serve hot.