DIY Mickey and Minnie Dessert Table

Super thankful to Dianna for helping and guiding me along the planning.

She even offered to prepare the cheesecakes for me!

Brownies with Mini M&M

I did a few rounds of brownie before my kids' party tonight.
Here are the first few attempts:
26 July 2016
28 July 2016

Decided to improvise a little to enhance the look of the brownie. Really thanks Zoe for the wonderful easy to follow recipe, else i could not prepare anything for my kids too.

Rainbow Cake

It took me about 5hrs to complete this cake. Sorry for the ugly frosting, it's really my first baking such cake with frosting. The whole cake weighs about 2.2kg.

4 layers of 6inch
2 layers of 8inch

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet
I was a little sad that i did not manage to capture the sliced version of my cake =(

Anyway, i used BakingTaiTai's rainbow cake recipe for the whole cake: http://www.bakingtaitai.com/2013/09/rainbow-cupcake-cake-recipe.html
(top 4 colours, one time recipe)
(bottom, 2 colours, one time recipe)
in short, times two the recipe. =)

As for the cream cheese frosting, i always like to use Munira's recipe:
Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients:
240ml Rich Bettercreme (Non-dairy Whipped Topping)
70g Cream Cheese, softened
1/4 cup Icing Sugar
A few drops of Vanilla Extract

Method:
1. Combine cream cheese, vanilla and icing sugar together until smooth.

2. In a separate bowl, I whip the cream until thick, add the cream cheese mixture and continue to whip until stiff. Can be used immediately to pipe over cupcakes or layer and frost cakes.

Note: This frosting last for long hours at room temperature and doesn't melt.

***FYI, The above whipped cream cheese frosting is meant for 12 cupcakes, i use the recipe and x3 the amount to frost the whole rainbow cake.

Brownie

It's Brownie craze.. hahah
Baked 3 brownies in total!

Brownie (Zoe's Recipe)

Sometimes being a SAHM once in awhile it feel so great.. haha.. Today is hubby's Masters Degree convocation at NTU, so i had to be on leave for a day to send and fetch kids.... I remembered Zoe baking Brownies and so i decided to try. She always have nice good recipes (and it's easy for me to try) hehehe!

You may like to see Zoe's recipe here.

And so because the first brownie i felt there isn't enough for everyone to try, hence i baked TWO brownies..

The above was my first try without baking powder.. haha! shortly after baking i notice there was an update that must add 1/6 tsp of baking powder. *opps

So, i tried a second brownie below...

tada~

Famous Amos Cookies

Time to prepare for Jays' upcoming birthday party this saturday! After Baking Brownie, i quickly bake the copycat famous amos cookies, recipe by Munira:

Ingredients:
50g Caster Sugar
150g Brown Sugar
1/4 tsp Salt
120g Butter
30g Shortening
1 Egg
1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
220g Plain Flour
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
250g Chocolate Chip
50g Chopped Almonds

(For Double Chocolate version, use 205g Plain Flour + 15g Cocoa Powder)

Method:
1. Preheat your oven to 170°C. Combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt, set aside.

2. Cream butter and shortening together with both sugars. Add egg and vanilla extract and beat until combined.

3. Start incorporating the flour mixture into the batter to form a dough. Fold in chocolate chips and almonds.

4. Using a teaspoon to measure, drop the dough in small balls onto a baking tray and bake for 15 minutes. (For 1/2 teaspoon measure, bake for 13-14 minutes)

5. Remove from oven and transfer cookies to a cooling rack to cool completely. Once completely cooled, store in an airtight container.

There are about 60 pieces of cookies above.. My target is to bake 200 pieces! haha.. it will take me days before the party...

Devil Cupcakes

Baking in progress

i used a corer (courtesy from Dianna) to dig a hole.. i used to call it cupcake digger *hahahah

filled with 1/4 tsp of Valrhona Crunchy Balls

Added Dark Chocolate Ganache

Frosted with Cream Cheese 

Thank goodness it was well received.

Milo Cupcakes

I got the recipe from here. Personally i feel the Milo Taste is not there. Overall, the cupcakes were very soft. Not too bad. I am just not sure if is it due to my cutting down in sugar causing the "not-enough-Milo-taste"

Fish Pancake (Kueh Bulu)

Tried Zoe's recipe using my Kenwood Sandwich machine with the fish pan.
i added dark compound chocolate for my kids, still trying to perfect it =)

White Bread Loaf

Used MyMindPatch recipe: Sugar Twister Bread but i used my bread machine to make as a whole loaf. Select "sweet", 500g dough and start.

tada: fresh bread everyday for my kids.

Pancake Breakfast with Sauteed Mushroom and Scrambled Egg

Hotacake / Pancake recipe adapted from Munira:
1 cup + 2 tbsp flour
1 tbsp fine sugar
2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt

1 cup milk
1 egg
1 tbsp veggie oil/melted butter

Mix all dry ingredients, mix all wet ingredients, then combine both. Don't over beat.

Spoon a ladle on a nonstick pan with no oil or butter. Use medium to low fire. Wait 1 minute and flip, cook for another 30 secs. Avoid having a look by lifting the sides to see if it's done. 1st piece will always take a little longer to brown. You will get a McDonald's hotcakes consistency and colour when done right.

Makes 12 pancakes.



Scrambled Egg
4 eggs with whole milk and pinch of salt

Sauteed Mushroom
using Lawry's 17 Seasoning:

Milk Bread Loaf

Work has been quite hectic for me and hubby. At the same time i would like my kids to have homemade breakfast. So past days after work, i quickly dump ingredients into the bread machine cuz the baking time takes 2.5hrs!! hahah.. so imagine i start the machine at 7.30pm, i go out for dinner etc, 10.30pm then the bread is ready. it's just nice actually, then cool it before slicing..

for the above bread loft, i followed this recipe: http://mymindpatch.blogspot.sg/2015/03/sugar-twister-bread.html

Pandan Bread Loaf

This round i followed the recipe, but using 1/4 tsp of pandan paste, 1 tsp of pandan essence.
colour is ok, and taste just right.

Thanks to http://mymindpatch.blogspot.sg/2016/04/breadmaker-sweet-pandan-bread.html.
I always love her bread recipe, easy to follow =)

my first attempt:
https://mrstanthebakingmama.blogspot.sg/2016/04/pandan-bread-bread-machine.html
the colour not there, taste not there

second attempt:
https://mrstanthebakingmama.blogspot.sg/2016/05/pandan-bread-loaf.html
colour too green like alien.. hahaha

Breakfast - Chocolate Waffle and Scramble Egg

The Chocolate Waffle recipe is adapted from Zoe:
http://www.bakeforhappykids.com/2016/07/easy-and-not-so-fatty-crispy-chocolate.html#more


But the Scramble egg is agaration:
4 eggs there with full cream milk (can't tell you how much as i pour based on gut feeling.. lol) and pinch of salt.

Sweet Milk Bun

Thanks to MyMindPatch - Sweet Milk Bun's recipe:
http://mymindpatch.blogspot.sg/2014/11/sweet-milk-buns.html

I only tried making 2 piggy buns.. hahah.. the eyes are Valrhona Crunchy Balls. =p

Devil Food Cake - Happy Birthday Jaymie!

Happy 5th Birthday to my daughter!

Thanks for munira for her wonderful recipe.
for this cake, i added valrhona crunchies in between.

DEVIL'S FOOD CAKE

Ingredients:

260g Plain Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
2 tsp Baking Soda
60g Cocoa Powder
1 tsp Salt
340g Fine Sugar
200ml Hot Coffee (or 1 tsp Nescafe + Hot Water)
200ml Vegetable Oil
200ml Buttermilk (or 1 tbsp White Vinegar + Full Cream Milk)
2 Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla Extract

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 165°C for cakes or 175°C for cupcakes. Grease and line two 9" baking pan or three 8" baking pan or lay cupcake liners in muffin tray.

2. In a large bowl whisk together dry ingredients.

3. In a measuring jug, mix buttermilk, oil, eggs and vanilla extract. Pour into dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Add hot coffee and mix until fully combined. Batter should be very runny.

4. Pour batter into prepared pans. And bake cake for 30 minutes or cupcakes for 20 minutes.

5. Remove from oven. Let your cakes cool completely in the pan before unmoulding.

EASY GANACHE RECIPE

Ingredients:

200g Dark Chocolate Compound (melted,1 min in microwave)
1 (170g) can of Nestlé Cream (or any other brand) at room temperature

Method:

1. Whisk these two together and let it stand in room temp for 2 hours. To speed up process, place in the fridge while the cake is baking (stirring every 15 mins).

2. Spread over cake... or pipe to your heart's content. Then stare and marvel at how the ganache designs stays and doesn't melt for hours and hours.

Copycat Famous Amos Cookies - Happy 5th Birthday Rayan

Thanks to Munira's receipe:

Ingredients:
50g Caster Sugar
150g Brown Sugar
1/4 tsp Salt
120g Butter
30g Shortening
1 Egg
1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
220g Plain Flour
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
250g Chocolate Chip
50g Chopped Almonds

(For Double Chocolate version, use 205g Plain Flour + 15g Cocoa Powder)

Method:
1. Preheat your oven to 170°C. Combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt, set aside.

2. Cream butter and shortening together with both sugars. Add egg and vanilla extract and beat until combined.

3. Start incorporating the flour mixture into the batter to form a dough. Fold in chocolate chips and almonds.

4. Using a teaspoon to measure, drop the dough in small balls onto a baking tray and bake for 15 minutes. (For 1/2 teaspoon measure, bake for 13-14 minutes)

5. Remove from oven and transfer cookies to a cooling rack to cool completely. Once completely cooled, store in an airtight container.