Wednesday, January 30, 2019

CNY Dragon Cookies

Saw the dragon cookies post by Keem Ooi and it totally got me interested! So I went thru my piping tips to see if I have anything similar. To my surprise, I found a very similar tip (#1E tip)!!! Woohoo...so excited I started right away even though I didn't have margarine so I replaced with butter. Below is recipe adapted from Keem Ooi's recipe. These cookies are crispy yet melt in mouth. Remind me of Vietnamese yeast cookies banh men or kuih bangkit. What do you guys think? Dragon or snake? Asked my family and some think it looks like snake, some even say fish and tadpoles!πŸ˜†πŸ˜†πŸ˜†











Ingredients:
  • 4 oz unsalted butter 
  • 4 oz powder sugar
  • 1/4 tsp fine salt
  • 1 tsp vanilla 
  • 1 large egg
  • 25-30 g coconut powder
  • 11.5 oz cornstarch
  • 0.5 oz all purpose flour
  • red color for eyes
Directions:
1 Combine butter, icing sugar, salt and vanilla essence, beat over medium speed until light and fluffy.
2 Add in whole egg mix until well 
3 Blend in coconut powder and then add cornstarch and plain flour. Mix over low then medium/high speed until fine crumbs. Then use hand and knead to dough. Be quick to not melt butter.
4 Wear glove. Put some dough (35g) into piping tip and use the thumb to push out the dough to form S like dragon.
5 Use toothpick dip with red color for the eyes.
6 If piped dough lines too straight, can use scissor to snip edges for more scales.
7 Set piped dough tray in refrigerator for an hour until hardened before baking (this will help the cookie to maintain its shape when baked). Or can leave outside for 2 hrs before baking.
8 Preheat oven to 350F and bake for 20 mins. Leave to cool completely before removing cookies.

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Chocolate Orangette / Best Candied Orange Peels

Best candied orange peels I've tasted! It's hard to find orange peels here and if I do find one it's not good. I need some orange peels to try nougat recipe and since I have some oranges, I decided to make some. Did a google search to see which recipe is best. Found the perfect recipe! I used 6 oranges so plenty of peels. Some will use for nougat, some to save for future use, some to make these chocolate orangette. Yummy!!!

Used Bruno Albouze's Chocolate Orangette recipe (here). I also blanched orange peels 4 times.





Thursday, January 24, 2019

Pineapple Tarts

Chinese New Year is around the corner and many people already finished baking CNY cookies. While I just started to bake some pineapple tarts! Melt in the mouth!!! So good and fat die!🀀

I'm using 1/2 recipe only since only have one pineapple. Dough is 17g and filling is 10g. Made 29 tarts.πŸ˜‹

I'm using Nasi Lemak Lover's recipe (here)


Saturday, January 19, 2019

Orange Cotton Cheesecake

Another late night baking. Tonight I'm trying Jeannie Tay's orange cotton cheesecake (recipe). I started out with 5 eggs as stated in recipe but then I'm using 8x3 pan and feel my cake might be short so I added another egg. Then batter is so thin I feel I will get big cracks...so added more flour!!! Lol...I am so bad at following recipe.😡 Lucky cake turns out good with some small cracks and minimum shrinkage🀣 Will need to follow instructions next time.πŸ˜…πŸ˜…πŸ˜…





Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Durian Cotton Cheesecake

Finally got my lazy bum to bake a durian cotton cheesecake!!! So soft and delicious when eaten hot!πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹




Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Pandan Coconut Cake with Fairy Mushrooms



Happy New  Year to everyone! Wishing everyone a colorful year!!! πŸ’₯πŸŽ‡πŸŽ†

This is my first cake for 2019. One of my childhood favorite is pandan coconut cake.  Not much options back in the days.  Either pandan coconut or pinapple cake from the bakery. Both taste pretty good to me! Since moved to PA, there is no bakery that sell these type of cakes here.  So if you want to eat then you'll need to make it yourself.  πŸ˜‹

Mushrooms recipe from JoyofBaking
Pandan Sponge from JeannieTay

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