Coconut Buns Lortee

Thanks to Linda for sharing her lortee recipe. I finally baked some. The lortee is soft and spongy which is delicious with the gula melaka coconut fillings. 😋

Snowskin Mooncakes

While everyone probably done eating mooncakes, here I am making more mooncakes since I still have a lot of fillings left. I really want to try snowskin since I love chewy mochi.  Guess this is how I practice for next year. 🤣

Fillings include taro, young coconut, and pandan coconut. Recipe for snowskin from ➡️Savoury Days.  We can make fillings not as sweet since snowskin is very sweet.

Spiral Rainbow Taro Mooncakes

Finally trying spiral rainbow mooncakes because I still have a lot of taro paste left. Eat warm is quite nice!😋

Dough recipe cut in half since I only have 500 gram fillings. Fillings 50g each. Water dough divide into 5. Oil dough divide into 4 color and then divide into 5 each.

Recipe from➡️ iwen baking

Stuffed Bitter Melon Soup

Sister in law gave me 4 home grown bitter melon. So I decided to make soup with them since I've been stir frying bitter melon for a few days now. Soup is delicious!😋

Ingredients:

4 medium bitter melon

600g grounded pork
200g shrimps
30-40g glass noodles
6 g dried black fungus
1-2 shallots minced
3 scallions white part minced
1/2 tsp salt
1.5 tsp sugar
1 tsp chicken powder seasoning
1 tsp fish sauce
1/2 tsp black pepper
2 tsp oil

Soup seasoning:

12 cups water
2 tsp chicken powder seasoning
2 tsp fish sauce
1 tsp sugar
Salt

Instructions:

1. Soak dried fungus and glass noodles for 10 minutes.  Wash fungus with some salt and rinse. Chop fungus into small pieces. Chop noodles into 4 sections.

2. Flatten shrimps and chop into smaller pieces.  Add to pork. Add all other ingredients and seasonings.  Mix well and stuff the bitter melon.

3. Bring water to boil. Add in stuffed bitter melons. Bring to boil. Add in chicken powder. Turn to medium low heat for simmer. Simmer 25-30 minutes until tender. Add in left over meat balls.

4. Add seasonings to taste. Garnish with chopped scallions.

Serve hot

Happy Mid-autumn Festival

So proud of myself this year. First time baking mooncakes and happy with result. Just hope next year I will not be ...last minute..lol😴

Happy Mid-autumn Festival!!!

 Mung bean durian

 Pandan coconut

 Young coconut

 Taro

Mung Bean Durian Mooncakes

Spent yesterday making mung bean durian mooncakes and coconut mooncakes.  Mom and dad are happy they have moonies to give away. They took most of my moonies and now I need to make more so I can give too! I am so late!!!🤣

Artichoke Tea

I went to the market yesterday and saw a large pile of artichokes on sale 2 for $1. I was like omg...this is the cheapest I've seen. So of course I bought 6. Came home to make artichoke tea using my instant pot.

Artichoke tea is pretty good for your health especially lower blood sugar level, improve digestion, heart and liver health. Haha...and I think good for constipation too!🤣

Recipe:

3 artichoke cut into halves
4 liter water
3 Rock sugar to taste
Pandan leaves (optional)

Place everything into instant pot fill water to max line. Cover and pressure cook high pressure for 20 minutes.  Then natural release. Strain and refrigerate. Serve cold or hot.

Can cook on stove and simmer for 1 hr.

Coconut Mooncakes

It seems I'm always last minute on making mooncakes or maybe everything...🤣 Last year I told myself I'll make mooncakes to give to families and friends next year. However, every year I'll get lazy and delay...lol. I'm not very experience with making mooncake so here I am experimenting.  I must be crazy making so much fillings and dough when I'm just experimenting. So last minute I decided to just bake 5 just for tasting first. So far the people who tasted it say very good! I just love the coconut and some candied melon in it for crunch.😋

 After baking. These are 50g cakes.

Before baking














Ingredients:

600 g grated coconut (used old coconut today)
270 g sugar
1/4-1/2 tsp salt
50 g melon seeds roasted
50 g sesame seeds roasted
30 g light corn syrup
About 90-100 g fried glutinous rice (koh fun)
100-120 ml water
Some vanilla powder

Instructions:

1. Mix sugar and salt with grated coconut and let soak for few hours or overnight in refrigerator.

2. On medium low heat lightly roast melon seeds and sesame separately. Remove from pan.

3. Add sugared coconut to pan and continuously stir on medium heat. Add in water, stir then add in corn syrup and stir well.

4. Slowly add in fried glutinous flour and stir well. Add in toasted melon and sesame seeds. Add in vanilla powder. Taste if not sweet enough add in more syrup.

5. Remove from heat to cool. Then for 50g mold use 35g fillings and 15g dough or 20g for thicker. For 100g mold use 70g fillings and 30g dough. Since mom loves more dough I used 40g instead.

For dough: I used Jeannie Tay mooncake dough recipe. ➡️ Recipe
I didn't use all 450g all purpose flour as my golden syrup is very thick and dark since it's been 1 year old. I also used canola oil instead since no vegetable oil.

Bake at 180C for 15 mins. Take out (spray with water in fine mist on cakes right away) then cool 15 mins. After 15 minutes cooling, brush egg wash and bake for 7-9 minutes until golden  brown. (Strain egg wash first for better result. Apply only thin layer)

Recipe yield. About 16 (100g) mooncakes.
Here are my 100g mooncakes.

 After egg wash and baking

Before baking

Indonesian Kuih Lapis

After a week vacation and then a week recovering, now I'm finally ready to bake again. Went to visit mom and she has a lot of yolks left from cooking. So to not waste them I tried making the famous kuih lapis. I have to say this is a cake I used the most butter and yolks! 15 yolks altogether and 4 sticks of butter 450g! Taste is good but I believe you need the right oven to bake this. My oven has only 1 temperature setting so could not turn off bottom heat, which cause bottom to be burnt.  Of course I need to cut off bottom and sides for it to look and taste good. My bake this time is a fail.😭 If I ever bake this again, I'll need to use water bath method so bottom and sides cake will not burn.