Triple Chocolate Muffin

Had some times to do cooking today. First experience baking triple chocolate muffin, so excited!!! Searched on the web to look for some recipes and I decided to adapt the recipe from taste.com.au ^^

Here's the recipe from the website:

Serves: 12

Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 cups self-raising flour
• 1/3 cup cocoa powder, sifted
• 100g dark chocolate, chopped
• 1 cup white choc bits
• 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1 egg, lightly beaten

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 190°C/170°C fan-forced. Line a 12-hole, 1/3 cup-capacity muffin pan with paper cases.
2. Combine flour, cocoa, dark chocolate, white choc bits and brown sugar in a bowl. Make a well in the centre. Add milk, oil and egg. Using a wooden spoon, stir until just combined. (Tips: Don't overmix muffins, or they can become tough and chewy.)

    3. Spoon mixture into paper cases.

    4. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until browned and cooked through.

This is how the muffins look after 5 minutes...

And after 15 minutes...

    5. Stand in the baking pan for 5 minutes.

    6. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. 

 

    7. Serve it =)

OMG!!! I don't believe that my first attempt turned out to be SUCCESSFUL!!! The muffin is surprisingly good! (Maybe I'm really talented lol =P)

I hope you enjoy it and have a try baking yourself ❤

Sweeeeeeet Potato Dessert

Not my cooking this time but it's a piece of cake for me (and for everyone of course), I've cooked it for n times lol.

Came back from work in a very freezing cold weather... So sweet that my landlady had saved me a bowl of warm sweet potato dessert which really warmed me up =D

Nice dessert recipe to share with you! Very easy and it only takes 15 minutes! Have a try =)

Ingredients: - 1 sweet potato 

                   - 1 or 2 slices of ginger

                   - Brown sugar in pieces (片糖), depending on how sweet you would like it
                     to be

Steps:

1. Cut the sweet potato into small pieces (but not too small)
2. Boil the sweet potato and ginger in a pot of water (not too much water, about half a pot and you can  always add more water if it's too little)
3. Cook for 15 minutes, use a fork or spoon to poke if the sweet potato has softened,  then add the brown sugar into the dessert.
4. Try the taste and add more brown sugar if you like.
5. Serve it warm =)

Tadah~
Warm and sweet potato  dessert ❤

My date @ Chantilly's Macquarie Centre

A date with a very good friend at Chantilly's Macquarie Centre after finished my final paper.
Had a little heart talk and lunch + afternoon tea + dinner =P

Iced chocolate for me!
Yes, cause I don't take coffee

Iced Coffee for the friend~

Thought of something sweet and naughty dessert...
Blueberry cheesecake with ice-cream
All right, dessert should've served at last...
I don't know why they were serving it together with my main (probably because they were closing soon...)

Main: Chicken & Mushrooms French Crepe
So cheesy!!! I know it's very naughty! Well, who cares!
Seriously, this is really good! So, this is French crepe! Very different from the normal savoury crepe we have in other cafes!

Yum yum~ Both of us were so full! And we were sharing the food!!!
Anyway, thank you again for being there to listen to me =D

AND... KNOW WHAT! IT'S FINALLY CELEBRATION TIME!!! LET'S PLAN WHAT TO DO IN THE COMING WEEKS~

With Love ❤

Haven't been updating my blog for long... Too busy with stuff - Uni, assignments and blah blah blah... Anyway...
I'm kinda obsessed... TO DESSERT!!! lol
I'm a big TVB drama fan, always heard and saw this dessert in the dramas and so... I decided to try making one! Wonder if you know there's always a pretty chef named Kit Mak in the Beautiful Cooking Series.. I have tried making dessert before with her recipe therefore I thought of searching her recipe online and see if she has this dessert in her recipe...
Lucky me! She really has this dessert in her recipe yay! Oopsy, no one knows what's this dessert yet... It is called 巧克力心太软 (molten chocolate cake).
The name is very well related to the dessert... If you have seen or eaten this dessert before, you know why. For those who hasn't tried this before, it is called the name because it has really "soft heart" lol. Seriously, the outer layer looks like normal cake but when you cut it... YUM YUM, the chocolate filling flows out of the cake!
All right, enough nonsense... Just gonna share this recipe of Kit Mak if you are interested of making one by yourself. Enjoy ❤

Molten Chocolate Cake 巧克力心太软

What you need: - Cooking dark chocolate  80g
               - Brown sugar             2 tbsp
               - Butter                  50g
               - Egg                     3
               - Flour                   1/2 cup
               - Icing sugar             some
               - Cocoa powder            some
               - Water                   some
               - Soft butter             some

How?

1. Preheat oven at 200 degree celcius
2. Grease the baking mould with soft butter and sprinkle some cocoa powder (I guess this is to prevent the cake sticking to the mould).
3. Melt dark chocolate, butter and brown sugar in a bowl over simmering water.
4. Stir gently until well mixed.
5. Blend eggs and pour into the chocolate mixture and stir well.
6. Sife the flour into the chocolate mixture and stir well.
7. Pour the mixture into the baking moulds.
8. Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes.
9. Remove the cake from the moulds, dust with icing sugar and decorate your plates.
10. Serve while it's hot!!!


It is really simple, isn't it? Everyone can make one at home! Try it! Hope you like it... Cause I LOVE IT ❤

Koren dessert - 식혜 (Shikhye)

Thanks to Maangchi again before I'm making this korean dessert. Well, this is quite easy to make but is REALLY REALLY time consuming. So be really patient when you're making this dessert o ❤　

Ingredients:
A package of barley malt powder, 2 cups of rice, 2 cups of sugar, 24-30 cups of water, and pine nuts.

Barley Malt Powder

Directions:

Sink 1 packet of barley malted powder (1 pound) in a large basin with 24-30 cups of water. Let it sit for 2 hours until all the dregs sunk to the bottom of the basin.

1. Make rice and set it aside.
   Cook rice without a rice cooker: (good experience, try this)
   • Wash 2 cups of short grain rice. Drain and put in a pot with thick bottom.
   • Pour 1.5 cups of water into the pot. Soak it for an hour and close the lid.
   • Bring the pot to a boil over medium heat for 10 minutes.
   • Open the lid and turn the rice over with a rice scoop or spoon.
   • Simmer it over low heat for another 10 minutes! You will have nice fluffy rice!
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

   

   This is also one of the Korean snack - nooroongji (burnt rice snack).Told you it's good experience!!!

   
   
   
2. When the mixed liquid of barley malt powder and water is completely separated (it takes about 1.5 hours-2 hours), pour the clear liquid from the top into your rice cooker.
   *tip: if you have leftover clear liquid, save it and keep it in the refrigerator. We are going to use it later.
3. Add 1 cup of sugar and the cooked rice into the rice cooker with the liquid.
4. Stir it and set the rice cooker’s function to “warm” for 4- 5 hours. Be sure not to set it “cook.” (Reason: setting it to “warm” is to ferment the rice so that the cornstarch from the rice converts to sugar. If you boil it, the fermenting process will stop).

5. Throw out the sediments sunk on the bottom of the basin.
6. 4 hours later, check to see if the rice is fermented (* When the rice is fermented, a few grains of rice will float to the top of liquid).

7. Strain the rice and rinse it with cold water. Set it aside in a container. Add a little cold water and keep it in the refrigerator.

8. Transfer the liquid from the rice cooker to a large pot, and add the saved leftover liquid from #3 if you have it.
9. Add 1 cup of sugar and bring to a boil.
   
10. Remove the foam floating on the top of the boiling liquid.






11. Cool it down and transfer it to a glass jar or bottle and keep in the refrigerator.
12. To eat, serve it cold in a bowl with a scoop of rice from #8. Drop in a few pine nuts, just before serving it.
    * tip: you can add crushed ice made with sikhye liquid. If you like all your rice grains to float, add 1 tbs of sugar and mix it right before serving it.

Ready to be served ❤

Eat it COLD ^^

Korean dessert - 마탕

Had my first attempt making Korean dessert. Thanks to Maangchi for her recipe and demonstration. Her blog is all about cooking Korean food. Lotsa recipes in her blog and the photos of the food make me hungry!!! Have a look if you are interested =)
Well, I always love to cook, especially making dessert! Read this recipe the other day and looked quite easy... So I decided to try making one! Seriously, this dessert is the easiest I guess! The result of my first attempt ----> PASSED! 
 

Matang (마탕) - Candied Sweet Potato

There's actually black sesame in Maangchi's recipe to sprinkle on top of the Matang for decoration but I have no black sesame... Look a bit plain but they are really yummy! The sweet potato pieces look so shiny~~~

Love it! Will try other recipes when I'm free SOON!

First Love ❤

Goodness me! I didn't realize I didn't actually posted this entry! It was "lying" in my draft since 11th August! So geng! Anyway, this was actually my day with "sudden mood" to make a nice dessert which was introduced by the HK show- Beauty's kitchen (Mei lui cu fong)!
I think this dessert is just good for girls to make for their valentines during Valentine's Day!
Follow me for the procedure!

Dessert: First Love

What do you need? The materials are all very easy to get so no worries!

• Cooking chocolate 250g
• Marie biscuit 500g
• Vanilla essence Few drops (depends on how strong the taste you like)
• Egg (beaten) 2
• Dried fruit (cranberry, raisin etc up to u)
  
• Strawberry For decoration
• Chocolate powder
• Aluminium foil
  

What's next?

• Melt the cooking chocolate
  
• Add the beaten eggs once the choc melted and stir it
  
• Add few drops of vanilla essence
• Break the biscuit slightly, add into the melted choc and stir
• Add your favourite dried fruits
• Pour the whole thing on the Aluminium foil and wrap it (Tips: Press until there's no gaps between the choc and biscuit while you are wrapping <= you don't want your first love with lots of holes I supposed! lol)
• Then put it into the freezer overnight
• Cut to serve (Reminder: it's very sticky, be careful when you unwrap it. Sprinkle some chocolate powder on the choc surface so it won't stick on your plate or whatever when you are serving)

Some photos for you to refer! I had put the photos in sequence so if you don't understand the written procedure, do refer the photos!

Melted choc + eggs + vanilla essence

Marie in the melted choc

Stir it!

Add dried fruit! I added some cranberry! Again, stir it!

Ok, pour everything onto the Aluminium foil

Press and shape it!

This is the look when you unwrap it the next day

Sprinkle some choc powder on the surface

Cut it!

Serve it with some strawberries then will be PERFECT!!!

First Love...Sweet with a lil' sour... TRY DO IT YOURSELF!