Showing posts with label Chocolate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chocolate. Show all posts

Chocolate Chip Cookies

I baked these cookies during my holiday, they are very easy to do, very delicious, and crunchy. Below is the recipe for the cookies.

Ingredients:
A:
150g butter
80g brown Sugar
100g sugar
1/8 tsp salt

B:
1 egg

C: (sieved)
140g flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda

D:
25g rolled oats, blend until fine
60g chocolate chips
30g raisins
*Add whatever nuts that you like.

Method:
1. Beat A till light and fluffy.
2. Add B and cream well.
3. Add C and mix well.
4. Add D and mix till well incorporated.
5. Drop a big heap spoon of the dough into the well prepared tray. Leave some space in between each dough.
6. Bake at 170C for about 20 minutes or until done.

This is a very easy to do recipe. Try it at home la. For ingredient D, you may add in whatever ingredients: nuts, white chocolate chips, oats, or other ingredient which you like. I sprinkle with some poppy seeds also, hehe...

Blogger Gathering / Brownies

I had attended a flogger/blogger gathering on 27 September 2008 at Edelweiss Restaurant, Penang. I was very happy because able to meet so many bloggers on that night. All of them (bloggers: Alvin, Buzzing Bee, Cariso, Criz Lai, Chan Lilian, Lingzie, Andrew, Penang Tua Pui, Nicholas, Steven, Sharon, CK Lam, Yi Phing, Jason, Ken and Allenooi) are very friendly and I just don’t feel like that was the first time I met them. After the gathering, I truly felt that, I still have many many many many more “lessons” to learn such as: How to take a more attractive photo? How to improve my blog’s traffic? How to design a nicer blog? How to …...? How to ……? How to earn $$$$$$$$$$ through blogging? Hahahahahahhaha…so many questions come to my mind and I have so many things to learn, how how how? Well, I don’t care, as I understand the concept of 活到老, 学到老 and I am always veryyyyyy free at home during my weekend, so ….hehehe, time is there for me to learn all the things that I want lo.

Since I like baking so much, and my blog is about my baking life, so I decided to bake something for all the bloggers on that day. Early in the morning, I woke up and get ready all the ingredients and start to bake my brownies. I was not only busy with the brownies, but also busy with taking all the photos, the photos of how I make the brownies. Hehe…

Agnes Chang’s recipe:

Ingredients:

250g dark cooking chocolate, broke into pieces

150g butter / margarine

180g soft brown sugar (I put 120g only)

3 eggs, lightly beaten with

1 tsp vanilla essence

120g plain flour, sifted

120g toasted nuts, coarsely chopped

4 tbsp icing sugar, for dusting

Method:

1. Melt dark cooking chocolate and butter by either using a double boiler or microwave power medium for 2 minutes. Stir until mixture is smooth.

2. Add brown sugar and stir well.

3. Add eggs and stir well.

4. Add flour and stir well.

5. Fold in nuts and pour mixture into a greased pan.

6. Bake in pre-heated oven at 180C for about 30 minutes or until cooked.

7. Cut into pieces when it is cool and pipe with glace icing.

Glace icing:

50g icing sugar + 1 tbsp water until smooth.

EEeerrr, I think I have over-baked the brownies this round and cause my brownies to be a little bit “crunchy”. Haha, paisei la everybody.Would like to thank all the organizers for making the gathering wonderful. Thanks CK Lam for her jam tart, Criz for the lucky draw, Lingzie for organizing the gathering so well, Gill for arranging the place, all the bloggers for attending and last but not least, my dear for accompany me to attend the gathering.

Cookies inside the goodie bag

Jam Tart from CK Lam
Wish to attend the coming gathering, it must be another fun gathering. See you guys then!

Chocolate Moist Cake

My dear bf "ordered" chocolate moist cake for his birthday, and this is the one that I baked for him. And here, I would like to call upon all the chocolate lovers to try on this cake. The cake that full with chocolate taste. Ingredients and method are as shown below:

Ingredients for cake:
A:
250g butter (diced)
400g brown sugar
1 1/2 tsps vanilla essense

B:
4 eggs (lightly beaten)
325ml water

C: (sieved three times)
280g plain flour
70g cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsps baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

Method:
1. Beat ingredient A until light and creamy.
2. Add in beaten eggs from ingredient B one by one.
3. Add in water and ingredient C alternately. Pour mixture into line and grease 9" round baking tin and bake for 40-45 minutes untill it is done. When cooled, divide cake into three layers.

Ingredients for Chocolate ganache:
40g cornflour (sieved)
35g cocoa powder (sieved)
1/4 tsp salt (sieved)
125g caster sugar
1tsp vanilla essense
85ml water
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1 egg yolk
40g butter (at room temperature)

Method:
Cook all ingredients (except butter) in a double boiler over simmering water and hand-whisk until mixture is slighly thickened. Add in butter and leave it to cool slightly before using.

To assemble:
Place a layer of cake on a cake board and spread a portion of ganache on it. Repeat until finish all the layering. Chill and decorate accordingly.

Enjoy la!!! Hehe...

Lovely Chocolate Banana Cake

Cake for …? Very obvious right? A heart shape chocolate banana cake, surrounded by heart shape chocolate. Just like my love for you lo, my dear…hehe..

Chocolate Banana Cake

I decorated the chocolate banana cake with m&m chocolate for my niece. The cake was so colourful, children sure will like it. But the next day when I saw it, the m&m chocolate "lut seik" (落色). Haha…

Chocolate Mousse Cake

A birthday cake that full with chocolate for my brother. Chocolate lover sure will like it.

Chocolate Banana Cake

Big chocolate banana cake, yummy.