Low Fat Orange Yogurt Cake

My sis in law made this lovely cake today .
It's a healthy receipe from Happy Home Baking.

This cake is a bit sweet for our taste even we reduced sugar to 180 gm.
however , it's has tangy & refreshing taste of orange.

Recipe can find in http://happyhomebaking.blogspot.com/.

Can give it a try if you tired of butter cake.

Strawberry Yogurt Pudding

Another attempt on pudding. This time used fresh strawberrys.
I added extra 40 gm of sugar to balance the sourness.

Result:

As good as mango's but need to add slightly more gelatine to have firmer texture. The strawberry puree is more watery than mango's.

Mango Yogurt Pudding

My brothers are Big fan of Mango and sweet stuffs.

Brought 4 mangos offer @ $ 2 thinking of using them for some deserts.

Finally decided to make this healthy mango Yogurt pudding after reading one of
my favorites' blogger, Florence's.

She always dare to try and create interesting recipes with good results.

You can visit Florence's blog at http://wlteef.blogspot.com



Mango Yogurt Pudding

Ingredients:
400ml Low fat natural/mango flavoured yoghurt
500ml Hi-cal low fat milk
500g mango puree
90g castor sugar
200g cubed fresh mangoes (adjust amount according to your own preference)
100ml water
30g gelatin powder

Method:
1. Heat milk with sugar till sugar just dissolved. Remove from heat and leave to cool.
2. Stir mango puree and yoghurt into cooled milk. Strain for a smoother texture.
3. Dissolve gelatin in 100ml hot water.
4. Stir cooled gelatin solution into mango yoghurt mixture. Blend well.
5. Pour 1/2 mango yoghurt mixture into jelly mould, chill for 20 minutes, top with cubed mangoes and pour in the remaining mango yoghurt mixture.
6. Chill for 3 hours before serving.

You also can add a layer of mango puree on top before serve to have an more richer flavour.

Apple Pie

Have Made Apple crumble Pie followed to Elaine 's recipe from KC forum previously.
Her Apple Crumble Pie is so simply so delicious.

This time, I'm too Lazy to make the sweet pastry crust but craving for them
so replaced it with ready puff pastry and make this "pocket" apple Pie instead.

The apple filling
4 apples, peeled, cored and sliced
2 tbsp brown sugar
sprinkles of cinnamon powder
lemon juice from a slice of lemon
some water
1/2 tbsp corn flour


Crumble Apple Pie can get from
http://forum.kitchencapers.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=2580




This Ready made Puff Pantry From PH.

It's can store in freezer and so handy when you need for cream soupy pie or chicken pie.

Assorted Muffins

Using Recipe from Florence

http://www.wlteef.blogspot.com/.

Her recipe is nice and fluffy.
It's a keeper as easy and fast to make.


I double the recipe to make total of 12 medium muffins and
Used Blueberry, banana and Nutella for different fillings.



2 little princess were having fun with the flour seiving....

While in oven....

Pandan Chicken

With the left over Pandan leaves, I used them for Pandan Chicken.

This dish is commonly found in resturant and Tze Zha and i am in good mood today

to tried them at home using the recipe of paper wrapped chicken.

Recipe :

500 gm (deboned) - 4 pieces of drumstick, cut in medium size chunks

2 bundles of Pandan leaves aka Scewpine

Seasoning :

1 tsp salt

1 1/2 tbsp sugar

1 1/2 A1 OR HP sauce

1 1/2 oyster sauce

1 tbsp ginger juice

1 tbsp cornflour

pinch of pepper

1/2 tbsp sesame oil


Method :

1. Marinate the chicken with seasoning , mix well

2. Leave it for 2~3 hrs.

3. Wrap with pandan leaves

4. Deep fry in oil.

5. Ready to serve with cold cut cucumber / tomatos.

Sweet Black Glutinous Rice aka Bulut Hitam

Made desert for family today. One of my mum's favorite's, Bulut Hitam.

Followed to KC's recipe. It's Simple , cheap and fast. The ingredients cost me less

than $ 5 and yeild about 10 bowls. Every one enjoyed eating it. I modified by using

light brown sugar instead of Gula maleka and addedd few pandan leaves .As one of the

KC's members tips to add handful of white glutious rice to get smoother texture,

i added white rice instead. Result : Works well. Lastly , remember to cook coconut

milk with a pinch of salt to avoid it from turning sour.

Oreo Muffin

Tired this recipe today using recipe from Hut of Cranberry .

You can create many different type by using this basic recipe.

Yes, indeeed it's soft & fluffy inside and it's not too sweet with these tiny Oreo.

It's quick & easy steps with the below few ingredients :-

Yields : 13 muffins

Ingredients:

(A) 290g plain flour, 1 tbsp baking powder
(B) 230g caster sugar (I used 210g as i don't like it too sweet)
(C) 3 eggs, 120ml fresh milk, 200g of melted butter ( i used canola oil) & 1tsp vanilla essence
(D) Handful of tiny oreo biscuits

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 190deg.
2. Sieve ingred (A) into a big mixing bowl. Add in ingred (B), mix well.
3. Add in ingred (C) slowly, beat with a ballon whisk to combine ingred. Don't over mix.
4. Spoon no. (3) into paper-lined tart moulds till three-quarters full. Arrange on a baking tray.
Fill up full if you want a high dome.
5. Insert 2 Oreo into each muffin and then put in mid rack of the preheated oven to bake
for 20-25 mins . Cool on wire racks.

Japanese Rice roll (饭团)

I assume that my nieces are tired of eating porridge everyday so i made some Japanese rice rolls this morning for their lunch.

These 2 little mosters were overjoyed and keep rushing me to finish off to make this colour roll.

I used eggs , tuna & ham for the fillings and roll up with dried seaweed sheet. The roll was not wrapped tight enough and the fillings tends to drop out when bited. For yr information, this is the 1st time, i cooked Japanese rice, Perhap need to reduce alittle water to get firmer rice .

So here it goes, Quick & easy :- Japanese Green tea to go along with these rolls.

This also can be a quick snack for kids during school excursion or family picnic where this can be packed ahead.

Lavender (薰衣草) Cookies

Yes, lavender cookies..i dare not try recipes that using lavender as many feedbacks that it taste like soap and a bit of bitterness aftertaste.

As it's said in this article whatscookingamererica, a little goes a long way, so decide to try this recipe by Fresh from the Oven.

The dough was a bit too wet after 30 mins of refrigeration so i addeded 1 tablespoon of flour and

put in the freezer for another 15 mins. Perhap i have added too much butter due to the guessimation of tablespoon.

I 've also cut down the amount of lavender to half and the result is too mild of smell and abit too sweet for me.

However, it's defintely a keeper for festival baking's gift