Cheddar Cheese Cupcake

This recipe was shared from a new friend in FaceBook. She was my secondary school senior and she is really good in baking! This cupcake texture similar to chiffon cake, definitely a good bite for tea break.

Ingredients:
Serves 12
Part A: 4egg yolks
            60ml milk
            50g caster sugar
            60gm melted butter
            120g cake flour/ superfine flour
            1tsp baking powder
            1/4 tsp salt
            1tsp orange zest/lemon zest
Part B: 4 egg whites
           50gm caster sugar
           1/2 tsp cream of tartar
150gm grated cheddar cheese

Steps:
1) Hand whisk ingredients (A) to a smooth batter. Leave aside
2) In a clean n dry mixing bowl, whisk egg whites and cream of tartar until foamy. Add sugar and continue whisking till stiff.
3) Add egg yolks mixture into egg whites batter. Mix well. Do not overmix. Add in half the grated cheese. Overmix will cause the cake texture hard.
4) Spoon the mixture batter into muffin pans.If you are not using any paper cups, remember to grease the pan.
5) Bake at 180C for 20-25mins(depends on the size of ur cupcakes, cake is done when skewer comes out clean) Recomended to check ur cakes after 20 mins, if it is not done, continue with another 5 to 10 minutes.

Enjoy!

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

This morning woke up feeling really unhappy. Something bad running in my mind that made me not having a good sleep. So I think will be a good time to bake so that my mind was concerntrate on something else. I tried my friend's recipe and feel blessed to have her guidiance through msn :)

So here we are, the ingredients:
Servings: 12 muffins
220g of multipurpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
50g brown sugar
2 large ripe bananas
1 tsp vanila essense
1 egg
115g unsalted butter (melt under slow fire)
80ml milk
Chocolate chips (Recommended 1/4 cup, depends how much chocolate chips you want) Warning: Too much chocolate chips could cause your muffin too sweet.

So here is the steps:
1) Sift flour and baking powder into a bowl.

You can see the flour still rough, thus this step is important to get a softer flour.

You can see the texture of the flour, before(left) and after(right) sifted.

2) Mash bananas using a fork.

3) Mix brown sugar, melted butter, vanila essense, egg, milk and mashed banana in a bowl. Mix well.

The mixture will look like this.

4) Stir in the banana mixture into the flour and stirring only until just blended (do not over mix).

5) Add in chocolate chips, into the final mixture.

6) Preheat oven at 240°F for 10-15 minutes. In the mean time, grease the muffin cups and spoon the batter into the muffin cups.

7) Bake at 240°F for 25 to 35 minutes or until golden brown and toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Let stand several minutes before transferring to wire rack to cool.

 My final muffins.

My only "white mouse" in Amman said it was good :)

Give it a try! Good luck~
P/S: The rest hubby brought it to the office, and luckily his colleagues love it too!

Tiramisu Day

Two weeks ago, I learned a traditional coffee tiramisu from a French friend. The steps were pretty simple and the taste was really great. And last weekend, another friend of mine wanted to learn the traditional tiramisu again and I took the opportunity to make an another tiramisu in strawberry flavour. Strawberry tiramisu seems better for children as we know coffee is not healthy anyway. And now, I would like to share the recipe so that you can have your homemade tiramisu as well! Let's get started:

Ingredients:

750g of mascarpone cheese (Any brand will do)

7 eggs

Butter biscuit ( You may use fingers biscuit or plain sponge cake, I am using normal butter biscuit as shown above)

10 to 12 strawberries

10 to 12 tablespoon of sugar (To taste)

A pinch of salt

Steps:

1) Place the egg whites and egg yolks into two different bowls. Add a pinch of salt to the egg white and place it to the freezer.

2) Beat the egg yolks and mix with the mascarpone cheese. Add sugars and stir it till smooth. You may use a fork to do the step.

The final mixture will be as below.

3) Once the mixture is done, place it to the freezer and take out the egg whites from the freezer as well. Beat the egg whites till it is foam just like below.

4) Once the egg whites are ready, stir the egg whites and egg yolks together but remain the foam texture. (This is the tricky part)

The final result will be like below: Mousse

5) Place the mixture into freezer again. Cut the strawberries into pieces. The end part of the strawberries, blend it with sugar to get the juice.

6) Dip the biscuit into the juice until the biscuit is soft.

7) Place the soft biscuit over a pan.

8) Once the base fill with biscuits, cover the biscuits with a thin layer of mousse cheese.

9) When the mousse part is done, continue with step (6,7 and 8 again) to create the second layer.

10) Dry the strawberries using paper towel (Just press gently) and place it on top of the cake.

11) Final step, place the tiramisu at the freezer for 45 minutes and after that place it at the fridge. Leave the tiramisu overnite at the fridge for best result. Place it at freezer again for 10 minutes before serve.

Try it at home now! :)

SPAM Musubi For Snack

This will be my first entry about food and will share more in future. Recently we are in love with SPAM! I was surprised when I can easily find pork luncheon meat in the supermarket that I always go. So I made SPAM crossaint for hubby as lunch (a few times)...and he is still loving it and request if he can have it everyday! Of course, I will not make it everyday for him as I hope he can consume more healthy food.

So last night I found something interesting, "SPAM Musubi". I got to know that SPAM Musubi is a tradition Japanese onigiri in Hawaii. It is a very popular snack which compose of a block of rice, a slice of grilled SPAM and seaweed. The sauce you can make it on your own choice that most of the time will be teriyaki sauce. Some people prefer to have it naked without the sauce as the slice of SPAM is salty enough to bring the flavour.

And I have my version of SPAM Musubi too...

I added eggs and cucumber to the combination so that it can minimise the saltiness of the SPAM. And hubbie's favourite sauce will be thousand island, mayo and chili sauce.

The way I folded was not that perfect, and maybe you can do better :)

And last night, we had 3 Musubi each as dinner while watching "Xing Guang Da Dao", is a famous singing competition in Taiwan. A very lazy weekend indeed and hope you guys will try it out. It is really easy to prepare and perfect for breakfast or snack :)