Friday 2 October 2009

Chocolate Swiss Roll (with no butter and flour)

I love it!! It's soft and smooth...
It's really nice...
The most import is... It does not contain butter and flour!!!
Oh my god... when I was half way baking...
Suddenly realized it doesn't require any flour at all...
I was like oh my god...
Am I going to fail again?
Hahaha... but... it turned out really really nice...
I love it!

The recipe is from Joy of baking, but I amended my own one here...it's a slightly simple version:)

For the cake:

6 Large egg (separated)- If you are using small or medium egg then make it to 7. (Eggs are preferred in room temperature)

50grams of granulated sugar

2 tablespoons of sugar

Half teaspoon of Vanilla extract or vanilla flavoring

100grams of chocolate (You can put slightly more if you like it to be more strong)

¾ of cream of tartar

For the cream:

200ml heavy whipping cream

1 tablespoon of icing sugar

Half teaspoon of pure vanilla extract or flavoring

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Preheat the oven to 180C.

You will need a baking tray sized around (30cm x 40cm). Line the baking tray with ungreased paper, butter and flour the paper set aside.

First, melt the chocolate bar. I filled in water in a saucepan and heat it up to boil. Then I placed the chocolate bar (break into pieces) in a Microwavable bowl and place the bowl on the saucepan and let it boil for few minutes. (Keep stirring while the water is boiling. Please do not let the water spill into the bowl.)

Separate the egg yolks and egg whites in 2 different mixing boil.

Mix the egg yolks and 50grams of sugar, beat until light and fluffy for about 5 minutes. Add in the half teaspoon of vanilla extract and melted chocolate and beat for another 1 minute. Set aside.

Beat the egg whites until foamy. It will take about 13 minutes. Add in the ¾ teaspoons of cream of tartar and continue beating until soft peaks form. Then slowly add in another 2 tablespoons of sugar until stiff peaks form.

Gently fold in a small portions of the egg whites into the egg yolk mixture by using a rubber/wood/spatula spoon. Mix well and fold in the remaining egg whites. (This process has to be fast in order to prevent the batter deflate)

Spread the batter evenly into the baking tray and let it bake for 17minutes.

When it’s done. Bring it out from the oven and let it cool before applying the cream. (Do not peel of the paper)

To do the cream:

Pour the 200ml whipping cream, vanilla extract and icing sugar into a large mixing bowl. Beat until it looks like a creamJ

You can spread the cream to the cake once the cake has cooled. Gently roll the cake and peel off the paper slowly as you roll the cake.

GOOD LUCK!!!

Saturday 8 August 2009

Egg in a basket

Today someone said he watched a show and saw this Egg in a Basket breakfast...

He shows me the picture and we decided to cook together!!!

I took some picture while we are cooking so that I can share the cooking way with all of you :)

Ingredients for each egg in a basket:
  • Butter
  • Egg
  • Medium or thick sliced bread
First you need something to carve a hole in the bread. I came out an idea to use a glass like this:

Then carve it like this:
If you do not have glass like this or other utensils then you can just cut it out carefully.

Heat up the frying pan and followed by butter when the pan is hot enough. Slide in the bread and put some butter in the hole and crack the egg into the hole as shown in the picture below:


Turn the bread upside down when the button part is cook. And it will look like this:

DONE!!!

Breakfast time.... Hahaha... got hash brown and water melon juice somemore... yummy...

Gonna try love shape next time:P

Thursday 11 June 2009

Ginger chicken

Ginger Chicken


I specially love this dish! Really really enjoy it very very much.... Specially with rice!!! Yummy!!
Initially I cooked this dish by using chicken breast for quite a few time... personally I a fans of drumstick. Recently, I tried cook it with drumstick and it's super delicious! Unfortunately, it is hard to cut the drumstick into pieces... So, I will still recommend readers to cook it by using break breast:) It's really delicious... should try it once or more in your life:) ENJOY~~~

Ingredient

2 Chicken breast (cut into pieces - about 1 inch x 1 inch)
5 stick of Spring Onion ( cut in to 1 inch each)
90 m or 6 tablespoons Shao xing rice wine
45 ml or 3 tablespoons of warm water
5 tablespoons of Oyster Sauce (1 table spoon is to marinade the chicken)
1 teaspoon of soy sauce (to marinade the chicken)
2 tablespoons of Corn flour or potato flour
3 cloves of Garlic (minced)
2 finger thumb big ginger - minced (personally I prefer more ginger)
1 table spoon of sesame oil (to marinade the chicken)
2 table spoon of vegetable oil and peanut oil
Few dashes of white ground pepper

Easy cooking steps for rice wine chicken

  1. Marinade the chicken with the corn flour, 1 table spoon of oyster sauce, soy sauce, and the sesame oil. Set a side and start preparing other ingredients.
  2. Heat up the wok for 30 second and follow with vegetable oil or peanut oil. Put in the minced garlic cloves and the lower part of spring onion fry for few second and add in the gingers. when the garlic and ginger turn into golden colour, add in the chicken stir fry for 2 minutes or until the outside layer of chicken started to turn into white colour.
  3. Add in 4 table spoon of oyster sauce stir fry for few seconds, poor in the rice wine and water continue stir fry it for 4 minutes. Add in the rest of the spring onion, mix it together, cover it and cook in low heat for 10-15 minutes.
  4. Add in pepper and it's ready to serve:)



Tuesday 9 June 2009

Rice Wine (Dark) Chicken

Rice Wine (Dark) Chicken

Ingredients:

1 table spoon of sesame oil
1 table spoon of peanut oil or vegetable oil
2 garlic cloves minced
2 finger thumb of ginger - sliced
8 drumstick or tight (I prefer without skin)
3 Stick of spring onion (cut into small pieces - approximate 1cm each and separate the leave and lower part of spring onion)
1 table spoon of oyster sause
380ml of rice wine / Shao Xing (dark)
1.5 table spoon of soya sauce
3 - 4 drop of White ground pepper
300ml warm water (can lesser the water if your prefer stronger wine taste)
2.5 table spoon of wolfberry 枸杞子

Easy cooking steps for rice wine chicken
  1. Heat up the wok for 30 second and follow with sesame oil and vegetable oil. Put in the minced garlic cloves and the lower part of spring onion fry for few second and add in the gingers. when the garlic and ginger turn into golden colour, add in the chicken stir fry for 2 minute.
  2. Add in soya sause and oyster sauce and fry for another 2 minute. After that, can add in the rice wine and warm water follow with wolfberry. Cover it and let it cook for 25-30 minutes. Add in pepper and spring onion's leave cook for another 5 minutes. Finally, it's done:)

I love it specially with rice:)