Chocolate Fudge Cookies with Maya

Tengah kelam kabut nak masak for dinner my daughter ask me to make chocolate chip cookie for her. Alamak, mummy baru nak relax kejap.....ok lah, keranamu sayang mummy buatkan juga. Lebih baik kita buat dari beli yang ada di luar sana, pakai barang2 yang ada kualiti, insyallah sedap.
Betul kata orang, kalau kita pakai coklat yang berkualiti, ia akan memberi kesan pada bahan masakan kita. For example, i'm using Cacao Barry, kalau buat Chocolate Cake....meletops!!!! Memang sedap. Begitu juga kalau kita buat brownie, terasa perbezaannya.

 Keluar saja dari oven, budak2 tak sabar nak rasa, and also this is my first time making Chocolate Fudge cookie...resepi boleh refer Joy Of Baking. Ingatkan tak sedap...rupa2nya Yummehhh!!!!



Chocolate Fudge Cookies:

1 cup (115 grams) pecans or walnuts

1/2 cup (60 grams) cake flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon instant espresso powder or instant coffee powder (optional)

1 pound (450 grams) bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped

1/4 cup (57 grams) unsalted butter, cut into small chunks

1 3/4 cups (350 grams) granulated white sugar

4 large eggs, room temperature

1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

1 cup (170 grams) semisweet dark chocolate chips

1 cup (170 grams) white chocolate chips



Instructions:

Chocolate Fudge Cookies: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C) and place rack in center of oven. Place the pecans on a baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes, or until lightly brown and fragrant. Let nuts cool and then chop coarsely.

Sift or whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and espresso powder.

Melt the chocolate and butter in a stainless steel bowl placed over a saucepan of simmering water, stirring until smooth. Remove from heat and set aside to cool to room temperature.

In the bowl of your electric mixer (or with a hand mixer), beat the sugar and eggs until pale yellow and thick, about 5 minutes. (When you slowly raise the beaters the batter will fall back into the bowl in slow ribbons.) Beat in the melted chocolate mixture and vanilla extract. Fold in the dry ingredients to the chocolate batter and mix only until incorporated. Stir in the chocolate chips and nuts. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate the batter just until firm, about 30-60 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C) and place rack in center of oven. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

Drop batter by 1/4 cupfuls (60 ml) onto prepared cookie sheets, spacing evenly. With moist fingers, press batter to form 3 - 3 1/2 inch (8-9 cm) rounds. Bake cookies for about 10 - 12 minutes or just until set. The tops of the cookies will be cracked and shiny. It is important not to over bake these cookies or they will be dry.

Remove from oven and place baking pan on a wire rack to cool. When cookies are firm, remove from baking pan and let completely cool on rack.

Chicks in a blanket

Hahahaha.....tengok namanya saja dah lain macam
...actually this is a recipe by Nigella called Pigs in a blanket but i changed it to chicken coz i'm using chicken sausage instead of pork sausage. A favourite among kids, especially if having a party or picnic, this is easy to prepare. Untuk minum petang pun ok juga jika dihidangkan. Untuk resepi sila pergi ke Nigella.com dan boleh dapatkannya di situ


Ingredients
2 cups plus 5 tablespoons self-rising flour
1 heaping teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons grated Red Leicester or Cheddar
1 cup whole milk
1 egg
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
50 pork cocktail sausages (mini hot dogs)
For glazing:
1 egg, mixed with a splash milk and 1/2 teaspoon salt
Directions
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
Measure 2 cups of flour into a bowl, add the salt and grated cheese and mix lightly with a fork. Pour the milk into a measuring cup to come up to 1-cup mark and then crack in the egg and add the oil. Beat to combine, then pour into the dry ingredients, forking to mix as you go. You may, at the end, feel the dough's either too dry or too damp: add either more milk or more flour and fork together again until you've got a soft dough that's not too sticky to be rolled out.
Break the dough into 2 pieces and roll 1 piece on a lightly floured surface. Scone dough is a dream to work with; in fact, I find it deeply pleasurable. Just roll as clumsily and heavy handedly as you like: no harm will come to it. You want a thin, but not exaggeratedly so, rectangle. A square wouldn't be the end of the world either, so don't start getting out the geometry set: this is the roughest of instructions.
Cut the dough into approximately 1 3/4-inch strips, and then cut each strip at approximately 2 1/2-inch intervals so that you end up with a collection of small, raggedy oblongs (I just cut each strip as I go, but it's probably more efficient to do the whole batch of dough at 1 time).
Take a cocktail sausage and put it at 1 end of an oblong at a slight diagonal and then roll up, pressing on the infinitely compliant dough to squeeze it shut, and then place on a nonstick baking sheet, or 1 lined with parchment. Carry on until you've finished all your strips and then get to work with the remaining dough. Three baking sheets should do it.
Now, dip a pastry brush into the beaten egg mixture and paint on the pastry for a golden glaze. Put in the oven and cook for 12 to 15 minutes, by which time they should be puffy and burnished. Remove from the oven and let cool a little before giving them to the children.

Pound cake

Entah tetiba je rasa nak buat kek, terus menggoogle resepi and the result is

Almond Twist

I love bread...so, whenever i see new bread recipe surely i'll try it. I found this recipe
in one of the blog i followed....look so yummy and i gave it a try. Wow!!!! Sedap....nyaman bak kata orang Sarawak. Very simple recipe and i bet anyone can do it. Sambil2 menghiburkan hati sebab anak2 tak ada di rumah, layan sajalah roti ni seorang diri di rumah. Thanks Pook for the delicious recipe. Mr Hubby pulak tak ada sebab balik kampung untuk majlis tahlil arwah ayahnya yang ke 40 hari...kami pula mungkin akan ke sana pada majlis tahlil 100 hari nanti. Al Fatihah untuk arwah Papa.

Ingredient

250 ml ............................ Milk, lukewarm
1 ....................................... Egg, lightly beaten
85g ................................... Sugar
1tsp .................................. Salt
2 tsp ................................. Cardamom seeds, crushed with a pestle and mortar
7g ...................................... Instant yeast
500g ................................. Bread flour
75g .................................... Unsalted butter, softened
20g .................................... Flaked almond
Filling and glazing
25g .................................... Almond powder
25g .................................... Caster sugar
50g .................................... Unsalted butter, softened
1.......................................... Egg, lightly beaten


Heat the milk in a large saucepan until lukewarm. Whisk the egg in the bowl with a little of the warm milk, then pour the milk into the bowl and whisk. Add the sugar, salt and cardamom to the bowl and mix well.
Mix the yeast and flour together. Add a little of the flour mixture to the bowl and whisk well to introduce lots of air into the dough. Continue to add the flour mixture, first by whisking and then, when the mixture gets too stiff, with a wooden spoon.

Add the butter and knead it into the dough with your hands until thoroughly incorporated.
Transfer the dough to a lightly floured surface and knead for 10 minutes, or until the dough is elastic and no longer sticky. Add a little more flour, if necessary. Return the dough to the bowl, cover with a clean tea towel and leave to rise in a warm place for 1 hour, or until doubled in size.

Meanwhile, to make the filling, mix the almonds and sugar together.
Preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F) Gas 6.
After 1 hour, punch down the dough. Using a rolling pin, roll it out until it is about 30 x 50 cm.
For the filling, spread the butter over the dough. Scatter the almond mixture over one half of the rectangle an area of 30 x 25 cm on one side). Fold the bare pastry half over the filling and press gently together. Place the rectangle now measuring 30 x 25 cm in front of you. Using a sharp Knife, cut the pastry into 25-cm-long and 2-cm-wide strips. Hold a strip between your fingers and twist in opposite directions, then roughly coil it in on itself like a snail and press the ends together underneath.

Arrange on the prepared baking trays, cover with tea towels again and leave to prove in a warm place for another 10 minutes.
Brush the beaten egg over the top and sprinkle with the flaked almonds. Bake in the preheated oven for 10-15 minutes, or until golden.
Please refer to daily delicious on how to twist the bread

Fruit Cake

This is the first fruit cake that i baked in my life. Tak pernah buat sebab

Baked Doughnut

This doughnut is my favourite, tak payah nak goreng2. Masuk dalam oven, bakar
sekejap dah siap. Rasa pun sedap, i used the mini bundt punya acuan beli di Pastry Pro. Used to eat doughnut yang goreng bila makan this doughnut ada rasa kelainan. Tomorrow is my brother's engagement, sekarang ni tengah tunggu train ETS nak balik kampung. Kereta rosak, hubby pening kepala, anak2 nak balik kampung, dah excited. Stressnya........!!!! Nasib baik ada lagi tiket for tonight's train at 2230 hrs. Arrival will be at 0030hrs. Sure penat esok kena bangun awal2....tapi tak apalah. Ada doughnut hati pun sejuk kejap...Thanks Rima for the recipe.

1 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 egg
150g plain yogurt
1 tbsp canola oil
2 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp vanilla extract

Combine dry ingredient in a small bowl.Combine egg, yogurt, oil,lemon juice and vanilla, can use hand whisk.Stir into dry ingredient till moist.Coat the non stick tube pan and dust with icing sugar, divide batter among pans.Bake at 180c for 13 minutes or till the tooth pick insert comes out clean.

Angkor Wat....Siem Reap Cambodia

The Famous Angkor Thom 'Tomb Rider" temple they called it.

A view at the hotel pool side

Last december we had a short trip to visit the most famous ancient site that is Angkor Wat. Wahhhh.....!!!So excited about the plan, we stayed in one of the hotels considered cheap and it's around $60US plus breakfast for two. Hehehe....left my children with the aunty since they want to enjoy school holiday in 'Kampung' with Opah. The weather was nice, cool in the morning but towards mid afternoon it's quite hot. That is the best time to visit Siem Reap according to my hubby's friend who have been staying there for 14 years.

 On the first day we went to see the sunset at Bakheng. It was a beautiful sunset at the top of the hill. We have to rush coz they closed the site around 6pm.We managed to snap a few photos. Here are some of it.

This is Kompong Phluk, the biggest water village in Cambodia situated at Tonle Sap river. The lake was as big as the sea. Besar sekali!

Angkor Wat, the famous ancient site in the world.

Bayon Temple

Looking forward for the weekend

Merpati dua sejoli

This weekend school holiday start, anak2 dah plan nak balik kampung. I'm also looking forward to it as my brother will get engaged on that day. Mak di kampung dah tak senang duduk sebab anak teruna nak bertunang hehehehe....tak lama lagi terima menantu lah ye.
Kepada adik ku Azwan, ku ucapkan Selamat Bertunang. Hehehehe....dah ada title lepas ni tau!

English Scones

Scones with cream and strawberry jam

This is my hubby favourite especially when having his tea. Tapi tak lah

Picnic at Lake Garden

Leave for proving for about an hour

fresh from the oven

As requested by my daughter, i have to get up early morning to prepare sausage roll for her picnic today....it's a family thing actually.
Kenalah bangun awal pagi seawal 6 pagi siapkan sausage roll. Dapatlah 8 pieces sausage roll. alhamdulillah cantik and sedap pula, mesti budak2 suka. Sengaja tambahkan cheese slice untuk menambahkan keenakannya....hehehe patutlah lately ni seluar mummynya makin ketat...aaahhh!!!Tak kisahlah janji semuanya homemade dan kita tau kebersihannya. Gambar disebelah atas tu masa kita biarkan untuk proving lebih kurang sejam. Hahahaha....gambar kat bawah  pulak bila dah siap bakar, fresh from the oven.

My daughter setting up the place

Lotus @ Teratai

Anak2 pulak enjoy bermain di playground sampai berpeluh2, macam mandi pulak. Suasana pagi tu agak meriah juga, ramai yang datang dengan anak2 sebab sekarang ni bila petang saja hujan mungkin sebab itulah pagi ramai yang berkunjung ke sini.


Ingredient

Bread Flour 300 g

Instant dried yeast 5 g

Sugar 10 g

Salt 6 g

Unsalted butter (soft) 30 g

One egg plus whole milk to equal 220-230 g

Sausage 8


One egg plus 2 tsp of water for glazing


Put half of the flour and yeast in a bowl, whisk to combine, add the sugar and salt whisk again. Pour the egg and milk mixture into the bowl, use large spoon to mix everything together. Put all the remaining flour in, and knead briefly to bring all the ingredients together. Take the dough out of the bowl and knead, you will see the dough will be elastic after about 5 minutes, add the butter at that time, knead for another 5 minutes or until the dough is soft and pliable.

Put the dough into a light buttered bowl. Let the dough rise in a warm place until double in size (can be 1 hour or 1 hour and a half check often depend on the temperature).

Take the dough out of the bowl and cut the dough into eight pieces, roll into a ball and let them rest for 10 minutes. Using a rolling pin to roll the dough into an oval shape, then place the sausage in the middle. Cut both side of the dough into 7 strips. Fold the strips alternating the left and right over the sausage.

Place the dough on the oven sheet. Preheat the oven to 200°C. Let the dough rise until almost double in size, brush with egg wash. Bake for 8 minutes then reduce the temperature to 180°C and bake for 5 minutes more.
Source : daily delicious

Carrot Cake

I really love carrot cake but don't know how to make it till my senior in school gave me this recipe through her blog. I trusted her and tried the recipe

Chicken and Mushroom Quiche

During the weekend, lunch time i have to prepare something special for Mr Hubby. He would prefer kalau western food jadi pilihan

Bagel.....ehem ehem...!!

When i was still flying last time with MAS, everytime pergi New York it's a must to buy bagel. Memang sedap walaupun beli di tepi jalan saja. We stayed in Broadway