Pineapple Tarts

What have i been doing?

Well, Chinese New Year is coming so i have been busy baking CNY goodies. The 1st in the pipeline is my fav Pineapple Tarts. See above picts for the finished tarts. :) Yum yum!

Will post up the recipe later. :)

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Chocolate Lava Cake

On Sunday, I baked Chocolate Lava Cake. Its a very simple cake to bake with just few ingredient. However, it was not easy to get just the right result. I baked once at my Brother' place in the afternoon and again in the evening at my friend's place. At my brother's place, out of the 3 cakes that i baked, only 1 turned out nicely. For the 1st one, the outer layer, ie the cake layer, could not hold the chocolate in it. The chocolate flowed out immediately when i removed it from the ramekin. With such result, i put the remaining 2 back into the oven for another 2-3mins. Out of these 2, only one turned out as per my expectation.
@ my friend's place, i double the ingredients to bake more. With double ingredients, i managed to have 51/2 full ramekins. My friend has a microwave oven and we used its convection oven mode to bake the cakes. Not sure if its because its not a traditional convection oven, the cakes were still wobbly after 10mins. So all the cakes went back into the oven. After few in and out, we have baked the cakes for more than 20mins!

Marble Cake

Marble Cake

Hubby loves to eat Butter Cake. So i tried baking Marble Cake on New Year Day. It was an easy recipe to follow and didnt take very long. However, my brother's oven (Im currently using his table top oven) temp seems to be higher than required. Realised that my cakes either overcooked or cooked way before the specified required timing. Maybe i should get an oven thermometer to be more accurate.

Recipe

(from hongkitchen)

Ingredients

250g	Butter
210g	Cake Flour (Sifted)
200g	Caster Sugar
5	Egg
1/2 tsp	Baking Powder (Sifted)
20g	Coco Powder
2 Tbsp	Milk
40g	Granulated Sugar
25g	Milk

Method
1. Preheat the oven to 170degree Celsius.
2. Cream the butter.
3. Add in the Caster Sugar and cream until fluffy.
4. Add in the egg yolks one by one, beating well.
5. Mix in Milk.

My little princess helped out in sifting the flour and baking powder

6. Stir in the sifted Cake Flour and Baking Powder using a rubber spatula. Remember to only stir in one direction.
7. Pour 1/3 of the batter into a separate mixing bowl and add coco powder into it.
8. Pour the remaining 2/3 of the batter into the pan, then the coco batter on top of it.
9. Using a fork, stir the batter to form the marble effect.
10. Bake for 45 minutes.

Gotten the recipe for Rose Water and Raspberry Cake from Dailydelicious. However, i've used Strawberry since i can't find any Raspberry. Strawberries were not such a good choice as the cake was bit soggy where the strawberries were. Nevertheless, the cake was yummy and it was eaten up all in a day :)

Recipe

(from Dailydelicious)

Ingredients

160g	Butter
110g	Icing Sugar
170g	Almond Powder
3	Egg Yolks
1	Egg
80g	Cake Flour (Sifted)
3	Egg Whites
40g	Granulated Sugar
25g	Milk
40g	Rose Water
125g	Raspberries

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180degree Celsius.
2. Mix Rose Water with Milk.
3. Cream the butter icing sugar and almond powder in a large mixing bowl until fluffy.
4. Add the egg and egg yolks, beating well. Add the rose water and milk mixture, beat well.
5. Beat egg whites and granulated sugar until soft peak form.
6. Use a rubber spatula folding the flour mixture into the butter mixture in alternately with the meringue, stir until just blended.
7. Pour 1/3 of the batter into the pan, then put the raspberry on top. Pour another 1/3 of the batter and put the raspberry on top of the batter again.Pour the last part of the batter
8. Bake for 50-60 minutes. (My cake was done (bit overcooked actually) within 40mins)