Boiled Fruit Cake

Bonsoir,

I loves fruitcake, although I'm not a big fan of the store bought fruit cake. Made this homemade fruit cake a couple of days ago for the event at mon mari's office. This is my second attempt, so I am glad to hear that people liked it.

They ask me for the recipes, so it's my pleasure to be able to share this fruitcake recipe here. Fortunately the recipe's not complicated, it was a simple and easy for a boiled fruitcake. Let's make a fruitcake now.

BOILED FRUIT CAKE

Ingredients:

500g mix dried fruit
250g butter, cut cubed
1 1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 tin condensed milk (397g)
1 tablespoon vinegar (any kind of vinegar)
2 tablespoon strong tea
1 teaspoon vanila extract
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
Pinch of salt

METHOD:

- Placed the mixed fruit, chopped butter, water and bicarbonate of soda into a large saucepan.
- Bring to boiled and keep stirring. When it has begun to boiled, turn off the heat and let it cool.
- Preheat oven 150° and prapare the baking tin.
- Add condensed milk, vinegar, tea and vanila extract into the cold fruit mixture. Stirring well.
- Then add the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt and stir until all combined.
- Pour the mixture into baking tin and bake for 1 hour -1 hour 20 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.
- Pour the extra tea, about 3 tablespoon over the top of cake while the cake is still warm. Leave them cool before removing.

Voila, bon appètit!

Oreo Cheese Cupcake

Bonsoir,

One day last week, I made this cupcake for a friends and they loved it. This simple oreo cheese cupcake have been giving to our friends during our visit to England last week. I've got a plan to make other things before, well anyway I end up making cupcake.

In fact I liked this oreo cheese cupcake because it was a simple recipe and easy to do. So, let's check the recipe below:

OREO CHEESE CUPCAKE

Ingredients:

1-2 package Oreo cookies, 21 left whole, 6 coarsely chopped
500g cream cheese
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanila extract
2 eggs
1/2 cup plain yogurt

METHOD:

- Preheat oven to 170° and prepared muffin tin with paper liners.
- Place a whole oreo cookies in the bottom of each lined cup.
- In the large bowl, beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add the sugar and beat until all combined.
- Add the vanila extract and eggs one at a time and beating until incorporated.
- Add the yogurt in but do not over mix.
- Stir in the chopped oreo cookies.
- Divide the batter evenly between the prepared lined cups.
- Baked for 15-20 minutes.
- Transfer to wire racks to cool completely and after refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight.

That's easy, isn't? Bon appetit!!

Cheesecake Brownies

Bonsoir a tous,

I have not been updating my blog for quite some time now, or maybe I'm still in the holiday mood. But this afternoon I managed to make Cheesecake Brownies and this was my first attemp at making brownies. Easy to make and tastes great! This was a fun cake to bake and I'm sure I'll do it again next time. Half of this cake will be for our friend's birthday tomorrow. Just want to surprise her with a mini birthday cake and I'll do some decoration on it.

I will post more cake recipe in the future but for this time let's have a look the Cheesecake Brownies recipe below.

CHEESECAKE BROWNIES

Ingredients:

150g butter
300g dark cooking chocolate, chopped
3 eggs
215g sugar
225g flour
70g plain yogurt
250g cream cheese

METHOD:

- Prepared and grease the cake pan and preheat oven to 180°.
- Combined butter and chocolate in a saucepan over low heat. Cook and stirring until chocolate melt and smooth. Remove from heat and set aside for 5 minute.
- Whisk 2 eggs in a small bowl. Add egg and 140g of sugar to the chocolate mixture and stir to combine.
- Add flour and yogurt and stir until well combined.
- In another bowl, beat cream cheese and remaining sugar until smooth. Add the remaining egg and beat until just combined.
- Spoon half of chocolate mixture over the cake pan. Then put scoops and layer each of chocolate and cheese mixture and swirled it through with a toothpick.
- Baked for 40-45 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.


Enjoy and bon appetit!

Black Pepper Beef

Bonsoir a tous,

From my previous post few months ago, the recipes that I shared more to prawns recipe and today I'm going to share this easy black pepper beef recipe and let's see how it goes..

I'm not a vegetarian, but I don't cook much meat at home. It was our friend's birthday few months back, so I cooked meat for them. I plan to make a beef bone soup for mon mari next time because he like beef soup but most probably the meat he would not eat. Soup with some rice noodles, spring onion, fried onion and sqeezed of lemon will be enough for him.

Until then, for this time please enjoy these simple and easy black pepper beef recipe.

BLACK PEPPER BEEF

Ingredients:-

500gm beef fillet, sliced thinly
1 onion, sliced
2 capsicum, green and yellow, sliced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 inch ginger, sliced
3 tablespoon dark soya sauce
1 egg white
1 tablespoon corn flour
1 tablespoon light soy sauce
Salt and black pepper to taste
Oil for frying

METHOD:-

- Marinate beef with light soya sauce, corn flour and egg white for at least 30 minutes.
- Deep fried beef until the color change, then remove and drain.
- Heat the little oil in wok and fried garlic and ginger till aromatic.
- Add in onion, capsicum and a little bit of water and fry for about 2 minutes.
- Add the fried beef, dark soy sauce and season with salt and black pepper and fry for another minute.
- Dish out and serve.

Bon appétit!

Tropical Fruits of Malaysia

Bonjour a tous,

Salut...I am finally back in France. We've been abroad over the last few week that I haven't had time to write up and update my blog. Holiday season almost finish and new season starting to soon.

Where to begin and what to write? Today I just need to write something about tropical fruits in Malaysia and they are season recently. I love local fruits especially durian. There are other local fruits like rambutans, mangosteen, jackfruit and many more rare fruit tree also at the season now.

Most of asian people love durian and have placed it number one on the most popular fruit list as I do. The durians come in all shape and size, with different types of thorns and taste as well. Durians have a strong smell and unique taste. They are sweet and creamy that sometimes feels like creamy cheese.

Rambutans are another exotic fruit in Asia. Rambutan taste more like lychee but doesn't smell like durian. It taste sweet too and rambutan comes with two colours, red and yellow skin.

I could eat rambutan kilos and kilos at one time and they were so good. For certain people, eating too much of durian and rambutans can cause slight elevation in the body temperature as these fruits are considered hot fruits and could get sore throats. But luckily for me, I didn't have any ill effects even though I eat rambutans or durian all day or until it's all gone.

Holiday for me is all about relax and enjoy it. This summer holiday take a little time to breath and enjoy some simple pleasures. I will be able to enjoy foods more fully and take my time and eat when I can.

While in Thailand, me and mon mari able to eat a hearty authentic Thai cuisine and I found the perfect meal, the one I have missed for so long. Certainly better than anything I could find at any place. Too bad that I forgot to take any pictures even though I had my camera in my bag.

As everyone knows that Thailand's have a special placed for the people who loved shopping so much and Thailand offers a little piece of paradise for everyone. I've been to Thailand many times than I could count and I will definitely come again next time.

So, this is the short story of our recent holiday.

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