Lychee Pudding

Salut,

When I was in Thailand few years ago, I love to eat fresh lychees and other local fruits and almost all the fruits are so cheap especially when they are in season. I saw in some grocery shop sell some lychees but they're so much expensive here.

Thinking of lychees, I bought some canned lychee recently and made lychee pudding with it. This lychee pudding tastes so good, I could even finish it all alone. Simple and easy, yet delicious and refreshing treats.

LYCHEE PUDDING

Ingredients;

4g agar agar powder
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 cup evaporated milk
1 can lychee, separated syrup and fruit
Some lychee, cut into small piece

METHOD;

- In a saucepan, mix agar agar powder, sugar and water and bring to boil until sugar dissolved.
- Add in evaporated milk and all lychee syrup and boil for another minute.
- Pour the mixture into glass or jelly pan.
- Arrange some lychee fruit into the pudding and let it cool before transfer to the fridge.

Enjoy the lychee pudding!

Moist Chocolate Cake

Hello,

I love chocolate but I don't really into chocolate cake very much. I like to baked and make chocolate cake, chocolate brownies or any recipe with chocolate. Even sometimes I don't eat much a cake that I've made as long as people around me happy with the tastes, then I'm happy too.

I got this moist chocolate cake recipe from one of Malaysian food blogger, Azlita masam manis. This cake comes out beautifully moist and soft. These cake was great and tasty even without the ganache, but I prefer to put the chocolate ganache on it. All the recipes I have tried from her blog so far turned out great and there are still many recipes that I wanna try in the future.

MOIST CHOCOLATE CAKE

Ingredients;

300g flour
100g cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
# Mix and sift all dry ingredients
3 eggs
400g sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
250ml evaporated milk
250ml vegetable oil
250ml hot water

Chocolate ganache;
100g dark cooking chocolate
1/2 cup heavy cream

METHOD;

- Preheat oven 170° and prepare baking pan, set aside.
- In a large bowl, hand or stand mixer, beat egg, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy.
- Add milk and oil and mix well.
- Add flour mixture and use a spatula to gently push the dry ingredients against the wet ingredients.
- Lastly add hot water and mix until everything is well combined.
- Pour the batter into prepare baking pan and bake for 1-1 1/2 hour or until skewer comes out clean.
- Let the cake cool completely and garnish with chocolate ganache or cream if desire.

For the chocolate ganache;
- Place chopped chocolate in a medium bowl.
- Place cream in a small saucepan and bring to boil for a few second.
- Pour over chocolate and stir until chocolate has softened.
- Pour over chocolate cake and let the ganache cool before slicing the cake.

Happy baking!

Malay-Style Fried Spaghetti

Hello,

Finding fresh yellow or rice noodles here is a real challenge and almost impossible. Even if I found it in Asian grocery store, they are often sold frozen and of course its not the same texture and taste anymore. So, the only solution for me whenever I want to eat fried noodles is by using spaghetti. I don't expect they will be the same texture like Malaysian fried yellow noodles, but at least I can be satisfied and sure that it tastes good as well.

MALAY-STYLE FRIED SPAGHETTI

Ingredients;

1/2 packet spaghetti pasta
1 shallot, sliced
2 cloves garlic, sliced
1/2 tablespoon chilli paste, optional
1 egg
1 handful bean sprouts
1 tomato, cut into cube or wedges
Tomato ketchup
Light soy sauce
Dark soy sauce
Salt and pepper to taste

METHOD;

- Cook the spaghetti follow the package direction. Set aside.
- Heat up some oil in a work or pan and fry shallot and garlic until fragrant.
- Add chilli paste and fry for a few second.
- Crack the egg let it cook a while before scramble it.
- Add cooked spaghetti and bean sprouts.
- Season with ketchup, light and dark soy sauce and salt and pepper.
- Add in tomatoes, toss everything together for a couple of minutes before serving.

Bon appétit!

Carrot Walnut Cake

Bonjour,

It's a walnut season and our neighbors's has a huge walnut tree in their garden and they give us way to many walnuts and it may takes a while for us to finish it. Thanks to Martine and Jean-Marc for being so kind and generous. Since walnut are in season here, and I'm thinking to make more cake with walnut in it.

This carrot walnut cake recipe I found on the internet is one of the cake that I baked recently. Mon mari loves carrot cake and this cake is certainly perfect for him. For some cakes just like this carrot walnut cake, I've just made a half quantity of the recipe because we are only two at home and these cake I can even give to our neighbour to taste it. I received a positive comments and everyone loved the cake.

CARROT WALNUT CAKE

Ingredients;

2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon powder
3 eggs
3/4 cups buttermilk
3/4 cups vegetable oil
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanila extract
2 cup shredded carrots
1 cup walnuts
1 cup coconut flaked
1 cup crushed pineapple with little bit of juice

METHOD;

- Preheat oven 170° and prepare baking pan. Set aside
- In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine eggs, buttermilk, oil, sugar and vanila extract.
- Add flour mixture and mix well.
- Add in carrots, walnuts, coconut and pineapple. Mix until everything well combined.
- Pour batter into prepared baking pan and bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour or until skewer test comes out clean.
- Let the cake cool completely and spread or layer with cream cheese frosting and decorate with walnuts if desired.

Happy baking!

Orange Glazed Cake

Salut,

Orange glazed cake, this is the last miniute cake that I made before we going back to the city last Sunday afternoon. I still had some orange left over in the fridge and I think orange cake would be a great way to make them and at the same time I could bring these cake to work.

I have made orange cake with another recipe before but the basic recipe is the same. The only different I didn't put the orange sugar glaze on. By adding glaze on top would make this cake more tender and moist.

ORANGE GLAZED CAKE

Ingredients;

1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
4 tablespoon milk
1/2 cup freshly squeezed orange juice (from about 3 orange)
1/2 cup melted butter
1 teaspoon vanila extract or orange extract
2 tablespoon orange zest

For the glaze;
1/2 cup sugar
3-4 tablespoon fresh orange juice

METHOD;

- Preheat oven 175° and prapared a small medium cake pan. set aside.
- In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder, and sugar. Set aside.
- In another bowl, mix together egg, milk, orange juice, melted butter, vanila and orange zest.
- Slowly add the dry ingredient and whisk until combined.
- Pour the batter in cake pan and bake for 30-40 minutes or until the skewer test comes out clean.
- While the cake is still hot, prapare the glaze by mix sugar and orange juice and bring to boil for a minute or two.
- Once the cake are still warm, use a skewer to gently prick the top.
- Drizzly the orange syrup all over the cake and let the cake to cool completely before serving.

Enjoy the orange cake!