Steamed Fruit Cake

Hello,

Steamed fruit cake or kek buah kukus is one of the cake that many Malaysian food bloggers have tried and everyone give a positive feedback and said this cake was really good. So, I've made this cake not long ago and I must admit it is a lovely cake indeed. Thanks to chef Zubaidah for the great recipe.

There is some different recipe of steamed fruit cake that I knew but the basic ingredients are the same. The original recipe called for steaming but instead of steaming, I used the water bath method. For those who want to steam this cake, it will need to be steam for about 2-4 hours so the cake would come out with a moist texture and it can be kept for a month or more.

KEK BUAH KUKUS

Ingredients;

350g sugar
60ml hot water
250g butter
400g dried mix fruits
100g chopped walnuts
3 eggs
350g flour
2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

METHOD;

- In a medium saucepan, melt the sugar until it turn brown and slowly pour hot water and stir until the sugar dissolved.
- Add butter and stir constantly until the butter has melted.
- Add in mix fruits and walnuts and stir to mix together. Let the mixture simmer for a few minutes. Set aside to cool a bit.
- Meanwhile, prepare water bath and preheat oven 150°.
- Sift together flour, bicarbonate of soda and cinnamon.
- Add the flour into the fruits mixture and mix to combine.
- Lightly whisk the egg with vanilla extract and pour the egg into cake batter and stir until well blended.
- Pour batter into prepare baking pan. Cover the cake with aluminium foil to prevent the top of the cake from burning.
- Place the cake pan into a large prepared water bath and bake for 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
- Let the cake cool completely before cutting.

Happy baking!

Spicy Honey Cornflakes With Peanuts

Bonjour,

One of my old time favourite snacks is spicy honey cornflakes, with or without peanuts they are still tasted good. These snacks is so addictive or maybe it's just me but I am pretty sure for some people who loves spicy food would say the same thing.

I've made these snacks a few times in a month. I gave some of spicy honey cornflakes to our friends after our Japanese dinner last time. It seems they like these snacks too. It was a bit spicy for them but like they said, "it's was good, even a little bit spicy, but it's good".

SPICY HONEY CORNFLAKES WITH PEANUTS
Ingredients;

3 cups cornflakes
1/2 cup fried or roasted peanuts, optional
2 shallot
1 clove garlic
5-8 dry chilli, soaked in hot water
2-3 tablespoons butter
2-3 tablespoons honey
Salt and sugar to taste

METHOD;

- Pound or blend shallot, garlic and dry chillies into a coarse paste.
- Heat up butter in a work or large pan and saute shallot chilli paste until fragrant.
- Add honey, salt and sugar, stir well for a few second on the low heat.
- Turn of the heat, add cornflakes and peanuts, mix well until all the cornflakes are well coated.

Enjoy the spicy honey cornflakes!