Hari Raya Edition: Chocolate cornflakes macaroon Tuesday, Sep 8 2009 

I love this hari raya cookie! I can safely say that it’s always a hot favourite at everybody’s house! I remember once we attacked the whole jar of cornflakes macaroons and the host had to refill, AND we shameless finished that too. It’s really embarassing how we lacked self-control. Really. Can we call it cookie, when it doesn’t look like a cookie? If not, what else? Biscuit? Food stuff then!

The best thing about working with egg white and sugar is that clean up is easy. Well, as compared to butter, or anything greasy. I’ve always hated cleaning up after baking cupcakes and making frostings.

Ingredients:

115 ml egg white

255g chocolate chips (depends on how much you want!)

210g icing sugar

140g Kellogs cornflakes, lightly crushed

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

Method:

1. Beat egg white at high speed till soft peaks are formed.

2. Add sugar bit by bit until it dissolves before adding more sugar.

3. Add vanilla essence only when it stiffens.

4. Add chocolate chips and cornflakes and fold.

5. Drop 1 tsp of mixture into small paper cups.

6. Bake for 30 to 45 mins at LOW temperature (some people do it at 160, I do it at 130C.. really depends on your oven) until surface is dried.

Hari Raya Edition: Kuih Sarang Semut Monday, Sep 7 2009 

Yay! It’s nearing Hari Raya Aidilfitri, and what better time to kick start the long awaited bake spree, when it’s 2 weeks to raya? Heh heh. That’s just an excuse. I just hope that these cookies would last till raya! We lack self control!! Anyway, I can’t wait to exchange cookies with Sya this Saturday!

Have you ever wondered why it’s called kuih sarang semut (ants’ nest)? It’s not very appetising, is it, to be eating an ants’ nest? And really, ants’ nests aren’t these pretty.

I got the recipe here, but since it’s in Malay, I’ve included the English translation below, for those who don’t understand Malay, or, *ehem* step orang Putih. Hahaha.. Melayu celup!

Ingredients:

250 g butter
100 g castor sugar
350 g plain flour   ]
100 g corn flour    ] sifted
1 egg yolk
1 tsp vanilla essence

Decoration
Chocolate rice
Colourful rice

Directions:


1. Cream butter and sugar.
2. Add egg yolk and vanilla essence and beat till combined.
3. Add sifted flour and beat till combined.

4. Grate dough into a clean bowl and spoon into small paper cups.

5. Sprinkle with chocolate and colourful rice.

6. Bake at 170C for about 15 to 20 minutes.

I think the pink casings are prettier than the purple ones.

Cheesecake Tuesday, Aug 25 2009 

The tried and tested recipe.

The no-fail recipe.

The fool-proof recipe.

I present to you, The Salmah Cheesecake.

Be forewarned. It’s dense, and extremely addictive!

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Stained glass cookies Sunday, May 3 2009 

I wanted to try something different to give the people in my FYP lab, but I think cookies aren’t my forte. I’ve never really been satisfied with my cookies (they are either too thin, or too flat, or too soft or too tasteless or too sweet, well, you get my drift). The first time I tried out sugar cookies was last year, when I baked the disgusting tasting “XOXO” cookies. They smelt gross, they looked kinda yucky, and had a weird texture. Bleah.

So this time I tried to bake something which had raving reviews. Blah de blah. I blame it on Singapore’s ultra hot and humid weather. 2000+ reviewers couldn’t have been wrong about the cookie batter. Somebody said to add additional 1 cup of flour to account for the humid weather, but I had to add 2 cups because the batter was far too sticky (even after I left it in the fridge overnight) and 2 cups of powdered sugar.

I got the recipe here, but I’m still on the quest of finding the perfect sugar cookie recipe.

MY verdict on this recipe:

1) Too sticky

2) Better to roll out thin cookies, so they turn out crispy. The thicker ones looked weird, like a little bit bloated, and went out of shape very easily.

3) Tastes much better than my XOXO cookies.

4) They became soft cookies. As usual.

PS: I used FOX sweets for the stained glass.

I’ll stick to drop cookies. Cut out cookies are tedious!

Cookies and cream cupcakes Friday, Jun 6 2008 

Don’t they look adorable? I didn’t manage to get Oreo cookies because for some weird reason, Cold Storage didnt have them. Talk about weird right. So I had to get Jack and Jill cookies, which weren’t as nice. (and they were smaller too!!)

I used vanilla cupcakes recipe with cookie base and vanilla buttercream. So actually this is one of the easiest cupcakes to make! BASIC!

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