Revisited with a lil tweak : Yummy Chocolate Chips Cookies

Revisiting this recipe that I baked previously, tweak the recipe slightly and it is slightly softer, not as crunchy and hard as previous bakes. But love the overall taste with the hint of almond, bursting with chocolate chips in each bite.

I think it will be a hit with the kids, not to mention my big kid at home. Enjoy baking and hope u and ur family will enjoy them.. Packing them for Chinese New Year and some of my bakes for my lovely neighbor..

I am submitting this post to Bake Along event, Chinese New cookies for the month Jan 2014

 organised by Frozen Wing, Bake for Happy Kids and  Kitchen Flavours.

Chocolate Chips Cookies (ref to prev post, modifications in RED)

100g Butter

10g Milk **Choc Milk

50g Sugar (reduced to 40g) **Brown Sugar
90g Plain Flour
30g Wholemeal Bread Flour **Bread Flour

1/4tsp Baking Soda

50g chocolate chips

**15g Grounded Almond

1) Mix butter, sugar and milk together. Mix in flour then chocolate chips and raisins.

2) Drop spoonful of batter onto tray. Bake at 180deg for 12-15mins or til browned..

Colourful Chocolate Conflakes

The other day I had an impromptu 'baking' session with my gal. Decided to finish up the original cornflakes since it isn't moving as fast as KoKo Crunch. Kids nowadays prefer chocolate so no one eats my cornflakes.. Haha.

I didn't exactly follow any recipe as all ingredients was not measured. I just took out a 150g Dark Chocolate compound and melt at 20seconds intervals with my microwave. Stir smooth and pour over, approximately 1 big soup bowl of cornflakes. 

My gal helped with stirring the cornflakes with melted chocolate and we both fill up the little cup cases on 2 trays. I put in oven for 5mins to further melt the chocolate a bit as it has slightly harden. And we quickly put sprinkles on top. Cooled and off it went to the tubs. 

We did 1 big and 1 small tubs with 2 extras for her hardwork reward. It is yummy but I think not enough chocolate cos mine doesn't set hard enough after cooling. But really yummy and good way to use up cornflakes at home..

I am submitting this post to Bake Along event, Chinese New cookies for the month Jan 2014

 organised by Frozen Wing, Bake for Happy Kids and  Kitchen Flavours.

Colourful Chocolate Cornflakes (based on estimation as I did not follow any recipe)

150g melted Dark Choc

1 Big Bowl of Cornflakes (1/3pk of the cornflakes box)

Some sprinkles 

Revisit: Pineapple Tarts (updated Jan 26, 14)

Definitely this year has to be this recipe, as I mentioned, hubby prefer this. Haha. And this year I specially cooked my own jam. But I dunno how much sugar added, as I add the sugar as I slow cook the pineapple and tasting them at the same time.

I used 2 pineapple from NTUC, can't rem the brand but it is the common ones that people are buying to make the paste. It's S&W or something like that. Sorry, poor memory... And I jus grate, slow cook and when it is almost dry, I added sugar gradually. I prefer it to be sour sweet so it will not be too sweet after wrapping them up.

After sitting in the fridge for 1wk+, lazy me decided to roll them into balls and bake my pineapple balls. Wonder why the dough is a bit difficult to handle, not sure if it's due to leaving in fridge for more than 10mins and didn't thaw properly or that I replaced Self-raising flour with Plain flour. But overall, I still managed to wrap them. Halve the recipe and baked 40 balls.

I simply love my pineapple balls, I was so worried when I had a hard time wrapping them. Now I wished I had more jam.... =( So tempted to get more pineapple to make the jam for more balls. Hope I can keep myself from finishing them.... Yumm...

I am submitting this post to Bake Along event, Chinese New cookies for the month Jan 2014

 organised by Frozen Wing, Bake for Happy Kids and  Kitchen Flavours.

****Updated with more pics of different looks. Criss-cross Pineapple Balls & Free-hand moulded Hearty Pineapple.

Revisit: Cornflake Cookies

This year has been a busy year. 2014 means both kids going to school, both AM session which means mummy dun haf the luxury of sleeping til 10am. Thus I have been slow in trying new recipes, as well as updating my blog. Sorry everyone....!!

Today I am sharing this recipe that I have tried and baked last year. It is so yummy that both my kids and hubby enjoyed it very much. And since I got most of my CNY goodies store-bought, I decided to bake this cornflakes cookies, chocolate cornflakes cups, home-made pineapple tarts only. No time no time! Arghhh.... If I have more time, I might try new recipes too..

Today instead of rolling them on crushed cornflakes, I decided to add in the cornflakes to the dough. Lazy way so that I don't have to get too messy and I even mix all the ingredients in a mixing bowl. I think I got all done in barely an hour for 1/2 the recipe. Very fast and yet super yummy cookies that will win everyone over.

I hope I still have them leftover when CNY comes nxt week. If not it's still very fast to whip up a tub as it is a very simple and straightforward recipe. By having the cornflakes adding to the cookie dough itself, it is more crunchy and harder as compared to rolling on cornflakes. I prefer it this way as it is lesser crumbs to handle for the kids when they eating it.

I am submitting this post to Bake Along event, Chinese New cookies for the month Jan 2014

 organised by Frozen Wing, Bake for Happy Kids and  Kitchen Flavours.

Another trial - Pineapple Tarts

Finally had time to update my blog, it was a busy busy time for me. First was my advance birthday treat - Phuket, then my gal's 4th Birthday which I promised to have a 3D Princess Cake and then all my CNY goodies orders. 

Managed to rushed out and did another trial for the tarts. Both recipes rave good reviews but I find this recipe slightly less sweet, plus hubby prefer this so I guess I will have to use this for coming years!!

This recipe is also a bit melt in the mouth, less sweet and a bit less buttery as compared to Table for 2's recipe. Maybe that's why hubby prefer this?? My opinion, both taste equally good!

Pineapple Tarts (adapted from LittleTeochew)

- 400g plain flour*

- 50g corn flour

- 1/4 (heaped) tsp salt

- 280g cold, unsalted butter (do not allow it to soften)

- 3 egg yolks, beaten

- 3 tbsp cold water (or iced water)

- 6 tbsp icing sugar**

- 1/2 tsp cognac or pure vanilla extract

- For glaze, mix 1 egg yolk + 1 tbsp water

1) Using rub-in method, rub butter with flour, sugar & salt

2) Add in beaten yolk, vanilla & cold water then jus scrap and mix til come together

3) Referigerate for 10mins and use 

4) I wrap 10g dough + 5g paste, bake at 180deg for 20mins, wash with beaten yolks+milk

Impromptu Bake - Cornflakes Cookies & some variations

Made a last min decision and decided to make some cornflakes cookies for trial and also tot of rolling some in crushed Oreos to see if its as yummy as rolling in crushed cornflakes. The end results was so yummy, including the cornflakes ones.. Got the recipe from TheBakingBiatch but her blog is temporarily 'blocked' due to some reasons. Therefore, I can't linked up the recipe to her blog but once it's back up, I will definetely linked it up. So, pls try this out. You definetely won't regret...

Cornflakes Cookies (adapted from TheBakingBiatch) *i halve the recipe

88g self-raising flour

1/2 egg

50g butter

50g sugar *i reduce to 40g

1) cream butter & sugar til fluffy, add in egg

2) Add in flour and mix well

3) Roll into small balls and roll over the crushed cornflakes

4) Bake at 160deg for 15-20mins

Trial run using ready pineapple paste

Introduced to this pineapple paste from Ailin Bakery at Tanjong Katong Complex by my friends in MFWL. Claimed to be the nicer ready-made paste as compared to those selling outside. And the only place that carry them is Ailin Bakery themselves. 

So this year, I did a trial with my favorite recipe from Table for 2 - Melt in the mouth Pineapple Tarts. I love the combination of cream cheese and butter that makes the pastry very fragrant. The paste itself, not too sweet but a bit sour for me. It's like sourish sweet kind, I think most ppl can accept as compared to some ready paste tt is very sweet. Try it.

Here is my trial, using milk wash as egg yolk always get burnt very fast. Pls make do with the pics as I know it doesn't justify the taste at all.. Will come back with better pics once I bake them again...

Pineapple Tarts, melt in your mouth (adapted from Table for 2)

250gm butter (I used unsalted)

75gm caster sugar

170gm cream 

50gm cream cheese
3 egg yolks
400gm cake flour
30gm corn starch

**i used milk for glazing & Pineapple paste from Ailin Bakery

1. Cream butter, sugar and cream cheese together. 
2. When it comes together, pour in cream and whip on medium speed (I used speed 2 on my hand mixer) for 10 minutes. Scrape the sides from time to time. It may look lumpy, don’t worry, later it’ll turn all creamy.
3. Beat in egg yolks for 1 minute. 
4. Sift both flours and pour half of it into buttery mixture. Mix on low speed until it comes together and pour in the remaining flour and beat until it comes together. Do not over mix.
5. Let dough sit for 10 minutes minimum before you start wrapping with it.