Churros - Cinnamon Sugar

Recently I tried Churros from Churros Factory after seeing it many times on FB shared by various frens on the Churros and commented it is nice, delicious blah blah. But it's hard to spot a Churros shop when you are walking or shopping at non-town area. 

Until recently, a fren tried this Churros from Churros Factory that got me spurred as it is not in town, considered a mall I am likely to pop by too. So coincidence, last Sunday Hubby wanted to get something from I12 and so I had my first bite of Churros. 

So here I go, I am trying this recipe from HowToCookThat.net. It has a video link as well, making it easy for first timers who want to try making it at home. Very simple and straightforward recipe as well.

I managed to make a big plate, experimenting with different shapes and sizes. And I piped some on baking paper stored in airtight containers and some balanced batter in the piping bag closed in a ziplock bag. Wanna try if I can prep batter nite b4 for fast frying the next day for party at home.

I replaced butter with veg oil. I ended up crispy outside and a slightly soft and moist center. Overall, I am satisfied with this recipe and my kids love it too. (Do note, it is softer than the Churros from Churros Factory) Since there are many versions, I might try some other variations as well SOON! 

Churros (adapted and modified slightly from HowToCookThat.net)

250ml Water
1/2cup Butter (replaced 2Tbsp Veg oil)
1tsp Salt
1Tbsp Sugar

140g Flour
3Eggs

1Tbsp Vanilla Extract
1) Boil water, oil, sugar & salt. Off fire, mix in flour n stir into a ball.
2) Add in 1 egg at a time n mix well. Add vanilla extract.
3) Put batter in piping bag. Heat oil n pipe batter slowly.
4) Fry til golden brown n coat with cinnamon n sugar. Served warm.

Avocado Yogurt Wholemeal Bread w/Pumpkin Seeds

Saw this recipe previously and has bookmarked and bought avocado to ripe and make this healthy loaf. Healthy in my sense as it uses avocado, yogurt and wholemeal flour! Plus I am using organic flour for both bread and wholemeal flour, it is even better right?

I added pumpkin seeds to the loaf as my boy super love pumpkin seeds. The loaf is soft and really smell nice, from the avocado and pandan leaves.. Mmm... I will be making them into mini bus with pumpkin seeds as topping the next round, perhaps on Thursday so that my kids could bring them along for their snack box!

Verdict of taste test - Soft, fluffy, fragrant and yummy! (To my surprise, yes very overwhelmed with the results!) I could taste the hint of avocado, and the pandan leaves provide the light light fragrant. Oh my, try it and you know what i mean!

Avocado Yogurt Wholemeal Bread w/Pumpkin Seeds (adapted from MyMindPatch)
30g Milk
130g Original Yogurt
50g Avocado
3g Pandan Leaves, I used & 5g

40g Raw Sugar
1/4tsp Salt
20g Egg
20g Veg Oil, I used unsalted butter
225g Bread Flour
25g Wholemeal Flour
1/2tsp Yeast

1) Blend milk, avocado, yogurt & pandan leaves. Pour into bread tin.
2) Add sugar, salt, butter followed by flour on top. Make indent in center of flour, add yeast.
3) Set to Sweet Bread Menu 6. Cool completely before slicing bread.

Sweet Corn Bread

Saw another interesting recipe from MyMindPatch, Sweet Corn Bread! My boy adore corn, steamed cup corn, corn sushi, corn cob etc. Thus I decided to try and bake this for him.

Instead of fresh corn, I used frozen corn, with fingers crossed, hopefully I won't compromise the texture. Quite a straight forward recipe and I used my old blender that used to be blending baby food for them. Seeing the blender, it seems like yday I was still preparing purée for my 2 Angels.

Bread is slightly soft but chewy texture, with a hint of sweetness from the corn. I personally feel that it is not bad, good to eat on its own.

Sweet Corn Bread (adapted from MyMindPatch)

70g Corn kennels

90g Milk

20g Condensed Milk

35g Beaten Egg

30g Raw Sugar

1/4tsp Salt

30g Butter

230g Bread Flour

15g Cake Flour

1/2tsp Yeast

1) Blend corn kennels, milk & condensed milk. Pour into Breadmaker tin. 

2) Add Egg, Sugar, Salt, Egg followed by Flour. Yeast in the center of flour.

3) Sweet bread menu 6 and let the breadmaker do its work. Take bread out once done to cool before slicing.

Mixed Berries Yogurt Wholemeal Bread *edited in BOLD*

Chanced upon this recipe when my friend's friend sugg to my friend on more BreadMaker recipe. Seeing all the pictures posted, I was so excited about the soft fluffy sliced bread!!

Decided on this yogurt wholemeal bread, replacing with my mixed berries yogurt. Yummy & soft, love the bread so much. I am so gonna put on some strawberry jam for the kids snack time in school tml.. 

Can you see how soft the crusted slice is? It is no hard at all.. Loves!!

Mixed Berries Yogurt Wholemeal Bread (adapted from MyMindPatch)
65g Milk
20g Condensed Milk
140g Yogurt
20g Beaten Egg
30g Raw Sugar
20g Butter
1/4tsp Salt
225g Bread Flour
25g Wholemeal Flour
1/2tsp Yeast

1) Put milk & yogurt and leave it in rm temp for 25min.
2) Pour milk mixture into BM, add egg, butter, raw sugar, salt and flour followed by yeast last. Choose 'Sweet Bread Function' Menu 6
3) Take bread out once baked to cool on iron rack. Slice once bread loaf is completely cooled.

(Belated Post) Merry Chrismas - Red Velvet Cupcake with Cream Cheese

Initial plan was to bake chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, but since my aunt loves Red velvet and myself too, I decided to try Nasi Lemak recipe.

Followed exactly but mixed the sugar with 50g brown sugar as I ran out of caster sugar. *keep fingers crossed that it will turn out yummy still. The smell when it is baking in the oven is heavenly. 

This time I used the ready Philadelphia lemon cream cheese frosting to save some time. Gently whip it up and pipe over, putting 1 mini sugar cane on top of each Cuppies.

Red Velvet Cupcake (adapted from Nasi Lemak Lover)

150g Cake Flour

1/4tsp Salt

1/2tsp Baking Powder

1tbsp Coco powder

80g Butter

120g Caster Sugar

1 Egg

1tsp VanillaExtract 

120ml Butter Milk (mixed with 1/2tsp lemon juice and sit for 5mins)

Drop of red colourings

1/2tsp Distilled Vinegar

1/2tsp Baking Soda

1) Sift flour, baking powder, salt and coco powder, set aside. Put lemon juice in milk and sit 5mins.

2) Beat butter and sugar til soft and fluffy. Add 1 egg, vanilla extract and mix well.

3) Fold in flour and milk in 3 additions, with flour first and ending with flour.

4) Add baking soda to vinegar, fizz and quickly add to batter and mix well.

5) Fill cupcakes 2/3 full and bake at 180deg for 25mins. Cool before frosting with cream cheese.

Keeper Recipe - Double Chocolate Cupcakes

Had a sudden crave to bake, searched for some chocolate cupcakes and chanced upon this. I then used this recipe, and I use hand to beat with whisk from start, instead of using my mixer. 

The cupcakes is light, rich and moist. It's a keeper for me as it is not easy to find a recipe tt is rich and yet moist. Will use them for parties should I need to bake for my guests!

Double Chocolate Cupcake (adapted with slight modifications from AnnCooJournal)
Makes 11 standard cupcakes + 12 mini cupcakes
A : 100g Butter, soften
300g Sugar *I used 250g Brown Sugar*

B : 2 Eggs
3/4tsp Vanilla Extract
125ml Milk + 1tsp Baking Soda
125ml Hot water + 1tsp Instant Coffee Granules

C : 190g Plain Flour *I used Cake Flour*
3tsp Baking Powder
40g Cocoa Powder

1) Beat A til fluffy. Add egg & vanilla and mix well.
2) Add in B & C and mix well. *I added 100g Chocolate Chips*
3) Fill cupcakes liners 3/4 full and bake at 160deg for 20mins. *I baked for 30-35mins for my oven*

Sweet Milk Bread (modified Wholemeal version)

Attempting this recipe again as I really love the fragrance of the buns the previous time I tried it. Wooo.... Really yummy! And for the first time i enjoy eating my own baked bread cos usually it fulfilling the 'itch' to try new recipe as well as for my family. 

I wanna try baking a wholemeal version and reduce sugar slightly as i feel its kinda sweet for me. I replaced 30g of Wholemeal flour & reduce sugar to 30g. 

Baked 2 times into 1 mini loaf, 2 caterpillar, 2 tortoise and 9 buns! Specially fry sardine to eat with the mini loaf. See?!? Even the mini loaf is so soft.. My kids super love this bread and will keep standing beside me to ask when will it be ready whenever i am baking bread.. 

Sweet Milk Bun

I have saw and bookmarked this recipe for about 2 weeks and has been sitting on it since then. Then my FB got flooded with pics of this soft and fluffy buns that I couldn't wait and bake them. 

I use my BM to help me knead and let it do the 1st proof in there. After tt I took out to shaped and proof for an hour before baking them. And I did the signature sprinkling of flour on top of the buns as well..

Oh they are so soft and smell lovely. Pls do give this recipe a try!

Sweet Milk Bun (adapted from My Mind Patch)

150g Milk

20g Condensed Milk

3/4tsp Instant Yeast

225g Bread Flour

25g Cake Flour

40g Sugar

1/2tsp Salt

25g Beaten Egg

30g Butter

1) Let the milk, condensed sit in a warm place. Sprinkle yeast on top of mixture and let it sit for 15mins

2) Mix all the dry ingredients together, add in milk & egg mixture and mix into a dough. Rest for 15mins to let the dough absorb the liquid. 

3) Continue to knead the dough til smooth and add in butter. Knead til elastic and proof for 1hour

4) Punch out air from dough and roll out flat on a baking mat. Cut into 9 pieces evenly and roll like a swissroll. Pinch down the sides and bottom into buns. (I make into 6 buns and remaining 3 pcs into long mini roll)
5) Bake them at 170deg for 30-40mins til top is lightly browned. Cool before storing in airtight container.

Famous "Tomato" Rice

Seriously I don't know this recipe originate from who as I just follow and make it after seeing so many friends making it. Some of them really cook it to mimic restaurant style, some were normal home cooked rice joining in the fun. And I am too, simple home cooked fare on my lazy days.

I tried it twice with the first attempt ending up bland as I totally forgot about the seasonings. But luckily I steam meat patty along, jus in case the rice failed, I can quickly cook some porridge to go with it. Luckily the meat patty salvage the bland rice but overall, still consider edible. I also reduce water, ending up with drier rice. Disaster first attempt!

Today I am doing it for the 2nd time, without reducing water, replacing olive olive with sesame oil and not adding any special ingredients. Made Shabu pork enoki wraps and honey wings from Cold storage. 

Rice was slightly wet, just need to keep warm for 10-15mins more and you serve it warm with the dishes prepared. Give it a try.

Tomato Rice Recipe

1 Cup Rice

1 Cup Water

1 Tomato

1tsp Sesame Oil

1tsp Salt

Dash of Pepper

1) Wash and prep rice as per norm, wash n place tomato in center. Once rice is done, stir thru tomato with rice and keep warm til ready to serve. 

Milk Toast (中种 method)

This was supposed to be Condensed Milk Toast recipe but as I did not have any condensed milk at home, I substitute all with Full Cream Milk thus the name modified to Milk Toast!

I halve the recipe as I was worried the change of condensed milk to full cream milk will affect bread texture. But luckily it didn't, and with the help of breadmaker, I baked this loaf effortlessly.

Soft and fluffier than yday 排包 in my view. Will use this for bread loaf when I have more time to spend on baking. Pls try this..

I serve it over dinner with Baked Chix, Salmon and Mushroom soup! My boy couldn't stop at 1 slice and had 2!!

Milk Toast (modified slightly from 爱烘培的简单快乐)
Starter: 84g Warm Milk, 140g Bread Flour, 2g Yeast

1) Add milk, followed by flour and yeast on top. Using 'dough' function, mix them and leave to proof for 3x

Main: 20g Egg, 50g Milk, 60g Bread flour, 2g Salt 16g Sugar, 16g Butter

1) Put ingredients as per sequence, except butter. Once come into a dough, add butter.
2) Using Basic Bread Function, let the breadmaker do its job. Enjoy when it's out, cooled and sliced.