Mini Pingpi Mooncake

Mooncake Festival is around the corner. So here is my attempt on mooncake. Family love pingpi, so i make pandan and strawberry flavour.

Pandan Pingpi skin (make 19 mini)
150gm koh fun
200gm icing sugar
50gm shortening ( i use crisco brand)
Few drops of pandan essence
Few drops of green colouring
200ml iced water

Filling
600gm brown lotus paste
20gm roasted melon seeds

Method:
1. Combine fillings together, scale at 30gm each portion. Shape into rounds, set aside.

2. Sieve koh fun and icing sugar into a big bowl. Add in the remaining ingredients and combine into a soft dough. Roll into long strips and scale at 25gm. Shape into rounds, flatten and wrap in a portion of 1. each. Repeat process.

3. Place 2. into a koh fun dusted mooncake mould. Press firmly and dislodge imprinted mooncake. Wrap with kitchen servittes to prevent condensation when you keep it chilled.

Strawberry Pingpi Skin (make 19 mini)
150gm koh fun
150gm icing sugar
50gm shortening
4 tbsps strawberry jam
Few drops of strawberry essence
180ml iced sugar

Filling
600gm white lotus paste
20gm roasted melon seeds

Using the same method for pandan ping pi

Japanese Soft Cheesecake

This kind of cheesecake is very popular in our country. It is soft and moist. Specially make for my mother who had been requesting it.
The brown top got peel off when i overturn the cake. Such a pity.

For a 8 inch baking pan
Ingredients:
Cream Cheese 200gm
Milk 128gm ( i use UHT)
Unsalted butter 43gm
Low protein flour a.k.a Cake flour 26gm
Corn flour 14gm
4 egg whites
4 egg yolks
Lemon Juice 1/4 tsp
Sugar 86gm
Cream of tartar 1/4 tsp

Method:
1. Dice cream cheese into cubes and soak with milk for 30mins. Meanwhile melt the butter.
2. After 30mins, put mixture in a double bolier, stir until smooth and creamy. Stir in melted butter and cool.
3. After it is cool, stir in Corn flour and Cake flour, follow by egg yolks and then lemon juice. Mix well until smooth. If crumbs develops, sift the batter. Put the batter aside.
4. In a clean bowl, add tartar into the eggs white and whisk until formy. Add sugar into eggs white in 3 portion and continue to whisk until it becomes stiff. ( in the first 2 portion, i use high speed and beat for 1 min each time and last i switch to low speed and beat until stiff)
5. Add egg whites into the batter and mix well until colour combines.
6. Place mixture in a greased pan and give it a big bang to release the bubbles.
7. Lastly bake the cake in hot water bath. Initial bake for 15min-20mins for 170C and then lower temperature to 150C for 40mins. (At the last 10-15mins, take note of the cake top colour. If it is the colour you desired, place a aluminium foil over the cake.)
8. Cool the cake and remove it from the mould. It can be taken warm or cold. No need to put into the fridge

Cough, pls go away!

My cough is getting bad to worse now. It had been giving me sleepless nights. Now i had panda eyes. Doctor give me antibiotics and i hope it'll go away soon. This virus seems like infecting the whole country. That day in a bus and 3 people in front of me was coughing like mad. A couple of my colleagues also had the same virus.

My baking had to be stop for a while until i fully recovered. Now i can't even taste my food properly. Everything taste bland.

Sick

I'm down with flu and cough after enduring hubby same sickness for almost a week. Everyone thought my immune system is very strong. Haha, god knows. Now i just pray hard this cough will go off asap as there is another major baking project coming.

Vitagen

Yesterday, when i was on my way back home. I notice there is a advertisement on Vitagen, one of my favourite drink. A closer look, the new product come with collagen. Very interesting, good for complexion and health too. Today i went to NTUC, but did not manage to see it. I wonder if it is on sale.

Quiz "Are you a good Cook?"

You Are a Learning Cook

You've got the makings of an excellent cook, and the desire to be one. But right now, you're just lacking the experience. You couldn't be a top chef yet, but you could be an apprentice.

Are You A Good Cook?

Huat Kueh

Make this yesterday for my mum. Because Wed, we're going to genting to try our money luck, so i make this to huat. I used Redman ready mix which is very simple. Just add water and colouring, steam it.

Cupcake for Raymond's Birthday on 3rd Aug

Bake cupcake for my good friend cum colleague Raymond at the East Coast BBQ. Sadly to say the fondant i use melts before we cut the cakes. I choose the wrong icing.

The recipe blog mentioned it was better than the famous Magnolia vanilla cupcake. I have not tried magnolia before but out of curiousity, i give it a try. The verdict is moist and soft. Everyone likes it.

Billy's Vanilla, Vanilla Cupcakes

Makes about 30 cupcakes
1 3/4 cups cake flour, not self-rising
1 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch cubes
4 large eggs
1 cup whole milk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1. Preheat oven to 325°. Line cupcake pans with paper liners; set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine flours, sugar, baking powder, and salt; mix on low speed until combined. Add butter, mixing until just coated with flour.

2. In a large glass measuring cup, whisk together eggs, milk, and vanilla. With mixer on medium speed, add wet ingredients in 3 parts, scraping down sides of bowl before each addition; beat until ingredients are incorporated but do not overbeat.

3. Divide batter evenly among liners, filling about two-thirds full. Bake, rotating pan halfway through, until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean, 17 to 20 minutes.

4. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Repeat process with remaining batter. Once cupcakes have cooled, use a small offset spatula to frost tops of each cupcake. Decorate with sprinkles, if desired. Serve at room temperature.