Wobbly Tau Huay 滑滑的豆花

I made this Tau Huay last nite b4 I go to bed for today's Breakfast ;-)

I Love Tau Huay since I was a child. But as I grew older, I'm sticking to Mr Bean's Bean Curd for its unique and strong scent of 豆味. Those Pasat stall Tau Huay cannot make it anymore :P Although the famous Rochor Rd Tau Huay is very smooth in texture but they dun have that 豆的味道 :( anyway, I'm missing the very thick and creammy, unsweetened Soy Milk drink from Courtyard Times Square @ Seoul, Korea. I'll never find its replacement :(

Actually I didn't have the intention to make Tau Huay at all. I bought a pack of Unisoy Soy Milk instant drink from Fairprice last week, hoping to "smell" some 豆味 from the drink... Yes! there is indeed some 豆味 in this drink :D but its too sweet for my liking :( (btw, I'm someone who dislike sweet-tasting stuff :P) And I found this "secret recipe"within the package :D so I did some experiment b4 I slept last nite :D hehee...

Here's the "Secret Recipe" :D

I doubled the recipe... so I used 4 sachets of the Instant Powder.

+ 8g gelatine powder

+ 800g warm water

Stir-in everything well. (I used a whisk to do so)

Pour into bowls/cups/moulds as u wish

Cover well

Leave on tabletop to cool-off for 5-10mins

Put into Fridge to set overnight

I searched the web for a recipe for the tau huay syrup and came upon Baking Quinn's recipe :D

I love Pandan favor but not ginger... so I omitted the ginger slices for my syrup.

Here's 200g water + 70g honey rock sugar + 2 pandan leaves knotted together

Boil everything mixing everything together. Leave the Pandan leaves in to infuse the Syrup.

This is what I got the next morning when I woke up! :D

Not Bad after all!! The texture is seriously wobbly and smooth! My Tessa finished all within a minute! ;-) So Happy! :D

Another batch of Pineapple Tartz

I made another batch today. and i can't stop snapping pix for them ;-)

Here's how i did them...
Pre-heat oven @160•celcius.

Tart Recipe
250g Plain flour
100g Cake flour
50g Icing sugar
(sieve the above 3 powder together)
250g butter (salted)
(Hard from fridge, cut into 1-2cm cubes)
1 egg yolk

Use rubbing-in method. Rub in everything with finger-tips till it form a dough.
Roll out to 0.5cm thickness. Cut out using any cutter of your choice.
brush the tarts top with egg glaze (see below)

egg glaze
1 egg white
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 tiny drop yellow coloring

Place a pineapple ball-ball in the middle of the cut and glazed tart.
Brush the ball-balls with egg glaze.
(As I really have no time to go JB to buy my usual pineapple jam, I used ready-made pineapple jam from Phoon Huat this time round. I pre-roll them into tiny ball-ball few days before to make my life easier =D)

Bake at 160•celcius for 15mins.
Increase to 180•celcius, top heat for further 2-3mins to get that "golden-brown" look ;-)

love! hope u love them too! ;-)

17012011: Golden Corn Flakes Cookies

Besides Pineapple Tartz, cornflakes cookies is my next FAVorite CNY goodies. :D

another batch :D

previous batch recipe was using 350g plain flour. easier to shape and details were clear. but i felt tat the texture is too "biscuit" :( For me, its kind of too hard for tartz... i still prefer tat "melt in your mouth" texture. so i modified this batch with 250g plain flour + 100g cake flour.

the dough is very "melty" in this hot sg weather. need to work really fast! however, the details r not very clear as u can see in the pix. but tat "melt in your mouth" texture is back! yeah! ;-) yummy yummy :D lolz...

CNY Pineapple Tartz... another pix

the pix uploaded using blogger via iphone is kind of too big to fit into the blog space :( think i'll upload everything here in portrait size from now =)

恭喜发财，龙年大旺!
GONG XI FA CAI everybody! HAPPY AND PROSPEROuS dragon year 2012 ;-)

Gong Xi Fa Cai Pineapple Tartz

Its CNY again! and here's my favourite Pineapple Tartz ;-) ...and yes, I baked them :D

Happy Anniversary

Its my 13th wedding anniversary. We r in BKK for a short shopping trip without our kids :D Hubby bought this cake for me "secretly" from Central World. ~NICE~ =D

Merry Christmas

Taken from BKK Krisflyer lounge.
Kueh Lapis with Royal icing Xmas Tree figurine

Merry Christmas Cookie Tree

This is super easy to make... just bake the cookies and stack them together, using royal icing to keep them in place. Decorate the sides with some royal icing and add some sprinkles and colored sugar balls. TaDa... that's IT!!!

I bought those wilton stars cutters like 2 years back... and finally, i did this tree today! :D Not bad lah, I'm quite satisfied after my super long baking-break ;-)

cupcakez overpriced?

SGD68 for a set of 6 Xmas cupcakes?!!? isn't it seriously overpriced?!!

I was eating a piece of bread while browsing some pix she posted on fb... and when i read that its SGD68 for this set of cuppies, my piece of bread actually dropped to the ground! >:( LOLz...

reminded me of the cuppies i did 2 years ago

http://mybakez.blogspot.com/2009/12/merry-christmas-again-christmas-cupcake.html

and the xmas cookies

http://mybakez.blogspot.com/2009/12/merry-christmas-everyone-d.html

:( booooo :(

Merry Berries Cottony CheeseCake

Bot a SGD4.70 Cheesecake from Giant supermarket. As it looked kind of boring, I decorated it with berries :D It looked so pretty after my decorationz rite? ;-) so I decided to take some pix for it :D

and i did a collages for some pix :D

my girls ate all the decorationz after my photo taking :D

its amazing how these red berries that grew out of grass can look and taste so yummmz :D

Merry Berries Cottony CheeseCake

Hi All!
Korean Strawberries r IN early this year end!!!
Early Merry Christmas Greetings with my Berries Berries Cottony Cheesecake ;-)

Please call your local police if you had seen this person

This is non-baking related and this is NOT a JOKE!
Please call your local police immediately if you had seen this person! Thank you ;-)

MY FRIEND, KOUK LEONG JIN FROM SINGAPORE IS MISSING IN ATHENS, GREECE.

HELP NEEDED! Please! My friend is missing

Missing Singaporean in Athens, Greece - Kouk Leong Jin

Please call your local POLICE if you had seen him. Thank you!

YouTube clip which was broadcast over Greek Local News.

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CornFlakes Cookies

I'm feeling kind of lazy after baking 20+gongs of pineapple tartz to share with close frens.... I tot I lost my baking-energy to bake more CNY stuff. Yesterday afternoon I walked to my opposite block's bakery shop with intension to buy some cornflakes cookies but they r selling @ SGD13.00 for a small container!!! I put the containers back to the shop shelf and came back home to bake my own. Here's it.... after 2 hrs of preparation, baking, packing and washing... 3 gongs of Cornflakes Cookies from my oven. Ingredients cost is less than SGD5.00 ba ;-) and my gong is 50% bigger than the bakery shop de :P

Breakfast Today Berries Cupcake + PineApple Tartz

Breakfast for my girls today.... Berries cupcake and PineApple Tartz

Baked 5 containers of Pineapple Tartz yesterday afternoon (again!) ;-)

from the left over ingredients of An-An's Birthday cake... I made these cuppies for Nyx & Tessa ;-)
With a cup of HL milk... Nyx asked for more pineapple tartz :D but i got to stop her coz she is putting on lots of weight lately :P

Berries Hamburger Cake for An-An & her mummy's Birthday

Did this Berries Hamburger Cake for An-An & her mummy.
Knew this wonderful family from my last BKK trip... where we all stayed @ the beautiful Budacco Hotel.

Strawberry Shortcake for Tessa's 5th Birthday

Another year past! And my little Tessa is 5!!!

Made another "hamburger cake" using my rice cooker again ;-)
Everyone is sick of fondant :P so i just use them for the "cut-out"messages.
Eating big chunks of fondant is too unhealthy and yucky!!! So, I'm using DecoPac cake topper again :D at least Tessa can keep it as a toy after she eat the cake ;-)

Rice cooker cake is quick and easy!
and we all love Strawberries and blueberries + Whipped cream ;-)

This DecoPac is so sweet!
I love Strawberry Shortcake too since young... I still keep a collection of the mini dolls in the vintage version ;-)

Remembered someone suggested why dun i simply buy a cake from some 5-stars Hotel and I dun need to spend hours messing, whisking and washing in the kitchen baking + decorating???!!!! But I feel that MY cake is far beyond any "HOTEL-standard" kind of cake coz its full of my LOVE for my love ones :D

and it just reminded me of that sweet sweet PINK room @ Budacco Hotel where i stayed last Sept during my Bangkok Shopping Trip.... I want to go back there.... SOON!!!!

PineApple Tartz again

Its the time of the year again... CNY! Pineapple tarts r my fav. snack since young. its a must-have for me every year... but ever since i left seagate in year 2000, i can't find the taste of those very nice tarts my ex-colleage bought for me anymore. even those local hotel de also cannot be compared to those Lily bought from her JB friend who made them @ home. Till 2years ago, a lady from Richard's Baking class gave me this recipe.... Its very similar to those "very nice"tarts Lily bought for me long time ago ;-)

Trail run for my CNY production which starts next week :D

I love my "bite-size"pineapple tart! coz u can put the whole "flower" in your mouth and guest won't be dropping bits of tarts all over my sofa :P save my trouble cleaning up :P and someone was using my THIS idea i told her about last year, claiming that she tot of it!!! ANGRY >:( how could she tot of it and still making tarts double the size of this???

I tried the unsalted version for this trail run... Hubby love them and finished 2 containers in 2 days. He will blame me for his weight gain again!! >:(

Korean Strawberries r here!!

Korean strawberries r here again! yay yay yay! more bakez r on the way lor! ;-)

Class 1B Merry Berries X'mas Cake

Saw SU and the HKG cake shops selling cakes like these... so I copycat and did this for Nyx's Class Party @ Alexis' Place today.

Added some details with fondant & snow powder.... The Kids so cute!! they called it a "Hamburger Cake"!! :D Think I'll be making more Rice Cooker cakes in future!! its fast and clean... think it save a little on my power bills too ba! :D

Merry Christmas!!

Rice Cooker Cake

I bought this rice cooker with baking function some time back.... 1st time trying out the "bake" function ;-)

and this rice-cooker cake is baked in 50mins!! Results is very satisfying!! ;-) I like!

I like the rounded top... coz i wanted to bake cake like su! All her cakes r simply awesome!!! :D

Microwave CupCake

Had been trying to do this for a while... finally i tried this :D Microwave Cupcake in 1mins 30secs. Haa! Tasted same as oven-baked.. except for the color... its on the pale side, not brown at all.

hi!

hi! for those who r not aware, my 2 precious furry babies left me in october. :( sherry left me on 5 oct at the age of 11... and my dear dongdong refused to eat and also left me 3 days later :'( i dunno how much tears i shed and it still hurts me now whenever i tot of them. they were with me since sherry was 5 weeks old, and dongdong was only 6 weeks. they had been part of my life and i'm not quite used to life without them. sherry is not there to wake me up every morning anymore with her smelly paws..... dongdong is not there waiting for my hugs anymore...... worst still, no one is there waiting to sample myBakez anymore..... :( thats y i've not been baking. i miss my 2 fur babies!! very much! :(. baking is not the same anymore without sherry sticking to my feet when i walk around the kitchen.... i miss their sniffy nose.... i miss my sherry and dongdong :(