New Style of doing cupcakes

I decided not to use my normal way to design cupcakes today. Abandoning icing and fondant, I decided to use frosting made of cream cheese or shortening.

Sesame Street characters

Frosting:

1 cup shortening

1 lb. powdered sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

3-6 Tablespoons milk

* Can remember where I found the above recipe . However, I won't recommend it. Tastes weird.
 

Cookie n Cream, Coffee & Green Tea cupcakes

 

Green Tea Cream Cheese Frosting:

12 ounces or 1-1/2 packages of Philly cream cheese

1/2 stick butter

4 cups sifted powdered sugar

1 tablespoon matcha green tea powder

1 teaspoon vanilla


Method:

1. Bring cheese and butter to room temperature by letting it sit out for 1 or 2 hours

2. Sift powdered sugar into a bowl or onto parchment

3. Beat butter and cheese at medium speed until creamy

4. Add half of the sugar, the green tea powder, and the vanilla. Beat until combined.

5. Gradually add remaining sugar (more if you have to) until you get to the consistency and sweetness you like.

 

Coffee Frosting:

(From Martha Stewart:Cupcakes)

• 120 g (1/2 cup) butter, room temperature

• 160 g (1 1/2 cups) icing sugar, sifted

• 15 ml (1 tablespoon) instant coffee

• 10 ml (2 teaspoons) pure vanilla extract


Method:
• Beat butter and instant coffee at medium speed about 2 minutes.

• Reduce speed and add the icing sugar 60 g (1/2 cup) at a time.

• Beating well after each addition.

• Add vanilla, beat well.

• If not using immediately, frosting can be refrigerated up to 10 days in a airtight container. Before using, bring to room temperature.


* Oh dear, I don't know where I found the above 2 recipes from.
* Cookie and Cream frosting recipe was made up by me. I just replaced green tea with powdered cookie and cream biscuits.

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Hokkaido Soft Bread (Hokkaido Milk Loaf)

My hubby has been telling me that I need to look for new bread recipe. The bread recipe book provided by my bread maker doesn't let me make really soft bread. So once I recover slightly from flu, I decided to start baking again! And guess what? I found this Hokkaido Milk recipe from Christine's Recipes and Rasa Malaysia .

Ingredients:

- 4 1/2 cups bread flour

- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 250ml milk
- 190ml whipping cream
- 1 large egg
- 2 Tbsp milk powder
- 4Tbsp fine sugar
- 3 tsp dry yeast
- 1/2 Tbsp salt

Methods:

1.Grease 2 bread tin.

2.Put milk, whipping cream, egg, flour, milk powder, salt, sugar and yeast into the bread machine. Set to Dough function. After the dough has finished it’s kneading cycle, let it proof inside the machine for 45-50 minutes or till it is double in size. OR use mix the dry ingredients with wet ingredients and knead on medium speed with a stand mixer until dough is smooth and non sticky.

3.Remove from the pan and divide dough into 4 equal portions and shape into a ball.

4.On a lightly floured surface, flatten the ball and roll out in a rectangle shape. Roll it up again tightly like swiss roll.

* For the diagram, please refer to Christine Recipes.

5.Put it in the greased bread tin. Repeat with the second ball. ( Put 2 balls into a bread tin)

6.Set aside and let it proof for about 1 hr or till it rises till it fills up about 75% of the bread tin.

7.Bake at 190 degree Celsius for about 50-55 minutes if you cover the cake tin. If you do not cover the cake tin, 40 minutes of baking time is enough

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Crossiant - made by half me n half bread maker ...

Taste wise - okie .. but can be improved.

Texture- okie

Shape - AWFUL !

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Xmas 3D Cake & Cupcakes

New from the kitchen .. Xmas Collection

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Happy Halloween !

Mr Vampire .. cute style ... no blood ..

Mr Skeleton

Witches' Cats

Mr Pumpkins

Mummies...

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Chocolate Bread & White Bread made by Bread Maker

Thanks to my new bread maker, I managed to made one type of bread each day. 

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Soya Bean Milk

Although I dislike drinking Soya Bean Milk, I made some today. The yellow beans @ home were expiring soon, so I decided to make some milk out of it. The last time I made Soya Bean Milk was more than 10 years ago when I was staying at Dalpura Court during my Uni life in Melbourne ...

Ingredients:

Rock Sugar

Soya Beans

Cloth drainer

Methods:

1) Soak the yellow beans in the water , making sure the yellow beans are fully emerged in the water.

2) Soak at least 2 hours, topping up the water when necessary.

3) Put the soaked beans and fresh water in the blender and blend.

4) Squeeze the blendered beans with cloth drainer + drain the water into the pot.

5) Boil the pot of soya bean milk.

6) Add rock sugar according to taste.



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