From my kitchen : Traditional butter cake

Yesterday was another free day for me. I was having a term break for this weekend..meaning, I do not have any classes on this weekend.
My baking mood was on..so after lunch, I got ready all the ingredients needed and started baking "traditional butter cake." Actually it was my second time baking this cake. Few weeks ago, I did bake it and I found the cake is moist and although keep for 2-3 days, it still soft and moist.

After busy in the kitchen for an hour.....at last, my butter cake is ready. I topped up lot of mixed fruits on top the cake.I also added some raisins in between the batter,but it seem the raisins are all go to the bottom of the cake.

Ingredients:
250gr   butter
4          eggs (separate egg yolk and egg white)
50 gr + 150 gr   caster sugar
200 gr  self raising flour
60 ml    fresh milk
1 tsp     vanilla essence

Method:

1. Beat egg white until soft peaks, then add 50gr caster sugar, beat till stiff.
2. In another bowl, beat butter & 150gr caster sugar until pale. Add vanilla essence ,followed by egg yolk one at a time.
3. Pour in half of the flour,mix on low speed.
4. Pour in the milk ( in 2 additions ) and lastly mix the balance of the flour.
5. Put in 1/2 of egg white into the above batter,mix well.
6. Using a spatula, pour in the balance of egg white and mix them well.
7. Preheat the oven, bake the cake for about 45 mins.

What he Loves to do...

Since Ryan joins K2 this year, he has to miss out his colouring class due to my busy schedule during weekend. I really don't have a free time to send and pick him up from the school...so just give it a miss. Instead, during our free time, I will spend about an hour to guide Ryan how to mix colour and blend the colour to make the picture looks great. Frankly speaking, I am not good in art at all,but I managed to curi  some simple techniques on how to blend the colour,etc ....from Ryan's previous art teacher.

So these are what we have done during last month and this month....... I gave Ryan some guidances and let him do the colouring part.

Recipe : Steamed Egg Cake

At last...... I have the free time to update my blog and as promised, I will  post up the recipe of "steamed egg cake" to share with my bloggers' friend.

It is definitely a simple cake and it taste good.

Ingredients :
125 gr  cake flour ( I used BlueKey-Superfine flour)
150 gr caster sugar
3 eggs
1 tbsp orange juice
1 tbsp 7up/sprite/100 plus (any soda drink)
1 tsp baking powder

Method :
1. Sieved the cake flour ,set aside.
2. Beat egg and sugar in high speed till fluffy (about 10-15mins).
3. Pour in orange juice + soda drink,then reduce the speed to low and continue to beat till mix well.
4. Pour in the cake flour + baking soda,mix well.
5. Steam at high heat for about 30 mins.

Let's give it a try.........

Note : For the picture of this cake, please refer to my previous post.

From my kitchen : Steamed Egg Cake

Yesterday night was a free night for me, we have an early dinner and I have "extra time" before watching the Spore Drama on AEC channel at 8.30pm.
My hand felt itchy and I started to find some cake recipe that I have in my recipe book.
Since I have all the ingredients needed for Steamed Egg Cake, I got myself busy in the kitchen for half an hour. It is a simple cake  that my family love it so much.

After beating the ingredients and steaming for half an hour (in high heat).....Here is the cake for our breakfast this morning...

We finished up this cake in  an hour time and I may consider to make one again later in the afternoon since I have extra Sprite(soft drink) in my fridge. Yes... Soft drink like 100 plus or Sprite or 7 Up is one of the ingredient to make this cake.

Urban Decay Naked Basic Giveaway

Looking pretty is every girls' dream and to make yourself look prettier, you may need to apply some light make-up. For me, I prefer to go for those simple make-up stuffs like foundation,eyeshadow,blusher and lipgloss.  I would say that it is a must have items in my make-up pouch.


And now the big news ....... I came across this blog "Million Dollar Beauty" is having a giveaway and the last day of submission till 21st April 2013. This giveaway is only open to Malaysia resident.
So what you can win is .... One (1) Urban Decay Naked Basics palette. Such a good prize,right?

Hope can win this great prize.....

...........,so don't miss this good chance. Let's blog about this giveaway and you may be one of the lucky winner.

Cheddar CheeseCake

Cheesecake is always my favourite cake. The other day when I was doing my grocery shopping, I grabbed a pack of cheddar cheese for Ryan. Ryan love to eat cheese and sometimes I will just make a simple cheese sandwich for his tea time at school.
I was wondering whether can I make a cheesecake using this Cheddar Cheese.....how does it taste like??

Then I started to find some recipe online on cheddar cheesecake.At last, I managed to find one good recipe from Nasi Lemak Lover's blog.

From my own experience, preparation of this cake is more time consuming because you need to beat the egg white and egg yolk separately. And it is my first experience baking a cake in "water bath" method.

And the result........

....... SomeThing that I love to ......

..it is nothing than receiving a prize from the contests that I have joined before. Although they are just a small prizes,but I felt happy that I won something from my own efforts. I received all the prizes before Chinese New Year. Due to my hectic schedule and interruption on my internet network, only today I managed to get this 'post' done.

Won from Yvonne's blog

Won from Ling's blog (method contest)

Won from Yakult Facebook contest