Perfecto! Nice crunchy choc chips cookies. Very2 nice... Made 2 containers, and guess what? One container gone by last night! Want to try? Recipe here, in my other blog. I have modified the original recipe a little. See under 'comments' in that posting.
While waiting for the cookies being baked, we made other treats as well, which do not require baking & easy to make. This is the Honey Cornflakes. It turned out too sweet, so if you were to follow the recipe here, reduce the sugar to half its suggested amount! And add a little more honey to it... Also commented my own recipe....
Another non-baked cookie is the Biskut Batik. Something a bit like brownies... Very easy to make as well. Just mix cocoa powder, milo, condensed milk & butter over low heat in a pot, then add 'biskut marie'. Recipe here. Again, I amended my own recipe...
The most challenging task for the day is: make my own white loaf bread, for the first time ever! And it did turned white! You see, the breadmaker function is quite a straight forward function in the oven, but Kak E decided to play around a bit with the recipe, and some oven functions (a.k.a. trying to be smart!)... so, the loaf was finely cooked, only that it didn't brown enough, perhaps due to the low temperature used. Anyway, the texture was just nice, if not perfect, and most importantly, it was edible, and unlike the white loaf we used to buy, this was gone in less than 48 hours! Tasty, puffy, dense white loaf, "so good, you can eat it on its own.. " hmmm... where did I here that before?
Great cookies, (not so) great bread, seems like Kak E is motivated to do her own Raya Cookies this year, unlike other years, it was all 'biskut tunjuk'. Going to try a few other recipes today. After all, practice makes perfect!
6 comments:
Kak E.
This is Kak Emy. Perhaps your loaf is albino? That's why tak brown. The cookies and all...ummmmmmmmmmp! They all look scumptuous and superbly delicious!
I remember those days when Tasha and Zaza were the only kids I had...I just love baking. They helped to play with the cough. Using quick yeast...I got them baked within the time we really wanted to eat. I pleated the bread, making decorations on it and some, I put feelings inside.
Since you like baking, here's Kak Emy's favorite Baked Curry Puff.
Prepare short crust pastry from 1 kg.floor.
Prepare the feelings for the Curry Puffs. Use cutter to prepare the skin. Cover in damp cloth while preparing the fillings.
1 tray minced beef
6 med.sized potatoes - diced
4-5 red onions - diced
1 egg yolk or milk
6 garlics, 1 red onions, 1" ginger = blend together.
3 Tabsp. curry powder mixed with khurma powder.
1. Prepare the fillngs: fry kulit k.manis, bunga lawang, buah pelaga and cengkeh.
2. Add blended ingredients. Once done, add curry powder. Add mince beef.
3. When colors changed and potatoes and cook until done.
4. Add kicap (if you like).
Prepare the curry puffs. Put the filling sufficient to seal the edges. Line in the baking tray, not too close together. Brush egg yolk or milk over them. Bake at 200 degrees. For new oven like yours,try with 190. Baking time 18-20 mins. It should be ready when lightly brown.
SELAMAT HARI RAYA.
Kak Emy, tq for the curry puff recipe. Err.. for baked puffs, is the pastry the same as the one prepared for the fried one?
No, K.E,
The pastry has to be "short crust pastry"
1 Kg. plain flour
500 gms. butter
1 glass iced cold water
1.Cut up butter into the flour till small in size.
2.With tips of your fingers, work it up into fine bread crumbs.
3. Make a well in the middle and pour in iced cold water.
4. Use metal spoon, fold in the flour.
5. Form into a few ball sized dough.
6. Rest them in a well covered mixing bowl using damp cloth for about 1/2 hour. Meanwhile, prepare the fillings.
7. Once the dough is soft, roll out and cut into circles.
OH Dear!
Not playing with the cough (urghhh)...sorry misspelled ...IT was meant...Playing with the DOUGH...
lovely... tq k emy. last nite made pizza!! kids said its ok if we don't go to pizza hut now. mama's pizza has more stuffs n cheese on it! alhamdulillah...
I love pizzas with some squares of pineapples unevenly distributed on them to add some taste for "pecoh lior"...
Ha, surely your pizzas tasted much better than those from Pizza Huts. It's a grand complement from your kids...
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