No bake peach cheesecake

 

Since my daughter starting to star my videos, she has been hankering me for us to make a cheesecake. I kept on delaying as cream cheese is not an easy find, and even if you found it, the price can hurt your wallet. But as her grandfather's birthday nearing, I comply.

Ingredient:

Crust:

7-10 piece of digestive or marie biscuit

2 tablespoons of sugar

70g butter

 

Cake:

500g cream cheese

¾ cup of fine sugar

1 small box of cream (about 200 ml)

5 peach halves (pulverised)

1 teaspoon of vanilla

Orange food coloring (optional)

1 small pack of agar-agar (8-10g)

1 cup of water

 

Decoration:

Jelly or konyaku (prepare as instructed on packaging)

Peaches halves (cut to preference)

 

 

Methods:

Prepare the crust:

Crush the biscuit to preference. I prefer the biscuit some big pieces, some prefer it finer.

Add the melted butter and sugar.

Mix thoroughly

Pour into prepared springfoam pan that have been layered with cling film

Packed the biscuit using the base of a clean cup (or anything else that flat bottomed)

Put in fridge to solidify.

 

 

Prepare the agar-agar:

Pour the agar-agar powder in a saucepan.

Add in water and let it bloom for about 5 minutes

Melt on a small flame just before adding to the cheese base

 

 

Cake:

In a mixing bowl, put in the cream cheese and sugar. Beat until somewhat fluffy

Add in cream, crushed peach, and vanilla. Continue beating until fully incorporated

Add the hot agar-agar slowly while beating.

Pour the cheese base into the prepared cake pan

Put into the fridge to cool for at least 4 hours

 

Decorating:

Cut the peach halves to your liking and arrange it on the cake as your preference.

Pour prepared jelly or konyaku to solidify the arrangements.

Chill to set.

Chocolate cake - minus the egg

 

Since the start of the 1st MCO,  I've been staying at my mother's house which accidentally act as her bakery. Seeing her grandmother bakes everyday makes my daughter also wants to join in the fun. As luck have it, we are stuck at Kota Puteri at the present MCO. With not much she can do, she is begging me to allow her to bake (of course I did all the baking, she only do the pouring the ingredients into the mixing bowl). And around the same time my sister has been requesting me to edit a video of my daughter making fruit tarts for her work, that inspired me to record and edit my own video.  Being far from any known bakery, I was a little heavy hearted to let her use all of my butter stock for her baking, so I searched for recipe that uses oil rather than butter. This is the recipe I've decide to use and I do not regret one bit..

Ingredients:

2 cups sugar

3 cups all purpose flour

2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup cocoa powder

2 cups water

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

1 cup vegetable oil

2 tablespoon vinegar. 

Methods:

Preheat your oven to 175 C and prepare your baking pan.

Mix all your dry items in a  bowl

Mix your wet ingredients in another bowl

Mix both of the wet and the dry ingredient until fully incorporated. 

Bake for about 40 minutes or until the toothpick inserted at the center comes out clean. 

karipap sardin

Masa kecil-kecil dulu mak ada menyediakan kuih untuk dijual oleh saudara emak. Jadi saya memang ada teringin nak cuba buat karipap. Selepas selalu didesak, mak beralah dan membenarkan saya membantu mak membuat karipap sardin untuk dinikmati oleh ahli rumah. Apabila ditanya kenapa inti sardin yang dipilih mak, mak jawab sebab ayah suka karipap berinti sardin. Sudah bertahun berlalu, sebenarnya sudah lupa resepi karipap mak, tapi saya tak dapat lupakan reaksi ayah: Sedap!. Kebetulan ayah bukan seorang yang banyak mulut, kalau makanan yang ayah makan biasa-biasa saja pada pendapat ayah, biasanya hanya akan mendapat: ok..

Entah kenapa tiba-tiba mendapat mood nak buat karipap, mungkin sebab nak habiskan mentega yang takut hampir dengan tarikh tamat tempoh, Jadi saya pun mencari resepi karipap sardin di internet, tapi tiada inti yang menepati syarat mak. Mak pernah cakap walau inti sardin, perlu tumis dengan kari ikan, baru boleh dipanggil karipap. Akhirnya saya hanya cari resepi untuk kulit karipap, tapi tampa disedari saya telah alter resepi tersebut sebab sepeket tepung yang saya beli bukanlah 1kg, tapi hanya 850g.

Ini resepi karipap sardin saya

Bahan-bahan inti:

Sebiji bawang besar, dihiris halus

Sebiji kentang, didadu kecil atau disagat

Sebatang lobak merah sederhana besar. didadu kecil atau disagat

1 sudu besar serbuk kari ikan

1 sudu besar sos tiram

1 cawan besar air.

1 sudu besar cili boh (pilihan)

Ikan sardin dari setin besar sardin, dibuang sosnya dan dihancurkan

Garam dan gula secukup rasa. 

Kaedah siapkan inti:

Tumis bawang, lobak dan kentang hingga bawang lembut.

Tambahkan air, biarkan atas api kecil hingga air kering.

Tambahkan kari yang telah dijadikan pes dan cili boh .Tumis.

Tambahkan sos tiram.

Masukkan sardin dan tambah garam dan gula secukup rasa. 

Bahan-bahan kulit karipap:

850g tepung gandum

1 sudu besar garam

1 sudu kecil gula

1/2 cawan mentega

1 cawan minyak sayuran

+- 1 cawan air

Kaedah menyediakan kulit:

Campur bersama tepung, garam dan gula.

Di atas api kecil, cairkan mentega bersama-sama minyak

Tuang minyak ke campuran tepung tadi dan gaul rata. 

Tambahkan air sedikit-sedikit sambil menggaul doh hingga mendapat kelembutan yang dikehendaki. 

Perlukah saya menceritakan kaedah membuat karipap? Tak pandailah saya nak cerita dalam bentuk tulisan ini, saya minta anda cari kat youtube ye? Hehe. selamat mencuba. 

Creamy tuna pie

 

Upon eating my chicken mushroom pie, my tuna avid father requested for tuna pie...

So I started to again search for some recipe for tuna pie. I was also actually somewhat ready to make new pastry crust (I used my previous crust for the chicken pie). I finally decided to use this recipe as my referral to make my pie. 

Ingredients:

2 tbs butter

2 tbs cooking oil

3 cloves of garlic, chopped

1 small onion, chopped

2 tbs all purpose flour

3 cups of milk

1/2 cup corn, drained

4 piece cheese

2 can tuna or 1 can tuna & 1 can sardine, drain, rinse and flaked.

salt pepper to taste

puff pastries, thawed

Methods:

Preheat the oven to 175C.

Melt the butter with the oil in a pan. Saute the onion and garlic until fragrance. 

Add flour and stir until cooked. About 2 minutes.

Turn off heat and whisk the milk little by little until creamy. 

Add the tuna, corn and cheese. Mix carefully.

Spread the tuna pastry to a suitable size. you can make a big pie if you want, but for me, a hand-held pie is more manageable. 

Give the pie an egg wash, you may sprinkle some black sesame or some oregano flakes if you want and bake the pie for about 10 minutes or until golden. 

chicken and mushroom pie

CHICKEN AND MUSHROOM PIE

My mother requested for me to find a decent chicken and mushroom pie as she wants me to provide stocks for her bakery. I searched and try to make my own recipe based on the 5-6 recipe that I found. This is my recipe; of course you can adjust and make your own. 

Ingredient

pie crust

3 piece of boneless chicken breast (small cube)

500g button mushroom (sliced)

1 onion (sliced)

2-3 cups of chicken stock or 1 cube of chicken stock

3 tbs oil

2 tbs flour

1/2 cup cream

1 tbs thyme

a pinch of salt; or to taste

1/2 tbs black pepper or garlic pepper

water ( as needed)

gravy:

100 g butter

1/2 cup flour

1-2 cup of chicken stock or 1/2 cube of chicken stock

1/2 tbs thyme

salt and pepper to taste

Methods:

Heat the oil on a frying pan. Sear the cubed chicken. Remove from the pan and set aside.

Saute the onion until soft and slightly caramelized.

Add in the mushroom, saute until soft. Stir.

Add the thyme and black pepper. Stir.

Add the flour and let it cook for awhile. Stir.

Add water and chicken stock. Stir. 

Add salt.

Add cream and stir until smooth.

Prepare the pie crust, it is better to do a blind bake before putting in the filling. 

Cover, put on an egg wash and bake until golden. 

For the gravy; melt the butter in a pan, add flour, whisk until fully incorporated. Add thyme and black pepper. Add chicken stock. Add cream while whisking. Add salt to taste. 

 

Peanut butter cake

 

Upon a request, I googled for recipes of nuts cake. I read about walnut cake and multinut cake and fruit cakes too. Suddenly I was inspired to search about peanut cake, and lo behold google gave me recipes for peanut butter cake. I picked one that seems easy enough and picked an occasion to test the recipe out. The recipe request upon peanut butter frosting, but as  I buy just enough peanut butter for the cake, I need to improvise for the frosting. Using the peanut butter - grape jelly combo and chocolate for frosting, I serve the cake square to my family first. My children loves the cake with the chocolate frosting better, but I've found the peanut butter - jelly frosting suits my taste better. 

Here are the recipe:

Ingredients:

CAKE
2 cup Flour
2 cup Sugar
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 cup Milk
2 Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla
1 cup Water
1/2 cup Butter
3/4 cup Peanut Butter

FROSTING
1/2 cup softened Butter
1 cup Peanut Butter (or chocolate spread or peanut butter-jelly combo)
3 tbsp Milk
2 cup Powdered Sugar

Methods:

Cake

Preheat oven to 175 C.
Grease a 9×13 baking dish with butter. Dust with flour to prevent sticking.
Whisk together flour, sugar, and baking soda in a large bowl.
Add milk, eggs, and vanilla to bowl.
Beat mixture at low speed until blended.
Add water, butter, and peanut butter to a saucepan.
Heat over medium heat stirring frequently until blended (about 5 minutes).
Add peanut butter mixture into flour mixture.
Stir until batter is well mixed and pour into prepared dish.
Bake about 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
Allow to cool.

Frosting 

Cream together the butter and peanut butter (or chocolate spread for my case).
Slowly add in the sugar, if it gets too thick then add a little milk to thin.
Continue until all of the sugar is in and the frosting is blended to the right consistency.
Spread frosting over cooled cake.

 

Serunding ayam

 

KONON...konon nak diet, so nak makan oat dengan serunding laa... tengok2 stok serunding dah nak habis. Cepat2 google resepi kat internet macam mana nak buat serunding ayam. Resepi yang nampak paling do-able jumpa kat page ni.. tapi of course saya ada edit sikit, nak makin mudahkan kerja sendiri dan ikut cita rasa saya... 😅

Bahan2:

-1 kilo (lebih kurang) ayam -rebus dan siat2 isinya

- santan -1 1/2 kotak

- 3 sudu besar jintan (kisar, saya x suka kasar, jadi saya kisar sehalus mungkin)

-3 sudu besar ketumbar (kisar, saya x suka kasar, jadi saya kisar sehalus mungkin)

- 5 biji bawang besar

- 1 labu bawang putih

- 5 sudu cili kisar

- 1 ruas halia lebih kurang besar ibu jari

- 3 sudu besar kerisik

- 1 keping asam keping (+- 2cmx2cm)

- garam gula secukup rasa

Kaedah:

- kisar bawang besar, bawang putih, halia, cili giling.

- tumis rencah bawang dan ketumbar jintan dalam kuali besar dengan minyak yang mencukupi. 

- masukkan asam keping dan santan. tumis hingga pecah minyak.

- keluarkan asam keping dan masukkan garam gula dan kerisik. 

- masukkan ayam dan kacau dengan api perlahan hingga kering (boleh lebih 3 jam..)

- nikmati