NO Bake Chocolate Cheese Cake

22.06.2010

This is a rush day for me as I just invited to have a dinner on 23.06.2010 to celebrate a belated birthday of my friend. Since is so rush, I have to do something that fast & easy. So i found this recipe from 'All Recipes'. Simply made a few Chocolate Cheesecake in a cup. Below is the balance of the ingredients and I just pour it in my heartshape bowl like this....

The texture is very rich and honestly is not bad at all... So, i done this up within an hour..Luckily, I've standby biscuits crumb in my kitchen so is rather handy whenever i need it. Anyway, hope my friend will like it ..

Recipe as follow:-

150gm of biscuits crumb (either digestive or shortbread biscuits)

45gm butter

100gm castor sugar (melted)

120ml whipping cream

150gm drak chocolate, melted and cooled

2tbps of cocoa powder and mix well with a little hot water

1 tub (200gm) cream cheese

1) Mixed the crushed biscuit crumbs with the melted butter until well and add in 1tbsp of castor sugar. Put into the papercup and use the spoon to make the suface smooth. Leave in the refrigerator for 30mins.

2) Whipped cream until soft peak and mix in the cooled chocolate and cocoa powder. Blend well and set aside.

3) Whisk the cream cheese and remaining sugar , fold in the mixed chocolate cream and mix thoroughly.

4) Pour the chocolate cream cheese into the cup and chill it in the fridge till its firm.

Mango Mousse Cake with Sponge Fingers

18th June 2010,

This day is my friend's birthday and she have organised a party at Neway karaoke. Well, I didn't expect she request me to make a cake for her instead of giving her a present. The moment i know about this, I was so stressful as I never do a cake for outsider. I mean a complete big cake for birthday occassion. I only did it for family members..Although, i feel stressful but I willing to take the challenge. So, i tell myself i must make it and overcome this 1st step.

I've taken 3 days to prepared . I bought the ingredients on 1st day, then 2nd day baked the sponge cake, prepare the mousse etc..and chilled the cake. 3rd day, take 1/2 day leave from work, prepare for the decoration as well as my emotion to get ready for the nite..

Here it comes...my mango mousse cake ..!!! Well, although is not that beautiful but i can tell you is really tasty and is purely homemade. Using the freshest ingredients to make tis up.

Im glad that my fren and others like the cake...the mango taste is so strong ..is delicious..

In fact, I have so many ideas to decorate the cake but just lack of ingredients at home and still lack of the skill to make it nice..

Since this mango mousse cake is so delicious, I will be proud to share the recipe as follow which I adapt it from dailydelicious blogger (http://dailydelicious.blogspot.com/) and HHB (http://happyhomebaking.blogspot.com/). I mix & match their recipes as follow.

Mango Mousse:-

400gm fresh mango

25ml lemon juice

80gm sugar

10gm gelatine powders

240gm yogurt (im using the Nestle mango yogurt)

230ml whipping cream

Method:

1) Bloom the gelatine. Mix the mango and lemon juice in the blender & blend it.

2) Pour mixture into a pan and mix in the sugar. Cook until the sugar is melt.

3) Put the gelatine into the mango mixture and stir until smooth, let the mixture cool at room temperature.

4) When its cooled, pour in the yogurt and mix it well.

5) Whisk the whipping cream till soft peak and fold in the mango mixture.

6) Pour over the cake and keep in the refrigerator for overnite.

Recipe for Sponge cake (20cm round pan):

4 large eggs (room temp)

100gm castor sugar

4g salt

140gm cake flour (sift it)

30gm salad oil ( I used melted margerine/butter)

30gm fresh milk

Method:

1) Whisk the egg and sugar till double in volumn and ribbon-like.

2) Add sifted cake flour into the batter, and gently fold it till is well blended.

3) Use a spatula, mix 1/3 of the batter with the oil in a separate bowl . Then pour back the mixture into the batter and fold it well (this method is to ensure the oil is well blended with the batter).

4) Add in fresh milk and mix it gently.

5) Pour it into pan and bake it for 35mins or until the skewer inserted in the center and come out clean .

6) Unmould and cool it.

7) When it cooled, put the cake into the ring type pan, assemble the sponge fingers around the cake. Then, pour in the mousse and keep in the refrigerator.

Lollytot Online Store 17.06.2010

Today, i happen to see this link in my facebook and after reviewing their page ..I immediately become their fan of the page.
I've boon looking for such page/online store for quite sometime and honestly is not easy to be able to find a good one like Lollytot locally in Malaysia. Their dresses, accessories are beautiful and most importantly , the prices are quite reasonable too.
We are a working mother who really do not have much time to shop around and with this online store is really helps and save a lot of time .

I personally, like it a lot and I've actually added their link at the bottom of my blog. Those who interested, please feel free to click on it and have a look.. enjoy shopping ya...

Cheers

My 2nd attempt bread baking - Delicious Mini Milk Bread

15.05.2010 - Saturday

Hello friends...guess what, I finally makie it ! Yes I did it!. After the last failure on breadmaking, i never give up. I found another recipe from a blogger and with her detailed steps and easy ingredients, I finally managed to made the bread succesfully.

The texture of the bread is so fluffy, the mini size make it look cute. My daughter is so tempted to try it after she seen it out from the oven...so happy now.

If anyone of you would like to try this bread, please refer to this blog htttp://dailydelicious.blogspot.com and look for the recipe call Pain au lait : Delicious Mini Milk Bread.

Till then..happy baking!!

11.05.2010- My first homemade bread

Hmm...im not sure whether you all have this sudden mood to bake cake or bread? Myself do have such sudden moon which rather scary..especially to my maid cos she need to help out the washing part when im done ..hahaha.

As i said sudden mood..so this happen on Wednesday and i tried to make a bread and with no surprise, my bread is a total failured one. The bread is not fluffy and with strong yeast smell.

Sigh..so sad..

After google the bread problems, i reckon the following issues that caused the failure.

1) Recipe might have error - too much of yeast

2) Kneading time is not enough. As per other blogger, the kneading time at least 25mins.

3) Undercooked the bread . My oven temperature needs to be reviewed again.

4) Oven temp too hot and cos the bread gets brown quickly and the inner texture is not fully rose.

After knowing the above problems, i will give a try again. I've set in my mind that i must successful in bread making..worst scenario, invest a breadmaker...hahaha

Cameron Trip with Neighbourhood

Saturday ,08.05.2010 @ 2pm

Our neighbourhood (4 chinese couples including ourself) has make a trip to Cameron Highland for a nite stay. This is our first gathering and certainly bring all of us closer to each other.

We reached Cameron at 7pm and we went to Brinchang nite market to buy the vegetables for our steamboat. Well, as usual when we reach nite market you can resist the food there and everyone are eating the food sell at the roadside. Nevertheless, we still keep our plan happening and continue our steamboat in our rented apartment at around 10pm. This is the latest steamboat dinner that i ever had in my life. As you can imagine, how can our stomach fill up the steamboat stuff since we ate something at the market. So, we continue our steamboat session in the morning for our b'fast. Again, this is another new b'fast that i ever had in my life.

After our heavy steamboat b'fast around 12pm, we checked out and proceed to morning market for our veg shopping.

During this trip, my observation on our neighbourhood as follow.

1) Choo & Yoke Yin - Choo is a very humouros guy and he can easily make everyone laugh and is good to have him in the group . Yoke Yin is a very gentle and quiet lady . She do not easily open up herself to stranger.

2) Melissa & Sunny- both of them can talk alot if they want. Melissa is a very particular lady on cleanliness surrounding her. She is a very hardworking lady and she prepared most of steamboat stuff for us. Sunny is consider a talkative one among the men. He is not inborn with humorous character but he is good in entertaining everyone with all kind of subjects.

3) Lim & Agnes - Agnes is older than Lim of 5yrs. These couple do not talk alot, especially Lim.

He is a bit ego type cos i realised he don't look at your eye when he talk to you (with lady only).

He can be very friendly with guys but not ladies. Well, probably is a good sign so the ladies will not easily attach to him. I think Agnes has a strong character during working time as she need to handle 7 staffs under her. Usually a lady strong at work, she likes to be a little cat (siu nu ren) at home and let all the decision to be made by her partner That's why she can bear Lim's ego character..

Thats all about how i observed everyone in this trip, overall they are great and looking forward to have 2nd trip. Hmm...would suggest a better planning on second trip especially time management as this 1st trip is rather poor one...kekeke

Picnic at TTDI Park

03.04.2010 at 7.30am

We woke up early this morning and prepared ourself to go TTDI Park for picnic. This is the 1st time we been there and we all really like the place. Fresh air, many trees around, playground for the kids, clean & nice jogging track..most wonderful part is the small water stream from the hill. The kids had so much fun there catching small fishes, water and sand. Is really a very nice garden for city folks like us. I mean...there are many garden around us but this one is rather special and attractive.

Is a bit far for us who stayed in Shah Alam to go TTDI but i still think is worth to go once in a while..

When we are about to go home, the kids were asking when are we coming again??? They look so sad and worry that our next trip would be another year kind of thing. Well, in order to cheers them up I said anytime since is not that far..