The Great Chef

Next week is already Mid Autumn Festival.  I been seeing lots and lots of mooncakes posting on the blog, various flavours coming up this year too.  I guess the latest trend is the chocolate flavour.  Well, on the festival day itself too much mooncakes can get you satiated and why not make something else....... Jelly or agar agar mooncake.   I really love this Jelly Mooncakes when  Esther of CopyCake Kitchen posted hers!  And even the jelly mooncake have filling too; using grass jelly (cincau).  PANDAN JELLY MOONCAKE   Recipe sourced from  Esther of Copycake Kitchen Ingredients 300g water 400g pandan juice  (blend 4-5 pieces of pandan leaves in 400g+ water) 100g coconut milk Few drops of pandan essence (I didn't add this) 3 pandan leave (tie into a knot) 120g sugar 8g Agar agar Filling Honey grass jelly, ready made (cut into small square size; smaller than your mooncake mould) Method In a medium pot, pour in the water, pandan juic...

This is my second round of making this Pak Thong Koh.  I knew making those really "traditional way" of Pak Thong Koh would take days (I think 4-5 days) but I'm not that kind of patient to wait for the dough to ferment that long.  Hence I chose this fast way recipe for just 2-3 hours to ferment the dough and the result is not that bad too.  PAK THONG KOH (STEAMED WHITE SUGAR CAKE)   Recipe adapted from My Kitchen Snippets   Ingredients 280 grms rice flour 280 grm sugar ( I used only 220 grm) 600 ml water 1 tsp dried yeast + 3 tbsp of lukewarm water 3 pandan leaves – knotted ½ tsp salt ½ tbsp cooking oil   Method   In a mixing bowl add in rice flour and 300 ml water. Mix well and set it aside. In a small saucepan, boil the balance 300 ml water, sugar, salt, and pandan leaves. Once boil remove the pandan leaves. Pour the syrup right away inside the rice flour mixture and leave it aside to cool. Dissolve the yeast in the lukewarm water and pour it into the...

When my sister whatsapps and showed me the picture of her Strawberry Yoghurt Bavarois, it just tempted me to try it immediately as I am sure it it really delicious!! Strawberry Yoghurt Bavarois   Recipe adapted from  Sandy's of My Happy Apron Serves 8   Ingredients   15g gelatin powder 6 tbsp water 300g strawberries 1 tsp lemon juice 180ml milk 150g sugar 180ml heavy cream 240ml plain yoghurt Method Soak the gelatin in the water. Wash and hull the strawberries, then drain.  In a bowl, mash the strawberries with a fork and sprinkle with the lemon juice.  (Alternatively, you can lightly blend the strawberries in your blender). In a small saucepan, scald the milk and add the sugar and the gelatin-water mixture.  Stir gently until the sugar and gelatin dissolves.  Let cool. In a bowl, beat the heavy cream till soft peaks form.   Add the mashed strawberries and stir well. Add the yoghurt and gently stir.  Add the milk, sugar and gelati...

I had wanted to bake a simple cake for the past few days and when I saw Sonia posted her Walnut Butter Cake   and immediately I felt in love with that cake.   Whenever I want to bake a simple cake, Walnut Butter Cake always come to my mind  but the recipe which I have been using previously yields lots of eggs in the ingredients.  And when I saw Sonia's ingredients have only 2 eggs, I just got to try it out.  Nowadays I try to cut down eggs consumption in my bakes if I could. WALNUT BUTTER CAKE Recipe sourced from  Sonia of NasiLemakLover *makes a 6” round cake  Ingredients 125g butter (salted), room temp. 80g caster sugar 2 eggs (A size) 1tsp vanilla extract 2tbsp milk 110g cake flour 1tsp baking powder 60g walnut, process in a food processor till fine  Method Line paper on the bottom of the cake pan. Sift cake flour and baking powder, set aside Cream butter, vanilla extract and sugar till fluffy and pale (take about 4mins using hand electri...