The Great Chef

I really really love to eat doughnuts eventhough it might sound fattening to indulge to this snack.    Whenever I passed by the bakery shops, I would usually take a glimpse at their doughnuts, whether it is the normal traditional hole in the center doughnuts or the mini balls doughnuts. It do really look very tempting at those bakery shops but one thing is I'm not into those with heavy coated chocolate or strawberry topping.....it look so overly sweet to me.  I'm the those old fashioned type....just love the traditional icing or caster sugar coated doughnut is the one for me.  FLOWER DOUGHNUTS Recipe inspired from Donna Hay (Spiced Snowflake Doughnuts) Ingredients 125ml lukewarm milk 1½ tablespoons lukewarm water 1 tablespoons caster sugar 2 teaspoons active dry yeast 335g plain flour or all purpose flour 1 tablespoons caster sugar 50g melted butter 2 eggs, lightly beaten vegetable oil, for deep-frying For Dusting 55g icing (confectioner’s sugar, sifted ½ tea...

I believe most of you all love this Deep Fried Sesame Balls (or Jin Dui).  But wasn't keen to make it at home because of the deep frying and later have to clean up the kitchen stove etc.  And while we can easily buy this delicious yummy Sesame balls at the night market with just less than a dollar for a standard size. I have tried making Deep Fried Sesame Balls   two years back.  Though everything seem to be perfect while frying the Sesame Balls but some burst out the filling and make a mess in the hot oil. Last week I accidentally stumbled upon this site while searching for some other recipes and after watching her video, I just got to try it out myself. DEEP FRIED SESAME BALLS ~ JIN DUI Recipe sourced from  China Sichuan Food   Ingredients 1 ½ cups glutinous rice flour (I weight it this 1 ½ cups is equivalent to 190 grams ) ** 80 grams caster sugar or granulated sugar 100ml water + 10ml (please adjust accordingly) ½ tsp baking powder (you can add this or...

"Kai Dan Koh or Ji Dan Gao" is a cake that I grew up eating during my childhood times.  I love the spongy soft texture of the cake.  "Ji Dan Gao" is just more or less like a sponge cake. I have tried searching for the recipe previously in the internet but most of the Kai Dan Koh was those steamed cake or of that "Ma Lai Koh".  Until one day as I was going through some of my cookbooks, I found this Baked Chinese Cake which is very similar to the "Ji Dan Gao" which Ive been looking for. BAKED CHINESE CAKE / "Ji Dan Gao 鸡蛋糕" Ingredients 3 large eggs (cold) 140g caster sugar / granulated sugar 1 tbsp honey 3 tbsp water 1 tsp vanilla extract 70ml vegetable cooking oil  160g plain flour 1 tbsp corn flour 1 tsp baking powder Method Preheat oven to 180 celcius.   Grease and lightly flour 10 baking moulds (the mould about 4" diameter x 1.5" height). Sift the plain flour, corn flour and baking powder together.  Set aside. In an electric...