Pandan Cake

Pandan Cupcakes

Ingredients
   
   Cake

* 2 cups flour

* 1/2 tbsp baking powder

* 1/4 tsp salt

* 4 eggs

* 1 1/2 cups castor sugar

* 1/2 cup corn oil

* 1/3 cup dessicated coconut

* 1/2 tbsp pandan paste

* 1/8 tsp apple cider vinegar

   Frosting

* 1 1/4 cups (300g) butter 

* 1 1/2 cups icing sugar

* 1/2 tsp salt

* 1/2 tsp pandan paste

Steps

1. Mix flour, baking powder & salt. Beat eggs then add sugar, corn oil, dessicated coconut, pandan paste & apple cider vinegar

2. Combine all. Spoon batter into cups.

3. Bake at 180°C for 20 mins

   Frosting

1. Beat butter & icing sugar.

2. Add pandan paste & salt

3. Frost!

Citrus Cake

Citrus Cake

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups flour

• 1 tsp baking powder

• pinch of salt

• 2 eggs

• 1 cup sugar

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• 1/2 lemon

• 1/2 lime

• 1 orange

• food colourings- yellow, green & orange

Steps

1) Sift flour, baking powder & salt. Juice the lemon, lime & orange. 

Optional: grate the skins for rinds to decorate cake after baking

2) Beat eggs, sugar & vanilla until well-combined. Separate into 3 bowls filled with juice + colouring. Mix well.

Green lime, yellow lemon & orange (blush) orange!

3) Pour into lined baking pan. Bake at 180°C for 25 minutes.

Note

Leave the poured cake mixture as is for clean look or use toothpick/fork to create swirls.

Remember to tap the pan a few times or your cake will look like above! A bit holey and not dense

Have it just like that or pipe whipped cream onto the cake after cooled. This is a sour-ish cake. Perfect for when you want something different :) 

Happy baking!

Chocolatey Banana Cake

So last week I shared a moist banana cake recipe. What if we want something with chocolate?

Fret not. Add choc chips and swap the cream cheese with chocolate!

Ingredients


• 1 stick butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 mashed ripe bananas
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup chocolate milk
• 1 1/3 cups self-raising flour
• 1 cup chocolate chips


Steps

1) Melt butter, sugar & vanilla over heat.
2) Stir in mashed banana, egg, chocolate milk & sifted flour. Add chocolate chips.
3) Bake at 160°C for 30-40 minutes.

Frosting

Ingredients

• 1 stick butter

• 1/2 cup cocoa powder

• 2 1/2 cups icing sugar

• 3-4 tbsp chocolate milk

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Steps

1) Beat butter until fluffy. 

2) Add in sifted cocoa powder, icing sugar, chocolate milk & vanilla. Mix well.

3) Store in fridge before frosting


P.s. You CAN choose to spread Nutella on the cake instead of making the frosting :)

Banana Cake: A Postnatal Confinement Gift

I miss the simple time when the gifts I gotta find for friends are either birthday gifts or holiday souvenirs. Then come the tricky wedding presents. Once I get a hold on that, the game changed again. Now, the much more complicated, filled with pantang-larang, gifts for postnatal friends. 

Melawat orang pantang (postnatal confinement) nak bawa hadiah/buah tangan apa?

  Some suggested fruits then another said not all fruits! There are those "cold" fruits that new moms gotta avoid. No, nothing to do with putting the fruits in the fridge. Then there are those conflicting views on fruits like oranges. Some said no way jose while others said go ahead. Rules and more confusing rules.

Why is it so hard? I just want to bring something (hopefully healthy) for the mom!

So I Googled "kek pisang orang berpantang" and found this.

  Baked it for a friend and made some into cupcakes with cream cheese. Result? Tastier and more moist than other recipes I've tried.

Banana cake all wrapped and boxed

Ingredients

• 2 cups cake flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 jumbo eggs
• 1 cup corn oil
• 1 cup white sugar
• 4 cavendish banana
• 1 tbsp white vinegar
• 1 tbsp vanilla

Steps

1. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda & salt. In a blender, put eggs, corn oil & white sugar. Blend well. Add in mashed banana, white vinegar & vanilla. Blend again.

2. Add mixture to sifted flour. Combine well.

3. Pour into greased cake pan. Bake at 160ºC for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake come out clean.


I left the cake in the switched off oven for about 10 minutes to let it brown a bit more. LOVE the smell!

For the cupcakes, I poured the batter up till about half of the cupcake liners and bake for 10-15 minutes. I let them cool before frosting with buttercream cheese.

  Personally, I think the cake is good enough without any frosting. And I don't even like banana cakes!

Lemon Lime Cake with Lemony Lime Cream

Hola!

I love lemon, lime, ginger... you get the picture. Those nice smelling stuff. 

So, it's no wonder that I absolutely adore today's cake- the Lemon Lime Cake with Lemony Lime Cream!

Lemony lime taste!

Perfect for breakfast & tea, I'd say.

Ready?

Ingredients

• 1 stick unsalted butter

• 2 eggs

• 1 cup sugar

• 1 tbsp lemon rind

• 1 tbsp lime rind

• 1 1/2 cups flour

• 1 tsp baking powder

• 3 tbsp lemon + lime juice

• 1/4 cup milk

• 1 tsp vanilla essence

Steps

1) Beat butter, eggs and sugar until fluffy. Then, add in lemon rind, lime rind and vanilla essence.

2) Add in sifted flour and baking powder into mixture, followed by lemon + lime juice and milk. Mix well & pour into baking tin or cupcake liners

3) Bake at 180°C for 25 - 30 minutes or 10 - 15 minutes for cupcakes.

Baked cake

While we wait for the cake to cool, let's whip up the cream!

Ingredients

• 200 ml whipping cream (cold)

• 3 tbsp icing sugar

• 1 tbsp lemon + lime rind

• 1 tsp vanilla essence

Steps

1) Whip cream using mixer until soft peaks form.

2) Add icing sugar, lemon + lime rind (leave some to sprinkle later) & vanilla essence.

3) Slather or pipe the cream onto cake!

Kitchen smells nice kan?

Tata!

Blackberry Swirl Pound Cake

Blackberry Swirl Pound Cake

For this recipe, I added some dollops of Nutella because I want to finish whatever left in the jar. Delicious!

Ingredients for 4 - 6 servings

• 1/2 stick unsalted butter

• 1/2 cup blackberries

• 1/2 cup white sugar

• 2/3 cup cake flour

• 1/4 tsp salt

• 1/4 tsp baking powder

• 1 egg

• 1/4 tsp vanilla essence

• 3 tbsp sour cream

Steps

1) Puree blackberry with 1 tbsp sugar. Sift flour, salt & baking powder in a bowl.

2) Beat butter & sugar until fluffy. Add egg & vanilla until combined.

3) Add 1/3 of flour mixture, alternating with 1/2 sour cream, ending with flour. Mix well.

4) Pour half batter into pan, dot with blackberry puree. Repeat. Swirl with skewer.

5) Bake at 180°C for 50 - 60 minutes.

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Rainbow Cake

Second cake as promised, the Rainbow Cake or Colourful Cake.

Usually, I use white cake mix or lemon cake mix to make rainbow cake or cupcakes. If you are feeling a bit rajin (or can't find a box of delicious mix) jom make from scratch!

Colourful Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup castor sugar
• 1 cup self-raising flour
• 3 eggs
• 2 tbsp orange juice
• 1 tbsp orange rind
• 135g yoghurt
• 1/2 tbsp vanilla essence
• Food colourings

Steps

1) Cream butter & sugar until fluffy. Stir in eggs one by one, add in orange juice, orange rind and vanilla. Mix well with flour and yoghurt.

2) Separate batter into as many bowls as the colours you want. Colour accordingly.

3) Pour coloured batter into cake pan and bake at 180°C for 30-40 minutes.

Save this recipe for a special weekend tea party or birthday. Frost with cream cheese or plain buttercream for that special occassion.

Ombak Rindu Cake

So I've posted some recipes for delicious cookies but nowdays, it is okay to serve raya cakes as well. I'll share two cake recipes for you to bake over the weekend :)

Frost them with buttercream if you wish but leaving them as they are is absolutely fine. You can bake smaller versions to leave as "I was here" package in case your friends/relatives are out when you come to visit.

On to the first cake, the Ombak Rindu.

Ombak Rindu Cake but no blue =P

I don't know why this cake is called Ombak Rindu. My lil bro gave me this recipe so I can bake it for him.

Ingredients

• 2 sticks butter

• 1 cup castor sugar

• 5 eggs

• 1 tsp vanilla essence

• 1 1/2 cups self-raising flour (you can use cake flour too, just add 1/2 tsp baking powder)

• 100 ml evaporated creamer

• 1/3 cup cocoa powder

• Food colouring - red, yellow & green

Optional

• Flavourings - 1 tsp each strawberry, lemon & orange or substitute orange with pandan/mint

Steps

1) Beat butter & sugar until fluffy. I recommend using electric mixer for cake batter. Add in eggs & vanilla essence.

2) Pour in 1/3 of the sifted flour, alternating with half of the evaporated creamer. Flour, creamer, flour, creamer, flour- in that order. Always start & finish with flour.

3) Once well-mixed, divide the cake batter into 3 portions and colour them accordingly. Add flavouring- strawberry into red, lemon or orange into yellow, pandan or mint or lemon (if you used orange in yellow) into green.

4) Pour red batter into cake pan unevenly to get the wave effect, then sieve thin layer of cocoa powder onto poured batter. Repeat with yellow, then green batter. You may choose to not add cocoa powder onto the green batter (top layer).

5) Bake at 160°C for 50 minutes. Let cool before frosting or cutting.

If you're frosting, use plain vanilla butter cream or lemon butter cream.

Happy baking and selamat hari raya!