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!

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!

Eggless Chocolate Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups flour

• 1 cup granulated sugar

• 1 tsp baking soda

• 1 tsp salt

• 1/3 cup cocoa powder

• 1/2 cup oil

• 1 cup chocolate milk

• 1 tsp vanilla 

• 1 tbsp vinegar

• chopped almonds

Steps

1) Sift flour, sugar, baking soda, salt & cocoa powder. 

2) Make a well in the middle and pour the oil, chocolate milk, vanilla & vinegar. Mix well.

3) Spoon into cupcake liners, top with chopped almonds and bake at 180°C for 20 - 25 minutes.

I decorated them using leftover buttercream cheese from my bananananana cake project.

Happy baking!

Lemon Cupcakes

I love anything lemony. That fresh, clean taste/scent. Yummy! I've done orange cupcakes before and last week I did a batch of lemon cupcakes (combining a few recipes I found online) and here how I made them...

Ingredients (approximately 12 medium cupcakes)

For cake

• 1 stick or 115g butter

• 1 cup (115g) sugar

• 1 1/4 cup self-raising flour

• 1 tsp baking powder

• 2 eggs

• 1 tsp vanilla essence

• 1 tbsp lemon juice

For icing

• 3/4 stick butter

• 1 tbsp lemon juice

• 1 tbsp lemon zest

• 1 tsp vanilla essence

• 2 cups icing sugar

Steps

1) Beat butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla extract well before adding in sifted flour and baking powder. Add in lemon juice.

2) Pour mixture into cupcake liners and bake at 180°C for 15 - 20 mins. Let cool before piping.

3) For icing, combine well butter, icing sugar, lemon juice & vanilla essence. Lemon zest can be added into the icing or sprinkle on after decorated with icing.

Make sure you try this simple but delicious cake!

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