Thursday, April 28, 2011

Variety of bakes (3)

How about some bread..sausgae buns, otah buns and chicken floss bun



Variety of Bakes (2)

Baked for SY birthday

For my brother birthday
Turn some into cuppies and small cake


Variety of bakes (1)

Ok...publishing my long list of bakes.....




A spongebob cake for my girl classmate Ian on his birthday







Marble butter cake










A sponge cake for mango mousse cake





One Lovely Blog Award



Thanks to BakerTan from Baking Library and Annann from 人生加油站 for dedicating the award to me. 谢谢你们!

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Cartoon Bao: Doraemon, Kitty and Elmo

Are they cute? I bought the book because of the cute cartoon character found in it. Make an attempt and the children love it. Chocolate filling

Lotus filling




How to make the whisker =)






The remaining of the red dough used to make the nose has turn into Elmo =)



Recipe from Mr Lee Kian Seng (Chinese Buns 包好吃)


Set (A)


300gm Hong Kong Flour

5g instant yeast

5g baking powder

70g sugar * I reduce to 55g

3g shortening

120ml water

some blue & red colouring

black sesame



Filling

400g chocolate cream *or any filling you would like to have



Method

1) mix Set (A) except colouring, knead till smooth.

2) prepare blue/white/red dough. * better to use a water base colour and knead into dough.

3) prepare a smaller white and a bigger blue dough. Flatten the dough with rolling pin. wrapped filling with the white facing out and sealed. roll smaller white for eye and red for nose. Then use a tweezers to make the whisker and stick sesame seeds

4) let rest for 30mins

5) steam over high heat for 5mins

Bento #11 and Doggie Bone bun

I was attraced by the look of the doggie bone bun when I came across Carol's blog. But mine turn out of shape...but I have fun making it =) The next morning I pack this for my girl for her to bring to school.

Honey Bun

I saw this piggy burger from a bento book I bought recently and decided to embark on it. So in order to make that set of bento I need to have small bun. As usual, I started to surf many food blogs and decided to bake this since I have all the ingredients in the fridge. Recipe from 星厨房 Honey Bun.



300g bread flour

30g egg

45g honey

3g salt

5g instant yeast

165g milk

30g butter


method

1) mixed all ingredient except butter

2) make into a stretchable dough and placed in butter

3) pass the window test and allow 60mins for 1st proofing or double its size

4) press the dough to allow air to be released and cut into required size and rest for 10mins

5) Wrap filling into dough ( I omit this step since I making plain bun)

6) 2nd proofing for 40mins

7) egg wash the bun

8) baked at 150c for 20mins

Bento #10


Bento #9


Bento #8


Bento #7


Bento #6

Getting lazy

Oh.... for more then a month I did not log on to my blog!!! Sign of laziness....on the other hand I am so into facebook..... as a result I am neglecting my blog....aiya...getting no discipline....

Anyway during these absence period, I'm still very much into baking...something which I can't stop totally =) just that I bake lesser these days and bake mostly during weekends.

I am also into bento making for my girl . This is not an easy task but I try my best to learn from blogs and books. I hope I can sustain this 'bentoing' but for how long I have no idea....cos I have to wake up as early as 5am then rush everything by 630am and to leave home by 645am.....rushing like mad right? But when my girl and boy told me that they love the food I prepared for them...I think its just worth it =)