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Happy Birthday~~~ You're one year old now. Heehee...

I'm back....

Hey bloggers, how you guys doing? I’m back for time being. Sorry I’ve had been MIA for so long. Been busy dating doctor and my dentist LOL I mean appointment lah. Got to keep up with the doctors appointment if not I got to waited donkey months to see them.

Sigh… that doctor is putting me on heavy dose of medicines that I balloon so much within weeks and month. Till I dare not cook nor bake.

At the same time my stupid computer die on me too. Without my computer sigh… miserable sia. But at least I got someone to keep me accompany *smirk* lol.

Sharkfin Soup

Kueh Lapis

Here’s my Kueh Lapis. I had baked before the CNY. Ahem better looking huh comparing to my previous one. LOL this took me an hour to bake still I had over bake them. I use a 7” inch round cake tin after trimming off the burnt part and this is what I had left. LOL damn miserable so small piece.

Had some argument with MH on the CNY’s eve. I’m so frustrating and finishes the cake myself! LOL *look at the waist* sigh. Regretted.

Final Products

These are what I had bake for today. Eh I missed out the Almond Butter Crisp pic. Damn tiring, I’ve had been baking non-stop for the past 3 days and I haven’t finished my baking lists yet!

But then again, not so bad lah, on the first day itself I had baked 200 over of pineapple tarts. Then second day itself I had baked 100 over of pineapple tarts, 100 over of the peanut oat cookies and 50 plus of melting moments.

And today no time to count but then I had baked Ching’s (Belachan) Kuih Bangkit, Edith’s (smallcookies) Cornflakes Cookies, Almond Melting Moments and Almond Butter Crisp.

You might wonder how come I baked so much especially the pineapple tarts? At first Mom told me she going to give some to her manager then later my aunties and finally her mahjong kaki! *Eyes Rolling*

Hey, I only bought 2 packets of pineapple filling and some leftover filling when I first tried out Josh’s pineapple tarts. So I had to rush down to PH to buy more filling, butter and some baking needs. I had lingering in PH, thinking should I buy the baking pan/tray although it cost $6.10 but... but... I had overspent! And yet I always wanted to buy a digital weighting scale. Aiyah buy lah buy lah!

I’m glad I had bought the baking pan/tray. LOL $6.10 really damn worth! Look, I can bake 50 – 60 pieces of cookies and tarts plus I don’t have to worry about getting the kuih bangkit stuck onto the pan. Compare to with my others rectangle tray either they are too big and the 4 sides of the cookies will get burnt or I could only baked 35 pieces of cookies with the smaller tray.

*Hops around happily* I wonder, I got such good stamina to do so much baking this CNY. Did you notice I added 1 recipe into my baking list every one day? LOL *Look at the clock* gosh coming to 5am and I have yet sleep! _((@))_((@))_ Look like erm... Tara Panda?

Cornflakes Cookies

Baked Cornflakes Cookies, I got this recipe from Precious Moments (Edith). I love the extra crunchy bite of the cornflakes.




Cornflakes Cookies
Ingredients:
225g butter (room temperature)
300g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg
100g castor sugar
1 medium pack unsweetened cornflakes (crushed)
A pinch of salt

Method:
1. Cream the butter with the sugar till creamy and pale white
2. Add the beaten egg and mix well
3. Sieve flour and baking powder. Then add the salt and fold into the batter.
4. Mix well into a soft pastry dough.
5. Make small balls of dough with a two spoons.
6. Roll and coat evenly with cornflakes.
7. Bake on un-greased trays at 180 degree in a preheated oven till brown.

Note By Me (Jas):
I’m lazy to coat the dough with crushed cornflakes so I had mixed crushed about 100 – 120g cornflakes into the dough mixture and roll into balls.

Almond Melting Moments

I had baked some Melting Moments yesterday and they melt in second! Mh loves the cookies very much and so do I.

So I decided to bake more Melting Moment today. I had added some almond essence instead of the vanilla essence and added more almond bits and flakes for decoration. And here are my Almond Melting Moments.

I thought of adding the ground almond into the recipe but I’m afraid they don’t turns out melting. Perhaps I should have tried them out next time.




Almond Melting Moments
Ingredients:
227g unsalted butter, room temperature
175g all-purpose flour
90g cornstarch (corn flour)
¼ tsp salt
35g icing sugar
1 – 1½ tsp almond essence
Almond bits or flakes for decoration

1. Sieves flour, cornstarch and salt together. Set aside.
2. Use electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Beat in the almond essence.
4. Add the flour mixture and beat until incorporated. Do not over mix.
5. Cover and refrigerate the dough for at least one hour or until dough is firm.
6. Floured your hands with all purpose flour and roll dough into small balls and place on a lined tray.
7. Flatten the dough slightly with a floured fork.
8. Decorate the dough by added some almond bits or flakes on top.
9. Bake at 190C for about 10 minutes or until the edges start to brown.
10. Cool and store in a airtight container.

Almond Butter Crisp

More almond cookies and here are my Almond Butter Crisp. I had added the almond bits for extra crunchy bite.




Almond Butter Crisp
Makes 100

Ingredients:
360g butter
300g castor sugar
2 egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/4 tp almond essence
180g self-raising flour
300g plain flour
Almond slices for decoration

Method:
1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks, vanilla and almond essence and salt. Sift in flours and mix well.
2. Shape teasponful of mixture into small ballls and place on greased trats. Press sliced almond into the centre and bake in preheated 175C for 15 minutes or until light golden brown in colour.
3. Cool on wire rackbefore storing in airtight containers.

CNY Cheddar Cheese Pineapple Tart

I thought giving the Pineapple Tart that pack in the Hello Kitty tin to a friend. But I find the Hello Kitty tin seems too “Niang” for a guy. LOL plus I could only pack 20 pieces of tarts seems too little too aiyah I end up unpack them.

Peanut Oat Cookies

Peanut Oat Cookies
Ingredients:
300g Plain flour
60g Qiuck cooking oats
100g chucky peanut butter
50g honey
100g butter
1/4 tsp salt
120g castor sugar
More quck cooking oats for sprinkling

Method:
1. Cream butter with honey, peanut butter, sugar and salt until smooth and creamy.
2. Fold in flour and oats and mix until well combined. Roll out dough to 4mm thickness and cut with a floured fluted cutter.
3. Place cut dough onto greased trays. Brush lightly with beaten egg and sprinkle with some oats.
4. Bake in preheated 170C oven for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
5. Remove cookies onto a wire rack to cool before soring in airtight containers.