All about Cakes & Cookies Baking

[Funz]

dasalo:

Funz, you must be a good baker. The recipe you provided seems like the cake sold in kedai kue kue, their steamed chocolate cake. I wonder the taste would be richer if you use condensed milk instead of sugar? Is it still that forgiving in this recipe?

Good baker? No lah. Still learning. You should see how many unedible cakes I have thrown away cos I was experimenting with the ingredients or at times basically cos I keh kiang. :roll:

The ingredients of this cake makes for a rather rich cake but it is surprisingly not heavy. If you use condensed milk, you may end up with rather dense cake, maybe something like a cake lapis. I am not a fan of condensed milk so not gonna try. You try and let us know.

[dasalo]

Funz:

dasalo:

Funz, you must be a good baker. The recipe you provided seems like the cake sold in kedai kue kue, their steamed chocolate cake. I wonder the taste would be richer if you use condensed milk instead of sugar? Is it still that forgiving in this recipe?

Good baker? No lah. Still learning. You should see how many unedible cakes I have thrown away cos I was experimenting with the ingredients or at times basically cos I keh kiang. :roll:

The ingredients of this cake makes for a rather rich cake but it is surprisingly not heavy. If you use condensed milk, you may end up with rather dense cake, maybe something like a cake lapis. I am not a fan of condensed milk so not gonna try. You try and let us know.

That's where you learn for being keh kiang. I think cooking and baking is all about experimenting for better food, IMO.
I guess, if you use condensed milk you have to reduce some liquid from evaporated milk since you convert sugar to liquid sweet. Anyway, I'll give it a try with your recipe first and I'll explore with condensed milk.

Will post the results if I try.

[Mvm]

if you want really yummy choc cake, dont use normal cocoa powder use Valrhona cocoa powder. Its super rich. You can buy it from sunlik at seah street.

[dasalo]

Mvm:

if you want really yummy choc cake, dont use normal cocoa powder use Valrhona cocoa powder. Its super rich. You can buy it from sunlik at seah street.

Is this Valrhona same as the one in 360 at ION? I think it is super ex too right? Sunlik sounds really familiar, where were they before? They are a baking ingredients supplier too? Ehm...interesting.

[Anna Ng]

Dear expert here:

Got a recipe and using 3g of yeast, how to measure har? 3g only so little. :?

[dasalo]

Anna Ng:

Dear expert here:

Got a recipe and using 3g of yeast, how to measure har? 3g only so little. :?

Yeast is very light in weight. 3g = 1 tsp. What are you making? If you are making bread, than 1 tsp to 3 cups or 4 cups of flour should suffice. Same as in making dough starter for steam Buns.

[Anna Ng]

oh! thanks! i am making "mantou" - chinese steam bao.


How abt water? if 260g of water = cups?

[dasalo]

Anna Ng:

oh! thanks! i am making \"mantou\" - chinese steam bao.


How abt water? if 260g of water = cups?

250g approx =250ml/250cc

15g = 1 tbsp.

If you want accuracy than weight it, otherwise convert into cups and spoons would be approx measurement. For 260g I would use 1 cup and 1 tbsp water.

FYI, all measuring cups differs slightly in vol. Even manual weighing scale, unless it's digital.

[Anna Ng]

thanks for the information. Will find time to try it out!

[Funz]

Haven't been trying out any new recipes. What with DS going for his circumcision and my helper on home leave for a month, so just making the usuals.


Stumbled across this recipe, saw the pictures and I thought Rowntree Fruit Pastilles! I love those and simply had to try making it.

Pate De Fruit

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The end product? NOT Rowntree Fruit Pastilles. Kinda disappointed. :roll: The kids love them though. I find them too sweet and not at all chewy. While trying to find out more about the recipe, I realise that I was successful as this is how Pate De Fruits are supposed to be, not with the consistency of pastilles or gummies.

I've still got all the ingredients left over, maybe will try experimenting.